Let me address myself to the laboring classes, who occupy the thickest and lowest of the social strata, and from which the higher strata are being constantly recruited. “There is a steadily growing idea amongst you that a legalised levy ought to be made upon the rich for the sake of the poor. But that means sacri fice on the part of a certain class and if that sacrifice be made may not that class demand, in strict justice, reciprocity from the one benefited by the sacrifice. A large majority of the well-to-do people may urge with much jrruth, “We are well-to-do because we have exercised those virtues out of which easy circumstances arise, chief amongst which are prudence, and living within our means ; always saving something in fact. If we have to surrender in favor of less well-to-do humanity what we have earned by much labor and pains-taking, we, at least, have a right to demand that our hard earnings shall be judiciously bestowed and not given to squanderers except to discipline them. If it can be shown that the people who clamor for a greater equality of wealth make not the slightest effort to bring about an equality by entertaining those cardinal virtues - thrift, self-control, and foresight, then we submit that they should be dealt with as an inferior race that needs controlling, and, if we have to pay, it should be only to control and guide.” Ido not think such arguments are to be easily controverted, and I am also inclined to think that the poorer people are not so ready to admit they “ can’t afford ” a thing and go without it as their richer brethren. lam quite sure that the poor are not so frugal in proportion to their means as are those people who are better of. Especially is this apparent in eating and drinking. There are so few of the lower class of house wives who understand the grand secret of making things go the farthest and their lords, are, as a rule, not inclined to sacrifice their pot of beer or nobbier for the sake of wife and children. Good management, and. strict temperance and frugality in ministering to the appetites would account for a lot of extremes between rich and poor. And then comes the question of labor. 