government, and carry civilization to yet nobler heights, is-to appropriate rent by taxation, to abolish all taxation save that of land values."

Is Mr. George aware that the gross annual rental value of the land is under £70,000,000; that the population is over 35,000,000? Talk of utopian schemes; why, to realize what Mr. George offers to accomplish by his only "true remedy," would require a new world, and men to be re-created. Judging from the past, it will be a very long time before we shall attain to his ideal. Yet he writes as if he really believed that the State, by a violation of the moral law, by appropriating the property of a class it is their duty to protect, by undermining the sacredness of property, and thereby taking away the desire to accumulate, upon which all progress depends, he will make of this world a paradise for the working class. This sovereign remedy, if it abolished taxation, would rid each individual of, say, 40s. to 50s. yearly of taxation. (The working class pay their taxes mostly in the beer and spirits they drink, and the tobacco they smoke.) This relief to the working class we are asked to accept as the "only only true remedy " to get rid of poverty. If it be so, God help the poor! Mr. George, no doubt, wishes to be a " social reformer," but, as all his reforms depend for their realization upon the complete spoliation of one class to benefit another, it appears to me that, as lie wants to alter the whole structure and condition of society, lie is not a reformer, but a social revolutionist.

If you have not made up your mind upon this subject, I would respectfully ask you to consider if we are indebted to