The capitalists have done it.
By heavens, they were in a delectable mood that day.

What! the capitalists made this law; _they_ established the prohibitive system, so that you laborers should make profits at their expense! But here is something stranger still.
How is it that your pretended friends who speak to you now of the goodness, generosity and self-denial of capitalists, constantly express regret that you do not enjoy your political rights?
From their point of view, what could you do with them?
The capitalists have the monopoly of legislation, it is true.

Thanks to this monopoly, they have granted themselves the monopoly of iron, cloth, coal, wood and meat, which is also true.

But now your pretended friends say that the capitalists, in acting thus, have stripped themselves, without being obliged to do it, to enrich you without your being entitled to it.

Surely, if you were electors and deputies, you could not manage your affairs better; you would not even manage them as well.
If the industrial organization which rules us is made in your interest, it is a perfidy to demand political rights for you; for these democrats of a new species can never get out of this dilemma; the law, made by the present law-makers, gives you _more_, or gives you _less_, than your natural wages.