They need only to exhume the _Moniteur Industriel_ of 1846, and they will find, ready-made, arguments against _free trade_, which destroy so admirably this _liberty of the right hand_, that all that is required is to substitute one word for another.
"The Parisian _Free Trade_ League never doubted but that it would have the assistance of the workingmen.

But the workingmen can no longer be led by the nose.

They have their eyes open, and they know political economy better than our diplomaed professors.

_Free trade_, they replied, will take from us our labor, and labor is our real, great, sovereign property; _with labor, with much labor, the price of articles of merchandise is never beyond reach_.

But without labor, even if bread should cost but a penny a pound, the workingman is compelled to die of hunger.