Charles Dickens: The Uncommercial Traveller

25. CHAPTER XXV--THE BOILED BEEF OF NEW ENGLAND (continued)

I found from the accounts of the Whitechapel Self-Supporting Cooking Depot, that every article sold in it, even at the prices I have quoted, yields a certain small profit! Individual speculators are of course already in the field, and are of course already appropriating the name. The classes for whose benefit the real depots are designed, will distinguish between the two kinds of enterprise.