_, p. 1.

[1143] _Reformers' Year Book, 1908_, p. 73; _Daily Mail Year Book,
1908_, p. 72.

[1144] _Annual Report, Social-Democratic Federation Conference, 1906_,
p. 3.

[1145] _Manifesto of the Socialist Party of Great Britain_, p. 2.

[1146] _Capital and Land_, Motto.

[1147] Secretary of Fabian Society in _Daily Mail Year Book, 1908_, p.
72.

[1148] Official Circular: _The Fabian Society_.

[1149] _Report on Fabian Policy_, 1896, p. 3.

[1150] _Ibid._ p. 4.

[1151] _Scottish Leader_, September 4, 1890, reprinted by Fabian
Society and issued in form of a leaflet.

[1152] Shaw, _The Fabian Society_, p. 26.

[1153] _Ibid._ p. 24.

[1154] Shaw, _The Fabian Society_, pp. 18, 19.

[1155] _How to Lose and How to Win an Election_, p. 1.

[1156] _Report on Fabian Policy_, 1896, p. 5.

[1157] Shaw, _The Fabian Society_, p. 23.

[1158] _Annual Report, Social-Democratic Federation Conference, 1906_,
p. 2.

[1159] _Manifesto, Socialist Party of Great Britain_, p. 11.

[1160] Macdonald, _Socialism_, p. 52.

[1161] _Ibid._ p. 53.

[1162] _Manifesto, Socialist Party of Great Britain_, p. 13.

[1163] Keir Hardie, _From Serfdom to Socialism_, pp. 33, 34.

[1164] Secretary, Fabian Society, in _Daily Mail Year Book_, 1908, p.
73.

[1165] R. Macdonald, M.P., in _Daily Mail Year Book_, 1908, p. 109.

[1166] _Manifesto, Socialist Party of Great Britain_, p. 3.

[1167] _Reformers' Year Book_, 1908, p. 8.

[1168] _Reformers' Year Book_, 1907, p. 51.

[1169] _Social-Democrat_, October 1907, p. 607.

[1170] _Reformers' Year Book_, 1908, p. 23.

[1171] _Socialist_, December 1907.

[1172] _Independent Labour Party Year Book_, 1908, p. 28.

[1173] _Forward_, November 23, 1907.

CHAPTER XXXIV

THE GROWTH AND DANGER OF BRITISH SOCIALISM

Up to a recent date the Socialists in Great Britain had neither power
nor influence. Whilst Germany, France, and other countries had large
Socialist parties, British Socialism was practically unrepresented in
Parliament. Many Englishmen thought that the free British democracies
did not offer a soil favourable to the growth of Socialism, whilst
many Socialist leaders believed that England possessed ideal
conditions for effecting a social revolution because no other country
contains, proportionally, so large a propertyless proletariat as
England.[1174] In view of the large number of propertyless people in
Great Britain and the nervous restlessness of the race sinc