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Needless to add , the two did not fail to wrestle with those individuals whom they met . Thyrsis got a collection of pamphlets , judiciously selected , and gave them to the butcher and the grocer , the store-clerks and the hack-drivers in the town . But a college-town was a poor place for Socialist propaganda , as he realized with sinking heart ; its population was made up of masters and servants , and there was even more snobbery among the servants than among the masters . The main architectural features of the place were fraternity-houses and `` eating-clubs '' , where the sons of the idle rich disported themselves ; once or twice Thyrsis passed through the town after midnight , and saw these young fellows reeling home , singing and screaming in various stages of intoxication . Then he would think of little children shut up in cotton-mills and coal-mines , of women dying in pottery-works and lead-factories ; and on his way home he would compose a screed for the `` Appeal to Reason '' . Section 7 . Another victim of their fervor was the Rev. Mr. Harding , who stopped in to see them several times upon his tramps .