214 THE MURDER OF AGRICULTURE 

 The Blow What was the cause of this, what influence was at 



to German i i r • i r 



Socialism woiK, what 106 was sccietly warring against the forces of 

 SociaHsm? Not the mighty army of the German Empire, 

 for never a soldier was called out to crush Socialism ; not 

 the civil power of the State, because there was no vio- 

 lence. No repressive measures were taken, and yet 

 Socialism received so deadly a blow that it may never 

 recover. What was the cause of its downfall? The com- 

 • mon sense of the people themselves. By their own in- 

 dustry, their honest toil and thrift, their own construc- 

 tiveness, they have created conditions of solid prosperity 

 that are absolutely inimical to such doctrines as those 

 propounded in the foregoing lines. 



Germany first of all built up a great barrier against the 

 onward march of Socialism, or to call it by its proper 

 name. Anarchism, when she commenced to conserve her 

 great land industry, for it is certain that no section of the 

 body-electorate is so solidly conservative as your small 

 landed proprietor, who is, and must naturally be, on the 

 side of law and order, prosperity and peace. 

 Alliance of The people of Germany, recognising this important 

 "^Labour ^^ct, and seeing that their real interests lay in the 

 development of all other industries as the surest means 

 of bringing about a state of general prosperity, adopted a 

 cow-structive policy instead of a ^e-structive one. They 

 saw that capital was necessary in this development, and 

 they worked with it and not against it. They saw that to 

 ensure prosperity, Labour must be allied to capital and 

 not divorced from it, and they helped to bring about the 

 alliance. They helped to build up and not pull down ; and 

 it is a fact that in the last few years the co-operation of 



