A MINIMUM WAGE.
[To THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR."]
SIR,—You condemn the intolerance of the advocates of a minimum or living wage on page 963 of your• last issue. Is it not of the first importance to impress upon all concerned that either living wage or minimum wage leads straight to the decision by a public authority what men shall be allowed to marry and bow many children they shall be allowed to have There are only two ways in which men can be got to work— the lash and hunger. But hunger, of course, includes most terribly the hunger of a man's children. Rob him of that incentive, put the support of his children upon the shoulders of other men, and in no long time it will he for them to decide if he can be allowed to have children for them to support. The axioms are feeble folk. It is easy to say that they "lead to nothing." But they end in the forty-seventh proposition of the first book of Euclid. Thousands of men have been supporting other men's children, through one organization or another, whose own children cannot afford to marry and must go childless. This cannot last.-1 am, Sir,
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