Give to every corporate worker the ownership of his job, and make him a co-partner with capital.

Cause the tendency of wage to ever increase, and, at the same time, the cost of commodity to ever decrease.

Give to the corporate worker the highest living wage, judging him by his varability of action and worth in the production of commodity, when measured by the consumer upon its commendability.

Give to the corporate worker his share of excess profits at the end of the year in proportion as he has been paid a wage.

Would forever cure industrial war, and labor strikes and lockouts would be a thing of the past.

Governments could then provide a pensioned capital for old age without the aid of the workers, but based, in its calculation, by the total wage received, which, also, would act as industrial insurance while he lived and worked.

Would take off the burden upon personality caused by the tariff tax upon what we eat and wear, and lay the geometric tax upon the inanimate centralized income, in order to pay its due to government.

Cause a just distribution of our future earned wealth to the many rather than to the few, by giving to the worker the power of retention of the full product of his labor, so as to produce equality and give equity to every citizen, by governmental dictum in the operation of autocratic basic law.

The arguments of Mr. Batdorf are interesting and the book is worthy of careful reading. Some of its more salient points will be presented by the author in an early number of THE COMMON CAUSE.

Socialism: Tracts for the Times. New York: America press.

There has been so great a call for the various articles on Socialism which have appear

ed in The Catholic Mind since 1903, The American Press has reprinted them, and they are now obtainable in a single volume. It is unnecessary to refer to the character of the articles as they have already taken their place among the important contributions to the literature on Socialism. Although attractively printed and well bound in cloth, the price is but 50 cents.

Francisco Ferrer; Criminal Conspirator. By John A. Ryan, D. D. St. Louis: B. Herder. Price 15 cents.

So much nonsense has been written about Francisco Ferrer that it is a relief to read Dr. Ryan's scholarly analysis of the case. Basing his study upon William Archer's article, which appeared in McClure's Magazine, in November and December, 1910, the author shows that the former was so biased against the religious congregations and the government of Spain, and so heartily in favor of the revolutionary forces with which Ferrer was identified, that it was next to impossible for him to give adequate attention to the facts that actually explain this much-misrepresented incident. Those who want to know the truth about Ferrer will find the facts entertainingly presented in this little book.

Hilaire Belloc has an article in The Catholic World for January that should be read by every person who is anxious to trace the development of the system that we term "capitalism." It plays havoc with the theories of Socialism. Another series of articles, in which the old utopian ideals will be compared with the Socialism of to-day, is announced to begin in February.