In a letter to the Times of Tuesday, Mr. Hyndman,
the we'l known Socialist, greatly daring, answered a request made by Sir Robert Perks fora definition of a " capitalist." "A capitalist,' says Mr. Hyndman, "economically speaking, is a person a ho directly or indirectly employs workers and pays them wages in order to make a profit out of their labour." That is exactly what we have always thought. It means that every one who holds a share, however small, in a trading company or who is able to pay for the putting up of chicken houses or rabbit hutc•hcs in his back garden in order to make a profit out of the chickens or rabbits is a capitalist. In other words, every thrifty and circumspect person who has not squandered his money but has tried to make a reasonable use of it for the benefit of himself and his dependents, even though his operations may have been en a very small scale, is a capitalist. In trying to destroy capitalism our revolutionaries are trying to destroy the nation. We are very glad to have Mr. Hyndman's evidence upon this point.
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