Private capital has existed in all countries and at all times, because it is a plant of natural growth. One can destroy it, but it will ever grow again.
[451] Snowden, _The Socialist's Budget_, p. 2.
[453] _Socialism and Labour Policy_, p. 4.
[456] Glyde, _A Peep Behind the Scenes on a Board of Guardians_, pp. 28,29.
[457] Smart, _Socialism and the Budget_, pp. 14,15.
[458] Snowden, _The Socialist's Budget_, pp. 78, 79.
[459] Smart, _Socialism and the Budget_, p. 8.
[460] Snowden, _The Socialist's Budget_, p. 81.
[463] Snowden, _The Socialist's Budget_, p. 84.
[464] Smart, _Socialism and the Budget_, p. 15.
[465] Snowden, _The Socialist's Budget_, p. 15.
[468] Snowden, _The Socialist's Budget_, p. 17.
[470] Snowden, _The Socialist's Budget_, p. 71.
[472] G.B. Shaw in the _New Age_, November 30, 1907.
[473] Wheatley, _How the Miners are Robbed_, p. 12.
[474] Vandal, _Avènement de Bonaparte_, 1903, vol. i. p. 25.
[475] Schmidt, _Tableaux de la Révolution_, vol. iv. p. 383.
Most British Socialists object to the Empire on various grounds, and desire its downfall and dissolution. According to their views Great Britain should, in the first place, give up her non-self-governing colonies. Let us take note of some Socialistic pronouncements to that effect:
"Governments have no right to exist except with the consent of the governed, and the British have no more right to dominate other peoples than other peoples have to dominate us. What we can only hold by maintaining an alien garrison had better be given up. The people of these islands would not be losers, but the gainers by such a course."[476] "Is it possible for a self-governing people to rule a subject race, and yet keep its own love for liberty? Neither the Greeks nor the Romans could do it, and we are not doing it very well ourselves. The reason is obvious. No nation can play the part of the despot (even the benevolent despot) abroad and that of the democrat at home."[477] "Socialists should oppose the creation of empires on this simple ground--that empire-building is accompanied by terrible misery and suffering for those subject races, as they are called, which are the chosen victims sacrificed on the altar of cupidity and pride."[478] "A people gain power and influence in the world in proportion as they solve for themselves the great problems of democratic self-government. We shall do more to civilise Africa by civilising the East End of London than by governing from Cape to Cairo."[479] "It is not only impossible for one nation to civilise another by governing it; it is wrong that it should attempt to do so. Conquest may have opened up one civilisation to another in times long antecedent to the steam engine and a world commerce, but to-day its only effect is to crush out and level down all national life to the dead uniformity of an alien political routine."[480]