"Legislation is only playing with the subject now.

You sneer at the Democratic Party, but they have a perfectly sound scheme of financial reform and they undertake to bring the income tax down to two shillings in the pound within the next three years." "They'll ruin half the merchants and the manufacturers in the country if they attempt it." "How can they ruin them ?" Tallente replied.

"The factories will be there, the trade will be there, the money will still be there.

The financial legislation of the last few years has simply been a blatant nursing of the profiteer." "I need not say, Tallente, that I disagree with you entirely," his companion declared.

"At the same time, I am not going to argue with you.