"Mother, I Want Some Food.

the mother would reply, according to the logic of these people, "I cannot give it to you, my child, because our cupboard is full of meat and other food products. There is over production, and it is impossible to give it to you while there is depression in trade." Another child conies to her and says "I am so cold; I want more cover," and the mother would have to say: "I cannot give you any, my dear; there is too much clothing in the cupboard in consequence of over-production." That represents on a small scale the greater argument on a national scale. The more the worker produces the worse it is for him. And we say that where there is land, where there is energy, where there is labour force in a country overflowing in the plenitude of its agricultural and mineral wealth and natural resources, there is no need for poverty to exist. They say that is a far-fetched idea. They come to us and tell us that we must be patient and it all will end with that; the clergy tell us we must be religious and it all will end with that; the temperance reformer tells us we must adopt temperance principles and it all will end with that; the advocate of sanitary science says sanitation will end all our troubles; and the politician says we must be satisfied with the position of life in which it has pleased God to call us, and everything will right itself. (Laughter.) While we value all these forces, while we recognise the ameliorative character of the reforms they indicate, while we are anxious to see healthy and virtuous men and women, while we want our character developed to its completest extent, and all our faculties and endowments of body and mind used and increased in power, while we go hand in hand with all these things, we say, a man may be religious