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Title The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
Page 1361
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Text `Hear, hear,' cried the man behind the moat.

`There's no money difficulty about it,' replied Barrington. `We can easily find all the money we shall need.'

`Of course,' said Slyme, who had been reading the Daily Ananias, `there's all the money in the Post Office Savings Bank. The Socialists could steal that for a start; and as for the mines and land and factories, they can all be took from the owners by force.'

`There will be no need for force and no need to steal anything from anybody.'

`And there's another thing I objects to,' said Crass. `And that's all this 'ere talk about hignorance: wot about all the money wots spent every year for edication?'

`You should rather say - "What about all the money that's wasted every year on education?" What can be more brutal and senseless than trying
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