[1195] Cox, Socialism, p. 20.
[1196] Daw, Socialism Unmasked, p. 7.
CHAPTER XXXV[ToC]
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 |
| 55,563 = 100 | 60,962 = 100[1197] |