So you have horse soldiers, foot soldiers, riflemen, artillery, and engineers; but they are all _soldiers_. Amongst the Liberals are men of many minds: there are Churchmen, Nonconformists, Atheists; there are teetotalers and there are drinkers; there are Trade Union leaders, and there are leaders of the Masters' Federation. These men differ on many points, but they all agree upon _one_ point. Amongst the Socialists are many men of many minds: there are parsons, atheists, labourers, employers, men of peace, and men of force. These men differ on many points, but they all agree upon _one_ point. Now, this point on which men of different views agree is called a _principle_. A principle is a main idea, or main thought. It is like the keelson of a ship or the backbone of a fish--it is the foundation on which the thing is built. Thus, the _principle_ of Trade Unionism is "combination," the combining, or joining together, of a number of workers, for the general good of all. The _principle_ of Democratic (or Popular) Government is the law that the will of the majority shall rule. Do away with the "right of combination," and Trade Unionism is destroyed. Do away with majority rule, and Popular Government is destroyed. So if we can find the _principle_ of _Socialism_, if we can find the one point on which all kinds of Socialists agree, we shall be able to see what _Socialism_ really is. Now, here in plain words is the _principle_, or root idea, on which _all_ Socialists agree-- That the country, and all the machinery of production in the country, shall belong to the whole people (the nation), and shall be used _by_ the people and _for_ the people. That "principle," the root idea of Socialism, means two things-- 1. That the land and all the machines, tools, and buildings used in making needful things, together with all the canals, rivers, roads, railways, ships, and trains used in moving, sharing (distributing) needful things, and all the shops, markets, scales, weights, and money used in selling or dividing needful things, shall be the property of (belong to) the whole people (the nation). 2. That the land, tools, machines, trains, rivers, shops, scales, money, and all the other things belonging to the people, shall be worked, managed, divided, and used by the whole people in such a way as the greater number of the whole people shall deem best. This is the principle of collective, or national, ownership, and co-operative, or national, use and control. Socialism may, you see, be summed up in one line, in four words, as really meaning BRITAIN FOR THE BRITISH. I will make all this as plain as the nose on your face directly. Let us now look at the _other_ side. To-day Britain does _not_ belong to the British; it belongs to a few of the British. There are bits of it which belong to the whole people, as Wimbledon Common, Portland Gaol, the highroads; but most of it is "private property."