If you are shrewd and strong and skilful, think a little and work a
little for the millions of your own class who are ignorant and weak and
friendless. If you have a wife and children whom you love, remember the
many poor and wretched women and children who are robbed of love, of
leisure, of sunshine and sweet air, of knowledge and of hope, in the
pent and dismal districts of our big, misgoverned towns. If you as a
Briton are proud of your country and your race, if you as a man have any
pride of manhood, or as a worker have any pride of class, come over to
us and help in the just and wise policy of winning Britain for the
British, manhood for _all_ men, womanhood for _all_ women, and love
to-day and hope to-morrow for the children whom Christ loved, but who
by many Christians have unhappily been forgotten.
That it may please thee to succour, help, and comfort _all_ that are
in danger, necessity, and tribulation.
That it may please thee to defend, and provide for, the fatherless
children, and widows, and _all_ that are desolate and oppressed.
That it may please thee to have mercy upon _all_ men.
I end as I began, by quoting those beautiful words from the Litany. If
we would realise the prayer they utter, we must turn to _Socialism_; if
we would win defence for the fatherless children and the widows,
succour, help, and comfort for _all_ that are in danger, necessity, or
tribulation, and mercy for _all_ men, we must win Britain for the
British.
Without the workers we cannot win, with the workers we cannot fail. Will
you be one to help us--_now_?
WHAT TO READ
The following books and pamphlets treat more fully the various subjects
dealt with in _Britain for the British_.
TO-DAY'S WORK. G. Haw. Clarion Press, 72 Fleet Street. 2s. 6d.
DOES MUNICIPAL MANAGEMENT PAY? By R. B. Suthers. 6d. Clarion Press, 72
Fleet Street.
LAND NATIONALISATION. A. R. Wallace. 1s. London, Swan Sonnenschein.
FIVE PRECURSORS OF HENRY GEORGE. By J. Morrison Davidson. 1s. _Labour
Leader_ Office, 53 Fleet Street, E.C.
DISMAL ENGLAND. By R. Blatchford. Clarion Press, 72 Fleet Street, E.C.
1s.
THE WHITE SLAVES OF ENGLAND. By R. Sherard. London, James Bowden. 1s.
NO ROOM TO LIVE. By G. Haw. 2s. 6d.
FIELDS, FACTORIES, AND WORKSHOPS. By Prince Kropotkin. 1s. _Clarion_
Office, 72 Fleet Street, E.C.
THE FABIAN TRACTS, especially No. 5, No. 12, and Nos. 30-37. One penny
each. Fabian Society, 3 Clement's Inn, Strand, or _Clarion_ Office, 72
Fleet Street, E.C.
OUR FOOD SUPPLY IN TIME OF WAR. By Captain Stewart L. Murray. 6d.
_Clarion_ Office, 72 Fleet Street, E.C.
THE CLARION. A newspaper for Socialists and Working Men. One penny
weekly. Office, 72 Fleet Street, E.C.
The _Clarion_ can be ordered of all newsagents
APPENDIX.
The American workingman will not find it very hard to see that the
lesson of "Britain for the British" applies with even greater force to
the conditions in his own country.
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