If they hesitate to strip us naked, or to cut our throats if we offer them the smallest resistance, they will show us more mercy than we ever showed them.
Consider what we have done to get our rents in Ireland and Scotland, and our dividends in Egypt, if you have already forgotten my photographs and their lesson in our atrocities at home.

Why, man, we murder the great mass of these toilers with overwork and hardship; their average lifetime is not half as long as ours.

Human nature is the same in them as in us.
If we resist them, and succeed in restoring order, as we call it, we will punish them mercilessly for their insubordination, as we did in Paris in 1871, where, by-the-bye, we taught them the folly of giving their enemies quarter.

If they beat us, we shall catch it, and serve us right.

Far better turn honest at once and avert bloodshed.