Page:London - The People of the Abyss.djvu/357

From Wikisource
Jump to navigation Jump to search
This page has been validated.
THE HUNGER WAIL
299

for 300, and boots and shoes for 1000. It would seem that 40,000,000 people are keeping a big house, and that they are keeping it badly. The income is all right, but there is something criminally wrong with the management. And who dares to say that it is not criminally mismanaged, this big house, when five men can produce bread for a thousand, and yet millions have not enough to eat?