There is what you might call a minority report in regard to the situation.

Captain Trigger asked me to speak for him and others who look at it as I do.

Mr.Landover, who is, I understand, one of the leading bankers in the United States of America, contends that we are well enough off as we are, on board the Doraine, where we've got cabins and beds and shelter from the elements.

He may be right.

All I have to say to him is this,--I don't believe I mentioned it at this conference, Mr.Landover, simply because I'm one of those unhappy individuals who always think of the brilliant things I might have said when it's too late to say them,--all I have to say is this: if Mr.Landover and his supporters expect to sit snugly on this ship while the rest of us build houses and plant crops, and then conclude to come out and bone the rest of us for a square meal and a nice warm place to sleep, they are going to be badly fooled.