“Then it is a question of morals?”
“Or ethics. I think so. For example, have you tried your hand at editorials?”
“Yes.”
“Successfully?”
“As far as I’ve gone.”
“Then you are in accord with the editorial policy of The Ledger?”
“Not in everything.”
“In its underlying, unexpressed, and immanent theory that this country can best be managed by an aristocracy, a chosen few, working under the guise of democracy?”
“No; I don’t believe that, of course.”
“I do, as it happens. But I fail to see how Christian Banneker’s son and élève could. Yet you write editorials for The Ledger.”