It's about time you quit," said Edmonds vigorously.
"You've changed your mind?"
The elder nodded between two spirals of smoke
nike dunkwhich gave him the appearance of an important godling delivering oracles through incense. "That was a dam' bad story you wrote of the Sippiac killings."
"I didn't write it."
"Didn't uh? You were there."
"My story went to the office cat."
"What was the stuff they printed? Amalgamated Wire Association?"
"No. Machine-made rewrite in the office."
"It wasn't dishonest. The Ledger's too clever for that. It was unhonest. You can't be both neutral and fair on cold-blooded murder."
"You weren't precisely neutral in The Courier."
Edmonds chuckled. "I did rather put it over on the paper. But that was easy. Simply a matter of lining up the facts in logical sequence."
"Horace Vanney says you're an anarchist."
"It's mutual. I think he's one. To hell with all laws and rights that discommode _Me_ and _My_ interests. That's the Vanney platform."
"He thinks he ought to have advertised."
"Wise guy! So he ought."
"To secure immunity?"
It required six long, hard puffs to
Louis Vuitton Saleelicit from Edmonds the opinion: "He'd have got it. Partly. Not all he paid for."
"Not from The Ledger," said Banneker jealously. "We're independent in that respect."
Edmonds laughed. "You don't have to bribe your own heeler. The Ledger believes in Vanney's kind of anarchism, as in a religion."
"Could he have bought off The Courier?"
"Nothing as raw as that. But it's quite possible that if the Sippiac Mills had been a heavy advertiser, the paper wouldn't have sent me to the riots. Some one more sympathetic, maybe."
"Didn't they kick on your story?"
"Who? The mill people? Howled!"
"But it didn't get them anything?"
"Didn't it! You know how difficult it is to get anything for publication out of old Rockface Enderby. Well, I had a brilliant idea that this was something he'd talk about. Law Enforcement stuff, you know. And he
burberry online did. Gave me a hummer of an interview. Tore the guts out of the mill-owners for violating all sorts of laws, and put it up that the mill-guards were themselves a lawless organization. There's nothing timid about Enderby. Why, we'd have started a controversy that would be going yet."
"Well, why didn't you?"
"Interview was killed," replied Edmonds, grinning ruefully. "For the best interests of the paper. That's what the Vanney crowd's kick got them."
"Pop, what do you make of Willis Enderby?"
"Oh, he's plodding along only a couple of decades behind his time."
"A reactionary?"
"Didn't I say he was plodding along? A reactionary is immovable except in the wrong direction. Enderby's a conservative."
"As a socialist you're against any one who isn't as radical as you are."
"I'm not against Willis Enderby. I'm for him," grunted the veteran.
"Why; if he's a conservative?"
"Oh, as for that, I can bring a long
www.usaburberryoutlet1856.comindictment against him. He's a firm believer in the capitalistic system. He's enslaved to the old economic theories, supply and demand, and all that rubbish from the ruins of ancient Rome. He believes that gold is the only sound material for pillars of society. The aristocratic idea is in his bones." Edmonds, by a feat of virtuosity, sent a thin, straight column of smoke, as it might have been an allegorical and sardonic pillar itself, almost to the ceiling. "But he believes in fair play. Free speech. Open field. The rigor of the game. He's a sportsman in life and affairs. That's why he's dangerous."
"Dangerous? To whom?"
"To the established order. To the present system. Why, son, all we Socialists ask is fair play. Give us an even chance for labor, for the proletariat; an even show before the courts, an open forum in the
burberry men bags newspapers, the right to organize as capital organizes, and we'll win. If we can't win, we deserve to lose. I say that men like Willis Enderby are our strongest supporters."
"Probably he thinks his side will win, under the strict rules of the game."
"Of course. But if he didn't, he'd still be for fair play, to the last inch."
"That's a pretty fine thing to say of a man, Pop."
"It's a pretty fine man," said Edmonds.
"What does Enderby want? What is he after?"
"For himself? Nothing. It's something to be known as the ablest honest lawyer in New York. Or, you can turn it around and say he's the honestest able lawyer in New York. I think, myself, you wouldn't
burberry shoes for men be far astray if you said the ablest and honestest. No; he doesn't want anything more than what he's got: his position, his money, his reputation. Why should he? But it's going to be forced on him one of these days."
"Politically?"
"Yes. Whatever there is of leadership in the reform element here centers in him. It's only a question of time when he'll have to carry the standard."
"I'd like to be able to fall in behind him when the time comes."
"On The Ledger?" grunted Edmonds.
"But I shan't be on The Ledger when the time comes. Not if I can find any other place to go."
"Plenty of places," affirmed Edmonds positively.
"Yes; but will
burberry handbags they give me the chance I want?"
"Not unless you make it for yourself. But let's canvass 'em. You want a morning paper."
"Yes. Not enough salary in the evening field."
"Well: you've thought of The Sphere first, I suppose."
"Naturally. I like their editorial policy. Their news policy makes me seasick.