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 true, earnest, upright Fabian a man should be as free from principle and morality as a parson."—Workman's Times, 13th February 1893. Ridentem dicere verum quid vetat?

Is it a Socialist Report? It is curious to observe the anxiety that exists in many unexpected quarters to minimise the Socialist proclivities of the Report. For example, in a little book recently issued and entitled " By What Authority? " a book which is the joint work of three learned professors, we find that " Socialism is not the issue," "there is a marked absence of the formulae and industrial aspirations of current Socialism " (p, 10). Undoubtedly it has not been the cue of the Minority to put forward the " Socialist aspirations "too baldly, but one would at least have expected that some suspicions might have been aroused in the minds of these ingenuous professors by the general proposals of the Minority, and especially those in regard to the organisation of labour and by the frequent occurrence of well-known Socialist phrases, such as "the way in which we have chosen to organise industry" (pp. 1095, 1 131), "an incident of the competitive system" (p. 1132), the "economic circumstances we have chosen to create" (p. 1079). The question, however, has now been set definitely at rest by the enthusiastic reception of the Report by all leading Socialists, and especially by Mr H. G. Wells.

Labour Exchanges as a Test of Unemployment. The Minority appear to accept the labour exchange as a test of unemployment—that is to say, if there is no job offering to a man at the labour exchange, it is to be assumed that he cannot get z