What for?

So that his children should not be subject to the same vicious conditions from which he had rescued thousands of others, so that they should not have a pauper-house before them, so that the wife of his bosom, who had been his comrade and counsellor, should be protected until the earth closed upon her. Had he not done so he would not have been William Morris, our comrade and friend. (Applause.) I have mentioned these facts because William Morris has been near and dear to us. He has been in many a fight, and has helped us to face many a judge and many a gaol. Possessing all this immense wealth he was no Society puppet. He lived a man and a comrade, and he died a man and a comrade, and Socialism lost its brightest head by the death of William Morris. I trust that I have at least put his position clear, and I hope I have given you a little clearer page 21 notion of our Socialism, and have justified in a way the work we are doing in the Old Country. And here let me say in conclusion that