. Christian herald and signs of our times . man. His words fell full, clearly rounded, andwith an invincible air of authority, as hestood with flashing eyes waiting for a re-ply. For a minute there was an intensesilence, followed by an audible the chairman of the meeting roseand said:— The gentleman owes the assembly anapology. He will please to make it. He owes them a statement of his posi-tion, answered Steve: and he will makeit in a few words: When a poor man,within half a dollar of starvation, marries,he is selfish. When he spends his wageon beer, and leaves his wife and childr
. Christian herald and signs of our times . man. His words fell full, clearly rounded, andwith an invincible air of authority, as hestood with flashing eyes waiting for a re-ply. For a minute there was an intensesilence, followed by an audible the chairman of the meeting roseand said:— The gentleman owes the assembly anapology. He will please to make it. He owes them a statement of his posi-tion, answered Steve: and he will makeit in a few words: When a poor man,within half a dollar of starvation, marries,he is selfish. When he spends his wageon beer, and leaves his wife and childrenhungry, he is selfish. When a poor manhoards his dollars in an old stocking, heis covetous as the rich man hoarding hisdollars in a bank. The mechanic whodoes bad work instead of good work—theman who does not give a days work for adays wage—the hands who dawdle aboutthe factories, and take continual holidays,knowing that their families must suffer forthem—the thriftless, lounging idlers, whoare everybodys enemies as well as their. FROM THAT MOMENT JESSIE UNDERSTOOD HIM. own, because their example is a poison,and their vice a crime against the feeble,whom it helps to corrupt—all these are asselfish and covetous as the rich usurer, orthe rich debauchee. Say what you will ofthe selfishness and covetousness of therich, the poor are just as bad. Any manis a selfish, covetous scoundrel, who sitsdown at the feast of life, and tries to slinkaway without paving his reckoning. I ama poor man. and I know that in this re-spect I am both selfish and covetous. The last sentences of this speech wereflung into the assembly, with all the pas-sion necessary to make them heard, abovethe tumult of dissatisfaction they of Silence! Turn him out!Who is the scab? (live him a lesson !grew more and more insistent: and big, swaggering fellow left his seat, andwalked straight up to Steve. Jessie couldhave shrieked aloud ; she entreated herbrother to interfere. Let him al
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