LABOUR'S WRONGS AND LABOUR'S REMEDY.
THE chief of "Labour's Wrongs," according to Mr. Ihm, are profit, interest, rent, and taxes; of all of which, amounting, as he calculates, to three hundred millions a year, the labourers are robbed, inasmuch as they, and they alone, are entitled to all the wealth produced. The source of "Labour's Wrongs," he de- clares to be, "the institution of property, as it at present exists ; " and in order to get at "Labour's Remedy," "THE PRESENT AR- RANGEMENTS OF SOCIETY MUST RE TOTALLY SUBVERTED,* and supplanted by those more in accordance with the principles of justice and the rationality of man." It is unnecessary to go further into the matter of this writer, or to discuss with him what he calls his " first principles :" if unable to detect the why of his errors, no render of the Spectator is liable to be misled by them ; and even if we could reach those likely to become his disciples, and could spare the space to expose his fal- lacies at length, it is to be apprehended that many of them have hearts so hardened by long-continued poverty, ignorance, and the neglect of those above them, that they would be deaf to instruc- tion. In manner, Mr. BRAY is clear, strong, and forcible, but wordy : his acquirements extend to some reading in history and • It is in the above type that Mr. Thar announces his panacea.
political economy; and he is so far moderate, that he recommends inquiry into his system before action.
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