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to the establishment of their prosperity. They have enjoyed eighteen
years of monopoly, and their complaints are more vehement
than in 1814. Prosperity has, certainly, not attended them;
for though it is true that protections have enormously raised
the price of all manufactures, yet, the increase has not been sufficient
to counterbalance the evils produced by the same system, operating
in other directions. Raw produce being protected, at the demand
of the French producers, and all articles necessary to existence, at the
demand of the French agriculturist,— high prices have lessened
consumption,— while the external demand has been nearly destroyed.
there are scarcely any protected articles, in which France can now
sustain a competition with other countries, and the improvement
resulting from competition, which is as valuable to the real
manufacturer, as it is to the public at large, is completely checked.
The Manufacturers themselves, however, have, in their turn, become
the victims;— For, protection does, in fact, destroy the very market
which it intends to monopolize. It has introduced great
distress among Six Millions of inhabitants of the Wine Districts,
who would, naturally, be large consumers of home produce.
In France, the agricultural isas we have , by far, the most numerous class,
and, if the sale of their produce is prevented by the exclusion
of what other countries have to offer in payment, the means of

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	015	Main Headings	deontology
Folio number	366	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles
Category	linking material	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f41
Penner	sir john bowring	Watermarks	c wise 1829
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1829
Notes public		ID Number	5582
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