The New Testament declared that ” That the labourer must be first partaker of the fruit ;” and he ought doubtless to have the largest share : it also declared that, ” He that will not work, neither shall he eat,” and yet the legislation of this country, and the preachings of our religionists, had brought about a state of things in which he that worked hard had scarcely anything to eat, and he that never worked revelled in luxury and abundance.
Mr Hetherington addressing a Chartist meeting at Newtown, Wales (Northern Star 20th April 1839)
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