We might not establish public tables--they would be unnecessary, but we could establish public baths, museums, libraries, gardens, lecture rooms, music and dancing halls, theaters, universities, technical schools, shooting galleries, playgrounds, gymnasiums, etc.

Heat, light, and motive power, as well as water, might be conducted through our streets at public expense; our roads be lined with fruit trees; discoveries and inventors rewarded, scientific investigation supported; in a thousand ways the public revenues made to foster efforts for the public benefit.

_We should reach the ideal of the Socialist_, but not through government repression.

_Government would change its character, and would become the administration of a great cooeperative society.

It would become merely the agency by which the common property was administered for the common benefit_." (Italics mine.)[28] But the "State Socialist" and the Individualist reformer, who are often combined in one person, as in the case of Henry George, differ sharply from Socialists of the Socialist movement in aiming at a society, which, however widely government action is to be extended, is after all to remain a society of small capitalists.
Professor Edward A.Ross very aptly sums up the reformer's objections to the anti-capitalist Socialists.