I says, “What did you have to do with it?” and he says, “I was the Spokesman’s Secretary all through it the same as I am now and my God you could not think of anything so awful in a nightmare. You would spend hours thinking up a story and then hold a session of the cabinet and get everybody to agree and learn it by heart and then early next morning you would get a call from the chief of the secret service that in the night they had raided the rooms of one of them Bolshiviki senators that was doing the exposures and they had found out that these senators had got evidence that would knock your story into a cocked hat. And then you would have to begin telephoning to all the members of the cabinet to get them to change the story and a few hours later the secret service would bring you word that the Bolshiviki senators had tapped your telephone lines and heard what your new story was to be. It went on like that for weeks,” he says, “and the Spokesman was just about paralyzed with fright.” “Well,” I says, “Mr. Edgerton does it not suggest that maybe there is something in my idea of just telling the plane truth all the time?” But he will not hear to no such Sunday school talk as he calls it because he says, “How can you tell the truth when the truth is that everybody you know has been helping himself to everything he could get his hands on?” I says, “Mr. Edgerton there is a lot about this political game that is hard for an outsider to understand and one of the things is how it can be called patriotism and economy and all that when people that holds high office is busy robbing the government?” I says. “It seems to me we are giving the Bolshivikis too easy an argument if that is the ways things is.” “Yes,” he says, “I know it seems like that and it is complicated and hard for the plain people to understand but I have heard the Spokesman Himself explain it and it is quite all right when you get His ideas. You see there is all kinds of wealth that the government is got but is not able to make use of it because the government is got no business being in business which it cannot run economical or efficient. The right people to own all these resources is the big business men that is got the money and brains and everything and so it is a real advantage to the people when the business men get these things away from the government.” “You mean even when they have got to steal them?” I says. “Yes,” he says, “that is what the Spokesman thinks and in the long run He is right because for example take this here teapot and you will see that while the government owned it it was not doing nothing but now that the brass kings have got it they have set it on the fire and it is boiling away and making tea for people to drink.” “Well that sounds all right,” I says, “but I would want to know which people is drinking the tea and is it the brass kings?”