Beautiful Specimens of Manhood and Womanhood.

But at least I give you warning of this, that in the Old Country it has often been my experience to see old people have to do work which their children are not able to do. I have seen an Irishman 70 years of age have to do work which his son of 25 was not strong enough to tackle. It was because the dad was brought up on the hills of his native country with the fresh air to fill his lungs, while his son was brought up in a London slum. You want to prevent that from becoming possible here. Now, although I am anxious to shake hands with you and to say "Good luck to you," for the work you have done, I see that you have not as yet adopted the scientific mode of warfare which will enable you to ward off the blight of the capitalist; and I say that unless you go on lines radically different to those you are following at present—and I say it advisedly—you could have all the good legislation and all the good government you have now, and yet in another fifty years you could be ruined in a national sense. I warn you therefore to strengthen the hands of the good men and true. There is too much reliance placed on parliaments and too much reliance placed on men on whom you have no right to place so many burdens. The work of great reforms,