They get up a sort of penny-dreadful, whereon the one side you have a picture of injured innocence in the shape of pale despairing mothers and clamoring children, and on the other, villainy triumphant in the form of a police constable or a government official.

And to think that you should have been taken in by such a swindle!" "I suppose you do not see how heartless it appears to speak so lightly of other people's hunger, sitting oneself at such a table as this ?" "Bravo, Wilhelm! Now you are throwing my prosperity in my teeth like any advocate of division of property.

I trust you have not turned Socialist yourself?
you who used not to have a good word to say for the lot." "Never fear--I am not a Socialist.

Their doctrines have not been able to convince me yet.

But for years I have seen the distress of the working people with my own eyes, and I know that every human being with a heart in his body is in duty bound to help them." "And who says anything against that?
Don't we all do our duty?
Poverty has always existed and always will to the end of time.