Society is waiting only to settle the best form of a court of arbitration for labor difficulties. The trend of popular judgment is in favor of a well-organized commission, having the dignity if not the authority of a supreme court. That such commissions have not generally come up to the ideal is due largely to political influence among leaders of organizations, so that the commissioners become the choice of a faction rather than of the people. It is conceivable that the functions of judges in a series of state courts may be so enlarged under carefully framed laws as to include the duty of arbitration in labor contests. If the people are not yet ready for compulsory settlement of such questions, the time is surely coming, under the enormous aggregation of industries and the immense combination of employés, when the judgment of the people expressed in due form of law will control both employer and employé. The whole world is recognizing methods of arbitration as better than warfare. It will soon insist that these minor wars within the commonwealth shall cease. _Profit-sharing._—Some general system of preventing antipathy between profit-makers and wage-earners seems desirable. Certain interests are known to be mutual, and both employers and employed welcome any system by which those mutual interests can further the success of the business. Among the methods proposed, and sometimes successfully employed, the most prominent is profit-sharing. This implies on the part of employers after payment of current wages a distribution, at stated times, far enough apart to secure a fair average in the profit and loss account, of some portion of net profits among all the wage-earners. The per cent of net profits to be thus distributed is matter of agreement, and the basis of distribution is naturally the scale of wages accepted by the employés in their contract for employment. The particular methods of applying these principles vary with circumstances, but in all cases depend upon the actual confidence of employés in their employers. The effects seem to be good, bad or indifferent, in proportion to the general intelligence and stability of the employés. With really skilled workmen, established in homes and feeling responsibility as citizens, profit-sharing stimulates to the highest energy. With weak and irresponsible wage-earners it is likely to bring waste and sometimes false notions in regard to wealth production.