As some one has said, they do everything for the
poor except get off their backs. The very money
they dribble out in their child s schemes has been
wrung from the poor. They come from a race of
successful and predatory bipeds who stand between
the worker and his wages, and they try to tell the
worker what he shall do with the pitiful balance
left to him. Of what use, in the name of God, is
it to establish nurseries for women workers, in
which, for instance, a child is taken while the mother
makes violets in Islington at three farthings a gross,
when more children and violet-makers than they
can cope with are being born right along ? This
violet-maker handles each flower four times, 576
handlings for three farthings, and in the day she
handles the flowers 6912 times for a wage of eigh
teen cents. She is being robbed. Somebody is
on her back, and a yearning for the Beautiful and
True and Good will not lighten her burden. They
do nothing for her, these dabblers; and what they
do not do for the mother, undoes at night, when
the child comes home, all that they have dene for
the child in the day.

And one and all, they join in teaching a funda
mental lie. They do not know it is a lie, but their
ignorance does not make it more of a truth. And
the lie they preach is thrift. An instance will
demonstrate it. In overcrowded London, the strug-

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