BETTER DAYS FOR WORKING PEOPLE.
CHAPTER I.-WHAT TO AIM AT.
"We believe it to be in reserve for society, that workmen will at length share more equally than they do at present, with capitalists and proprietors of the soil, in the comforts and even the elegancies of life. But this will not be the achievement of desperadoes: it will be come at through a more peaceful medium-through the medium of a growing worth and a growing intelligence among the people."-CHALMERS.
A GREAT champion of the rights of labour lately proclaimed- "Life to the working man is a ceaseless degradation, a daily martyrdom, a funeral procession to the grave." When we read this statement, we could not help thinking of the story of the man whose friends conspired to convince him that he was dying. The man was in excellent health; but walking one day along the street, he met a friend who, looking him hard in the face, exclaimed with startled look and tone, "Dear me, how very ill you are looking!" In the next street he met another friend, who held up his hands, and declared himself shocked at his frightful appearance. Round the