Nor is it worth while, perhaps, to follow the "comrade from London" through his hour’s declamation.  "The fellow could speak," said Templeton, afterwards, "and what he said wasn’t all rot.  But it was full of the most hopelessly unpractical ideas, streaked with a vein of bitterness against every thing and every body, and absolutely vitiated for me by the assumption that every rich man is a knave, and every poor man a martyr.  Noakes ought to have let well alone, but he tried to dot the i’s and simply provoked Eves’s question.  If he had closed the meeting after the big speech, there’d have been no trouble."