But I should like to think that many workers will become Socialists at once, and more as they live and learn. The fact is, Mr. Smith, I do not want to ask too much of the mass of working folks, who have been taught little, and mostly taught wrong, and whose opportunities of getting knowledge have been but poor. I am not asking working men to be plaster saints nor stained-glass angels, but only to be really what their flatterers are so fond of telling them they are now: shrewd, hard-headed men, distrusting theories and believing in facts. For the statement that private trading and private management of production and distribution are the best, and the only "possible," ways of carrying on the business of the nation is only a _theory_, Mr. Smith; but the superiority of Municipal management in cheapness, in efficiency, in health, in comfort, and in pleasantness is a solid _fact_, Mr. Smith, which has been demonstrated just as often as Municipal and private management have been contrasted in their action. One other question I may anticipate. How are the workers to form a Labour Party? There are already two Labour parties formed. One is the Trade Union body, the other is the Independent Labour Party. The Trade Unions are numerous, but not politically organised nor united. The Independent Labour Party is organised and united, but is weak in numbers and poor in funds. I should like to see the Trade Unions fully federated, and formed into a political as well as an Industrial Labour Party on lines similar to those of the Independent Labour Party. Or I should like to see the whole of your 2,000,000 of Trade Unionists join the Independent Labour Party. Or, best of all, I should like to see the Unions, the Independent Labour Party, and the great and growing body of unorganised and unattached Socialists formed into one grand Socialist Party. But I do not want to ask too much. Meanwhile, I ask you, as a reader of this book, not to sit down in despair with the feeling that the workers will not move, but to try to move them. Be you _one_, John Smith. Be you the first. Then you shall surely win a few, and each of those few shall win a few, and so are multitudes composed. Let us make a long story short. I have here given you, as briefly and as plainly as I can, the best advice of which I am capable, after a dozen years' study and experience of Labour politics and economics and the lives of working men and women. If you approve of this little book I shall be glad if you will recommend it to your friends. You will find Labour matters treated of every week in the _Clarion_, which is a penny paper, published every Friday, and obtainable at 72 Fleet Street, London, E.C., and of all newsagents. Heaven, friend John Smith, helps those who help themselves; but Heaven also helps those who try to help their fellow-creatures.