What I want to see in this country is a simultaneous strike of wharfingers, dock labourers, railways, and all the means of communication; a strike which will stop the pulses of the nation, a strike which will cost hundreds of millions, a strike which may cost this country its place amongst the nations, but which will mark the dawn of new conditions.
I'd put out your forge fires from Glasgow to Sheffield and Sheffield to London.

I'd take the big risks--the rioting, the revolutions, the starvation, the misery that will surely come.

I'd do that for the sake of the new nation which would start again where the old one perished." There was a sudden burst of applause.

A little thrill seemed to have found its way, like zig-zag lightning, here and there amongst them.

But there were many who sat and smoked in stolid silence.