But, friends, nothing can postpone it long, for the industrial crises and financial panics are recurring at shorter and shorter intervals, and the process of recovery from them is slower and slower, and every panic and crisis forces thousands of educated, intelligent members of the middle class off their narrow and precarious foothold down into the ranks of the proletariat, where the hard logic of the facts will convert them to class-conscious Socialism.
Workingmen, I congratulate you upon the approaching victory of the workers and the advent of the Co-operative Commonwealth, for I tell you, in the language of an English comrade:
"Failure on failure may seem to defeat us; ultimate failure is impossible.
Seeing what is to be done then, seeing what the reward is,
Seeing what the terms are,—are you willing to join us? Will you lend us the aid of your voice, your money, your sympathy?
May we take you by the hand and call you 'Comrade'?"
FOOTNOTE:
[3] The expansion policy also acts as a safety-valve by promoting the emigration of the discontented and by providing employment abroad for the educated proletarians who would, no doubt, become "dangerous and incendiary Socialist agitators" in their native lands.
