And the Conservatives are no less sincere in their willingness to help in these matters.

Legislative proposals for social reform are treated as non-party questions, and the chief item in the Conservative programme, Tariff Reform, was adopted and is advocated mainly as a social reform, a cure for industrial evils, and the misery of unemployment.
Socialism proposed the abolition of poverty, and the common ownership and control of the land and the means of production, distribution, and exchange as the solution of economic questions.
Social Reform proposes to mitigate the hardships of life for the multitude, and, while leaving land and capital in private hands, to compel by taxation provision for the wants of the people.

Its aim is the abolition of destitution by State assistance to voluntary effort, and the gradual raising of the standard of life.

It does not propose to remove the cause of poverty.
Socialism would place the democracy in possession of the means of wealth.
Social Reform requires the State to tax wealth and provide for the people.
It promises a living wage, decent housing accommodation, an insurance against unemployment, and security in old age, and leaves the question of national ownership or private ownership to be settled by posterity.
LAND REFORM AND THE SINGLE TAX Apart from the ideals of Socialism, the democratic ideal of a community owning the full value of its land was presented by Henry George, an American economist, in 1879, and his book "Progress and Poverty," was at once received with enthusiasm by certain reformers in England and America.
George visited England in 1881, 1884, and 1889, and his visits resulted in a strong movement for the taxation of land values.

This movement has been inspired by an ideal of a democratic community as definite as the Socialist ideal, and it has grown steadily in popular favour as the justice of a tax on land values has been recognised.