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At the same institution, an attempt is to be made to do what has long been done in Paris namely, to admit working-people to the best scientific lectures free of cost. Now, therefore, is the time for the working-men of the metropolis to shew whether they wish for knowledge and enlightenment or not.
One felt ashamed of oneself at being in ball-dress and jewels at this early hour, galloping through the streets in a fine carriage, making such a dreadful contrast to the poor working-people. I had great fun at Lady Harrington's musical soiree, where Arthur Sullivan's "Prodigal Son" was to be sung. We had been dining at Lady Londonderry's, and arrived rather late at Lady Harrington's.
Let them blow their own class to pieces but let them not seek to lure the working-people into their quarrels!" Again and again, in answer to such exhortations, the audience broke out into shouts of applause. Men raised their hands in solemn pledge; and the Socialists among them went home from the meeting with a new gravity in their faces, a new consecration in their hearts.
Julien noticed that the remarks of the working-people were in a very much better tone than those of the Auberive gentry, with whom he had breakfasted; the gayety of these children of the woods, although of a common kind, was always kept within decent limits, and he never once had occasion to feel ashamed.
Parker had been more like a brother to her!" One of the phases of his death which struck home the hardest was the concern and sorrow the small tradespeople showed the cobbler, the plumber, the drug-store clerk. You hear men say: "I often find it interesting to talk to working-people and get their view-point." Such an attitude was absolutely foreign to Carl.
If we look, however, at the entire condition of the working-people of England, we shall see that it acknowledges the same truth in some of its broadest features. When a time of depression comes, and factories do not require half of their usual number of hands, or even so many, it is never expected, on any hand, that the superfluous labourers are to maintain themselves till better times return.
Surely, none of us in our sober senses and acquainted with figures, are to be told at this time of day, that one of the foremost elements in the existence of the Coketown working-people had been for scores of years, deliberately set at nought? That there was any Fancy in them demanding to be brought into healthy existence instead of struggling on in convulsions?
Like most working-people he was necessarily limited in his social relations to his immediate neighbors, the relatives he could get at easily in his free hours holidays and Sundays and after his eight hours of work was done. The mason's hands were not formed for much penmanship!
The first houses that we came to were but small buildings enclosing a single room such as are found, inhabited by working-people, on the outskirts of any Mexican city at the present day.
The manner in which the need of a shelter is satisfied furnishes a standard for the manner in which all other necessities are supplied. That in these filthy holes a ragged, ill-fed population alone can dwell is a safe conclusion, and such is the fact. The clothing of the working-people, in the majority of cases, is in a very bad condition. The material used for it is not of the best adapted.
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