Mr. Lloyd Jones has been giving a couple of lectures
on the relations between Capital and Labour, in reply to Mr. Leone Levi's lectures on the same subject, but we regret to observe that they are not reported by the general Press at anything like the same length, nor even attended by Members of Parliament and the promoters of Working-men's Clubs and Institutes with any- thing like the same assiduity, or in anything like equal numbers.. Now this is a mistake, for many reasons. Professor Leone Levi knows his subject, it is true, but he takes a somewhat common-
place and prejudiced view of it, while Mr. Lloyd Jones is one of the very ablest and acutest men whom the working-class have to boast of. But besides the fact that Mr. Lloyd Jones certainly discusses the question better, from his point of view, than Pro- fessor Levi does from his, it is a great blunder for those who are -anxious to dissipate the fallacies of Trades , Unionism, to take no pains.to enter into the position of the Trades Unionists. Members of Parliament would find it twice as useful to study the Trades Unionists' defence of their own position, as to hear the stock " exposures " of their fallacies from the mouth of a regular professor of Political Economy. We are too often shown how to answer an argument, before we know what the argument to be answered really is. And hence when we come to apply the answer to any actual case, we find it does not hit the blot, just because, instead of the argument's having been made to hit the blot, the blot was made to be hit by the argument.
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