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The Imperialist

CHAPTER XII
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Conditions keep changing, right along, all the time, and presently you've got to reconsider.

There ain't any sort of ultimate truth in the finest economic position, my son; not any at all." "We'll subsidize over here, right enough," said Lorne.
"That's the idea--that's the prevailing idea, just now.

But lots of people think different--more than you'd imagine.

I was talking to old man Milburn just now--he's dead against it.

'Government has no business,' he said, 'to apply the taxes in the interests of any company.
It oughtn't to know how to spell "subsidy." If the trade was there it would get itself carried,' he said." "Well, that surprises me," said Lorne.
"Surprised me, too.


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