FOOTNOTES: [386] _S.L.P. Bulletin No. 2, 1907._ [387] Quelch, _Trade Unionism_, p. 10. [388] _English Progress towards Social Democracy_, p. 8. [389] _S.L.P. Bulletin No. 1, May 1907._ [390] Quelch, _Trade Unionism_, p. 16. [391] John Penny, _The Political Labour Movement_, p. 10. [392] Hyndman, _Darkness and Dawn of May Day, 1907_, p. 2. [393] J. O'Connor Kessack, _The Capitalist Wilderness and the Way Out_, p. 15. [394] _S.L.P. Bulletin No. 2._ [395] Ben Tillett, _Trades Unionism and Socialism_, p. 1. [396] Quelch in _The Socialist_, November 1907. [397] Ben Tillett, _Trades Unionism and Socialism_, p. 14. [398] Quelch, _Trade Unionism_, p. 13. [399] _Clarion_, November 29, 1907. [400] _The Workmen's Compensation Act, 1906, What it Means and How to Make Use of it_; _How Trade Unions Benefit Workmen_; _Eight Hours by Law: A Practical Solution_; _Cottage Plans and Common Sense_; _Houses for the People_; _The Case for a Legal Minimum Wage_. [401] _Clarion_, November 15, 1907. [402] Bax and Quelch, _A New Catechism of Socialism_, p. 40. [403] Dennis Hird, _From Brute to Brother_, p. 14. [404] _Socialism and Trade Unionism: Wherein do they Differ?_ pp. 2-8. [405] Quelch, _Trade Unionism_, p. 16. [406] Opening Address, Chairman Hartley at Annual Conference, _Social-Democratic Federation Annual Report, 1906_, pp. 3, 4. [407] John Penny, _The Political Labour Movement_, p. 15. [408] _New Age_, November 30, 1907. [409] _Social Democrat_, September 1907, pp. 548, 549. [410] See the _Labour Leader_, _Clarion_, _Justice_, _Socialist Standard_, _Socialist_, &c., for November 1907. CHAPTER VIII SOCIALIST VIEWS AND PROPOSALS REGARDING LAND AND THE LANDLORDS British Socialists, as we have learned in Chapter IV.,[411] adopting the celebrated formula of Proudhon, have proclaimed "Property is theft," and they are of opinion that property in land is a particularly heinous form of theft. Therefore they demand the restitution of the land to the people, not as a matter of expediency but as a matter of right. "Man has a right only to what his labour makes. No man 'makes' the land."[412] "Land is the gift of Nature. It is not made by man. Now, if a man has a right to nothing but that which he has himself made, no man can have a right to the land, for no man made it."[413] "The land belongs by inalienable right not to any body of individuals but to all."[414] O high cliffs looking heavenward, O valleys green and fair. Sea cliffs that seem to gird and guard Our island once so dear, In vain your beauty now ye spread, For we are numbered with the dead; A robber band has seized the land, And we are exiles here. The ploughman ploughs, the sower sows. The reaper reaps the ear; The woodman to the forest goes Before the day grows clear, But of our toil no fruit we see; The harvest's not for you and me: A robber band has seized the land, And we are exiles here.[415]