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m are unable to procure sufficient of the necessaries of life to secure them from starvation。

`The masons察carpenters察painters。 glaziers察and all the others engaged in maintaining these unnecessary stores and shops will all be thrown out of employment察but all of them who are willing to work will be welcomed by the State and will be at once employed helping either to produce or distribute the necessaries and comforts of life。  They will have to work fewer hours than before。。。  They will not have to work so hard ´ for there will be no need to drive or bully察because there will be plenty of people to do the work察and most of it will be done by machinery ´ and with their paper money they will be able to buy abundance of the things they help to produce。  The shops and stores where these people were formerly employed will be acquired by the State察which will pay the former owners fair compensation in the same manner as to the factory owners。  Some of the buildings will be utilized by the State as National Service Stores察others transformed into factories and others will be pulled down to make room for dwellings察or public buildings。。。  It will be the duty of the Government to build a sufficient number of houses to accommodate the families of all those in its employment察and as a consequence of this and because of the general disorganization and decay of what is now called ;business;察all other house property of all kinds will rapidly depreciate in value。  The slums and the wretched dwellings now occupied by the working classes ´ the miserable察uncomfortable察jerry´built ;villas; occupied by the lower middle classes and by ;business; people察will be left empty and valueless upon the hands of their rack renting landlords察who will very soon voluntarily offer to hand them and the ground they stand upon to the state on the same terms as those accorded to the other property owners察namely ´ in return for a pension。  Some of these people will be content to live in idleness on the income allowed them for life as compensation by the State此others will devote themselves to art or science and some others will offer their services to the community as managers and superintendents察and the State will always be glad to employ all those who are willing to help in the Great Work of production and distribution。

`By this time the nation will be the sole employer of labour察and as no one will be able to procure the necessaries of life without paper money察and as the only way to obtain this will be working察it will mean that every mentally and physically capable person in the community will be helping in the great work of PRODUCTION and DISTRIBUTION。  We shall not need as at present察to maintain a police force to protect the property of the idle rich from the starving wretches whom they have robbed。  There will be no unemployed and no overlapping of labour察which will be organized and concentrated for the accomplishment of the only rational object ´ the creation of the things we require。。。  For every one labour´saving machine in use today察we will察if necessary察employ a thousand machines and consequently there will be produced such a stupendous察enormous察prodigious察overwhelming abundance of everything that soon the Community will be faced once more with the serious problem of OVER´PRODUCTION。

`To deal with this察it will be necessary to reduce the hours of our workers to four or five hours a day。。。  All young people will be allowed to continue at public schools and universities and will not be required to take any part in the work or the nation until they are twenty´one years of age。  At the age of forty´five察everyone will be allowed to retire from the State service on full pay。。。  All these will be able to spend the rest of their days according to their own inclinations察some will settle down quietly at home察and amuse themselves in the same ways as people of wealth and leisure do at the present day ´ with some hobby察or by taking part in the organization of social functions察such as balls察parties察entertainments察the organization of Public Games and Athletic Tournaments察Races and all kinds of sports。

`Some will prefer to continue in the service of the State。  Actors察artists察sculptors察musicians and others will go on working for their own pleasure and honour。。。  Some will devote their leisure to science察art察or literature。  Others will prefer to travel on the State steamships to different parts of the world to see for themselves all those things of which most of us have now but a dim and vague conception。  The wonders of India and Egypt察the glories of Rome察the artistic treasures of the continent and the sublime scenery of other lands。

`Thus ´ for the first time in the history of humanity ´ the benefits and pleasures conferred upon mankind by science and civilization will be enjoyed equally by all察upon the one condition察that they shall do their share of the work察that is necessary in order to察make all these things possible。

`These are the principles upon which the CO´OPERATIVE COMMONWEALTH of the future will be organized。  The State in which no one will be distinguished or honoured above his fellows except for Virtue or Talent。  Where no man will find his profit in another's loss察and we shall no longer be masters and servants察but brothers察free men察and friends。  Where there will be no weary察broken men and women passing their joyless lives in toil and want察and no little children crying because they are hungry or cold。

`A State wherein it will be possible to put into practice the teachings of Him whom so many now pretend to follow。  A society which shall have justice and co´operation for its foundation察and International Brotherhood and love for its law。

        `Such are the days that shall be but         What are the deeds of today察        In the days of the years we dwell in察        That wear our lives away拭        Why察then察and for what we are waiting拭        There are but three words to speak         ;We will it察─and what is the foreman         but the dream strong wakened and weak拭         Oh察why and for what are we waiting察while         our brothers droop and die拭        And on every wind of the heavens察a         wasted life goes by。         `How long shall they reproach us察where         crowd on crowd they dwell         Poor ghosts of the wicked city察        gold crushed察hungry hell拭         Through squalid life they laboured in         sordid grief they died         Those sons of a mighty mother察those         props of England's pride。         They are gone察there is none can undo         it察nor save our souls from the curse察        But many a million cometh察and shall         they be better or worse

        `It is We must answer and hasten and open wide the door察        For the rich man's hurrying terror察and the slow foot hope of         the poor察        Yea察the voiceless wrath of the wretched and their unlearned         discontent察        We must give it voice and wisdom察till the waiting tide be         spent         Come then since all things call us察the living and the dead察        And o'er the weltering tangle a glimmering light is shed。'

As Barrington descended from the Pulpit and walked back to his accustomed seat察a loud shout of applause burst from a few men in the crowd察who stood up and waved their caps and cheered again and again。 When order was restored察Philpot rose and addressed the meeting

`Is there any gentleman wot would like to ask the Speaker a question'

No one spoke and the Chairman again put the question without obtaining any response察but at length one of the new hands who had been `taken on' about a week previously to replace another painter who had been sacked for being too slow ´ stood up and said there was one point that he would like a little more information about。  This man had two patches on the seat of his trousers察which were also very much frayed and ragged at the bottoms of the legs此the lining of his coat was all in rags察as were also the bottoms of the sleeves察his boots were old and had been many times mended and patched察the sole of one of them had begun to separate from the upper and he had sewn these parts together with a few stitches of copper wire。  He had been out of employment for several weeks and it was evident from the pinched expression of his still haggard face that during that time he had not had sufficient to eat。  This man was not a drunkard察neither was he one of those semi´mythical persons who are too lazy to work。  He was married and had several children。  One of them察a boy of fourteen years old察earned five shillings a week as a light porter at a Grocer's。

Being a householder the man had a vote察but he had never hitherto taken much interest in what he called `politics'。  In his opinion察those matters were not for the likes of him。  He believed in leaving such difficult subjects to be dealt with by his betters。  In his present unhappy condition he was a walking testimonial to the wisdom and virtue and benevolence of those same `betters' who have hitherto managed the affairs of the world with results so very satisfactory for themselves。

`I should like to ask the speaker' he said察 supposin' all this that 'e talk

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