You ask me how I know all this. Close the doors so that we cannot be overheard, and I will tell you. I buy their continental newspaper--"organ" they prefer to call it, being rather proud of the noise--and there I read all that I want to know. It costs a halfpenny a day, runs to six pages, is well printed and brightly composed and contains no advertisements. There is generally a picture in thick black lines in the centre of the first page. Blood being the easy thing for the printer to "feature," the picture generally deals with the cutting off of heads. If it refers to the past, you and I are cutting off the worker's head, severing from a fine muscular body a noble head with a halo to it. If it refers to the future, the worker is having our heads off, severing from a fat and uncontrolled corpus a most unpleasant excrescence in a very shiny top-hat. To run a daily newspaper of that "make-up," without advertisements and for subscribers of whom the larger number, like myself, omit to pay their half-penny, is not easy business. In fact it is not business at all. The question being raised as to where the money came from, the producers tried to allay our suspicion by making a great show of an appeal for help. The published results, which I give you in their English equivalent, were much as follows:-- +------------------------------------------------------+ | L s. d. | | B. de M. 6 0 | | Z. X. 5 0 | | Idealist 5 0 | | U. W. K. 5 0 | | A Frenchman who is ashamed of France 4 6 | | Young Communist 4 0 | | Three young Communists 3 6 | | "Great Britain" (collection) 3 3 | | Disgusted 2 6 | | Association of Women Fighters for Justice 2 3 | | O. F. 1 0 | | Down with Capital 9 | | One Who will stick at Nothing 3 | | ------------ | | 2 3 0 | | Previous lists 14 6 8-3/4 | | ------------ | | L16 9 8-3/4 | +------------------------------------------------------+ The grand total of sixteen pounds, nine shillings and eight-pence three-farthings shows a magnificent spirit, but wouldn't keep much more than a couple of square inches of the front page alive for more than one day. Reverting, then, to the more pressing question of the removal of our heads, who is paying for the operation?