All the ledger and daybook men say we are
crackbrained. Now, if we can go on doing just a little with our ordinary
dispensaries, is it wise to risk playing at magnificence? You see I am
taking the side of Mr. Commonsense against my own ideas."
"I certainly think you may succeed," said Miss Dearsley.
"So do I; and now you see my point. We want to persuade other people as
quickly as possible to think as we do. To persuade, we must back all our
talkee-talkee by facts, and to get facts we must work and endure in
patience. You see what an amazingly clear political economist I am. Wait
till we run into the fleet; we shall be sure to catch them before the
trawls go down for the night, and, unless I'm mistaken, some of us will
be astonished. I never go into a new fleet without seeing what a little
weir we have at present to check a Niagara of affliction."
Mrs. Walton had much to do with many philanthropic movements, and men
were always glad to hear her judgments--mainly because she was not a
platform woman. She turned an amused look on Fullerton, and said, "Of
course a woman can't deal with logic and common sense and all those
dreadful things, and I know what a terribly rigid logician Mr. Fullerton
is. I think, even without seeing any more misery and broken bones and
things, that we have no very great difficulty before us. The case is as
simple as can be--to a woman. There is an enormous fund set aside by the
public for charity, and everybody wants to see a fair distribution.
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