The question is, whether it is better to pay more for an article, and to have, through the abundance and price of labor, more means of acquiring it, or whether it is better to impoverish the sources of labor, to diminish the mass of national production, and to transport articles of consumption by canals, more cheaply it is true, but, at the same time, to deprive a portion of our laborers of the power to buy them, even at these reduced prices." The Emperor not being altogether convinced, Kouang said to him: "My Lord, be pleased to wait.

I have the _Moniteur Industriel_ to quote from." But the Emperor said: "I do not need your Chinese newspapers to tell me that to create _obstacles_ is to turn labor in that direction.

Yet that is not my mission.

Come, let us clear out the canal, and then we will reform the tariff." Kouang went away plucking out his beard, and crying: Oh, Fo! Oh, Pe! Oh, Le! and all the monosyllabic and circumflex gods of Cathay, take pity on your people; for, there has come to us an Emperor of the _English school_, and I see very plainly that, in a little while, we shall be in want of everything, since it will not be necessary for us to do anything! VIII.
POST HOC, ERGO PROPTER HOC.
"After this, therefore on account of this." The most common and the most false of arguments.
Real suffering exists in England.
This occurrence follows two others: First.

The reduction of the tariff.
Second.