I think we are keeping it in our minds because our business is to take care of the distribution of wealth in the world and I tell you， as I have told you before， that I don't think there are two men， or perhaps one man， in our forty-seven million who approves of the existing distribution of wealth. I will go even further and say that you will not find a single person in the whole of the civilized world who agrees with the existing system of the distribution of wealth. It has been reduced to a blank absurdity.
I think the day will come when we will be able to make the distinction between the capitalists and us. We must get certain leading ideas before the people. We should announce that we are not going in for what was the old-fashioned idea of redistribution， but the redistribution of income. Let it always be a question of income.
I have been very happy here to night. I entirely understand the distinction made by our Chairman tonight when he said you hold me in social esteem and a certain amount of personal affection. I am not a sentimental man， but I am not insensible to all that. I know the value of all that， and it gives me， now that I have come to the age of seventy (it will not occur again and I am saying it for the first time)， a great feeling of pleasure that I can say what a good many people can’t say.
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這些年來，公眾輿論一直想方設法為難我，一無所獲後，卻又把我吹捧為偉人，任何人遇到這種事都足以稱之為可怕的災難。現在，顯然又有人想故伎重施。因此，對於我70歲壽辰的慶祝活動，我根本不想發表任何意見。不過，當我的工黨老朋友們請我到這裏來時，我知道我應該來。
現在，不管怎樣，我們已經建立了一個立憲黨，一個建立在社會主義基礎之上的立憲黨。我和我的朋友西德尼·韋布先生及麥克唐納先生一開始就明確地說過，我們必須做的就是把社會黨變成一個擁護憲法的黨，使任何可敬的、虔誠的人都能在個人尊嚴絲毫不受侵犯的情況下加入這個黨。我們革除了陳規陋習，這也是為什麽比起任何持激進觀點的人來，當下的政府更害怕我們。