From GIVE ME LIBERTY, BY Eric Foner, Seagull volume 2. According to John Mitchell in the excerpt from 1910 on page 711 (page 699 in Fourth Edition and page 691 in Third Edition), a worker cannot really be considered free if s/he is paid barely enough to eat and pay for the necessities of life? Do you think it matters in a democracy for someone who works fulltime to be paid enough to have a decent life, enough food to feed their family and educate their children? What does poverty have to do with freedom?