The profits which it enables us to receive at the expense of the consumers are merely a trust placed in our hands.

They enrich us, it is true, but our wealth places us in a position to expend more, to extend our establishments, and falls like refreshing dew upon the laboring classes." Such is your language, and what I most lament is the circumstance that your miserable sophisms have so perverted public opinion that they are appealed to in support of all forms of legalized spoliation.

The suffering classes also say.

"Let us by act of the Legislature help ourselves to the goods of others.

We shall be in easier circumstances as the result of it; we shall buy more wheat, more meat, more cloth, and more iron; and that which we receive from the public taxes will return in a beneficent shower to the capitalists and landed proprietors." But, as I have already said, I will not to-day discuss the economical effects of legal spoliation.