Let every citizen be FREE to buy wood, butter and meat where it seems good to him.
_The People._ Hurrah for LIBERTY! _Pierre._ Parisians, do not allow yourselves to be seduced by these words.

Of what avail is the freedom of purchasing, if you have not the means?
and how can you have the means, if labor is wanting?
Can Paris produce wood as cheaply as the forest of Bondy, or meat at as low price as Poitou, or butter as easily as Normandy?
If you open the doors to these rival products, what will become of the wood cutters, pork dealers, and cattle drivers?
They cannot do without protection.
_The People._.Hurrah for PROTECTION! _Jacques._ Protection! But do they protect you, workmen?
Do not you compete with one another?
Let the wood dealers then suffer competition in their turn.

They have no right to raise the price of their wood by law, unless they, also, by law, raise wages.

Do you not still love equality?
_The People._ Hurrah for EQUALITY! _Pierre._ Do not listen to this factious fellow.

We have raised the price of wood, meat, and butter, it is true; but it is in order that we may give good wages to the workmen.