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CAPITAL AND INTEREST.Cold-water Supply TestDurham Or Screw Pipe Work Pipe And Fittings Gas Fitting Pipe And Fittings Threading Measuring And Testing Hot-water Heaters Instantaneous Coil And Storage Tanks. House Traps Fresh-air Connections Drum Traps And Non-syphoning Traps Installing Of French Or Sub-soil Drains Insulation Of Piping To Eliminate Conduction Radiation Freezing And Noise Laying Terra-cotta And Making Connections To Public Sewers. Water Connections Making And Care Of Wiping Cloths Mixtures Of Solders For Soldering Iron And Wiping Care Of Solders Melting Points Of Metals And Alloys More Preparing And Wiping Joints Pipe Threading Plumbing Codes Plumbing Fixtures And Trade Preparing And Wiping Joints Soil And Waste Pipes And Vents Tests Storm And Sanitary Drainage With Sewage Disposal The Use And Care Of The Soldering Iron Fluxes Making Different Soldering Joints Sophisms Of The ProtectionistsA Chinese StoryA Negative Railroad Absolute Prices Abundance Scarcity Appendix Balance Of Trade Commentary Conclusion Conflicting Principles Dearness Cheapness Discriminating Duties Does Protection Raise The Rate Of Wages? Effort Result Equalizing Of The Facilities Of Production Fourth Tableau Human Labor National Labor Inferior Council Of Labor Introduction Metaphors National Independence Natural History Of Spoliation Obstacle Cause Obstructed Rivers Pleading For The Prohibitionists Our Productions Are Overloaded With Taxes Petition From The Manufacturers Of Candles Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc Raw Material Reciprocity Reciprocity Again Robbery By Bounties Salt Postage And Customs Something Else Supremacy By Labor The Little Arsenal Of The Free Trader The Right And The Left Hand The Tax Collector The Three Aldermen The Two Hatchets Theory Practice There Are No Absolute Principles Third Tableau To Artisans And Laborers Two Systems Of Morals Utopian Ideas Wonderful Discovery! |
The HouseMondor had a house. In building it, he had extorted nothing from any one whatever. He owed it to his own personal labor, or, which is the same thing, to labor justly rewarded. His first care was to make a bargain with an architect, in virtue of which, by means of a hundred crowns a year, the latter engaged to keep the house in constant good repair. Mondor was already congratulating himself on the happy days which he hoped to spend in this retreat, declared sacred by our Constitution. But Valerius wished to make it his residence. How can you think of such a thing? said Mondor; it is I who have built it; it has cost me ten years of painful labor, and now you would enjoy it! They agreed to refer the matter to judges. They chose no profound economists--there were none such in the country. But they found some just and sensible men; it all comes to the same thing: political economy, justice, good sense, are all the same thing. Now here is the decision made by the judges: If Valerius wishes to occupy Mondor's house for a year, he is bound to submit to three conditions. The first is, to quit at the end of the year, and to restore the house in good repair, saving the inevitable decay resulting from mere duration. The second, to refund to Mondor the 300 francs, which the latter pays annually to the architect to repair the injuries of time; for these injuries taking place whilst the house is in the service of Valerius, it is perfectly just that he should bear the consequences. The third, that he should render to Mondor a service equivalent to that which he receives. As to this equivalence of services, it must be freely discussed between Mondor and Valerius. Next: The Plane Previous: The Sack Of Corn
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