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with the middle class, and four or five times we were much pleased to be entertained by the working class people.

That came about in the following way. I became acquainted through Mr. Chesson, President of the Society for the Protection of Aboriginal People, with several members of Parliament and we became quite intimate. I stood up for my country and they stood up for theirs, but that only increased our friendship. One day while I was doing some boasting about our free institutions, especially free speech and a free press, one of these members of parliament declared that we did not have free speech in America at all, as free speech is known in England. He said: "Come with me next Sunday and I will show you what free speech really is."

I agreed to go and the next Sunday he came for me in a carriage. He first drove to Kensall Green. In the little park were many speakers talking to small crowds. We did not stay there long, but drove to Hyde Park. There must have been three hundred thousand people in the park and there were men making speeches everywhere. We left the carriage outside the park and walked in. The first speaker we came across was a Church Army man. The Episcopal Church had gone into competition with the Salvation Army and this was one of the Curates who was carrying on the war. A little distance from him was a woman speaking. All of the speakers brought a stool about eighteen inches high along with them on which they stood -- that woman was preaching the most