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finished completeness by the embellishments of art, how clearly 
appears the well adjusted rotations and dependencies, and the re¬ 
ciprocal aids and advantages of the various departments of human 
industry and skill, and how inseparably connected and interwoven 
are all the employments involving the lightest use of the muscle, 
the brain and the heart, and all of the interests of society. 
There is and can be no absolute independence in business, and 
there should not be any jealousy, envy or hostility when each sep¬ 
arate branch is so necessary to the prosperity of the whole. The 
system being so obviously perfect, where is there any just cause of 
complaint ? It must be in that 
LEGISLATION AND GOVERNMENTAL INTERFERENCE 
and attempted control, which are prompted by class and selfish in¬ 
terest to favor one branch of industry, or certain branches of it, at 
the expense and to the injury of the others, and consequently to 
the whole. If the unwritten laws of our political economy, .which 
have come into existence and equal and impartial action with it, 
and out of the very exigencies and necessities of its ever changing 
conditions, and which will always run parallel with all the interests 
of every department, and regulate the whole, were not sought to be 
amended and overiuledby arbitrary enactments, there would be no 
complaint. The remedy for any real or imaginary evils which ex¬ 
ist is not in the change ot the system, but in allowing each depart¬ 
ment to fill its true place in the general order, and receive its equal 
share of advantage in the general distribution of the profits of labor 
and skill. When by usage or assumption these unwritten laws and 
well adjusted regulations are violated, then it may become neces¬ 
sary by legal enactments to 
RESTRAIN AND CONTROL EACH DEPARTMENT, 
and keep it within its proper time and relations, so as to prevent 
special privileges, unequal advantages and monopoly. Injustice, 
tyranny and oppression, by law, towards any special branch, is no 
more ruinous to the general interests of trade and industry than 
laws specially favoring one branch above another. “ Free trade 
and equal rights ” should prevail in spirit and in practice in all de¬ 
partments of'industry, and throughout the commercial world, and 
nothing but a great necessity can justify exceptional infraction of 
