Excerpt from Socialism and Sense: A Radical Review Of the grumblers, Professor Russell Wallace is at once the most distinguished and the most denuncia tory. Dwelling upon the increasingly extended use of machinery, the development of rail and maritime transport, the squandering of our mineral resources, the discovery of gold, etc., he maintains that the community as a community is not enjoying a com mensurate return upon the vast addition made to the national wealth during the present century. Indeed, he commits himself to this remarkable assertion: Yet all this, he writes, has only made the rich richer; the poor remaining as numerous, and in many respects, even worse ofi' than before; while in another page he declares that the distribution of wealth is more unequal than ever, and that for every single addition to the exceptionally rich there are scores or hundreds added to the exceptionally poor. Except, it may be, in relation to a very limited class of landlords, surely his laudable zeal for Land Nationalization has here led Mr. Wallace into an extravagance of language almost as great as the ratio of increase in the wealth of the nation? The same idea finds expression in the language. Of Mr. Kidd, in a summary of criticism current in certain circles to day: the immense progress of the century and the splendid conquests of science have brought no corresponding gain to the workers. Even in this form of statement is not there conveyed an impression that is largely.

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