“Then you’re aiming at the weak-minded?”
“At anybody who can assimilate simple ideas plainly expressed,” declared the other positively. “There ought to be four million of ’em within reaching distance of The Patriot’s presses.”
“Your proposition—though you haven’t made any as yet—is that we lead our editorial page daily with matter such as this. Am I correct?”
“No. Make a clean sweep of the present editorials. Substitute mine. One a day will be quite enough for their minds to work on.”
“But that won’t fill the page,” objected the proprietor.
“Cartoon. Column of light comment. Letters from readers. That will,” returned Banneker with severe brevity.
“It might be worth trying,” mused Marrineal.
“It might be worth, to a moribund paper, almost anything.” The tone was significant.
“Then you are prepared to join our staff?”
“On suitable terms.”