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The Imperialist

CHAPTER XXII
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Dropped anything there yourself ?--No?
Nor I.When a thing gets to the boom stage I say let it alone, even if there's gold in it and you've got a School of Mines man to tell you so.

Fawkes came out of it at the small end himself, I expect, but that doesn't help him any in the eyes of businessmen." "I hear," said Walter Winter, stroking his nose, "that old man Parsons has come right over since the bosses at Ottawa have put so much money on preference trade with the old country.

He says he was a Liberal once, and may be a Liberal again, but he doesn't see his way to voting to give his customers blankets cheaper than he can make them, and he'll wait till the clouds roll by." "He won't be the only one, either," said Milburn.

"Take my word for it, they'll be dead sick and sorry over this imperial craze in a year's time, every Government that's taken it up.

The people won't have it.


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