| Title | The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists |
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| Page | 1549 |
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During the next few days the contest continued. The hired orators continued to pour forth their streams of eloquence; and tons of literature flooded the town. The walls were covered with huge posters: `Another Liberal Lie.' `Another Tory Fraud.' Unconsciously each of these two parties put in some splendid work for Socialism, in so much that each of them thoroughly exposed the hypocrisy of the other. If the people had only had the sense, they might have seen that the quarrel between the Liberal and Tory leaders was merely a quarrel between thieves over the spoil; but unfortunately most of the people had not the sense to perceive this. They were blinded by bigoted devotion to their parties, and - inflamed with maniacal enthusiasm - thought of nothing but `carrying their flags to victory'. |
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