Booth, however, forgets that there are ! numberless rill- and streams running into "this offensive pool; the faster he cleans it out and the lower he gets, the quicker will the -treams r>an into it, and the end of his work cannot be predicted. This will con tinue unless the cause of the evil is re moved for ever." Booth himself acknowledges that this is trne, but he asks why should he wait and not do something for the present.sufferers. Let, he said, the social reformers and the Radical politicians light and remove the root oi' the. evil Mr AJdridge drew a moral for New Zea land fron. this " filthy pool," pointing out, that we had a pool of this description already in our midst, not so large, not so deep, not so hopelessly, indescribably filthy as the -Home pool, bub we had one for all that, and each passing year it grew bigger and deeper and more offensive.; He pointed out that Mr Booth was dealing with the result and not the cause of the great evil—the cause en ; ; abling;tbe rich year by year; to become ever -richer: ;ahd richer, and the poor,-ever increasing in numbers, tto become poorer and poorer. The roob and cause of the evil, he said, was to be found in land monopoly/ where men' were bhey wsre in all countries __to monopolise that commodity known as land, which the Supreme Being had granted to all human. beings born in to this world as ; a vital means of their subsistence on /earth,. Grant God',, creatures this great iboon, and; he" did- nob -say that _this ■would practically cure tho whole evil of poverty, for; drink waß the cause of some •of .it;■■; but the single tax which he was ja favour of would i eradicate the very root of the evil,itself, the rills running into the pool would run no more, -wealth would be more evenly distributed, there would be no very richi arid, no very poor,- btib all would: ihave a competency arid comfqrt.:. 