We are Told to Trust Them.

(Laughter.) We are told to love them, and to be contented politically: to open our mouths and shut our eyes and see what the parties will put there. But the whole of the political machinery of the Old Country is in the hands of the capitalistic class, and they are not at all anxious to relieve themselves of any of their responsibility. They go about preaching the doctrine of individual liberty. Now the fraud of it must be apparent to every thinking man and woman: at least, it is becoming apparent to many men and women in the Old Country. These advocates of so-called individual liberty say, "You shall not have State control of this, that, and the other, because it would interfere with individual liberty." Individual liberty! Men like Lord Salisbury—and I speak with respect of Lord Salisbury, who has the courage of his opinions: his opinions are not worth much, but he has the courage of them. (Laughter.) Although mentioning Lord Salisbury I am not confining myself to him, but take him as the representative, of a class—and such men say that Socialism or any Socialistic form of Government would mean anarchy. But we are beginning to see in the Old Country