MONEY AND LABOR. J97 



or little, did not create and will not relieve our distress. 

 There is a power greater, mightier than it, that has 

 wrought these great changes. No amount of fallacy 

 or sophistry, of dodging or ignoring, of arrogance or 

 stupidity, of falsehood or calumny, can hide the fact 

 that all our distress is chargeable to the crime which, 

 by any means, deprives man of the opportunity to 

 " eat bread in the sweat of his face," and forces him 

 into idleness. This is the one great factor, either 

 always kept out of view, or belittled, or belied, but 

 which certainly underlies the whole matter. If idle- 

 ness be the root of all evil, then must employment be 

 the parent of all good. 



