ABSTRACT
M. Barthelemy has introduced a motion in the House of Peers intended to deprive industrials of the right, by virtue of their moveable property, to vote in elections to the House of Commons, as do owners of landed property. The explicit purpose of this proposal is to have the commons represented by the nobility and those property owners whose interests are directly opposed to those of the industrials. It seeks to bring the labouring, productive, and thrifty part of the nation back under the yoke of extravagant, despotic, and idle men. The industrials must be aware, fully aware, that at this moment it is the terms of the Charter which are being discussed, and that consequently any measures taken, any laws passed, are constitutional not ordinary laws. The law of the common interest has increasingly modified the law of the strongest, and must in the end become the one from which all others are derived.
