lities of Anarchism_, p. 25.

[540] _Social-Democrat_, October 1907, p. 586.

[541] _Social-Democrat_, April 1907, p. 204.

[542] See p. 170.

[543] _Social-Democrat_, October 1907, p. 586.

[544] _Social-Democrat_, October 1907, p. 589.

[545] _Ibid._

[546] See _The Nation in Arms_, October 1907, and _Journal de
Neuchatel_, September 22, 1907.

[547] _Independent Labour Party Report_, 1907, p. 64.

[548] _Ibid._ pp. 64, 65.

[549] _Social-Democrat_, November 1907, p. 516.

[550] _An Appeal to Soldiers._

[551] See Appendix.

[552] H.W. Lee in _Social-Democrat_, June 1907.

[553] _An Appeal to Soldiers._

[554] _Socialist_, October 1907.

[555] _Social-Democratic Federation Song Book_, No. 30.

[556] Kirtlan, _Socialism for Christians_, p. 6.

[557] Smart, _Socialism and the Budget_, p. 6.

[558] Quelch, _Social Democracy and the Armed Nation_, p. 3 f.

[559] _Sozialistische Monatshefte_, December 1899.

[560] _Vorwaerts_, March 10, 1907.

CHAPTER XIV

SOCIALISM AND THE MONARCHY

The first of the "Immediate Reforms" demanded in the official
programme of the Social-Democratic Federation[561] is the "Abolition
of the Monarchy." That that demand has been made so crudely and that
it has been given so prominent a position cannot surprise anybody who
is acquainted with British Socialism. "Socialists are essentially
thorough-going Republicans. Socialism, which aims at political and
economic equality, is radically inconsistent with any other political
form whatever than that of Republicanism, Monarchy and Socialism, or
Empire and Socialism, are incompatible and inconceivable. Socialism
involves political and economic equality, while Monarchy or Empire
essentially imply domination and inequality."[562]

"As in the political history of the race the logical development of
progress was found in the abolition of the institution of monarchy and
not in its mere restriction, so in industrial history the culminating
point to which all efforts must at last converge lies in the abolition
of the capitalist class, and not in the mere restriction of its
powers. The Socialist Labour Party, recognising these two phases of
human development, unites them in its programme, and seeks to give
them a concrete embodiment by its demand for a Socialist
Republic."[563]

Most Socialists describe all monarchs as the drones of society, and
habitually refer to crowned heads either as "loafers" or as "Royal
pauper