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and would throw every man's property, including his time, into one 

 common melting pot. And to injustice would be added loss of 

 liberty. The unhappy people would be under the dictatorship of a 

 bureaucracy which would appoint to each man his work, thus 

 affording an instructive commentary upon the boast, " Britons 

 never, never shall be slaves," and suggestive of Israel under 

 Egyptian task-masters. 



Socialism, in my judgment, attacks the three great principles of 

 justice which are fundamental to social law, namely, that a man be 

 safe-guarded with respect to his life, his liberty, and his property. 

 Through lack of stimulation to production. Socialism would com- 

 mercially be injurious to the life of the individual. It would to a 

 great extent rob him of liberty and of property, in which term, may 

 be included character, which the author has shown would suffer 

 deterioration. If ever Socialism be accepted by justice-loving, 

 freedom-loving, and reflective Englishmen, it will be because they 

 are deceived by their leaders, or as a counsel of despair through an 

 idea that any change is better than none. The awakening and 

 disillusionment will, in such case, be serious, and may be terrible. 



We shall, I am sure, thoroughly endorse the learned author's 

 closing remarks, and thank him heartily for his admirable paper. 



Mr. H. Charlewood Turner said that his experience in social 

 work, mainly amongst working men, had led him to have much 

 sympathy with Socialists, however much he was opposed to their 

 views. 



In his opinion they would do little good by denouncing Socialists 

 as robbers, and men urged on only by greed and selfish desires. 

 No one with any practical experience of Socialists and their schemes 

 could make this charge. Undoubtedly, many unscrupulous 

 agitators were advancing their own ends under the guise of 

 Socialism. But on the other hand it was a striking thing that of 

 those men who were keenest on the higher things of life, and most 

 desirous of improving the education and surroundings of themselves 

 and their fellow workers, the majority were Socialists. As to why 

 this was so, he was in absolute agreement with Mr. Spencer of 

 Haggerston. 



They had only to look to the results of the present economic 

 system to find the justification of the Socialists. If the followers of 

 the new creed opposed Christianity, and not all of them did, they 



