Like all other contracts, wages should be left to the fair and free competition of themarket, and should never be controlled by the interference of the legislature.

If a tax on malt would raise the price of beer, a tax on bread must raise the price of bread.

The farmer and manufacturer can no more live without profit than the labourer without wages.

The exchangeable value of all commodities rises as the difficulties of their production increase.

There is no way of keeping profits up but by keeping wages down.

The variation in the value of money, however great, makes no difference in the rate of profits.

A BOUNTY on the exportation of corn tends to lower its price to the foreign consumer, but it has no permanent effect on its price in the home market.