
anything. "Capitalist robbery"
will follow "landlord robbery," and Communism is the inevitable
result, once the people believe that rent by the landlord and
profit by the capitalist is a robbery from them of their natural
rights.
"In five years we reach the date of 1889. Two hundred years
before saw the middle-class monarchical revolution of 1689 in
England; a century later came the first outbreak of the great
French Revolution of 1789. That year, 1889, will be celebrated
by the workers in every industrial city throughout the civilized
world as the time for a new and strenuous effort; not in the
interest of the 'gamesters who play with one another for the
labour of the poor, not to continue power and luxury and case
to the meanest class that has ever held control in the history
of human civilization, but to conquer for the mass of mankind
complete control over steam, electricity, and the other forces
of nature which the progress of science is placing at the command
of the race. The development of these forces, and the influence
which they exert on the peoples of the world, constitute the
real revolution of today. It is for us to take full account
of their action, to educate our countrymen around us to a knowledge
of their growth, and to organize, without rest and without haste,
that certain victory of the people which shall be the real revolution
of to-morrow " (H. M. HYNDMAN: " Today," January, 1884.)
To properly estimate the danger of such appeals as the above,
we must remember that nothing is so conducive to recklessness
as poverty. The poor have little to conserve, and little to
hope for. It wants brains to recognize the fact that the majority
of