Then you will have proprietary industry sustaining against itself, and at its own expense, another industry with which it cannot compete.

What, think you, will become, in this fatal circle, of the possibility of profit,--in a word, of property?
Thank Heaven! equality of conditions is taught in the public schools; let us fear revolutions no longer.

The most implacable enemy of property could not, if he wished to destroy it, go to work in a wiser and more effective way.

Courage, then, ministers, deputies, economists! make haste to seize this glorious initiative; let the watchwords of equality, uttered from the heights of science and power, be repeated in the midst of the people; let them thrill the breasts of the proletaires, and carry dismay into the ranks of the last representatives of privilege! The tendency of society in favor of compelling proprietors to support national workshops and public manufactories is so strong that for several years, under the name of ELECTORAL REFORM, it has been exclusively the question of the day.

What is, after all, this electoral reform which the people grasp at, as if it were a bait, and which so many ambitious persons either call for or denounce?
It is the acknowledgment of the right of the masses to a voice in the assessment of taxes, and the making of the laws; which laws, aiming always at the protection of material interests, affect, in a greater or less degree, all questions of taxation or wages.