| Title | The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists |
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| Page | 531 |
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No one is compelled to accept any particular set of conditions in a free country like this. Mr Trafaim - the manager of Sweater's Homework Department - always put the matter before them in the plainest, fairest possible way. There was the work: that was the figure! And those who didn't like it could leave it. There was no compulsion. Sometimes some perverse creature belonging to that numerous class who are too lazy to work DID leave it! But as the manager said, there were plenty of others who were only too glad to take it. In fact, such was the enthusiasm amongst these women - especially such of them as had little children to provide for - and such was their zeal for the Cause, that some of them have been known to positively beg to be allowed to work! By these and similar means Adam Sweater had contrived to lay up for himself a large amount of treasure upon earth, besides |
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