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Title The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
Page 570
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Text the 'ell's the use of the likes of us troublin' our 'eads about politics?'

`Oh, I don't see that.' replied Harlow. `We've got votes and we're really the people what control the affairs of the country, so I reckon we ought to take SOME interest in it, but at the same time I can't see no sense in this 'ere Socialist wangle that Owen's always talkin' about.'

`Nor nobody else neither,' said Crass with a jeering laugh.

`Even if all the bloody money in the world WAS divided out equal,' said the man on the pail, profoundly, `it wouldn't do no good! In six months' time it would be all back in the same 'ands again.'

`Of course,' said everybody.
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