With you they have declaimed against ruinous competition.

With you they have ridiculed the _let alone_ principle, that is to say, _liberty_.

With you they have said that the law should not confine itself to being just, but should come to the aid of suffering industries, protect the feeble against the strong, secure profits to individuals at the expense of the community, etc., etc.

In short, according to the expression of Mr.Charles Dupin, socialism has come to establish the theory of robbery.

It has done what you have done, and that which you desire the professors of political economy to do for you.
Your cleverness is in vain, _Messieurs Protectionists_, it is useless to lower your tone, to boast of your latent generosity, or to deceive your opponents by sentiment.