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[00:03.61]On His Seventieth Birthday
[00:07.11]Of late years the public have been trying to tackle me
[00:11.85]in every way they possibly can,
[00:14.25]and failing to make anything of it they have turned to treating me as a great man.
[00:19.47]This is a dreadful fate to overtake anybody.
[00:22.97]There has been a distinct attempt to do it again now,
[00:26.69]and for that reason
[00:27.68]I absolutely decline to say anything about the celebration
[00:30.96]of my seventieth birthday. But when the Labor Party,
[00:34.13]my old friends the Labor Party,
[00:36.43]invited me here I knew that l should be all right.
[00:40.36]A man who holds public property must hold it on the pub1ic condition on which,
[00:45.29]for instance, I carry my walking stick.
[00:47.91]I am not allowed to do what I like with it.
[00:50.54]I must not knock you on the head with it.
[00:52.94]We say that if distribution goes wrong,
[00:55.46]everything else goes wrong¡ªreligion, morals, government.
[01:00.82]And we say, therefore,
[01:02.46]we must begin with distribution and take all the necessary steps.
[01:06.94]I think we are keeping it in our minds
[01:09.48]because our business is to take care of the distribution of wealth in the worId
[01:13.75]and I tell you, as I have told you before,
[01:16.81]that I don't think there are two men, or perhaps one man,
[01:20.62]in our 47 000 000 who approves of the existing distribution of wealth.
[01:26.53]I will go even further and say that
[01:29.48]you will not find a single person in the whole of the civilized world
[01:33.97]who agrees with the existing system of the distribution of wealth.
[01:38.23]It has been reduced to a blank absurdity.
[01:41.73]I think the day will come
[01:43.37]when we will be able to make the distinction between us and the capitalists.
[01:47.75]We must get certain leading ideas before the people.
[01:51.47]We should announce that
[01:52.68]we are not going in for what was the old-fashioned idea of redistribution,
[01:56.51]but the redistribution of income. Let it always be a question of income.
[02:02.95]I have been very happy here tonight.
[02:05.36]I entirely understand the distinction made by our Chairman tonight
[02:09.85]when he said you hold me in social esteem
[02:12.81]and a certain amount of personal affection.
[02:15.33]I am not a sentimental man, but l am not sensible to all that.
[02:20.47]I know the value of all that, and it gives me,
[02:23.53]now that I have come to the age of seventy
[02:25.72](it will not occur again and I am saying it for the first time),
[02:29.55]a great feeling of pleasure that l can say what a good many people can't say.