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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 75

And Yet be Robbed

And Yet be Robbed,

a man may be temperate and yet be cheated, a woman may be virtuous and yet be killed by starvation: we say that men and women may all be good—as good as the incarnate God—and yet poverty would exist under the capitalistic system and they would die. And while we say God-speed to all these reformers—good luck to them—we say that higher reforms, that economic reforms, that fundamental reforms must come also. We are not satisfied with man being sober: we shall not be satisfied until he is happy as well as sober. We are not satisfied with a man being good—sometimes I think we are too good—we are not satisfied with that: we shall not be satisfied until such reforms are brought about as will help us to understand the greater life and appreciate to the full the magnitude and greatness of the earth, the wealth of the land, the richness of the country we possess. (Applause.) And now I come to the political side of the question, which may be of interest to you in this country. We have in the Old Country several political parties.