State of Fatness

when the hungry mouth of the European shark is watering. He sees your robust men and plump women, your mineral wealth and pasture page 15 lands, and he is hungering for them. He is already here and is beginning his work, and in all probability if you are not alive he will be upon you before you know where you are. He is a crafty customer, with many centuries of experience to back him, and nothing—neither murder, starvation, nor misery—will stay his hand. Do not expect pity of this shark. Do not imagine that you are going to escape, any of you, from the lowliest worker to the largest manufacturer. One of my greatest friends is a large manufacturer in Bradford, and he is of opinion that it would pay the manufacturers to go stumping the country to fight the capitalist, for he has discovered that in Bradford there are hundreds of manufacturers cutting each other's throats while the capitalist, who is controlling their stock, never sweats a hair and never has a moment of anxiety. The capitalist is beginning to be looked upon as