"You men may have been wondering why I have again gone into such detail to sketch briefly some of the ills of the world in which you have lived. You may feel that we Martians should consider the case hopeless. But the contrary is true. Because there have been and are many leaders of integrity and high principles in your midst, we feel they should be commended and given the support of greater numbers of your citizens. The paths of virtue, kindness and tolerance should be made more attractive than the paths of dishonesty, vice and crime. Much of the energy of your people is dissipated in activities of the Octopus that destroy not only themselves, but those near them and around them. We here in Mars believe that there are not enough of your citizens awake and aware of what is happening. Many of those living in palaces, beautiful suburbs, or in the quiet villages are not aware of the crowded living quarters, the poverty and the ignorance of many of their fellow citizens who live in the slums where fresh air and sunshine are lacking, and sanitary conditions are most primitive, where your poor are crowded in dark, filthy small living quarters, where large families with many sick and diseased adults, children and animal pets live together, communicating diseases to each other. These families barely have enough for necessities, causing malnutrition, and desperation. There is no privacy in their home life; parents and small and adolescent children of both sexes live together in small apartments, in tenement houses, cabins, and shacks, where families, and vice dens are neighbors. "Narrow, filthy yards are full of wash lines; streets and sidewalks are crowded on both sides with pushcarts loaded with fish, fruits, and vegetables and smelly eatables; gutters reek with rotting garbage, but the poor man's club, the saloon, is at every corner, which gets most of his earnings. "This is fertile soil where crime and vice are born and flourish, where venereal diseases are rampant, and where many of their daughters and wives are forced or enticed to become drunkards and prostitutes. Vice, disease and crime wave epidemics that begin in these slums, spreads quickly to and within your own neighborhood and you are not immune from its contamination, suffering or falling its victim.