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Sophisms of the Protectionists

PART II
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But they shall deceive me no more, and I will be represented by some good and honest countryman.
-- Bah, you will re-elect the worthy General.
-- I?
I re-elect the General to give away my wine to Africans and manufacturers?
-- You will re-elect him, I say.
-- That is a little _too much_.

I will not re-elect him, if I do not want to.
-- But you will want to, and you will re-elect him.
-- Let him come here and try.

He will see who he will have to settle with.
-- We shall see.

Good bye.

I take away your six hogsheads, and will proceed to divide them as the General has directed.
XI.
UTOPIAN IDEAS.
If I were His Majesty's Minister! -- Well, what would you do?
-- I should begin by--by--upon my word, by being very much embarrassed.
For I should be Minister only because I had the majority, and I should have that only because I had made it, and I could only have made it, honestly at least, by governing according to its ideas.


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