The recent clamour of "Votes for Women" emanated not so much from philosophic Radicals who had read John Stuart Mill as from Socialists, and many non-Socialist women have become their dupes. Socialist women hope that they will have the voting all to themselves. Therefore they, and most men Socialists also, would very likely resist to the utmost all proposals which would make voting compulsory for _all_ women. FOOTNOTES: [567] Thompson, _Hail Referendum_, p. 3. [568] Davidson, _The Old Order and the New_, p. 99. [569] Thompson, _Hail Referendum_, pp. 4, 5. [570] Thompson, _The Referendum and Initiative in Practice_, p. 4. [571] Blatchford, _Britain for the British_, p. 152. [572] Davidson, _The Gospel of the Poor_, p. 59. [573] Washington, _Whose Dog art Thou?_ p. 14. [574] Thompson, _The Only Way to Democracy_, p. 8. [575] _The Socialist Annual_, 1907, p. 43. [576] Neil, _Songs of the Social Revolution_, p. 21. [577] Thompson, _Hail Referendum_, p. 7. [578] Davidson, _The New Book of Kings_, p. 118. [579] Hyndman, _Colonies and Dependencies_, p. 9. [580] _The Socialist Annual_, 1907, p. 58. [581] _The Reformers' Year Book_, 1907, p. 121. [582] Councillor Glyde, _Britain's Disgrace_, p. 30. [583] _Report Annual Conference of Independent Labour Party_, 1907, p. 52. [584] _Socialism Made Plain_, p. 7. [585] Davidson, _A Democrat's Address_, p. 4. [586] _Fabian Essays in Socialism_, p. 187. [587] Davidson, _The Book of Lords_, p. 78. [588] Davidson, _The House of Lords, Useless, Dangerous, &c._, p. 13. [589] Thompson, _The Only Way to Democracy_, p. 11. [590] Thompson, _Hail Referendum_, p. 8. [591] Thompson, _The Only Way to Democracy_, p. 10. [592] Thompson, _The Referendum, &c._, p. 3. [593] _Ibid._ p. 1. [594] _Ibid._ p. 16. [595] Thompson, _Hail Referendum_, pp. 8, 9. [596] Gronlund, _Co-operative Commonwealth_, p. 130. [597] _Ibid._ p. 129. [598] Thompson, _The Only Way to Democracy_, p. 4. [599] _Ibid._ p. 15. [600] Thompson, _The Referendum, &c._, p. 5. [601] _Ibid._ p. 11. [602] _Report on Fabian Policy_, p. 5 [603] _Report on Fabian Policy_, p. 13. [604] Kessack, _The Capitalist Wilderness and the Way Out_, p. 3. [605] _What Use is a Vote?_ p. 1. [606] Bax, _The Ethics of Socialism_, p. 120. [607] _Ibid._ p. 128. [608] _Ibid._ pp. 127, 128. [609] Ethel Snowden, _The Woman Socialist_, p. 20. [610] _Ibid._ p. 19. [611] Ethel Snowden, _The Woman Socialist_, Introd. [612] _Ibid._ p. 93. [613] _Ibid._ p. 97. [614] _Ibid._ p. 92. [615] _Ibid._ p. 98. [616] _Independent Labour Party Report, Annual Conference_, 1907, p. 45. [617] _Report of 27th Annual Conference, 1907, Social-Democratic Federation_, p. 26. CHAPTER XVI THE ATTITUDE OF THE SOCIALISTS TOWARDS THE TWO PARLIAMENTARY PARTIES