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 Daily Companion, we may call it) so many of us owe our first and best lessons in political economy,—I have here a selection of extracts from the works of Colonel Perronet Thompson; and the very first thing I find in these extracts is the following prophecy: —

That prediction seems in a pretty fair way of fulfilment.

I look on a few pages, and find the following: —

The time has come. The capitalists and employers have "found out where they are hurt," and the real resistance has begun. We have got the financial deficit; we have got the Income-Tax "subscription to maintain the landlords in an unjust gain;" we have had the thousands of bankruptcies,