They will be told that "buy cheap and sell dear" is the eternal law of trade. They will answer that they have suffered too much already under it to believe in it, and will cry out for a "just price," a "fair day's wages for a fair day's work." This has been their war-cry as long as I can remember, and a nobler one it would be not easy to suggest to them. They will be told that an enlightened selfishness in each individual works the good of all. They will answer that they have never found it so in their line of life, and don't want to have that doctrine get into their unions. In short, not to go on multiplying instances, the accepted political economy -that "law of the State's household," which sets before itself the accumulation of capital as its highest result is a law which for them leads to bankruptcy, and they will not listen to its professors. But I know that they are not only ready, but most anxious, for teaching on the matters which Political Economy should deal with if it were true to its name. If any reader doubts this, I can only ask him to attend some of their trades' meetings, or to buy and read a number or two of the few papers which really represent them, such as The Workman, price 1d., published at 335, Strand; or, better still, to get some of their trade reports and circulars and study them. There is a prospectus of a trade journal at present circulating amongst the working classes which will show in a few words what subjects are really occupying them. The name of this journal is to be, Weekly Wages, the Organ of Associated Labour. The prospectus sets out shortly the want felt by the working classes of a newspaper to represent them truly. "Fair-play," it states, "is "all that labour needs, and all that was These are not wild words, but very serious and sober words. 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