We are sorry that we cannot publish most of the
letters we have received about the series of articles called " Specimen Days." Apparently it is the wish of a large number of busy persons to describe in detail a specimen day of their own lives and then to ask ingenuously at the end whether they are workers or whether they are not. We must admit that the proof that they are just as much entitled as the wage-earners whose articles we have published to the title of " worker " is generally. complete. As a whole the letters, besides expressing much interest in the articles, reveal con- siderable surprise at the manner in which the wage- earners have described their occupations and feelings. They point out that the wage-earners have asked us to believe incredible things. That is quite true; but as we have remarked before it is only what we should have expected. The policy of the Spectator has long been to let everybody have his say. It is very important, even from the most strictly scientific point of view, to know exactly -what is in the minds of the wage-earners. It is admitted by everyone to-day that the most sig- nificant elements in the industrial problem are psycho- logical. * * * *
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