t Social work on their behalf.
Some 600 are being sheltered nightly. Hundreds are found work
daily. Soup and bread are distributed in the midnight hours to
homeless wanderers in London. Additional workshops for the
unemployed have been established. Our Social Work for men, women
and children, for the characterless and the outcast, is the largest
and oldest organized effort of its kind in the country, and greatly
needs help. L10,000 is required before Christmas Day. Gifts may be
made to any specific section or home, if desired. Can you please
send us something to keep the work going? Please address cheques,
crossed Bank of England (Law Courts Branch), to me at 101, Queen
Victoria Street, EC. Balance Sheets and Reports upon application.
'BRAMWELL BOOTH.'

'Oh, that's part of the great 'appiness an' prosperity wot Owen makes
out Free Trade brings,' said Crass with a jeering laugh.

'I never said Free Trade brought happiness or prosperity,' said Owen.

'Well, praps you didn't say exactly them words, but that's wot it
amounts to.'

'I never said anything of the kind. We've had Free Trade for the last
fifty years and today most people are living in a condition of more or
less abject poverty, and thousands are literally starving. When we had
Protection things were worse still. Other countries have Protection
and yet many of their people are glad to come here and work for
starvation wages. The only difference between Free Trade and
Protection is that under certain circumstances one might be a little
worse that the other, but as remedies for Poverty, neither of them are
of any real use whatever, for the simple reason that they do not deal
with the real causes of Poverty.'

'The greatest cause of poverty is hover-population,' remarked Harlow.

'Yes,' said old Joe Philpot. 'If a boss wants two men, twenty goes
after the job: ther's too many people and not enough work.'

'Over-population!' cried Owen, 'when there's thousands of acres of
uncultivated land in England without a house or human being to be seen.
Is over-population the cause of poverty in France? Is over-population
the cause of poverty in Ireland? Within the last fifty years the
population of Ireland has been reduced by more than half. Four
millions of people have been exterminated by famine or got rid of by
emigration, but they haven't got rid of poverty. P'raps you think that
half the people in this country ough