Excerpt from The American Journal of Politics, Vol. 1: July to December, 1892 Cobden thought that the government should abolish chfld slavery in factories; but be doubted the justice of regulatinghy lawthehonrsof laborforgrowu up men. Hewantedtoseethe workingmen strong enough to dictate their own hours of labaz, withoutaskingthepatronageof thestate; andwithoutplacing themselves under the guardianship of government. His w popular Opinions on this qnmtion are to some extent vindicated by the fact that the workingmen of England under the Free Trade system, have themselves reduced the hours of labor; and soon without any assistance from the state, they will (seem the eight-hour working day. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.