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Title The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
Page 821
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Text bloody fool, the same as everybody else what don't see things YOUR way?' said Sawkins.

`I should think he was a fool if I thought he believed what he says. But I don't think he believes it. He says it because he thinks the majority of the working classes are such fools that they will believe him. If he didn't think that most of us are fools he wouldn't tell us such a yarn as that.'

`And I suppose you think as 'is opinion ain't far wrong,' snarled Crass.

`We shall be better able to judge of that after the next General Election,' replied Owen. `If the working classes again elect a majority of Liberal or Tory landlords and employers to rule over them, it will prove that Jim Scalds' estimate of their intelligence is about right.'
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