Once entered upon this path, we never shall stop.

Little by little the government will become manufacturer, commission-merchant, and retail dealer.
It will be the sole proprietor.

Why, at all epochs, have the ministers of State been so reluctant to meddle with the question of wages?
Why have they always refused to interfere between the master and the workman?
Because they knew the touchy and jealous nature of property, and, regarding it as the principle of all civilization, felt that to meddle with it would be to unsettle the very foundations of society.
Sad condition of the proprietary regime,--one of inability to exercise charity without violating justice! [39] And, sir, this fatal consequence which necessity forces upon the State is no mere imagination.

Even now the legislative power is asked, no longer simply to regulate the government of factories, but to create factories itself.

Listen to the millions of voices shouting on all hands for THE ORGANISATION OF LABOR, THE CREATION OF NATIONAL WORKSHOPS! The whole laboring class is agitated: it has its journals, organs, and representatives.