The answer to all these questions is that the Government and the Municipalities have proved that they can manage vast and intricate businesses, and can manage them more cheaply, more efficiently, and more to the advantage and satisfaction of the public than the same class of business has ever been managed by private firms. How can it be maintained, then, that _Socialism_ is impossible? But, will it _pay_? What! _Will_ it pay? It _does_ pay. Read _To-Day's Work_, by George Haw, Clarion Press, 2s. 6d., and _Does Municipal Management Pay_? by R. B. Suthers, Clarion Press, 6d., and you will be surprised to find how well these large and numerous Municipal experiments in _Socialism_ do pay. From the book on Municipal Management, by R. B. Suthers, above mentioned, I will quote a few comparisons between Municipal and private tram and water services. WATER "In Glasgow they devote all profits to making the services cheaper and to paying off capital borrowed. "Thus, since the Glasgow Municipality took control of the water supply, forty years ago, they have reduced the price of water from 1s. 2d. in the pound rental to 5d. in the pound rental for domestic supply. "Compare that with the price paid by the London consumer under private enterprise. "On a L30 house in Glasgow the water rate amounts to 12s. 6d. "On a L30 house in Chelsea the water rate amounts to 30s. "On a L30 house in Lambeth the water rate is L2, 16s. "On a L30 house in Southwark the water rate is 32s. "And so on. The London consumer pays from two to five times as much as the Glasgow consumer. He does not get as much water, he does not get as good water, and a large part of the money he pays goes into the pockets of the water lords. "Last year the water companies took just over a million in profits from the intelligent electors of the Metropolis. "In Glasgow a part of the 5d. in the pound goes to paying off the capital borrowed to provide the waterworks. L2,350,000 has been so spent, and over one million of this has been paid back. "_Does_ Municipal management pay? "Look at Liverpool. The private companies did not give an adequate supply, so the Municipality took the matter in hand. What is the result? "The charge for water in Liverpool is a fixed rate of 3d. in the pound and a water rate of 71/2d. in the pound. "For this comparatively small amount the citizen of Liverpool, as Sir Thomas Hughes said, "can have as many baths and as many water closets as he likes, and the same with regard to water for his garden." "In London the water companies make high charges for every separate bath and water closet." TRAMWAYS "In Glasgow from 1871 to 1894 a private company had a lease of the tramways from the Corporation. "When the lease was about to expire the Corporation tried to arrange terms with the company for a renewal, but the company would not accept the terms offered.