[The Measure of a Man by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr]@TWC D-Link bookThe Measure of a Man CHAPTER VIII 49/65
I told him we got beyond that word in King John's reign.
I asked if he hed niver heard of the grand old English word _freedom_, and I said there was as much difference between freedom and liberty, as there was between right and wrong--and then I proved it to them." "What I want to know, Greenwood, is this.
Will our people be willing to shut Hatton factory for the sake of--_freedom ?"_ "Yes, sir--every man o' them, I can't say about the women.
No man can. Bad or good, they generally want things to go on as they are.
If all's well for them and their children, they doan't care a snap for public rights or wrongs, except mebbe in their own parish." "Well, Jonathan, I am going to prepare, as far as I can, for the worst. If Yorke goes too far, give him a set down and advise all our workers to try and save a little before the times come when there will be nothing to save." "Yes, sir.
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