As a step towards bringing about some such union of those ready to work for man, Mr. Stead and I projected the Link, a halfpenny weekly, the spirit of which was described in its motto, taken from Victor Hugo:  “The people are silence.  I will be the advocate of this silence.  I will speak for the dumb.  I will speak of the small to the great and of the feeble to the strong....  I will speak for all the despairing silent ones.  I will interpret this stammering; I will interpret the grumblings, the murmurs, the tumults of crowds, the complaints ill-pronounced, and all these cries of beasts that, through ignorance and through suffering, man is forced to utter ...  I will be the Word of the People.  I will be the bleeding mouth whence the gag is snatched out.  I will say everything.”  It announced its object to be the “building up” of a “New Church, dedicated to the service of man,” and “what we want to do is to establish in every village and in every street some man or woman who will sacrifice time and labour as systematically and as cheerfully in the temporal service of man as others do in what they believe to be the service of God.”  Week after week we issued our little paper, and it became a real light in the darkness.  There the petty injustices inflicted on the poor found voice; there the starvation wages paid to women found exposure; there sweating was brought to public notice.  A finisher of boots paid 2s. 6d. per dozen pairs and “find your own polish and thread”; women working for 10-1/2 hours per day, making shirts—­“fancy best”—­at from 10d. to 3s. per dozen, finding their own cotton and needles, paying for gas, towel, and tea (compulsory), earning from 4s. to 10s. per week for the most part; a mantle finisher 2s. 2d. a week, out of which 6d. for materials; “respectable hard-working woman” tried for attempted suicide, “driven to rid herself of life from want.”  Another part of our work was defending people from unjust landlords, exposing workhouse scandals, enforcing the Employers’ Liability Act, Charles Bradlaugh’s Truck Act, forming “Vigilance Circles” whose members kept watch in their own district over cases of cruelty to children, extortion, insanitary workshops, sweating, &c., reporting each case to me.  Into this work came Herbert Burrows, who had joined hands with me over the Trafalgar Square defence, and who wrote some noble articles in the Link.  A man loving the people with passionate devotion, hating oppression and injustice with equal passion, working himself with remorseless energy, breaking his heart over wrongs he could not remedy.  His whole character once came out in a sentence when he was lying delirious and thought himself dying:  “Tell the people how I have loved them always.”