We Shall go on Fighting.

I feel sometimes that I have very little fight left in me, but there are plenty of men stronger and abler growing up amongst us. We have during the short time we have been at work made five millions of people happier and better off than they were before: we have established the right to work and the right to live. Our Government has established the principle of the living wage; hundreds of local bodies have established the "right to live" principle, and we are making such progress than even our Lords are telling us that we should be thrifty. It is quite a common picture in the Old Country to hear one of these gentlemen say, as they sit with their bottles of champagne before them and a dinner costing £1 a head, as he pours out the wine: "You know the working man will never be better off until he knocks off beer"! I on one occasion said to one of them, "Do you mean that he should take champagne?" (Laughter and applause.) He answered, "No, but you know the working man is not thrifty." And that man twenty-five years before was a poor clerk, and had become a