I am, and intend to remain, a regular subscriber and reader of your fearless and honest Magazine, which, along with Post’s _Public_, are the only papers I care to read, and see you also consider Post’s paper “excellent.” I do not think you are just to Tolstoi, and so enclose you his own letter of April 27, 1894. In your editorial of October you confound “ownership” with “possession.” If you will read chapters XVIII and XIX of “Social Problems” the great essential difference will be clear to you. Neither George nor Tolstoi ever proposed any division or partition of the land—nothing of the sort. George indeed, in chapter II, book VIII of “Progress, and Poverty” makes this most plain, saying “I do not propose either to purchase or to confiscate private property in land.” But surely, Mr. Watson, if you have not, carefully, without bias read these incomparable works, you ought to do so; he expressly disclaims his “fundamental reform” as being any “panacea;” he fully recognizes and so does Tolstoi “that even after we do this, much will remain to do.” I am an old and very poor man of 73. Had I the means I’d buy and send you George’s “Condition of Labor.” No honest Christian after reading that little, but truly logical and ethically admirable “Open Letter to the Pope,” could say, much less maintain, that Nature (God) did not intend the Rent of Land—Land values—for the use and the support of human Governments. I hope you will honestly “read, mark, learn and inwardly digest” George’s works. You then would see and own that “The Land Question is the Labor Question” and far more important than “The Money Question,” serious though that certainly is. I subscribe myself your earnest and true admirer. * * * * * _Dorrance B. Currier, Hanover, N. H._ Frankly—I enjoy reading TOM WATSON’S MAGAZINE, especially his editorials, more than anything else I read, for I agree with them and have for the past thirty years advocated them. If the Magazine can be improved you know how to do it better than I do, but we readers should supply you the means by a united effort to double your subscription list. Whatever may be the alignment of political parties two years hence, the principles advocated by Mr. Watson will be represented by one of them. To you, then, reader of this letter in California, Florida, Minnesota or among the granite hills of New Hampshire, what will you do to help and do it NOW? I will pay for four copies. One for my self to read over and over. One to be placed in the local barber shop, to catch the eye of a waiting customer. One for Dartmouth College’s reading room. One for my farmer friend, with the request that he lend it to his neighbor. As nothing succeeds like success, please inform your readers of it, from time to time, for the cause is quite as much ours as yours. * * * * * _D. T. Mitchell, Woodlandville, Mo._