(5.) The neglect of cultivation Your Free Trade prophets, Bright and improvement, the fall and Gladstone, are unceasing in the real price of any in their endeavours to destroy part of the rude produce the landlord and diminish his of the land ... tend to power of employing productive lower the real rent of land, labour. to reduce the real wealth of the landlord, to diminish his power of purchasing either the labour or the produce of the labour of other people. (6.) The whole annual produce of the land and labour of every country constitutes a revenue to three different orders of people, --to:-- 1. Those who live by rent. 2. Those who live by wages. 3. Those who live by profit. The interest of the first of these three great orders is strictly and inseparably connected with the general interests of the society. _Whatever either promotes Free trade obstructs the or obstructs the one, promotes interests of the first of or obstructs the other._ these three great orders, and necessarily obstructs the general interests of the nation at large. (7.) The interest of this third Free trade has emanated from order has not the same this order. connection with the general interest of the society as that of the other two. _Merchants and Master Manufacturers_ are, in this order, the two classes of people who commonly employ the largest capitals. (8.) The proposal of any new If attention had only been paid law or regulation of commerce, to Adam Smith’s warning, we which comes from should not now have to mourn this order, ought always the decadence of England’s to be listened to with great industries. precaution, and ought never to be adopted till after having been long and carefully examined, not only with the most scrupulous, but with the most suspicious, attention.