London, and the East End of all England, toils
and rots and dies.

There is a Chinese proverb that if one man lives
in laziness another will die of hunger; and Mon
tesquieu has said, " The fact that many men are
occupied in making clothes for one individual is
the cause of there being many people without
clothes." So one explains the other. We cannot
understand the starved and runty toiler of the East
End (living with his family in a one-room den, and
letting out the floor space for lodgings to other
starved and runty toilers) till we look at the strap
ping Life Guardsmen of the West End, and come
to know that the one must feed and clothe and
groom the other.

And while in Westminster Abbey the people
were taking unto themselves a king, I, jammed
between the Life Guards and Constabulary of Tra
falgar Square, was dwelling upon the time when
the people of Israel first took unto themselves a
king. You all know how it runs. The elders
came to the Prophet Samuel, and said: " Make us
a king to judge us like all the nations."

And the Lord said unto Samuel: Now therefore hearken
unto their voice; howbeit thou shalt show them the man
ner of the king that shall reign over them.

And Samuel told all the words of the Lord unto the
people that asked of him a king, and he said:

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