HE PAYS HIMSELF; that is, he gets paid by the public who buy his products.

For, suppose the manufacturer, who seems to make this profit on his property, wishes also to make it on his merchandise, can he then pay himself one franc for that which cost him ninety centimes, and make money by the operation?
No: such a transaction would transfer the merchant's money from his right hand to his left, but without any profit whatever.
Now, that which is true of a single individual trading with himself is true also of the whole business world.

Form a chain of ten, fifteen, twenty producers; as many as you wish.

If the producer A makes a profit out of the producer B.B's loss must, according to economical principles, be made up by C, C's by D; and so on through to Z.
But by whom will Z be paid for the loss caused him by the profit charged by A in the beginning?
BY THE CONSUMER, replies Say.

Contemptible equivocation! Is this consumer any other, then, than A, B.C, D, &c., or Z?
By whom will Z be paid?
If he is paid by A, no one makes a profit; consequently, there is no property.