| Title | The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists |
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| Page | 1221 |
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When they had finished their speech-making one of the strangers who was acting as chairman invited the audience to put questions, but as nobody wanted to ask any, he invited anyone who disagreed with what had been said to get up on the hillock and state his objections, so that the audience might have an opportunity of judging for themselves which side was right; but this invitation was also neglected. Then the chairman announced that they were coming there again next Sunday at the same time, when a comrade would speak on `Unemployment and Poverty, the Cause and the Remedy', and then the strangers sang a song called `England Arise', the first verse being: England Arise, the long, long night is over, Faint in the east, behold the Dawn appear Out of your evil dream of toil and sorrow Arise, O England! for the day is here! During the progress of the meeting several of the strangers had been going out amongst the crowd giving away leaflets, which many of the |
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