A Change is Necessary.

(Applause.) We have in the Old Country a large number of our children who go to school without their breakfast. In London we have over 100,000 little children who not only go to school without breakfast, but who when they lie down to sleep have no blanket to cover them, and who are lodged in the same rooms where the rest of their family is congregated. And we, in our wrath, take these little children reared by women with wasted bosoms; we take these figures, eloquent of the misery and woe wrought by the capitalistic system, and we taunt these men with their work, and say: "Your devilish handiwork has wrought this"! And we bring the number of criminals, and the number of poor wretched women ruined body and soul in the fierce struggle for existence, and we say, in our righteous indignation, "If the God above be a just God, these half-million prostitutes shall stand a better chance before the Throne of Grace than even your thousands of sinless sisters." (Tremendous applause.) Seventy-five men in the Lancashire mills of to-day can produce more than the whole population of Lancashire could 90 years ago, and the capitalist says the cause of poverty is over-production. We say