ritten, concluding with questions. Written answers were sent in and
corrected by the conductor of the class. This went on regularly until
1900, when Ruskin College, Oxford, organised similar classes on a larger
scale, and our services were no longer required.

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In August, 1896, the triennial International Socialist Workers and Trade
Union Congress was held in London, at which the Society was represented
by a numerous delegation. The chief business proved to be the expulsion
of the Anarchists, who at this period attended these conferences and had
to be got rid of before the appointed business could be carried on. The
Society prepared an important "Report" for circulation at the Congress,
one part of it advocating various reforms, no longer of any special
interest, and the other part consisting of a summary of the principles
and policy of the Society, drafted by Bernard Shaw in a series of
epigrammatic paragraphs. This document, still circulated as Tract 70, is
interesting both as a brief and vivid exposition of Fabianism and
because it gave rise to another of the long series of fights on the
policy of political toleration. The passage chiefly objected to,
written, of course, for foreigners, and therefore more detailed than
otherwise would be necessary, is as follows:--

"FABIAN ELECTORAL TACTICS.

"The Fabian Society does not claim to be the people of England, or
even the Socialist party, and therefore does not seek direct
political representation by putting forward Fabian candidates at
elections. But it loses no opportunity of influencing elections, and
inducing constituencies to select Socialists as their candidates. No
person, however, can obtain the support of the Fabian Society or
escape its opposition, merely by calling himself a Socialist or
Social-Democrat. As there is no Second Ballot in England, frivolous
candidatures give great offence and discredit the party in whose name
they are undertaken, because any third candidate who is not well
supported will not only be beaten himself but may also involve in his
defeat the better of the two candidates competing with him. Under
such circumstances the Fabian Society throws its weight against the
third candidate, whether he calls himself a Socialist or not, in
order to secure the victory to the better of the two candidates
between whom the contest really lies. But when the thi