Quote#World
The conference of railway men will damage us gravely with the middle…
Quote byJohn Morley · 1838–1923
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Letter to Henry Fowler (30 September 1906), quoted in Edith Henrietta Fowler, The Life of Henry Hartley Fowler: First Viscount Wolverhampton, G.C.S.I. (1912), p. 505.
English (original)
The conference of railway men will damage us gravely with the middle class, for railways are the middle class investment, and to pull profits down...as they admit to be the effect of their demand—will frighten people. And if anybody thinks we can govern this country against the middle class, he is wrong.
— John Morley
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