Heaven, friend John Smith, helps those who help themselves; but Heaven also helps those who try to help their fellow-creatures.
If you are shrewd and strong and skilful, think a little and work a little for the millions of your own class who are ignorant and weak and friendless. If you have a wife and children whom you love, remember the many poor and wretched women and children who are robbed of love, of leisure, of sunshine and sweet air, of knowledge and of hope, in the pent and dismal districts of our big, misgoverned towns. If you as a Briton are proud of your country and your race, if you as a man have any pride of manhood, or as a worker have any pride of class, come over to us and help in the just and wise policy of winning Britain for the British, manhood for all men, womanhood for all women, and love to-day and hope to-morrow for the children whom Christ loved, but who by many Christians have unhappily been forgotten.
That it may please thee to succour, help, and comfort all that are in danger, necessity, and tribulation.
That it may please thee to defend, and provide for, the fatherless children, and widows, and all that are desolate and oppressed.
That it may please thee to have mercy upon all men.
I end as I began, by quoting those beautiful words from the Litany. If we would realise the prayer they utter, we must turn to Socialism; if we would win defence for the fatherless children and the widows, succour, help, and comfort for all that are in danger, necessity, or tribulation, and mercy for all men, we must win Britain for the British.
Without the workers we cannot win, with the workers we cannot fail. Will you be one to help us—now?
WHAT TO READ
The following books and pamphlets treat more fully the various subjects dealt with in Britain for the British.
To-day's Work. G. Haw. Clarion Press, 72 Fleet Street. 2s. 6d.
Does Municipal Management Pay? By R. B. Suthers. 6d. Clarion Press, 72 Fleet Street.
Land Nationalisation. A. R. Wallace. 1s. London, Swan Sonnenschein.
Five Precursors of Henry George. By J. Morrison Davidson. 1s. Labour Leader Office, 53 Fleet Street, E.C.
Dismal England. By R. Blatchford. Clarion Press, 72 Fleet Street, E.C. 1s.
The White Slaves of England. By R. Sherard. London, James Bowden. 1s.
No Room to Live. By G. Haw. 2s. 6d.
Fields, Factories, and Workshops. By Prince Kropotkin. 1s. Clarion Office, 72 Fleet Street, E.C.
The Fabian Tracts, especially No. 5, No. 12, and Nos. 30-37. One penny each. Fabian Society, 3 Clement's Inn, Strand, or Clarion Office, 72 Fleet Street, E.C.
Our Food Supply in Time of War. By Captain Stewart L. Murray. 6d. Clarion Office, 72 Fleet Street, E.C.
The Clarion. A newspaper for Socialists and Working Men. One penny weekly. Office, 72 Fleet Street, E.C.
The Clarion can be ordered of all newsagents