Your honor, I have stated in this court that I am opposed to the form of our present government; that I am opposed to the social system in which we live; that I believe in the change of both but by perfectly peaceable and orderly means...
I am
thinking this morning of the men in the mills and factories; I am thinking of
the women who, for a paltry wage, are compelled to work out their lives; of the
little children who, in this system, are robbed of their childhood, and in
their early, tender years, are seized in the remorseless grasp of Mammon, and
forced into the industrial dungeons, there to feed the machines while they
themselves are being starved body and soul...
