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Your people are honest, I'll
grant. But they also are poor. And why? Because no one has been able
to act for them as your friend Tullis is capable of acting. The day
will come when they will have to settle with me, and will it be any
easier to pay William W. Blithers than it is to pay Russia? Not a bit
of it. As you have said, I am not a philanthropist. I shall exact
full and prompt payment. I prefer to collect from the prosperous,
however, and not from the poor. It goes against the grain. That's why
I want to see you rich and powerful--as well as honest."
"I grant you it is splendid philosophy," said Robin. "But are you not
forgetting that even the best of Americans are sometimes failures
when it comes to laying up treasure?"
"As individuals, yes; but not as a class. You will not deny that we
are the richest people in the world. On the other hand I do not
pretend to say that we are a people of one strain of blood. We
represent a mixture of many strains, but underneath them all runs the
full stream that makes us what we are: Americans.


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