THE CORONATION AND THE WORKING CLASSES.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPF.CTATOR.
Sla—It is a glorious sight to see the Working Classes putting down an igno- rant Aristocracy with argument at public meetings, as was done yesterday by Mr. VINCENT and his supporters at the Freemason's.
The aristocratic fallacies thrown out, were two.
First, That tLere ought to be an expensive Coronation, because it would make the nobility spend money ; example given, in new coaches. But is it not clear, that for all the nobility are made to spend on these new coaches, they must spend so much the less on something else? Why then are the working classes, who are not coachmakers, to bawl for having employment taken from themselves, to be given to the coachmakers ? Second, That money ought to be taken from the tax-payers, and spent upon a raree-show, by way of doing good to the working classes. But would not the tax-payers have equally spent the money on some or other of the working- classes, if they had been let alone? Supptsing, therefore, the working classes to be no tax-payers, they are only asked to bawl for taking employment from Peter to give to Paul. But it happens that they are tax-payers tuo ; as tax- payers, therefore, they are to pay their share of the piper with the rest. If the Aristocracy will appoint a time and place where there shall be any thing like fair play, the Working Classes will work out the argument to their
heart's content. Your obedient servant, T.
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