Those orthodox partisan editors who sneered at my comment on W. R. Hearst as a man who did things while others were talk—talk—talking, will please study the election returns from Chicago and hand me out revised opinions.
That was a Hearst fight, and Hearst himself was personally in the thick of it. He said little and accomplished much.
Would still like to swap a score or two of mere talkers like—well, no matter—for another such myth as Hearst.
A wise man—and his name is Dennis—has an article in the April number of Everybody’s to prove that free trade has created in England that poverty-stricken mass of humanity which he includes under the general name of “Hooligan.”
According to Mr. Robert Hunter, the Hooligans of the United States aggregate 10,000,000—and we haven’t had any free trade, either.
Evidently the wise Mr. Dennis has not located the true cause of poverty in England.
It was famine, and the high price of bread, which forced Sir Robert Peel to abandon protection and to carry free trade into effect.
Bread was cheapened and the cost of living reduced.
Did that inflict such great misery upon the poor?