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FLUNKEYS\n\nTHEIR  \n## “WORK”AND WAGES,\n\nEY  \nGEORGE STANDRING,  \n874  \n\"Those gilded fies  \nThat,basking in the sunshine of a Court,FatteB on corruption,what are tbey?The drones of the community·      \"  \nSHELLEY(Qween Mabj.  \n“What are youdoing.Tom?\"cries the master.“Nothing,sir.\"\"And whatare you dcing,Henry?”“Tm belping Tom,sir.”  \nLONDON:  \nFREETHOUGHT PUBLISHING co.,z8,STONECUTTER STREET,E.C.  \n一  \nPRICE ONE PENNY.  \n57505DCOU RT FLUNKEYS:  \nTHEIR“wORX”AXD WAGES,  \nHE ordinary life ofa bee-natiion bears a cura8 resemblaance tto the stateof society existingin nationsclainmingto bivilised.Abee-Ccommunityconsists of queendrones,and workers;ivilised nationrecognisCBin the smaller nations of the hive,the throne and the aristoeracy oppress the“lower orders\"while they draw fron them the fruits of their toil.\"In bothinstances,this anomulous sLate of aff:irs depends for its continuance upon theignorance of the poorest class.In a bee-hive,whilst inpenetrable darkness pre.vails,the working bees labor to store up honey,of which they obtain but a smallshare,wbilst the queen and the lazy droaes feast riotously.It a apertare bemade in the hive,so that the working arrangements are exposed,the greatestconfusion at once prev aile.The drones clnster round the opening,keeping ontthe light by their bodies;whilst the working-becs close up the orifice with asticky substance.If,bowever,the light is again and again allowed to enter,theresult is that the working-beesbeeoming awake to their condlition of slavery,gralnally cease aceumulating honey,len ving the drones to work or perish,  \nEnglish royalty and aristocracy represent the queen and the drones of thehive.The working-becs are the laboring classes of this country,who pay heayytaxes out of their seanty earnings to support in eriminal extravagance and dis-graceful idleness the Bo-called“upper classes”of the community.It is in thehope that the introduetion of lighi may help to bring about a publie feelingwhich 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