“It’s a good bill.”
“Nearly a quarter of our advertising revenue is from the patent-medicine people.”
“Mostly swindlers.”
“They pay your salary,” Marrineal pointed out.
“Not mine,” said Banneker vigorously. “The paper pays my salary.”
“Without the support of the very advertisers that you are attacking, it couldn’t continue to pay it. Yet you decline to admit any responsibility to them.”
“Absolutely. To them or for them.”
“I confess I can’t see your basis,” said the reasonable Marrineal. “Considering what you have received in income from the paper—”
“I have worked for it.”
“Admitted. But that you should absorb practically all the profits—isn’t that a little lopsided, Mr. Banneker?”