| Title | The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists |
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for our money.' `We gets the benefit of the good roads when we 'as to push a 'andcart with a load o' paint and ladders,' said Easton. `Of course,' said Crass, `and besides, the workin' class gets the benefit of all the other things too, because it all makes work.' `Well, for my part,' said Philpot, `I wouldn't mind payin' my share towards a 'appeny rate, although I ain't got no kids o' me own.' The hostility of most of.the working men to the proposed rate was almost as bitter as that of the `better' classes - the noble-minded philanthropists who were always gushing out their sympathy for the `dear little ones', the loathsome hypocrites who pretended that there was no need to levy a rate because they were willing to give sufficient money in the form of charity to meet the case: but the children continued |
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