was that the people not only paid the tax as they had paid
it before the famine, but paid a rental of exactly the same
amount, the lands being held by Pharaoh. They had sold their
land to Pharaoh for the food.

A few days after this pronouncement Professor Charles P. Fagnani, of the
Union Theological Seminary, was addressing the New York Baptist Social
Union on "Christianity and Democracy," and among other things he said:

The corn corner of Joseph has been in the public eye
recently. That young man had a good private character, but
Joseph, the king's jackal, who took every advantage to take
away all the property of others, can be held up only to
obloquy. Compare Joseph, the enslaver of the people, with
Moses, the liberator!

What was the matter with Joseph? He was, like most men, only
fractionally converted. We think the conversion of a man in
his private character is enough; but he was not converted as
a citizen and as a man.

In conclusion we may note the Richmond _Times-Dispatch's_ remark that
"compared with Mr. Rockefeller's, Joseph's was a mere cozy corner."

SOCIALISM'S LATEST MILLIONAIRE CONVERT.

Views Expressed by J.M. Patterson, of
Chicago, Who Has Resigned Office
Because of His Convictions.

One of the most recent converts to Socialism is Joseph Medill Patterson,
of Chicago. Though he is now only twenty-seven years of age, Mr. Patterson
has had a strong taste of public life as commissioner of public works in
Chicago. In the local campaign of 1905 he supported Judge (now Mayor)
Dunne, who, after election, gave him his important appointment. He has now
resigned the commissionership. In his letter of resignation he says:

It was through a common belief in the cause of municipal
ownership of municipal utilities that I first became
acquainted with you, and in this letter of resignation I
desire to express publicly just how my views on this subject
have changed. They have not diminished. They have enlarged.

I used to believe that many of the ills under which the
nation suffers, and by which it is threatened, would be
prevented or avoided by the general inauguration of public
ownership of public utilities. But my experience in the
Department of Public Works has convinced me that this policy
would not be even one-fourth of the way sufficient.

He then goes on to say that in Great Britain--where