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To such an extent was this loyalty and love of Toryism as it was then called carried, that a person who consumed 'Yankee goods' was seriously suspected of some improper design against the State. The consumption of British manufactures and British-grown produce was, on the other hand taken as strong testimony of loyalty and confidence in the wise powers protecting the interests of the State.
Good cigar this, Lorne! Where'd you get it?" "They are Indian cheroots 'Planters, they call 'em made in Madras. I got some through a man named Hesketh, who has friends out there, at a price you wouldn't believe for as decent a smoke. You can't buy 'em in London; but you will all right, and here, too, as soon as we've got the sense to favour British-grown tobacco."
"Why not if they let British-grown cotton in free? They won't discourage the combine much that form of enterprise has got to be tackled where it grows; but the Yankee isn't the only person in the world that can get to understand it.
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