A few silly
interjections, probably pre-arranged by Carleton's young lions, become
'renewed interruptions.' The report is strictly truthful; but the
impression produced is that Robert Phillips has failed to carry even his
own people with him. And then follow leaders in fourteen
widely-circulated Dailies, stretching from the Clyde to the Severn,
foretelling how Mr. Robert Phillips could regain his waning popularity by
the simple process of adopting Tariff Reform: or whatever the pet panacea
of Carleton and Co. may, at the moment, happen to be."
"Don't make us out all alike," pleaded his sister with a laugh. "There
are still a few old-fashioned papers that do give their opponents fair
play."
"They are not increasing in numbers," he answered, "and the Carleton
group is. There is no reason why in another ten years he should not
control the entire popular press of the country. He's got the genius and
he's got the means."
"The cleverest thing he has done," he continued, turning to Joan, "is
your _Sunday Post_. Up till then, the working classes had escaped him.
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