inistration can continue for long a financial and general policy
of waste and pillage, such as that followed by the Socialist
municipalities of Great Britain, without diminishing not merely
private wealth but also the national wealth. The British Socialists
seem determined to do all they can to destroy as fast as possible the
accumulated wealth of the country and its productive power.

FOOTNOTES:

[668] _The Advance of Socialism_, p. 2.

[669] Keir Hardie, _From Serfdom to Socialism_, pp. 27, 28.

[670] Snowden, _Straight Talk to Ratepayers_, p. 8.

[671] Suthers, _Mind your own Business_, p. 148.

[672] _Fabian Essays in Socialism_, p. 157.

[673] Blatchford, _Competition_, p. 4.

[674] Suthers, _Mind your own Business_, pp. 93, 94.

[675] Suthers, _Mind your own Business_, pp. 87, 88.

[676] Suthers, _Mind your own Business_, p. 88.

[677] Bax and Quelch, _A New Catechism of Socialism_, p. 42.

[678] _The Times, Municipal Socialism_, p. 43.

[679] _Ibid._

[680] Suthers, _Killed by High Rates_, p. 12.

[681] _Ibid._ p. 11.

[682] Ellis Barker, _Modern Germany_, p. 552.

[683] Suthers, _Killed by High Rates_, p. 9.

[684] Suthers, _Municipal Debt_, p. 4.

[685] _Daily Mail_, November 26, 1907.

[686] See _A Municipal Bread Supply_; _Municipal Bakeries_; _Municipal
Drink Traffic_; _Municipal Fire Insurance_; Washington, _Milk and
Postage Stamps, &c._

[687] _Municipalisation by Provinces._

[688] Sidney Webb, _The London Programme_, 1892, pp. 208-213.

[689] Jowett, _Socialism and the City_, p. 17.

[690] _Forward_, October 12, 1907.

[691] See Chapter IV.

[692] Suthers, _Mind your own Business_, p. 14.

[693] Jowett, _The Socialist and the City_, p. 40.

[694] Irving, _The Municipality_, p. 6.

[695] Bax and Quelch, _A New Catechism of Socialism_, p. 42.

[696] Suthers, _Mind your own Business_, p. 9.

[697] _Ibid._ p. 8.

[698] Snowden, _The Socialist's Budget_, pp. 3, 4, 6.

[699] Jowett, _The Socialist and the City_, p. 38; Snowden, _The
Socialist's Budget_, p. 83.

[700] Suthers, _Mind your own Business_, p. 119.

[701] _Ibid._ p. 122.

[702] _A Labour Policy for Public Authorities_, p. 19.

[703] Suthers, _Mind your own Business_, p. 103.

[704] Snowden, _A Straight Talk to Ratepayers_, p. 8.

[705] McLachlan, _The Tyranny of Usury_, p. 15.

[706] Jowett, _The Socialist and the City_, p. 42.

[707] McLachlan, _The Tyranny of Usury_, p. 11.

[708] McLachlan, _