[35] C—5550, p. 436. This, by the way, is just about one year’s rental. We pay every year to the landlords for permission to live in England as much as the whole outstanding cost of the magnificent property of the local governing authorities.
[36] See “The Government Organization of Labor,” Report by a Committee of the Fabian Society, 1886.
[37] See Report of the Annual Meeting at Birmingham, September, 1888.
[38] See resolutions adopted by the Council, at the instance of the Executive and General Committee, February 8th, 1889. (Daily News, 9th February.) Professor Stuart, M.P., has now introduced a Bill embodying these astonishing proposals.
[39] It is interesting to compare this programme, with its primary insistence on economic and social reform, with the bare political character of the “Five Points” of the Chartists, viz., Manhood Suffrage, Vote by Ballot, Annual Parliaments, Payment of Members relieved from the property qualification, and Equal Electoral Districts.
[40] It need hardly be said that schemes of “free land,” peasant proprietorship, or leasehold enfranchisement, find no place in the modern programme of the Socialist Radical, or Social Democrat. They are survivals of the Individualistic Radicalism which is passing away. Candidates seeking a popular “cry” more and more avoid these reactionary proposals.
[41] “Autobiography,” p. 231-2. See also Book IV. of the “Principles of Political Economy” (Popular edition, 1865).
[42] For a forecast of the difficulties which this programme will have to encounter as its full scope and intention become more clearly realized, see the eighth essay in this volume, by Hubert Bland.
[43] See “Darwinism and Politics,” by D. G. Ritchie, Fellow and Tutor of Jesus College, Oxford (London: Swan, Sonneshein & Co., 1889).
[44] “Autobiography,” pp. 231-2.