Is it not true that if we admit butter, wood, and meat, we shall be inundated with them, and die of a plethora?
There is, then, no other way in which we can preserve ourselves from this new inundation, than to shut the door, and we can keep up the price of things only by causing scarcity artificially.
_A Very Few Voices._ Hurrah for SCARCITY! _Jacques._ Let us state the question as it is.

Among all the Parisians we can divide only what is in Paris; the less wood, butter and meat there is, the smaller each one's share will be.

There will be less if we exclude than if we admit.

Parisians, individual abundance can exist only where there is general abundance.
_The People._ Hurrah for ABUNDANCE! _Pierre._ No matter what this man says, he cannot prove to you that it is to your interest to submit to unbridled competition.
_The People._ Down with COMPETITION! _Jacques._ Despite all this man's declamation, he cannot make you _enjoy_ the sweets of restriction.
_The People._ Down with RESTRICTION! _Pierre._ I declare to you that if the poor dealers in cattle and hogs are deprived of their livelihood, if they are sacrificed to theories, I will not be answerable for public order.

Workmen, distrust this man.