If the tax which you vote repays to you, in roads, canals and safety, more than it costs you, you are not justified in driving away, at my expense, the competition of foreigners who do not pay the tax but who do not have the safety, roads and canals.

It is the same as saying: I want a compensating duty, because I have fine clothes, stronger horses and better plows than the Russian laborer.
Fourthly.

If the tax does not repay what it costs, do not vote it.
Fifthly.

If, after you have voted a tax, it is your pleasure to escape its operation, invent a system which will throw it on foreigners.

But the tariff only throws your proportion on me, when I already have enough of my own.
-- If they say to you: Freedom of commerce is necessary among the Russians _that they may exchange their products with advantage_ (opinion of M.Thiers, April, 1847)-- Reply: This freedom is necessary everywhere, and for the same reason.
-- If they say to you: Each country has its wants; it is according to that that _it must act_ (M.Thiers)-- Reply: It is according to that that _it acts of itself_ when no one hinders it.
-- If they say to you: Since we have no sheet iron, its admission must be allowed (M.Thiers)-- Reply: Thank you, kindly.
-- If they say to you: Our merchant marine must have freight; owing to the lack of return cargoes our vessels cannot compete with foreign ones-- Reply: When you want to do everything at home, you can have cargoes neither going nor coming.