If it gives you _less_, they deceive you in inviting you to support it.

If it gives you _more_, they deceive you again by calling on you to claim political rights, when those who now exercise them, make sacrifices for you which you, in your honesty, could not yourselves vote.
Workingmen, God forbid that the effect of this article should be to cast in your hearts the germs of irritation against the rich.

If mistaken _interests_ still support monopoly, let us not forget that it has its root in _errors_, which are common to capitalists and workmen.

Then, far from laboring to excite them against one another, let us strive to bring them together.

What must be done to accomplish this?
If it is true that the natural social tendencies aid in effacing inequality among men, all we have to do to let those tendencies act is to remove the artificial obstructions which interfere with their operation, and allow the relations of different classes to establish themselves on the principle of _justice_, which, to my mind, is the principle of FREEDOM.
VII.
A CHINESE STORY.
They exclaim against the greed and the selfishness of the age! Open the thousand books, the thousand papers, the thousand pamphlets, which the Parisian presses throw out every day on the country; is not all this the work of little saints?
What spirit in the painting of the vices of the time! What touching tenderness for the masses! With what liberality they invite the rich to divide with the poor, or the poor to divide with the rich! How many plans of social reform, social improvement, and social organization! Does not even the weakest writer devote himself to the well-being of the laboring classes?
All that is required is to advance them a little money to give them time to attend to their humanitarian pursuits.
There is nothing which does not assume to aid in the well-being and moral advancement of the people--nothing, not even the Custom House.