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The great majority who are unable to survive the test pay the price . And the community also pays the price , the state and nation pay it . And we have this misery on our consciences . I 've no doubt you could show me some who have grown rich , but if you would let me I could take you to families in desperate want , living in rooms too dark to read in at midday in clear weather , where the husband does n't get more than seven dollars a week when the mills are running full time , where the woman has to look out for the children and work for the lodgers , and even with lodgers they get into debt , and the woman has to go into the mills to earn money for winter clothing . I 've seen enough instances of this kind to offset the savings bank argument . And even then , when you have a family where the wife and older children work , where the babies are put out to board , where there are three and four lodgers in a room , why do you suppose they live that way ? Is n't it in the hope of freeing themselves ultimately from these very conditions ?