Note 47 — Chapter XXVIII · UPHEAVAL

“Protection,” said Mr. Disraeli, “is not only dead, it is d——d.” A modern Protectionist would lament that the statesman did not read Alton Locke, published before the utterance, ch. xxii: “And sae the deevil’s dead.... At ony rate I’d no bury him till he began smell a wee strong like. It’s a grewsome thing, is premature interment, Alton, laddie!”