Very well, let us raise the discriminating duties against goods imported in foreign bottoms, and let the ship-builder, who now takes thirty francs from the public, hereafter take forty.
"A Minister.

The government will push to its extreme limits the admirable mechanism of these discriminating duties, but I fear that it will not answer the purpose.
"A Government Employe.

You seem to be bothered about a very little matter.

Is there any safety but in the bounty?
If the consumer is willing, the tax-payer is no less so.

Let us pile on the taxes, and let the ship-builder be satisfied.