in the "sense of the State" are necessary parts of the
Socialist scheme. You must try and induce your readers
to recognize that when Socialism finds such supporters
as Sir Oliver Lodge and Professor Karl Pearson, as
William Morris (who revolutionized the furniture trade),
as Granville Barker (who is revolutionizing the London
stage), as Mr. George Cadbury and Mr. Fels (whose names
are not unknown in the world of advertisement), as Mr.
Allan (of the Allan Line), as Mr. George Bernard Shaw
and Mrs. Shaw, Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Webb and Sir Sidney
Olivier (the present Governor of Jamaica)--all of them
fairly comfortable and independent people, practically
acquainted with the business of investment and affairs
generally and quite alive to the present relations of
property to the civilized life--the suggestion that it
is a raid of the ignorant "Have-nots" on the possessions
of the wise and good "Haves" cannot be a very
intelligent one nor addressed to very intelligent
people. Essentially Socialism is the
scientifically-organized State as distinguished from the
haphazard, wasteful, blundering, child-sweating State of
the eighteenth century. It is the systematization of
present tendency. Necessarily its methods of transition
will be progressively scientific and humane.

"'So far as your specific questions go, I do not think
there could possibly be anything in the nature of
"compulsory profit-sharing" if a Socialist Government
came into office. There is at present a compulsory
profit-sharing in the form of an income-tax, but that
tax does not appeal to the Socialist as a particularly
scientific one. The advent of a strongly-Socialist
Government would mean no immediate revolutionary changes
at all. There would be, no doubt, a vigorous
acceleration of the educational movement to increase the
economic value and productivity of the average citizen
of the next generation, and legislation upon the lines
laid down by the principle of the "minimum wage" to
check the waste of our national resources by destructive
employment. Also a systematic shifting of the burthen of
taxation from enterprise to rent would begin. But
no