the struggle of life, but each determined to hold his own, and opposed to the annihilation of private property, and the substitution of a "common fund," or collective State Socialism instead.

What is Socialism? Mr. Hyndman says it "is an endeavour to substitute for the anarchical struggle, a fight for existence, an organized co-operation for existence." He wants to stop "the brutal competition of one against the other," and have everything in production, distribution, the departments of the State, worked for the benefit of the workers, for the benefit of all. He tells the people that "three or four hours' work a day is more than sufficient to cover luxury and comfort for every man;" but this "can only be done by the collective ownership of land, capital, machinery, and credit, by the complete ownership of the people in this great country of ours." In plain English, Mr. Hyndman wants the State to appropriate all property for the benefit of all instead of the few. He forgets or ignores the fact that the property has been acquired by the extra labour, superior skill, and thrift of the few, and that once you take away the motive power to acquire, the desire to possess by the individual, society would collapse. There are many evils in society that may be remedied for the good of all; the sooner all abuses that exist are abolished the better; reformation is always beneficial, revolution the contrary. The social evils that exist in our midst cannot be removed by the State; it is the individual effort that is necessary. No Socialistic experiment has ever been permanently successful, nor ever will so long as it takes for its basis the denial of the right of the individual to private property.