Events will not let us forget that ours is an age of industrial discontent.

Society is full of warfare.

Prophets of evil tidings foretell social revolution.
The professional agitators are abroad, sowing discord and nourishing hatred and strife, and even the optimists sorrowfully confess the antagonism between classes.

There is an industrial class strong and happy, both rich and poor; and there is an idle class weak and wicked and miserable, among both rich and poor.

Unfortunately, as has been said, the wise of one class contemplate only the foolish of the other.
The industrious man of means is offended by the idle beggar, and identifies all the poor with him, and the hard-working but poor workman despises the licentious luxury of one rich man, and identifies all the rich with him.