Those orthodox partisan editors who sneered at my comment on W. R. Hearst as a man who _did_ things while others were talk—talk—talking, will please study the election returns from Chicago and hand me out revised opinions. That was a Hearst fight, and Hearst himself was personally in the thick of it. He said little and accomplished much. Would _still_ like to swap a score or two of mere talkers like—well, no matter—for another such myth as Hearst. * * * * * A wise man—and his name is Dennis—has an article in the April number of _Everybody’s_ to prove that free trade has created in England that poverty-stricken mass of humanity which he includes under the general name of “Hooligan.” According to Mr. Robert Hunter, the Hooligans of the United States aggregate 10,000,000—and we haven’t had any free trade, either. Evidently the wise Mr. Dennis has not located the true cause of poverty in England. It was famine, and the high price of bread, which forced Sir Robert Peel to abandon protection and to carry free trade into effect. Bread was cheapened and the cost of living reduced. Did _that_ inflict such great misery upon the poor? If the wise Mr. Dennis will study the subject more thoroughly he will probably reach the conclusion that poverty in England is the product of land monopoly, a vicious financial system and a governmental establishment in which a lot of hereditary bloodsuckers prey upon the body politic. Free trade is the law of nature; it never did, and never can produce national misery, poverty or decadence. * * * * * If the wise Mr. Dennis will study the subject thoroughly he will discover that the Corn Laws of 1815 were passed for the purpose of giving special benefits to the landlords of Great Britain. By the poor the act was regarded as such a direct attack upon themselves—such a barefaced design to make them pay higher prices for the necessaries of life—that resistance to the law grew riotous and had to be put down by force. Says Justin McCarthy, the historian: “The poor everywhere saw the bread of their family threatened, saw the food of their children almost taken out of their mouths, and they broke into wild extremes of anger.” But the soldiers were called out, the riots put down, and a sufficient number of the poor hanged to quell the remainder. _Thus_ the land monopolists of Great Britain—many of whose titles to their enormous holdings are tainted with all manner of fraud and wrong enforced and odious law which robbed the poor to benefit the rich. In 1817 the troops were used again to crush the laborers who were crying out against oppression. In 1819 soldiers were used once more. Then the submission of despair brought quiet times until 1830, when the people again attempted to throw off the hateful yoke of barbarous laws. In the House of Commons Sir Francis Burdett denounced the Duke of Wellington as