To-day you seem to be representing a very worthy but misguided class of the community--the sentimentalists.
They are invariably trying to alter by legislation conditions which are automatic.

It is true that our operations over here may temporarily make bread dearer, but on the other hand we may be facing the other way within a month.

We may be sellers of wheat, and the loaf then will be cheaper than it ever has been.

I am an Englishman, and it is not my desire to add to the sufferings of my fellow countrymen." "You don't care a damn about any one's sufferings," Wingate retorted, "so long as you can make money out of them." Phipps for once looked a little taken aback.
"My dear sir," he protested, "your trans-Atlantic bluntness is somewhat disconcerting.

However, you must admit that we have heard you patiently.
Let us now, if you are willing, discuss for a minute or two the real object of your visit." "I have delivered my warning," Wingate remarked.