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 to lose?" And England is powerless.   The capacity of her workmen is represented by 1, in comparison with the 2.25 capacity of the American workman.  And because of the solidarity of labor and the destructiveness of strikes, British capitalists dare not even strive to emulate the enterprise of American capitalists.  So England watches trade slipping through her fingers and wails unavailingly.  As a correspondent writes: "The enormous power of the trade unions hangs, a sullen cloud, over the whole industrial world here, affecting men and masters alike."

The political movement known as Socialism is, perhaps, even less realized by the general public. The great strides it has taken and the portentous front it today exhibits are not comprehended;