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ional Jaw-Gymnasium at Washington, is talk. It is 

 because both the British and American legislators use their 

 jaw so much and their brains so little that the workingmen 

 of London and Chicago have little use for teeth or jaw bones. 

 And this is the outcome of the long boasted British and 

 American civilization! This is the result of the long 

 lauded British and American statesmanship! Women and 

 children worked, starved and tortured to death almost on 

 the eve of the twentieth century! Such civilization! 

 Such statesmanship ! 



" At the recent annual meeting of the Land National- 

 ization Society of great Britain, the president, Alfred 

 Russell Wallace, epitomized the British industrial situation 

 as follows: 



u 'It is aoout fifty years since Hood's famous 'Song 

 of the Shirt' startled the world with its revelation of 

 hopeless misery. But what would Hood have said if he 

 could have heard the revelations now being made of 

 shirts made at id. each, the worker, by continuous hard 

 work, making twelve shirts a day, earning 6s. a week, 

 and with the rent of an attic at least double what it was 

 in his time ! 



1 'Year after year farmers, under the pressure of the 

 exorbitant rents, are becoming first impoverished, then 

 bankrupt; and landlords are turning their arable lands into 

 pasture, so as to get the maximum of profit with the 

 minimum of outlay and risk, and thus a constant stream 

 of laborers, and with them village mechanics and 

 shop-keepers, are forced to migrate to the towns. The 

 consequence is that we have at this moment two-thirds of 

 our whole population more than 20,00x3,000 people 

 concentrated in the great cities and towns, while millions 

 of acres of our land all over the country are less populated 

 and less effectively cultivated than fifty years ago.' " 



