“Verily, ’tis a great country.”

Major Roper W. Caldbeck, delivering an address before the Army League, said that every year 8,869 men were invalided, 7,162 deserted, 2,903 were discharged for misconduct, 1.563 were discharged as not likely to become efficient, and 21,943 were committed to Military Prisons (excluding India), and and the Army Estimates for 1905-6 provided an extra sum of £95,000 for “additional prison accommodation.” Verily, ’tis a great country.

Major Roper Caldbeck declares that the average soldier’s pension is 8s. 2d. Per week, whilst that of the officers is £4 a week ! But of course. Capital and Labour are brothers, and the interests of the working-class soldier and exploiting-class officer are identical.

The Board of Trade state that in May 271 Trade Unions, with an aggragate membership of 575,512 reported 29,487, or 5.1 per cent, unemployed, as compared with 5.6 in April and 6.3 in May 1904.

In an office in Fetter Lane, London, a machine is now being exhibited by the inventor, Mr. George Livingston Richards, which does the work of hundreds of men. In the course of an hour it folds up thousands of magazines, puts them in gummed wrappers, addresses each one to the person for whom it is intended, and sorts them out into sacks, according to the locality to which they have to be sent.

By Polities we mean the business of Government, that is to say, the control and management of people living together in a Society. A Society , again, is a group or mass of people, bound together by a certain common principle or object. A mere chance crowd is not a Society ; it has no definite object, it collects and disperses at the whim of the moment, its members recognise no duties towards one another. It has no history, no organisation.
Professor JENKS.