aedia Britannica_, vol. xxxii. p. 666.

[1177] Ellis Barker, _Modern Germany_, p. 546.

[1178] Block, _Dictionnaire General_, vol. ii. p. 822.

[1179] Keir Hardie, _From Serfdom to Socialism_, p. 8.

[1180] _Ibid._ p. 34.

[1181] Aveling, _Working-Class Movement in England_, p. 40.

[1182] _The Socialist Annual_, 1907, p. 38.

[1183] _Ibid._ p. 39.

[1184] _Independent Labour Party Annual Report Conference_, pp. 10,
12, 9.

[1185] _Labour Leader_, November 29, 1907.

[1186] _Reformers' Year Book_, 1906, p. 80.

[1187] _Clarion_, December 20, 1907.

[1188] _Fabian Essays in Socialism_, p. 188.

[1189] Lord Balfour of Burleigh in the _Times_, October 3, 1907.

[1190] Cox, _Socialism_, p. 7.

[1191] _Labour Leader_, October 18, 1907.

[1192] _Ibid._

[1193] _Reformers' Year Book_, 1907, p. 58.

[1194] _Labour Leader_, October 11, 1907.

[1195] Cox, _Socialism_, p. 20.

[1196] Daw, _Socialism Unmasked_, p. 7.

CHAPTER XXXV

HOW THE PROGRESS OF SOCIALISM MAY BE CHECKED

What can be done to check the growth of Socialism? Some most
interesting statistics supplied by the German Social-Democratic party
will furnish the best reply to that question. An analysis of the
electorate of Magdeburg and Bremen, two typical commercial and
industrial towns, gave the following result:

COMPOSITION OF ELECTORATE

Magdeburg Bremen
Numbers Per cent. Numbers Per cent.
1. Capitalists 4,491 = 8.08 5,085 = 8.34
2. High officials 559 = 1.06 197 = 0.32
3. Medium officials 2,304 = 4.35 615 = 1.01
4. Lower officials 4,364 = 7.75 3,567 = 5.85
5. Professional men 1,422 = 2.55 1,047 = 1.72
6. Newer middle-class 3,924 = 7.06 4,882 = 8.01
7. Independent artisans 3,704 = 6.67 5,196 = 8.53
8. Bakers and grocers 932 = 1.57 1,124 = 1.84
9. Older middle-class 2,787 = 5.01 4,074 = 6.68
10. Clerks and bookkeepers 3,121 = 5.62 5,247 = 8.61
11. Working men in State and
municipal employment 1,424 = 2.55 1,415 = 2.32
12. Working men in privateer
employment 26,423 = 47.73 28,573 = 46.77
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55,563 = 100 60,962 = 10