Is it any wonder the Germans beat them in their own shops and Russia walks into Thibet?
The eternal marvel is that they stand where they do." "At the top," said Mr Williams.
"Oh--at the top! Think of what you mean when you say 'England.'" "I see that the demand for a tariff on manufactured goods is growing," Williams remarked, "even the anti-food-tax organs are beginning to shout for that." "If they had put it on twenty years ago," said Lorne, "there would be no twelve million people making a problem for want of work, and it would be a good deal easier to do imperial business today." "You'll find," said John Murchison, removing his pipe, "that protection'll have to come first over there.

They'll put up a fence and save their trade--in their own good time, not next week or next year--and when they've done that they'll talk to us about our big ideas--not before.

And if Wallingham hadn't frightened them with the imperial job, he never would have got them to take up the other.

It's just his way of getting both done." "I hope you're right, Father," said Lorne, with a covert glance at his watch.

"Horace--Mrs Williams--I'll have to get you to excuse me.