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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 75

Go and Fight for it."

Go and Fight for it."

Lord Salisbury and his friends would be very indignant and would say very hard words, and words that an agitator would blush to mouthe. (Laughter and applause.) These very people are the most protected and most ungrateful, for after they have stolen the land from the people they actually turn the people into policemen and soldiers to protect it for them. This is the irony of the position. But we are beginning to teach our people at Home that every postman, every policeman, every soldier, every judge, and every collectively maintained person in the State is an expression of Socialism—a crude page 13 form it may be, but yet a form of Socialism. We look upon the soldier with his red coat, the policeman, the post-office official, the judicial authorities, and the departmental officials, also our streets, parks and rivers—we look upon them all as expressions of collectivism or Socialism. We do not say as Socialists when going to one of the parks, "This is our two feet of park," but the