Such interference takes place when some are countenanced by legislation in engrossing labours and rewards which would otherwise be open to all;— as in the case of privileged trading corporations;— When arbitrary means of preparation are dictated as a condition of the exercise of industry, and the enjoyment of its fruits,—as in the case of the apprenticeship law;— When labourers are compelled to a species of labour which they would not have chosen,—as in the case of the impressment of seamen. The same duty—of securing the free exercise of industry—requires that companies should be privileged to carry on works of public utility which are not within the reach of individual enterprize,—as in the case of roads, canals, bridges, &c., and also, That the fruits of rare ingenuity and enterprize should be secured to the individual,—according to the design of our patent law. In the first mentioned instances of interference, the three great evils arise of The restraint of fair competition in some cases; The arbitrary increase of competition in other cases; The obstruction of the circulation of labour and capital from employment to employment, and from place to place. In the last mentioned instances of protection, none of these evils take place. THE END. -------------------------------------------------- London: Printed by WILLIAM CLOWES, Duke-street, Lambeth. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Transcriber’s Note Hyphens appearing on a line or page break have beem removed if the preponderance of other occurrences are unhyphenated. Those words occurring midline are retained regardless of other occurences. The following variants were retained: (day-break/daybreak, noon-day/noonday, star-light/starlight, ferry-boat/ferryboat, pepper-corns/peppercorns, press-gang/pressgane, scare-crow/scarecrows, school-boy/schoolboy, ship-board/shipboard, super-abundance/superabundance, work-shop/workshop). On some occasions, a word spans a line break, but the hyphen itself has gone missing. These fragments are joined appropriately without further notice here. The compound word ‘mother-country’ appears as many times without the hyphen as with. Only on p.97 of ‘Cinnamon and Pearls’ do both appear, and the hyphen is added to the first of those three instances. On p. 89 of the ‘Cinnamon and Pearls’, a paragraph ends with a closing quote which has no obvious opening, though the voice seems to have resumed speaking at some point. Errors deemed most likely to be the printer’s have been corrected, and are noted here. The references are to the page and line in the original. SOWERS NOT REAPERS.