Then I
stopped him."
"What did you say?"
"I told him to be quiet or I would make him. I told him we got beyond
that word in King John's reign. I asked if he hed niver heard of the
grand old English word _freedom_, and I said there was as much
difference between freedom and liberty, as there was between right and
wrong--and then I proved it to them."
"What I want to know, Greenwood, is this. Will our people be willing to
shut Hatton factory for the sake of--_freedom?"_
"Yes, sir--every man o' them, I can't say about the women. No man can.
Bad or good, they generally want things to go on as they are. If all's
well for them and their children, they doan't care a snap for public
rights or wrongs, except mebbe in their own parish."
"Well, Jonathan, I am going to prepare, as far as I can, for the worst.
If Yorke goes too far, give him a set down and advise all our workers to
try and save a little before the times come when there will be nothing
to save."
"Yes, sir. That's sensible, and one here and there may happen listen to
me.
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