Now, how would all the grocers and other tradesmen whom he had just enumerated like to be told that if they had not got 10,000_l_.

each they ought to go at once to the workhouse! That would be a fine remedy for the depression of trade.
He always thought it was considered rather meritorious if a man with small capital, by hard work, honest dealing, and self-denial, managed to raise himself and get up in the world.

But, oh no; nothing of the kind; the small man was the greatest sinner, and must be eradicated.

Well, he did not hesitate to say that he had been a small man himself, and began in a very small way.

Perhaps the lecturer would think him a small man still, as he was not a millionaire; but he could pay his way, which went for something in the eyes of old-fashioned people, and perhaps he had a pound or two over.