| Title | The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists |
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| Page | 876 |
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And Rushton and Grinder nodded assent. `Afterwards,' resumed Sweater, `I'll arrange for a good report of the meeting to appear in the Weekly Ananias. I'll instruct the Editor to write it himself, and I'll tell him just what to say. I'll also get him to write a leading article about it, saying that electricity is sure to supersede gas for lighting purposes in the very near future. Then the article will go on to refer to the huge profits made by the Gas Coy and to say how much better it would have been if the town had bought the gasworks years ago, so that those profits might have been used to reduce the rates, the same as has been done in other towns. Finally, the article will declare that it's a great pity that the Electric Light Supply should be in the hands of a private company, and to suggest that an effort be made to acquire it for the town. `In the meantime we can all go about - in a very quiet and judicious way, of course - bragging about what a good thing we've got, and |
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