| Title | The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists |
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those twenty years they have earned but a bare living wage and have had to endure such privations that those who are not already dead are broken in health. `In the case of the employer there had been twenty years of steady progress towards ease and leisure and independence. In the case of the majority of the men there were twenty years of deterioration, twenty years of steady, continuous and hopeless progress towards physical and mental inefficiency: towards the scrap-heap, the work-house, and premature death. What is it but false, misleading, nonsensical claptrap to say that their interests were identical with those of their employer? `Such talk as that is not likely to deceive any but children or fools. We are not children, but it |
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