What It does not authorise, isn't supposed to exist." "Is that truly so ?" asked Bunce, solemnly.
"Most assuredly!" "You mean to say,"-- said Helmsley, breaking in upon the conversation, and speaking in quiet unconcerned tones--"that the actual national affairs of the world are not told to the people as they should be, but are jealously guarded by a few whose private interests are at stake ?" "Yes.

I certainly do mean that." "I thought you did.

You see," went on Helmsley--"when I was in regular office work in London, I used to hear a good deal concerning the business schemes of this, that and the other great house in the city,--and I often wondered what the people would say if they ever came to know!" "Came to know what ?" said Mr.Bunce, anxiously.
"Why, the names of the principal shareholders in the newspapers,"-- said Reay, placidly--"_That_ might possibly open their eyes to the way their opinions are manufactured for them! There's very little 'liberty of the press' in Great Britain nowadays.

The press is the property of a few rich men." Mary, who was working very intently on a broad length of old lace she was mending, looked up at him--her eyes were brilliant and her cheeks softly flushed.
"I hope you will be brave enough to say that some day right out to the people as you say it to us,"-- she observed.
"I will! Never fear about that! If I _am_ ever anything--if I ever _can_ be anything--I will do my level best to save my nation from being swallowed up by a horde of German-American Jews!" said Reay, hotly--"I would rather suffer anything myself than see the dear old country brought to shame." "Right, very right!" said Mr.Bunce, approvingly--"And many--yes, I think we may certainly say many,--are of your spirit,--what do you think, David ?" Helmsley had raised himself in his chair, and was looking wonderfully alert.

The conversation interested him.
"I quite agree,"-- he said--"But Mr.Reay must remember that if he should ever want to make a clean sweep of German-American Jews and speculators as he says, and expose the way they tamper with British interests, he would require a great deal of money.