He stated what to his mind was the reason for the discontent of so many at the sight of great numbers of rich men in times of suffering, or sickness, or lack of work.

'Why, just look at the condition of things here and in every large city all over the world,' he said.

'Men are suffering from the lack of common necessaries while men of means with money in the bank continue to live just as luxuriously and spend just as much as they ever did for things not needful for happiness.

It has been in the power of men of wealth in Milton to prevent almost if not all of the suffering here last winter and spring.

It has been in their power to see that the tenements were better built and arranged for health and decency.