It Is Surprising How Many Of Them Said
This, And That None Should Have Had A Definite Thought In His Head
As He Said It.
Some hated the Church because they disagreed with
it; some hated Lord Beaconsfield because of war and taxes; all
hated the masters, possibly with reason.
But these failings were
not at the root of the matter; the true reasoning of their souls
ran thus - I have not got on; I ought to have got on; if there was a
revolution I should get on. How? They had no idea. Why?
Because - because - well, look at America!
To be politically blind is no distinction; we are all so, if you
come to that. At bottom, as it seems to me, there is but one
question in modern home politics, though it appears in many shapes,
and that is the question of money; and but one political remedy,
that the people should grow wiser and better. My workmen fellow-
passengers were as impatient and dull of hearing on the second of
these points as any member of Parliament; but they had some
glimmerings of the first. They would not hear of improvement on
their part, but wished the world made over again in a crack, so
that they might remain improvident and idle and debauched, and yet
enjoy the comfort and respect that should accompany the opposite
virtues; and it was in this expectation, as far as I could see,
that many of them were now on their way to America.
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