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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1885. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... our french politicians. Our Liberal party, headed by Sir Charles Dilke and Mr. Chamberlain, means the party that has adopted French Socialistic ideas. Now let us see what French Socialism means. First, then, French Socialism or Jacobinism means war against property. War of the ' have-nots' against the 'haves.' Thus, every one who possesses so much as even one cow, one pig, one cottage, one share in a railway, one donkey-cart, or one piece of property of any kind whatever, should, and will, if he has a head on his shoulders, fight to the death on the other side. Again, Socialism also means filling a country with meddling and despotic officials, as they do in France, and thence destruction of liberty. Therefore a Conservative election cry ought to be, ' Liberty for ever, and down with French tyranny!' The aim of Socialists in all times is to overturn human society, and bring it more or less back to barbarism. I must explain that there are three kinds of Socialists--' the gushing Socialist, 'the millennarian Socialist, ' and the malevolent or envious Socialist. The gushing Socialist is an excellent man, who has nothing but vague feelings that a government should at once provide everybody with riches and happiness. He has very small real intelligence, though he may have special talents like fluent oratory. The truth about any matter is for ever shut out from him. The millennarian Socialist lives on foolish dreams of a coming millennium, when human nature is to be no longer human nature, and, indeed, when the laws of nature are to cease beins; laws of nature. He is often a good man, but always insane; that is, he acts on dreams, not on facts. The malevolent Socialist works to overturn society from the motives of envy of people he supposes to be richer or more thought o...
