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fully secured against malversation; the objections, 

 on social and political grounds, to Mr. Booth's 

 despotic organization, with its thousands of docile 

 satellites pledged to blind obedience, set forth in 

 the letters, would be in no degree weakened. The 

 " sixpennyworth of good" would still be out- 

 weighed by the " shillingsworth of harm "; if in- 

 deed the relative worth, or unworth, of the latter 

 should not be rated in pounds rather than in shil- 

 lings. 



What would one not give for the opinion of 

 the financial members of the Committee about the 

 famous Bank; and that of the legal experts about 

 the proposed " tribunes of the people " ? 



HODKSLEA, EASTBOURNE, 

 July, 1894. 



