We ask justice for all, equality before the law for all.
It is a mockery to tell us that these Custom House restrictions have _your_ advantage in view.

Tailors, shoemakers, carpenters, millers, masons, blacksmiths, merchants, grocers, jewelers, butchers, bakers and dressmakers, I challenge you to show me a single instance in which restriction profits you, and if you wish, I will point out four where it hurts you.
And after all, just see how much of the appearance of truth this self-denial, which your journals attribute to the monopolists, has.
I believe that we can call that the _natural rate of wages_ which would establish itself _naturally_ if there were freedom of trade.

Then, when they tell you that restriction is for your benefit, it is as if they told you that it added a _surplus_ to your _natural_ wages.

Now, an _extra natural_ surplus of wages must be taken from somewhere; it does not fall from the moon; it must be taken from those who pay it.
You are then brought to this conclusion, that, according to your pretended friends, the protective system has been created and brought into the world in order that capitalists might be sacrificed to laborers! Tell me, is that probable?
Where is your place in the Chamber of Peers?
When did you sit at the Palais Bourbon?
Who has consulted you?
Whence came this idea of establishing the protective system?
I hear your answer: _We_ did not establish it.

We are neither Peers nor Deputies, nor Counselors of State.