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13322= Magdalene Passes= What one is this, that bears the band of shame within her breast, And wanders through the mocking land, denied a place of rest?
13322= To the Masters= You drive your beasts of burden forth to drink?
13322And in life''s summertime grow old?
13322And shall your pride blot out the past and hide her murdered trust?
13322And will you brand upon her brow the deeds which she doth do?
13322And will you loathe your work at last, and spurn her with disgust?
13322Are here no hapless, vacant arms, which should lull babes to rest?
13322Are here no women''s ruined charms, no dead and withering breasts?
13322Are these your cattle?
13322Do hearts within their bosoms beat?
13322Is here no innocence o''erthrown, no wrecked sweet maidenhood, No sense of loss, like heavy stone, to make her doubt all good?
13322Is''t not enough that death should pale To see men welcome him as rest; But must the children drudge and fall, And perish on the mothers breast?
13322Is''t not enough that man should toil To fill the hands that clutch for gold?
13322Lords of a dying name?
13322Lovers who pass through rapture''s gates, Are these, are these your fruits of love?
13322Speak; Will you dare to hate her now, who weeps, and pardons you?
13322What one is this, your hue and cry pursue with withering hate, Until her best hope is to die, nor meet a harder fate?
13322Who would not all for thy promise give?
13322You herd your oxen, each one in his stall?
13322You own, and use?
13322You whip and goad until they heed your call?
6492How is it possible you could have done that?
6492Suppose,he said,"a cow were to get upon the line, and the engine were to come into collision with it; would n''t that be very awkward, now?"
6492Well, George,said a pitman, standing by,"what do you think of her?"
6492What can you do?
6492''Pray, sir,''said the man, after a little pause,''are you a foreigner?''
6492And shall we call such a life as this a failure?
6492But how could he learn?
6492But how to obtain one?
6492But must he go back quietly to Bath and the toils of teaching?
6492But of course he made no more natural history collections?
6492But what use was it all?
6492Did those two great men, as they sat together in one room, sculptor and sitter, know one another''s early history and strange struggles, we wonder?
6492Is it not a pleasure to be so deeply in their debt for instruction?"
6492James was ready enough to take this advice, if the means were forthcoming; but how was he to do so?
6492Said I to the fellow,''Where is that cursed train gone to?
6492Shall we speak of it carelessly as unsuccessful?
6492What is the good of a great picture, a splendid oratorio, a grand poem?
6492What on earth could he do?
6492Why should they wish to go star- gazing?
6492Yes; but to what?
4529How is it possible you could have done that?
4529Suppose,he said,"a cow were to get upon the line, and the engine were to come into collision with it; would n''t that be very awkward, now?"
4529Well, George,said a pitman, standing by,"what do you think of her?"
4529What can you do?
4529''Pray, sir,''said the man, after a little pause,''are you a foreigner?''
4529And shall we call such a life as this a failure?
4529But how could he learn?
4529But how to obtain one?
4529But must he go back quietly to Bath and the toils of teaching?
4529But of course he made no more natural history collections?
4529But what use was it all?
4529Did those two great men, as they sat together in one room, sculptor and sitter, know one another''s early history and strange struggles, we wonder?
4529Is it not a pleasure to be so deeply in their debt for instruction?"
4529James was ready enough to take this advice, if the means were forthcoming; but how was he to do so?
4529Said I to the fellow,''Where is that cursed train gone to?
4529Shall we speak of it carelessly as unsuccessful?
4529What is the good of a great picture, a splendid oratorio, a grand poem?
4529What on earth could he do?
4529Why should they wish to go star- gazing?
4529Yes; but to what?
34012Did I belong to the A. R. U.? 34012 Did I?"
34012Say, Gene,he continued, still holding me with both hands,"I am pretty well down, ai n''t I?
34012And could I call him brother without insulting him?
34012And if not, who is entitled to any part of it?
34012And then what happened?
34012And when you are out of a job what can your union do for you?
34012And who shall say that they were not right; or that they forfeited their brave lives in vain?
34012And why is this awful battle raging and human beings murdering each other as if they were wild beasts?
34012Are their interest not diametrically opposite?
34012Are they not entitled to all of it?
34012At the same time Cook said,''Stop a minute-- where is Edwin''s hand?''
34012Because the Mine and Smelter Trust had kidnaped three citizens of the republic?
34012Boodle drawn from the veins of labor?
34012But even if you do find a master, if you have a job, can you boast of being a man among men?
34012But how about the working class?
34012But how is it at present?
34012But how is it in this outgrown capitalist system?
34012Can a door be both open and shut at the same time?
34012Can you increase both the workers''and the capitalist''s share at the same time?
34012Can you read this without being moved to tears?
34012Dared I call him brother?
34012Debs?"
34012Debs?"
34012Did Mr. Bryan utter a word?
34012Did he not know at the time that his man Cortelyou was holding up the trusts for all they would"cough up"for his election?
34012Did, or did not, the men known as trust magnates put up this boodle?
34012Do they not all alike stand for the private ownership of industry and the wage- slavery of the working class?
34012Do you endorse the supreme court decision making it lawful for a corporation to discharge a man because of his membership in a labor union?
34012Do you know how long you are going to have one?
34012Do you know whether you have a job or not?
34012Does not this brand the president with the duplicity of a Tweed and the cunning of a Quay?
34012Have the mill- owners gone stark mad?
34012Have they in their brutal rage become stone- blind?
34012He is marked as an agitator, he is discharged, and then what is his status?
34012How can any intelligent, self- respecting wage- worker give his support to either of these corrupt capitalist parties?
34012How is it with the average workingman today?
34012How many of their detractors and persecutors were animated by motives so pure and exalted?
34012If the man who produces wealth is not entitled to it, who is?
34012If you find yourself in a party that attacks your pocket do you not quit that party?
34012If you increase the share of the capitalist do n''t you decrease the share of the workers?
34012In other words, why do not the Republican and Democratic parties perform at Washington instead of promising at Chicago and Baltimore?
34012Is not that a fact?
34012Is there any doubt in the mind of any thinking workingman that we are in the midst of a class struggle?
34012Is there any doubt that the workingman ought to own the tool he works with?
34012Now why should not just these things come to pass and why should not you children help us speed the day when they_ shall_ come to pass?
34012Now, is it possible to be for the capitalist without being against the worker?
34012Now, what is class- consciousness?
34012Oh, my brothers, can you be satisfied with your lot?
34012U.?"
34012Was Jesus divinely begotten?
34012Was Roosevelt also"horrified"?
34012Was ever anything in all the annals of heartless persecution more monstrous than this?
34012What assurance has he that he is going to keep it?
34012What assurance has he that it is his in twenty- four hours?
34012What can the present economic organization do to improve the condition of the workingman?
34012What difference is there, judged by what they stand for, between Taft, Roosevelt, La Follette, Harmon, Wilson, Clark and Bryan?
34012What earthly difference can it make to the millions of workers whether the Republican or Democratic political machine of capitalism is in commission?
34012What is a party?
34012What is it that is responsible for their exploitation and for all of the ills they suffer?
34012What is it that keeps the working class in subjection?
34012What is politics?
34012What is the key to their ability as masters of language?
34012What right has Theodore Roosevelt to prejudge American citizens, pronounce their guilt and hand them over to the hangman?
34012What school subjects, or what kinds of training have entered into their lives that have given them power to express themselves effectively?
34012What, I ask, has any of these capitalist parties, or all of them combined, for the working and producing class in this campaign?
34012Who finances them?
34012Who is it that is so fearful you will discuss politics?
34012Why did not Mr. Byran speak?
34012Why forced to surrender to anybody any part of what his labor produces?
34012Why should a union man be afraid to discuss politics?
34012Why should any workingman need to beg for work?
34012Will Mr. Roosevelt deny it?
34012Will he dare plead ignorance to intelligent persons as to who put up the money that debauched the voters of the nation?
34012Will you insist that life shall continue a mere struggle for existence and one prolonged misery to which death comes as a blessed relief?
34012Would a president who is honest with the people clandestinely consort with the villain he characterizes as a liar and all that is vicious?
34012You do n''t unite with capitalists on the economic field; why should you politically?
34012You may, at times, temporarily better your condition within certain limitations, but you will still remain wage- slaves, and why wage- slaves?
10126And the child,continued the visitor,"how is it?"
10126And what made you leave there?
10126And what''s your wife doing?
10126And where is he?
10126Are you thirty- eight?
10126Aw could like yo to gi mo a bit o''summat, Mr Eccles,--for aw need it"Well, but you''ve some lodgers, have n''t you, Mary?
10126Aye,said Jone,"but what mun I do when my clogs gi''n way?"
10126Could n''t you get on at Horrocks''s?
10126Do n''t you think she would be better in the workhouse?
10126Eh, dear,replied the old woman,"dun yo want mo kilt?
10126Eh, naw,replied the young woman,"it''s mony a year sin''we had a bakin''o''fleawr, is n''t it, Ruth?"
10126Eh, no; he''s been quite well two months?
10126Good morning, Missis,said he;"how are you?"
10126Good morning, Mrs K_,said my friend, as we entered the stifling house;"how are you geting on?"
10126He has n''t bin gone eawt aboon five minutes,said she, turning round to look at us,"Wur yo wantin''him?"
10126How is it that they are 2 pounds on the other side?
10126How is it that your clock''s stopt?
10126How is it you do n''t sell these, or else eat''em?
10126How long is this wet weather going to last, think you?
10126How old are yo?
10126How''s Ruth?
10126How''s that?
10126How''s that?
10126How''s this, Dennis?
10126Is there nobody in?
10126Is your son working?
10126Know? 10126 Let''s see, Missis Burns, your husband''s name is Patrick, is n''t it?"
10126Let''s see, missis,said the visitor,"what do you pay for this nook?"
10126Mother, heaw leets we han no brade,-- Heawever con it be? 10126 Naw; what is it?"
10126Nay, there ye hev me fast;--but what brings ye here this mornin''?
10126Theer, thae''s shap''t that at last, as how?
10126Then you did get off, John?
10126There, has,replied my friend;"but how have ye been getting on since I called before?"
10126Well, Ann,said the chairman,"there''s nobody but yourself and your John, is there?"
10126Well, Jackson,said I,"heaw are yo gettin''on among it?"
10126Well, John,said my companion, when we went in,"how are you getting on?"
10126Well, Mary; what do you want?
10126Well, Mrs,said my friend,"let''s see; how many are you altogether in this house?"
10126Well, an''heaw han yo getten on?
10126Well, an''what income have you now?
10126Well, and what age is your John?
10126Well, but how do you manage to live?
10126Well, but you live with your son; do n''t you?
10126Well, how''s that?
10126Well, missis, how are you getting on amongst it?
10126Well, missis,said my friend, jocularly,"how are you?
10126Well, missis,said the visitor,"how is your husband getting on?"
10126Well, what''s the matter?
10126Well,continued he,"and how much have you coming in, now?"
10126Well,replied he,"cryin''''ll do nought, wilt?"
10126Well,said I,"heaw are yo gettin''on, these times?"
10126Well,said he,"ca n''t we have a tune here?"
10126Well,said my friend,"and can not you manage to keep her?"
10126Well,said my friend,"there''s no work yet, Ruth, is there?"
10126Well; what do they pay you?
10126What age are yo, maister?
10126What age are you?
10126What are the three figures yonder?
10126What part of Ireland do you come from, Mrs K_?
10126What time is''t, maister?
10126What time says he?
10126What''s brought you here, Joseph?
10126What''s your daughter, Ellen, doing, Joseph?
10126What''s your son John getting, Mary?
10126What''s your son John getting?
10126What, then, pray ye?
10126What?
10126Where do you all sit now, then?
10126Where is he, Ann?
10126Where''s John?
10126Who''s here?
10126Who''s witchod?
10126Whor?
10126Whose portraits are these?
10126Why, wheer then? 10126 Will ye bring me some?"
10126Will you let us shelter a few minutes, Mrs_?
10126Yon catched us eawt o''flunters,( out of order,)said the poor woman when we entered;"but what con a body do?"
10126You''re not bakin''for yourselves, then?
10126''Con yo help us a bit?''
10126''Could aw see him?''
10126A bodle a piece for mowing chins overgrown with hair like pin- wire, and thick with dust; how would you like that?
10126A bonny warlock, that, is n''t it?
10126Ah, now; could n''t ye do somethin''for old Mary beyant there?
10126Ah, what''ll I do wid him,"said she, bursting into tears afresh;"what''ll I do wid him?
10126An''why noa do''t?
10126And must my trembling spirit fly Into a world unknown?
10126And shall they perish thus, oppress''d and lorn?
10126At last the other turned to him, and said,"Jem; does thae know what it is that makes me like thee so weel, owd brid?"
10126Beside, fro wake lads, sick as yon, at''s bin train''t to nought but leet wark, an''a warm place to wortch in, what con yo expect?
10126But how did ye find it out, now?"
10126But were we justified in doing that?
10126But, whereivver do ye belang to, as ye''re so bowd wi''me?"
10126Come now, Lizzy, darlin''; tell us your name, love, wo n''t you, now?"
10126Dear, dear; did ye see the awful flash that time?
10126Did n''t I tell ye many a time this day?"
10126Do you think they would like to give us a little of it if we were to ask them nicely?"
10126Eh, lasses; han yo bin a- beggin''too?"
10126Han yo ony o''that mak''wi''yo?"
10126Has he catched no rabbits lately?"
10126He helps me to wesh, an''sick like; an''yo''know, it''s a good deal better than gooin''into bad company, is n''t it?
10126Here my friend interrupted her, saying,"Do n''t you think, Mrs K_, that you would be more comfortable if you were to keep your house cleaner?
10126His children were all factory operatives, and all out of work; and his wife was ill."What; are you here, John?"
10126How do you account for that?
10126How do you make twelve out of three?"
10126How is that to be done?
10126How would you get through it all, with a family of four, and only one razor?
10126Is it true that all through strangers, We must starve in our own land?"
10126Leaning against the door- cheek of one of these dim, unwholesome hovels, he said,"Well, missis; how are you getting on?"
10126Looking round the place, I said,"Well, missis, how''s trade?"
10126May not some of us take to doing more to prevent it?
10126My friend turned towards her, and said,"Well, and how does the Indian meal agree with you?"
10126Patrick Burns, the famous foot- racer?"
10126She looked hard at my friend again, and then cried out,"Eh, is it yo?
10126Th''hommer fo''s leet wi''''em; but we dunnot like to push''em so mich, yo known-- for what''s a shillin''a day?
10126The chairman said,"Why, what''s your son doing now?
10126The woman seemed reassured, and answered at once,"Oh, indeed then, sir, I am not ashamed-- why would I?
10126They were singing one of Leech''s finest minor tunes to Wesley''s hymn:-"And am I born to die, To lay this body down?
10126We have felt the fangs of the first: upon how many of us will the second pounce?"
10126What is now the amount?
10126What say''n yo?"
10126When is this war to end, thinken yo?"
10126Who gives anything to poor Tom?"
10126Who gives anything to poor Tom?"
10126Why should they not hear our Lancashire girls''cry of''Con yo help us a bit?''
10126Will you not do for us what you have done for others-- become the recipient of whatever moneys those who are inclined to help us may send to you?"
10126Yo happen never had a touch on it, had yo?"
10126Yo''know heaw they''n praised us for stondin''so firm, An''shall we neaw stagger an''fo?
10126a- head weekly do for them in that hard time?
10126cried another;"Wi''n they ever be fit to go to th''factory wi''again?"
10126said the young woman, pointing through the window,"dun yo know who yon is?"
10126what''s the reason That the chimneys smokeless stand?
8000''And turkeys?'' 8000 ''Does the father go first?''
8000''What do you pay for your tea and sugar here?'' 8000 ''Where is your husband, my good woman?''
8000''Will yere Arn''r take a sate?'' 8000 During that time has there been an illegitimate child born there?"
8000During that time have you known of any instance of an illegitimate child being born in the village of the Claddagh?
8000Have there been here many illegitimate children?
8000Have you ever known of any such case in Galway?
8000Have you much crime here?
8000How long have you been in charge of the Claddagh village?
8000How long have you been on duty here?
8000How long have you been on duty in Galway?
8000How,says the same author,"can the Chinese"Regard the English in any other light than wholesale smugglers and wholesale dealers in poison?
8000I visited the factories that used to support 200 men with their families, and how many men did I find at work? 8000 Now, what are the pursuits, the dwelling- houses, and the habits of these poor wretches?
8000What do you mean by being reared up?
8000What,it asks,"Will follow?
8000[ 209] Why is it that the king is enabled to do these things? 8000 ''Why do you cry?'' 8000 *** And protection against whom? 8000 *** Can it be there are two of them? 8000 ***** Are we then to adopt a system of measures tending to the injury of the people of England? 8000 115''Is this system of eviction,''said I to the driver, pointing to a small cluster of unroofed cabins we were passing at the moment,''good or bad?''
8000Admitting that the grain and flour trade were thus centralized, what would be the effect of a succession of large crops, or even of a single one?
8000Admitting, for a moment, that such a system existed, what would be the remedy?
8000And how do they effect the fall?
8000And what must be the verdict of future generations, as they peruse the history of these wrongs and outrages?
8000And yet, even now, the_ Times_ asks the question--"How are the people to be fed and employed?
8000Are Irishmen inferior in understanding?
8000Are not the most laborious of all labourers in London and New York, Irishmen?
8000Are these things to be found in India?
8000Are we to believe,"says he,"the calumny that the Irish are lazy and wo n''t work?
8000But on whom must rest the responsibility for a state of things so hideous as that here exhibited?
8000But think you the poor wretch had committed a heinous offence, and had been convicted thereof, and sentenced to the lash?
8000But why extend the catalogue?
8000But, electors, how does it operate on you?
8000Can such a system be a natural one?
8000Can such scenes be paralleled in Siberia or Caffraria?"
8000Can the people of this country become parties to a system like this-- one that looks to cheapening labour every where?
8000Can they be found in Ireland, in Turkey, or in Portugal?
8000Can they be parties to any system that can be maintained only on the condition of"an abundant and cheap supply of labour?"
8000Could there be a greater tyranny than this?
8000Do the planters profit by good crops?
8000Do they profit by improvements in the transportation of their commodity?
8000Does Demerara stand alone in its misfortune?
8000Does she desire that manufactures shall rise, that towns shall grow, and that the land shall acquire value?
8000Does the reader remember some gorgeous sheets of colored gelatine in the French department of the Great Exhibition?
8000HOW CAN SLAVERY BE EXTINGUISHED?
8000HOW CAN SLAVERY BE EXTINGUISHED?
8000Have we really a free constitution?
8000How can slavery be extinguished, and man be made free?
8000How can this be done for Ireland?
8000How can this be done?
8000How could it be otherwise in a country in which"labourers, whether well off or not, never attempt to be better?
8000How do you like it?
8000How does it work?
8000How is this to be proved?
8000How shall slavery be abolished?
8000How was all this done?
8000How, indeed, could it be otherwise than that the reward of labour should rise?
8000How?
8000I repeat, how does this operate on you?
8000If he could do this would he not become a freer man?
8000If, under these circumstances, King Ferdinand is enabled to play the tyrant, upon whom rests the blame?
8000In what country of civilized Europe has the peasant so light a burden to bear?
8000Is Irish human nature different from other human nature?
8000Is it not clear that the labour of converting the cotton into yarn is not one- quarter as great as was the labour of raising, the cotton itself?
8000Is it not indeed beginning at the wrong end to try and reform men, after they have become criminals?
8000Is it the labourer?
8000Is it the landlord?
8000Is there no mode of escaping from this thraldom?
8000Looking on them, the doubt rose in my mind, am I in a civilized country?
8000Must our children always be deprived of schools?
8000Must our women always labour in the field?
8000Must the slave trade last for ever?
8000Must we continue for ever to raise negroes for sale?
8000Need we wonder at the poverty of India when thus taxed, while deprived of all power even to manure its land?
8000Or to Portugal, the weakest and most wretched of the communities of Europe?
8000Or, can they be parties to an alliance that, wherever it is found, so far cheapens man as to render him a profitable article for the export trade?
8000Sell what?
8000Shall we look to Ireland for the proof?
8000The ground had already been freshly manured by sea- weeds, but the village, where was it?
8000The people of Austria and Hungary are weak, but has England ever tried to render them strong to obtain their freedom?
8000The people of China are weak, but does the consumption of opium to the extent of forty millions of dollars a year tend to strengthen them?
8000The reader may determine for himself if this is not a fair picture of the cotton trade?
8000Then he adds,''Do you see those three hundred men who have just walked out?
8000They often say,''You are not treating that child properly; it will not live:_ is it in the club_?''
8000This is all most true, but what does it prove in regard to British policy?
8000This is quite true; but why did these men come?
8000This is slavery, and under such a system how could the wretched people be other than slaves?
8000This system is to be carried out by producing"unlimited competition"and in what is it to exist?
8000To this what would be the reply?
8000To whom?
8000Turkey is weak; and why is it so?
8000Under such circumstances, how could your infant establishments hope to exist?
8000Upon the planter?
8000Upon whom, now, must rest the responsibility for such a state of things as is here exhibited?
8000We are now frequently invited to an alliance with Great Britain, and for what?
8000We are told of his designs upon Turkey-- but what have the_ people_ of that country to lose by incorporation within the Russian Empire?
8000Well is it asked by Dr. Allen, in his pamphlet on"The Opium Trade,"( Lowell, 1853,)"Can such an unrighteous course in a nation always prosper?"
8000What are the districts which together form the county of Berbice?
8000What art turning thy head for?
8000What commercial partnership, what industrious household exhibits so direct an exchange of services?
8000What inducement can she, then, offer in consideration of an alliance with her?
8000What is the result?
8000What more horrible symptom of moral degradation can be conceived?
8000What professed friend of the people can boast to have done more, or yet so much, for so many millions of men?"
8000What slavery can be worse than this?
8000What was to be done?
8000What worse slavery can we have than this?
8000What, however, becomes of the poor free negro?
8000What, however, finally becomes of the corn?
8000What, in the meanwhile, became of him?
8000What, then,_ are_ the laws under which man"lives and moves and has his being?"
8000Where, however, is it?
8000Where, however, lies the fault of all this?
8000Where?
8000Who is it, however, that is to furnish this capital?
8000Who profits by the reduction of cost of transportation and conversion?
8000Who''ll work?
8000Who, then, are our natural allies?
8000Who, then, are responsible for the subjection of the Spanish people?
8000Why did not the owners of property reside on their estates?
8000Why do they not?
8000Why does she so?
8000Why is it so?
8000Why is it that men in Africa sell their fellow- men to be transported to Cuba or Brazil?
8000Why is it that the light and easily transported spindle and loom are not placed in and about the cotton fields?
8000Why is this so?
8000Why is this?
8000Why should Virginia import potatoes and hay, cheese and butter?
8000Why was it so?
8000Why, however, did this absenteeism exist?
8000Why, however, he will probably ask, is it that they do so waste it?
8000Why?
8000Why?_ Labour is the creator of all wealth.
8000Will this tend to strengthen, or to free, the Chinese people?
8000With such a diet, how much better is he than an Irishman-- a Celt, as he calls him?
8000With such positive and immediate evils to contend with, what wonder that so many needlewomen take''the wages of sin?''"
8000Would he not approach the miller, cap in hand, and would not the latter receive him with his hat on his head?
8000Would not every one be anxious to anticipate the apprehended fall of prices by being early in the market?
8000Would not freights be high?
8000Would not storage be high?
8000Would not the export of Coolies cease if man could be rendered more, valuable in India than in Jamaica or Guiana?
8000Would not the farmer, on his arrival in Rochester, find that every store- house was filled to overflowing?
8000Would not the farmers find themselves to be mere slaves to the owners of a small quantity of mill machinery?
8000Would not the roads be covered with wagons whenever they were passable, and even at times when, they were almost impassable?
8000[ 43] How indeed can it be otherwise?
8000_ One_ of these traders asked her what was the matter with her eyes?
8000art blind?
8000how does it affect home trade, the shopkeeper, poor''s rate, and taxation?
8000those men are listening-- have I got you now?