So you see, old man, how useful, not to say necessary, a club with a large membership is to me.

The more mixed and socially chaotic it is, the more serviceable it is." "Of course," said Yeovil, "and I suppose, as a matter of fact, a good many of your clients belong to the conquering race." "Well, you see, they are the people who have got the money," said Herlton; "I don't mean to say that the invading Germans are usually people of wealth, but while they live over here they escape the crushing taxation that falls on the British-born subject.

They serve their country as soldiers, and we have to serve it in garrison money, ship money and so forth, besides the ordinary taxes of the State.

The German shoulders the rifle, the Englishman has to shoulder everything else.

That is what will help more than anything towards the gradual Germanising of our big towns; the comparatively lightly-taxed German workman over here will have a much bigger spending power and purchasing power than his heavily taxed English neighbour.