18 JANUARY 1908, Page 16

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] SIB, —May I make just

two remarks with regard to your very interesting letters to a working man ? (1) Is it not the case that 'c'hat is wanted is a better distribution of existing capital, —the workers to be better paid and the capitalists to have smaller profits ? (2) Is not the crux of the question this : What is to be done with the thousands of unemployed ? Most of the unemployed cannot or will not work, therefore your suggestion of extra capital would not give these men the smallest relief. When work is offered them they either will not, or they cannot, do it. What is to be done for these men [For the major part of unemployment what is wanted is a moral, not an economic, remedy.—En. Spectator.]