n.

FOOTNOTES:

[840] Bax, _Religion of Socialism_, p. 95.

[841] Bax and Quelch, _A New Catechism_, p. 40.

[842] Bax, _Religion of Socialism_, p. 94.

[843] Quelch, _Trade Unionism_, p. 16.

[844] _Social-Democrat_, April 1907, p. 212.

[845] Penny, _Political Labour Movement_, p. 11.

[846] Roscher, _Politik_, p. 575.

[847] Bax and Quelch, _A New Catechism_, p. 41.

[848] Quelch, _Economics of Socialism_, p. 16.

[849] Blatchford, _Britain for the British_, p. 127.

[850] Quelch, _Economics of Socialism_, p. 16.

[851] Davidson, _The Old Order and the New_, p. 107.

[852] Blatchford, _Britain for the British_, p. 129.

[853] See p. 53 ff, _ante._

[854] Keir Hardie, _Can a Man be a Christian on a Pound a Week?_ p.
13.

[855] Leatham, _The Class War_, p. 8.

[856] Davidson, _The Old Order and the New_, p. 105.

[857] Bliss, _Encyclopedia of Social Reform_, pp. 358 and 1195.

[858] _Labour Gazette_, December 1907.

[859] Bax, _Religion of Socialism_, p. 94.

[860] Quelch, _Trade Unionism_, p. 10.

[861] _Ibid._ p. 13

[862] Davidson, _The Old Order and the New_, p. 109.

[863] Gronlund, _Co-operative Commonwealth_, p. 51.

[864] Muse, _Poverty and Drunkenness_, p. 3.

[865] Leatham, _Was Jesus a Socialist?_ p. 11.

[866] Muse, _Poverty and Drunkenness_, p. 12.

[867] Glyde, _Britain's Disgrace_, p. 20.

[868] _Ibid._ p. 20.

[869] _Forward_, November 16, 1907.

[870] Kirtlan, _Socialism for Christians_, p. 15.

[871] Vandervelde, _Drink and Socialism_, pp. 3, 8.

[872] _Social-Democrat_, October 1907, p. 620.

[873] _Die Neue Gesellschaft_, November 1907, pp. 332, 337.

CHAPTER XXIV

SOCIALIST VIEWS ON LAW AND JUSTICE

Most Socialists have a very strong objection to the existing laws.
"Law is only a masked form of brute force."[874] "The laws to-day are
defences of the foolish rich against the ignorant and hungry poor. The
laws to-day, like the laws of the past, make more criminals than they
punish. The laws keep the people ignorant and poor, and the rich idle
and vicious."[875] "The laws were made by ignorant and dishonest men;
they are administered by men ignorant and selfish; they are dishonest
laws, good for neither rich nor poor; evil in their conception, evil
in their enforcement, evil in their results."[876]

Most Englishmen are proud of the English judges because of their
learning, high character, and integrity. To many Socialists the judges
are the m