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price of the country is to be " organized," and commanded 

 by a few recognized leaders, no individual trade can 

 defend itself against these encroachments upon the liberty 

 of the subject, for these regulations of labour are supple- 

 mented by a species of terrorism and persecution with 

 which the well-disposed working man is powerless to 

 compete ; nor caii I see any reason why an organization 

 which is competent to control and direct the working 

 population as to the disposal of their labour will not be 

 equally effective for controlling and disposing of their 

 votes when they are put into possession of the political 

 franchise. 



I am, Sir, yours, &c., 



AN EMPLOYER. 



I cut the above letter out of the Times on the 28th of 

 May. Now, that intelligent men like the leaders of the 

 (so-called) liberal party should wish to put more power 

 into the hands of such men as are described in this 

 letter, is to me very curious ; but the most curious thing 

 of all is, that these politicians call themselves, and actually 

 get other people to call them, advanced liberals, in favour 

 of progress, at the very time they are trying to make this 

 retrogressive step from liberty and freedom back towards 

 despotism. Verily, the Yorkshire saw is a true one, 

 " there's nowt so queer as fawks." 



The truth is, this extreme party ought to be called " the 

 " retrogressionists." No doubt the extreme Tories might 

 be called so too, but this only means that Hegel's grand 

 doctrine of " the identity of contraries " is a true one. 

 The division of political men into two parties is absurd. 

 Every thing, even a stick, has two ends and a middle, that 

 is three parts. There are giants, dwarfs, and reasonable 



