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Show shrivel atid die. Today a large branch of government relates to war. The abolition of the profits system would rentier this useless. It would make impossible im-possible the fatal rivalry between the nations over markets and thus destroy the very foundations of war. Criminal courts, police, jails and the like would go also. Crime is due almost wholly to poverty. In a reign of plenty for all it would practically disappear." As to tho civil courts, tho book seems to indicate that in the new order of tilings which Mr. Foster would bring about property rights would be dropped th rough the coal hole. But even with government abolished and society stood on its head, with laws dispensed with, property rights eliminated and tine constitution con-stitution shot to the bowwows while the proletariat is gleefully running things hit or miss, some need might arise one day for a law or two. In such a contingency Mr. Foster remarks, by way of reassurance: "What few extraordinary occasions arise requiring legislative action to arrive ar-rive at some sort of solution could bo handled by the trades unions." Jt would be a waste of effort to answer an-swer the half-baked theories advanced in this impossible "treatise," its it would be a blunder to treat it seriously. The illogical conclusions arrived at by Foster are apparent to anyone who lias given serious study to political and social so-cial economy. This work by Foster issued is-sued four years ago is referred to simply as a neminder that when Rubin, Fitzpatriek and (jumpers undertake to wave away the preachings of Foster in 1912 as the impressionistic views of a young man who has since discarded dis-carded them they should havo been sure that Foster's alleged constructive) philosophy phi-losophy did not lead him to even weirder notions of social betterment in 1915. TROOF POSITIVE. PTiortly after the attorney for the steel strikers and others had concluded ! their effort to give a certificate of i sound Americanism to William Z. Fos ter, one of the leaders of tho workers in the steel industry accused of leaning lean-ing strongly to sovictism, somebody comes along with more evidence that Mr. Foster's friends will find it difficult diffi-cult to refute. Attorney Rubin has said that while it was true that Foster had cxtrenie views on social and governmental gov-ernmental subjects these views were entertained en-tertained years ago and that Mr. Foster has outgrown thorn. But it develops that as la'e as 3915 Foster wroto another book, this time on "Trade Unionism, the Boad to Freedom." Free-dom." A perusal of the volume finds tho author still whooping it up for an economic revolution that would put the workers in control of means of production produc-tion and abolish the wage and profits system. An interesting excerpt follows: "It is the purest assumption to state that the trades unions would balk at tho overthrow of the wage system. True, the trades union movement itself does not generally propagato the idea that it aims at the overthrow of the wage system, but this is because it has I not yet become conscious of its full mission." In another chapter, after giving a "glimpse into the future," Mr. Foster is found extolling the " anti sialism " ' theory. He dwells upon the beauties and benefices of a society without government. gov-ernment. "Under the new order as pie-. pie-. lured above," says the book, "govern ment, such iih we hnow it would gradually grad-ually disappear, fn an era of science and jimtico this makeshift institution, having outlived its usefulness, would |