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34 a morbid lust for lucre? Nay, a nation's cup of inquityiniquity [sic] is well-nigh full, when humanity and truth and justice are sacrificed to "the mammon of unrighteousness."

How humiliating is the thought, that men and women have to beg for work, and failing to obtain work, have to beg for bread, and failing to obtain bread—then what? Must steal, or starve. And it may yet become a question as to how far it is a person's duty to starve, in a land of plenty—amid an abundance which he himself has helped to create.

"Crime," it is said, "has increased in England, more than sixfold in thirty years, and in Scotland, twenty-seven fold in the same length of time. And why? Because honest industry will not purchase daily bread. Willing laborers starve in the streets, with no one to hire them, and no one to feed them. Criminals are both fed and clothed. They enjoy as much personal liberty as the oppressed operatives. And the criminal is as highly esteemed and respected as the suffering laborer."

"Under such circumstances, is it surprising that the criminals of England number a million? When the want of all wants is for bread, and crime will purchase it, and labor will not, can we wonder that the prisons are filled to repletion, and that Botany Bay has become a nation? And may there not already exist the same cause for crime in our own land? In the Athens of America—the philanthropic and religious city of Boston, the pattern and pride of this New World, do not women