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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. THE NEW REVOLUTIONISTS. To see so many millions of hands that would be industrious all idle and starving: oh, if I were legislator of France for one day, I would make theM great lords skip again I?Abthub Young. At the Time of the FrenA Revolution. Quoted by Carlyle. The Parliament afforded no help. They held this argument: Yearly the people starve; the misery is wide, is deep; but has not this always been ? Come, Griffin, and bring thy figures. Prove to this ravenous crew that if five million and seventy souls lie low in workless misery, last year five million and seventy-one were even in similar plight?digress is I7OT EXCEPTIONAL. 'Twaa the (17) same the year before Giddy and mazed, as if drank with woe, the hapless throngs increase, hidden in slums of filth and mire, in misery running deep. So help, despair, will no one come, is God no longer Lord ? Slowly grow the weeds and the jungle when man refuses to till, but sure and strong and deadly abandoned but long enough; and wild and poisonous life is breeding where flowers had grown before. Sleep on, ye besotted governors, sunk deep in your search after place. Riches and power are strong?Liberals, Tories, Radicals, a sorry sickening crew, reviling and cursing each other, and the Irish befouling all three. Tax wealth as wealth ? said ministers. (13) Reduce large holdings in land 1 Set workless men to till Colonial fields now idle ? Australia, wide as Europe, crying aloud for labour, labour starving here crying aloud for work ? What is all that to us f We make prisons, gallows, and workhouses; hide sorrow and misery there There were those who believed that the land had been stolen from them?the people?that wealth had been robbed from their toil. Hearken to the voices of these as they p...
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