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. FOOTNOTES: [449] Snowden, _Socialist Budget_, p. 1. [450] _Ibid._ [451] Snowden, _The Socialist's Budget_, p. 2. [452] _Ibid._ pp. 7, 8. [453] _Socialism and Labour Policy_, p. 4. [454] _Ibid._ pp. 4, 5. [455] _Ibid._ p. 5. [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. [461] _Ibid._ p. 82. [462] _Ibid._ pp. 82, 83. [463] Snowden, _The Socialist's Budget_, p. 84. [464] Smart, _Socialism and the Budget_, p. 15. [465] Snowden, _The Socialist's Budget_, p. 15. [466] _Ibid._ p. 31. [467] _Ibid._ p. 16. [468] Snowden, _The Socialist's Budget_, p. 17. [469] _Ibid._ pp. 21, 22. [470] Snowden, _The Socialist's Budget_, p. 71. [471] _Ibid._ p. 59. [472] G.B. Shaw in the _New Age_, November 30, 1907. [473] Wheatley, _How the Miners are Robbed_, p. 12. [474] Vandal, _Avenement de Bonaparte_, 1903, vol. i. p. 25. [475] Schmidt, _Tableaux de la Revolution_, vol. iv. p. 383. CHAPTER XI SOCIALISM AND THE EMPIRE 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: