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The "poor" are divided into four classes or strata, marked A, B, C, D. At the bottom comes A, a body of some 11,000, or 1¼ per cent, of hopeless, helpless city savages, who can only be said by courtesy to belong to the "working-classes" "Their life is the life of savages, with vicissitudes of extreme hardship and occasional excess.
When the decree of the Convention which ordered the adoption of the Republican calendar was published, he remarked: "They have done finely; but they have to fight two enemies who never yield, the beard, and the white shirt." The truth is, the interval from one decadi to another was too long for the working-classes, and for all those who were constantly occupied.
I know that the working-classes suffer, but I do not know why, and I do not believe your theorists when they say it is all because the workingman is ground down by the capitalist. Furthermore, you speak of leading where am I to lead you to?" "To victory against the plundering feudalism of the State." "That is a mere phrase.
"Just the same, you don't want to forget prohibition is a mighty good thing for the working-classes. Keeps 'em from wasting their money and lowering their productiveness," said Vergil Gunch. "Yes, that's so. But the trouble is the manner of enforcement," insisted Howard Littlefield. "Congress didn't understand the right system.
The industrial, though not the military, resources of France were exhausted by her prodigious efforts during the last eight years; while England, suffering grievously from distress among the working-classes and financial difficulties, welcomed the prospect of cheaper provisions and easier times, as well as of emerging from the political difficulties originating in the French revolution.
For, of course, the Queen's idea of proper dress was the dress that had been proper for the working-classes 3,000 years ago in Babylon and there was not much of it. 'Lawky me! said the marrow-selling woman, 'whatever could a-took me to come out this figure? and she wheeled her cart away very quickly indeed. 'Someone's made a pretty guy of you talk of guys, said a man who sold bootlaces.
In L'Assommoir, his latest and, in some respects, his most remarkable work, he has given us so atrocious and so powerful a delineation of the vices of the French working-classes that the mind recoils, sickened and terrified, from the contemplation of the tremendous picture.
It practically comes to the same thing, whatever you call it. I couldn't see that the work in New York differed much from that in London. We who have leisure ought to do something for the working-classes." "I sometimes doubt if it is not all a mistake most of our charitable work. The thing is to get people to do something for themselves." "But you cannot do away with distinctions?"
Is there something in the rush and flame of war that quickens old powers and dormant virtues in a race? Better feeding and better wages among the working-classes one may mark them down perhaps as factors in this product of a heightened beauty.
"I think you're right," said Mr. O'Connor. "One man is a plain honest man with no hunker-sliding about him. He goes in to represent the labour classes. This fellow you're working for only wants to get some job or other." "Of course, the working-classes should be represented," said the old man. "The working-man," said Mr. Hynes, "gets all kicks and no halfpence. But it's labour produces everything.
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