With me you
won't have to write between the lines. Not on labor or political
questions, anyway. You're a Socialist, aren't you?"
"Yes. You're not going to make The Patriot a Socialist paper, are you?"
"Some people might call it that. I'm going to make it a popular paper.
It's going to be for the many against the few. How are you going to
bring about Socialism?"
"Education."
"Exactly! What better chance could you ask? A paper devoted to the
interests of the masses, and willing to print facts. I want you to do
the same sort of thing that you've been doing for The Courier; a job of
handling the big, general stories. You'll be responsible to me alone.
The salary will be a third higher than you are now getting. Think it
over."
"I've thought. I'm bought," said Russell Edmonds. He resumed his pipe.
"And you, Mr. Banneker?"
"I'm not a Socialist, in the party sense. Besides a Socialist paper in
New York has no chance of big circulation."
"Oh, The Patriot isn't going to tag itself. Politically it will be
independent. Its policy will be socialistic only in that it will be for
labor rather than capital and for the under dog as against the upper
dog. It certainly won't tie up to the Socialist Party or advocate its
principles.
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