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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 75

An Independent Self-Contained Creature—

An Independent Self-Contained Creature

no political economist has ever done that. Now let me come to the other side of the argument and put it in a concrete form. Suppose we got all the gold there is in the world and made an island of it in the Pacific, that we built with bank notes the houses upon it, and decorated the sides of them with all the most brilliant stones and costly gems that the world could produce; that we then made a golden circle, and in the centre of it should be the Rockfellers, the Vanderbilts, the Goulds, and the Mackays, double-banked with the Dukes of Westminster, and Marquises, and Earls, and Lords and Knights, and people of that sort: hemmed round again by Bishops and Bankers; squared again by the capitalistic small fry, and that at the footstool of all this power and pomp and vanity the editors should sit dangling their legs! Imagine that the condition should be that they were to have all their gold—all their wealth, as they term it. They would be a long time