But the most striking illustration I can give you of the state of the working-class dwellings in New York is by placing side by side the figures of the population per acre in the slums of New York and Manchester. The Manchester slums are bad--disgracefully, sinfully bad--and the overcrowding is terrible. But referring to the figures I took from various official documents when I was writing on the Manchester slums a few years ago, I find the worst cases of overcrowding to be:-- District. Pop. per Acre. Ancoats No. 3 256 Deansgate No. 2 266 London Road No. 3 267 Hulme No. 3 270 St. George's No. 6 274 These are the worst cases from some of the worst English slums. Now let us look at the figures for New York-- DENSITY OF POPULATION PER ACRE IN 1890 Tenth Ward 522 Eleventh Ward 386 Thirteenth Ward 428 The population of these three wards in the same year was over 179,000. The population of New York in 1890 was 1,513,501. In 1888 there were in New York 1,093,701 persons living in tenement houses. Then, in 1889, there died in New York hospitals 6102; in lunatic asylums, 448; while the number of pauper funerals was 3815. In 1890 there were in New York 37,316 tenements, with a gross population of 1,250,000. These things are facts, and our practical politicians love facts. But these are not all the facts. No. In this book about New York I find careful plans and drawings of the slums, and I can assure you we have nothing so horrible in all England. Nor do the revelations of Mr. Riis stop there. We have full details of the sweating shops, the men and women crowded together in filthy and noisome dens, working at starvation prices, from morning until late on in the night, "until brain and muscle break down together." We have pictures of the beggars, the tramps, the seamstresses, the unemployed, the thieves, the desperadoes, the lost women, the street arabs, the vile drinking and opium dens, and we have facts and figures to prove that this great capital of the great Republic is growing worse; and all this, my practical friends, in spite of the fact that in America they have Manhood Suffrage; Payment of Members; No House of Peers; No State Church; and Free Education; which is more than our most advanced politicians claim as the full extent to which England can be taken by means of practical politics--as understood by the two great parties.