The peer and the beggar are often of the same family.

One extreme produces the other: to make one rich many must be made poor; neither can the system be supported by other means.
There are two classes of people to whom the laws of England are particularly hostile, and those the most helpless; younger children, and the poor.

Of the former I have just spoken; of the latter I shall mention one instance out of the many that might be produced, and with which I shall close this subject.
Several laws are in existence for regulating and limiting work-men's wages.

Why not leave them as free to make their own bargains, as the law-makers are to let their farms and houses?
Personal labour is all the property they have.

Why is that little, and the little freedom they enjoy, to be infringed?
But the injustice will appear stronger, if we consider the operation and effect of such laws.