be spent, and the landlord will become a
Government stock-holder. Practically he will get his
rent returned to him in public services.

"'He will speedily begin to get better-educated,
better-fed and better-trained workers, so that he will
get money value for the higher wages he pays.

"'He will get a regular, safe, cheap supply of power and
material. He will get cheaper and more efficient
internal and external transit.

"'He will be under an organized scientific State, which
will naturally pursue a vigorous scientific collective
policy in support of the national trade.

"'He will be less of an adventurer and more of a
citizen....'"

So I wrote to the _Magazine of Commerce_, and that for the energetic
man who is conducting a real and socially useful business is the
outlook. Socialism is not the coming of chaos and repudiation, it is
the coming of order and justice. For confusion and accident and waste,
the Socialist seeks to substitute design and collective economy. That
too is the individual aim of every good business man who is not a mere
advertising cheat or financial adventurer. To the sound-minded,
clear-headed man of affairs, Socialism appeals just as it appeals to
the scientific man, to the engineer, to the artist, because it is the
same reality, the large scale aspect of the same constructive motive,
that stirs in himself.

Sec. 3.

Let me finally quote the chairman of one of the most enterprising and
enlightened business organizations of our time to show that in
claiming the better type of business man for modern Socialism I am
making no vain boast. Sir John Brunner may not call himself a
Socialist, but this is very probably due to the fact that he gets his
ideas of Socialism from the misquotations of its interested
adversaries. This that follows from the _Manchester Guardian_ is pure
Socialism.

Speaking at the annual meeting of Brunner, Mond and Co., Ltd.,
in Liverpool (1907), the chairman, Sir John Brunner, M.P.,
made a remarkable pronouncement on the subject of the
collective ownership of canals. He said:--

"I have been one of a Royal Commission visiting the North of
France, Belgium, and Northern Germany, and our duty has been
to examine what those three countries have done in the
improvement of their canals and their waterways. We have been
very deeply