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of a large number of the socialist and least sensational papers
lately published on social questions. his great work on ''Social
Control", a study of the methods and forces by which society is
held together will soon appear. It is one of the quietest
and sanest works on Social Science, and it would make his repu-
tation as a careful thinker and patient investigator, were that
reputation not already established. Among scholars at large
no worker in this field is more widely or more favorably known.
A couple of boyish speeches in defense of silver as a political
issue do not break this reputation.
I have carefully looked into the two recent matters.
The address at Oakland was on the subject of making cities
healthful. There was only a passing reference to street cars
and no criticism on their present management. In speaking of the
future city he said that a period of municipal ownership of
street cars was coming on, to be followed by a return to private
ownership under government regulation.
Every one recognizes that right or wrong the present drift
is toward municipal ownership. Dr. Ross thinks it undesirable
and that the final condition will be in private ownership under
regulations, the condition that prevails in England.
In the matter of Japanese immigration, he was invited,
after I had declined, to give a ''scholar's view'' to a ''non-
partisan'' gathering. He did not know the [ma]n who i[n]vited him
and was not pleased with them when he had seen them. He has