But we want to understand you.

You mean that for the sake of altering our social conditions, you would, if you thought it necessary, let this country be conquered, plunge her for a hundred years or more into misery deeper than any she has yet known?
What good do you suppose could come of this?
The poor who are poor now would starve then.

From whom would come the mammoth war indemnity we should have to pay ?" "Not from the poor," Maraton replied.

"That is one of my theories.

It would come from the very class whom I would willingly see enfeebled--the greedy, grasping, middle class.