There was a poor woman who kept a shop, and she was threatened with a distraint for her poor-rate.

She sold the Sunday clothes of her son to pay the poor-rate, and she received a relief- ticket when she went to leave her rate.

That is a sad and sorrowful example, but I am afraid it will not be a solitary one for a long time.

Then you have the shopkeeping class descending to the rank of the operatives.

It must be so.