| Title | The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists |
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| Page | 998 |
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GREAT SPEECH BY SIR GRABALL D'ENCLOSELAND Brilliant Epigram! None should have more than they need, whilst any have less than they need! The hypocrisy of such a saying in the mouth of a man who was drawing a salary of five thousand pounds a year did not appear to occur to anyone. On the contrary, the hired scribes of the capitalist Press wrote columns of fulsome admiration of the miserable claptrap, and the working men who had elected this man went into raptures over the `Brilliant Epigram' as if it were good to eat. They cut it out of the papers and carried it about with them: they showed it to each other: they read it and repeated it to each other: they wondered at it and were |
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