Parsons, of the Blanket Mills, bolted at the first hint of the new policy and justified it by reminding people that he always said he would if it ever looked like business.
"We give their woollen goods a pull of a third as it is," he said, "which is just a third more than I approve of.

I don't propose to vote to make it any bigger--can't afford it." He had some followers, but there were also some, like Young, of the Plough Works, and Windle, who made bicycles, who announced that there was no need to change their politics to defeat a measure that had no existence, and never would have.

What sickened them, they declared, was to see young Murchison allowed to give it so much prominence as Liberal doctrine.

The party had been strong enough to hold South Fox for the best part of the last twenty years on the old principles, and this British boot-licking feature wasn't going to do it any good.

It was fool politics in the opinion of Mr Young and Mr Windle.
Then remained the retail trades, the professions, and the farmers.