"But," we say to him, "make the iron yourself." "I cannot," says he; "it would take me too much time, and I could not make five quintals while I can make one clock." "Utopist!" we reply; "for this very reason we forbid your making the clock, and order you to make the iron.

Do not you see that we create you labor ?" Sire, it will not have escaped your sagacity, that it is just as if we said to the country, _Labor with the left hand, and not with the right_.
The creation of obstacles to furnish labor an opportunity to develop itself, is the principle of the _restriction_ which is dying.

It is also the principle of the _restriction_ which is about to be created.

Sire, to make such regulations is not to innovate, but to preserve.
The efficacy of the measure is incontestable.

It is difficult--much more difficult than one thinks--to do with the left hand what one was accustomed to do with the right.