[To the Editor• of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,--" L L. P."
divides mankind into those who own the " means of production " and those who do not. "-The means of production " he defines as " tools in the word's widest sense." Surely in its widest sense the word " tool " includes the worker, without whom any tool is useless. In other words, a man who works uses his mind and body as tools, and is therefore one of the owners of one of the means of production. Consequently " I. L. P.'s" division divides mankind into those who' are, utterly incapable both mentally and physically, and are also paupers, and those who are- not- all of these things ; and it is, not complimentary or fair to the vast majority of the people of any country to suggest that they belong' to the former' class.
Perhaps. " I. L. P." has a sentimental objection to human beings being described- as " tools." If so, he- is at variance with Nature, a state which is the fundamental characteristio of Socialists. If tools of' any kind. are too numerous or of too poor a quality some of them, are sure to be unemployable.
—I am, Sir, &c., GUY PORTER. Mahan?, Upper Kings Cliff; Jersey,
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