When the working men of the nineteenth century, the Chartists in England and the "men of '48" in Germany vigorously demanded the franchise, national parliaments had already begun to regulate the condition of mines and the labor of little children.

sir, make chartists of 'em all before he's done!

Like the old Chartists with whom I once spent an evening, they tell you that their politics have been 'all talk'all wordsand there are few among them, except those to whom politics has become a profession or a career, who hold on until through weariness and disappointment they learn new confidence from new knowledge.