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Strife 20$
free hand to tell them :
"
Go you back to London. The
men have nothing for you !
"
Give me that, and I swear
to you, within a week you shall have from London all
you want. Tis not for this little moment of time we re
righting, not for ourselves, our own little bodies, and their
wants, tis for all those that come after throughout all
time. Oh! men for the love o them, don t roll up
another stone upon their heads, don t help to blacken the
sky, an let the bitter sea in over them. They re welcome
to the worst that can happen to me, to the worst that can
happen to us all, aren t they aren t they? If we can
shake the white-faced monster with the bloody lips, that
has sucked the life out of ourselves, our wives, and chil
dren, since the world began. If we have not the hearts
of men to stand against it breast to breast, and eye to eye,
and force it backward till it cry for mercy, it will go
on sucking life; and we shall stay forever wr
hat we are,
less than the very dogs.
Consistency is the greatest crime of our com
mercial age. No matter how intense the spirit or
how important the man, the moment he will not
allow himself to be used or sell his principles, he
is thrown on the dust heap. Such is the fate of
Anthony, the President of the Company, and of
David Roberts. To be sure they represent oppo
site poles poles antagonistic to each other,
poles divided by a terrible gap that can never be
bridged over. Yet they share a common fate.
Antho,ny is the embodiment of conservatism, of
old ideas, of iron methods :
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