Her American school for workers is not as yet overcrowded.

The rightful order of society is not as yet submerged on our shores.

There are the rewards of merit for all who will work and wait.

No man of average intelligence needs to suffer in our country if he has clear grit in him.

"The stone that is fit for the wall," as the Spanish proverb runs, "will not be left in the road." II FAULTS OF CAPITAL But--for there is a very large "but" in the case--when all this is said, only the thorough going _doctrinaire_ will fail to see that merely half the case has been presented.
There is a shallow optimism which, from the heights of prosperity, throws all the blame of labor's sufferings on labor's own broad shoulders; steels the heart of society against it because of these patent faults, and closes the hand against its help, while it sings the gospel of the Gradgrinds--"As it was and ever shall be.