gone counter to your interest or pleasure on some economical question?"
"Well, Mr. Twelvemough seems to think so," sneered the young man. "But whether it's human nature or not, it's a fact that they do it, and you can guess how much a black-listed man must love the country where such a thing can happen to him. What should you call such a thing as black-listing in Altruria?"
"Oh, yes," Mrs. Makely pleaded, "do let us get him to talking about Altruria, on any terms. I think all this about the labor question is so tiresome; don't you, Mrs. Camp?"
Mrs. Camp did not answer; but the Altrurian said, in reply to her son: "We should have no name for such a thing, for with us such a thing would be impossible. There is no crime so henious, with us, that the punishment would take away the criminal's chance of earning his living."
"Oh, if he was a criminal," said young Camp, "he would be all right, here. The state would give him a chance to earn his living, then."
"But if he had no other chance of earning his living, and had committed no offense against the laws"—
