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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这些年来，公众舆论一直想方设法为难我，一无所获后，却又把我吹捧为伟人，任何人遇到这种事都足以称之为可怕的灾难。现在，显然又有人想故伎重施。因此，对于我70岁寿辰的庆祝活动，我根本不想发表任何意见。不过，当我的工党老朋友们请我到这里来时，我知道我应该来。
现在，不管怎样，我们已经建立了一个立宪党，一个建立在社会主义基础之上的立宪党。我和我的朋友西德尼·韦布先生及麦克唐纳先生一开始就明确地说过，我们必须做的就是把社会党变成一个拥护宪法的党，使任何可敬的、虔诚的人都能在个人尊严丝毫不受侵犯的情况下加入这个党。我们革除了陈规陋习，这也是为什么比起任何持激进观点的人来，当下的政府更害怕我们。