At the evening meeting, the chairman (Mr. J. Moore) read a letter from Alfred Russell Wallace, the distinguished scientist, contemporary with Charles Darwin and sharing with him the honour of the discovery of the evolution theory. The letter, which was in response to an invitation to open a bazaar it was proposed to hold next Easter to raise funds for prosecuting the Parliamentary campaign, was as follows:--

Broadstone, Wimborne, September 30th, 1903.

     Dear sir,--I have long given up attending any such public meetings as yours. I, however, wish you every success. Nothing would delight me more than to see a majority of working men candidates returned to Parliament, as they might and ought to be since they are the majority of the population. (Hear, hear.) Why they don't return many more men of their own class is what I cannot understand. So long as they vote for landlords, capitalists, lawyers, and army men they will never get any really useful legislation tending to advance Socialist ideals, or in any way to abolish unemployment and starvation. (Applause.)

The Chairman thought that in England, as well as on the Continent, the Socialists might say they had the best minds with them. They were able to look forward to the future with greater confidence than ever. . . .