"But if you, and Bert, and Tom can't agree, how do you expect all
the rest to agree?" Saxon asked.
"It gets me," he admitted. "It's enough to give a guy the willies
thinkin' about it. And yet it's plain as the nose on your face.
Get honest men for politics, an' the whole thing's straightened
out. Honest men'd make honest laws, an' then honest men'd get
their dues. But Bert wants to smash things, an' Tom smokes his
pipe and dreams pipe dreams about by an' by when everybody votes
the way he thinks. But this by an' by ain't the point. We want
things now. Tom says we can't get them now, an' Bert says we
ain't never goin' to get them. What can a fellow do when
everybody's of different minds? Look at the socialists
themselves. They're always disagreeing, splittin' up, an' firin'
each other out of the party. The whole thing's bughouse, that's
what, an' I almost get dippy myself thinkin' about it. The point
I can't get out of my mind is that we want things now."
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