THE REFORM OF THE POOR LAW.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPEOTATOTO]
Sin,—Mrs. Sidney Webb, the well-known Socialist, has issued a circular letter to the Press stating " that it had been decided to form a National Committee to promote the break-up of the Poor Law on the lines of the Minority Report," and she appeals for assistance, by personal work and by money contributions, to this end.
Before any one contributes either personal assistance or money he should ask himself this question, "Am I, or am I not, a Socialist?" because, as Mr. Ramsay Macdonald, the then chairman of the Independent Labour Party, recently stated at Edinburgh, " the Minority Report of the Poor Law Commission is but a Socialist document—our old proposals paraphrased, brought up to date as to facts and experience, and issued at the public expense."
Every one who in any way assists Mrs. Sidney Webb in securing the carrying out of the proposals of the Minority Report is merely helping to put Socialism into practice.,--I am, Sir, &c.,
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