The manufacturer says to the laborer, "You are as free to go elsewhere with your services as I am to receive them.

I offer you so much." The merchant says to the customer, "Take it or leave it; you are master of your money, as I am of my goods.

I want so much." Who will yield?
The weaker.
Therefore, without force, property is powerless against property, since without force it has no power to increase; therefore, without force, property is null and void.
HISTORICAL COMMENT .-- The struggle between colonial and native sugars furnishes us a striking example of this impossibility of property.

Leave these two industries to themselves, and the native manufacturer will be ruined by the colonist.

To maintain the beet-root, the cane must be taxed: to protect the property of the one, it is necessary to injure the property of the other.