“We know,--all of us,”--she said, in the concluding portion of her address, “that we have Ministers who personally care nothing for the prosperity or welfare of the country. We know--all of us,--that we have a bribed Press; whose business it is to say nothing that shall run counter to Ministerial views. We know,--all of us,--that it is this bribed Ministerial press which leads the ignorant, (who are not behind the scenes,) to wrong and false conclusions;--and that it is solely upon these wrong and false conclusions of the wilfully misled million, that the Ministry itself rests for support. On one side the Press is manipulated by the Jews; on the other by the Jesuits. There is no journal in this country that will, or dare, publish the true reflex of popular opinion. Therefore the word ‘free’ cannot be applied to that recording-force of nations which we call Journalism; inasmuch as it is now a merely purchased Chattle. We should remember, when we read ‘opinions of the Press,’--on any great movement or important change in policy, that we are merely accepting the opinions of the bound and paid Slave of Capitalists;--and we should take care to form our judgment for ourselves, rather than from the Capitalist point of view. Were there a strong man to lead,--the shiftiness, treachery, and deliberate neglect practised on the million by those who are now in office, could not possibly last;--but where there is no strength, there must be weakness,--and where a long career of deceit has been followed, instead of a course of plain dealing, failure in the end is inevitable. With failure comes disaster; and often something which augments disaster--Revolt. The people, weary of constant imposition,--of incessant delays of the justice due to them,--as well as the unscrupulous breaking of promises solemnly pledged,--will--in the long run, take their own way, as they have done before in history, of securing instant amelioration of those wrongs which their paid rulers fail to redress. Who will dare to say that, under such circumstances, it is ill for the people to act? Sometimes it is a greater Consciousness than their own that moves them; and the wronged and half-forgotten Cause of all worlds makes His command known through His creatures, who obey His impulse,--even as the atoms gathering in space cluster at His will into solar systems, and bring forth their burden of life!” She paused, and leaning forward a little, her eyes poured out their flashing searchlight as it seemed into the very souls of her hearers.