"Then your mission is not an honest one," Lord Armley declared suddenly.
"It is dishonest that good things may come of it."

"It is possible to reason like that," Maraton admitted.

"Now, listen," Mr. Foley continued. "I will show you the other way. I
will look with you into the future. I cannot agree with all your views
but I, too, would like to see the diminution of capital from the hands
of the manufacturers and the middle classes, and an increase of
prosperity to the operatives. I would like to see the gulf between them
narrowed year by year. I would like to see the working man everywhere
established in quarters where life is wholesome and pleasant. I would
like to see his schools better, even, than they are at present. I would
like to see him, in the years to come, a stronger, a more capable, a
more dignified unit of the Empire. He can only be made so by
prosperity. Therefore, I wish for him prosperity. You want to sow the
country red with ruin and fire, and there isn't any man breathing, not
even you, can tell exactly what the outcome of it all might be. I want
to work at the same thing more gently. Last year for the first time, I
passed a Bill in Parliament which interfered between the relations of
master and man. In a certain trade dispute I compelled the employers,
by Act of Parliament, to agree to a vital principle upon which the men
insisted. The night I drove home from the House I said to Lady
Elisabeth, my niece, that that measure, small though it was, marked a
new era in the social conditions of the country. It did. What I have
commenced, I am prepared to go on with. I am prepared by every logical
and honest means to legislate for labour. I am prepared to legislate in
such a way that the prosperity of the manufacturer, all the
manufacturers in this country, must be shared by the workpeople. I am