She forced the employer and his employe to one bench of service in the grand system of things; she gave the laborer, and the laborer only, the reward of labor.

As Ellen went on reading calmly, with the steadfastness of one promulgating principles, not the excitement of one carried away by enthusiasm, she began to be interrupted by applause, but she read on, never wavering, her clear voice overcoming everything.

She was quite innocently throwing her wordy bomb to the agitation of public sentiment.

She had no thought of such an effect.

She was stating what she believed to be facts with her youthful dogmatism.