"No doubt. But it will take a mighty clever man to prove even to a public-house loafer that the dearer things are made, the better off he will be."
"But you must not forget that there are some very clever men at work."
"They are not clever enough for that."
"You don't know. They have undertaken more difficult tasks and succeeded. Think of South Africa!"
"I'd rather not. It won't bear thinking about."
"Nevertheless, it shows what can be done. The masses of the people are more easily persuaded than you think. Education, you must remember, is not sense. Hit upon a popular cry, and the rest is easy."
"But no country can be gulled twice in so short a period. No, dad, our fortunes are not to be mended along those lines."
"I am not so sure. A good stirring appeal to patriotism will work wonders still. 'England for the English——'"
"England for the English landlords, you mean, for that's what it comes to in the end."
"No doubt it does. But while a few people own the land it is well that the masses should think that England belongs to them."