We British workmen, so they say,
Are free; and who can doubt it?
For, if we do not like our pay,
We’re free—to go without it.
Unlike the helpless negro slave.
Our tyrant-driven brother,
If one employer prove a knave,
We’re free—to find another.
The Labour Leader, May 26, 1894, p. 5
More Verses by Henry Salt
- Bible BindingJustice, November 28, 1885
- Voices of the VoicelessThe Great Kinship, edited by Bertram Lloyd, 1921
- The Shade of Judge Jeffreys to the English BenchThe Commonweal, February 19, 1888
- The Village ButcherThe Food Reform Magazine, January-March 1884
- On the Irish EvictionsThe Commonweal, August 20, 1887