If it is true that, by the means I have indicated, the State thus far seems to have more directly benefited the well-to-do classes than those who are poorer, it is necessary that this appearance should be removed.
Shall it be done by closing the manufactories of tapestry and stopping the exhibitions?
Assuredly not; _but by giving the poor a direct share in this distribution of benefits_." In this long catalogue of favors granted to some at the expense of all, one will remark the extreme prudence with which Mr.Mimerel has left the tariff favors out of sight, although they are the most explicit manifestations of legal spoliation.

All the orators who supported or opposed him have taken upon themselves the same reserve.

It is very shrewd! Possibly they hope, _by giving the poor a direct participation in this distribution of benefits_, to save this great iniquity by which they profit, but of which they do not whisper.
They deceive themselves.

Do they suppose that after having realized a partial spoliation by the establishment of customs duties, other classes, by the establishment of other institutions, will not attempt to realize universal spoliation?
I know very well you always have a sophism ready.

You say: "The favors which the law grants us are not given to the _manufacturer_, but to _manufactures_.