The Cry for Justice: An Anthology of the Literature of Social Protest / The writings of philosophers, poets, novelists, social reformers, and others who have voiced the struggle against social injustice; selected from twenty-five languages; covering a period of five thousand years

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(Ansorge has stopped working, and cowers on the floor, strongly agitated. Mother Baumert and Bertha wipe their eyes frequently during the course of the reading.)

Moritz (continues to read):—

The Dreissigers true hangmen are,

Servants no whit behind them;

Masters and men with one accord

Set on the poor to grind them.

You villains all, you brood of hell——

Old Baumert (trembling with rage, stamping on the floor):—Yes, brood of hell!!!

Moritz (reads):—

You fiends in fashion human,