[673] Blatchford, _Competition_, p. 4. [674] Suthers, _Mind your own Business_, pp. 93, 94. [675] Suthers, _Mind your own Business_, pp. 87, 88. [676] Suthers, _Mind your own Business_, p. 88. [677] Bax and Quelch, _A New Catechism of Socialism_, p. 42. [678] _The Times, Municipal Socialism_, p. 43. [679] _Ibid._ [680] Suthers, _Killed by High Rates_, p. 12. [681] _Ibid._ p. 11. [682] Ellis Barker, _Modern Germany_, p. 552. [683] Suthers, _Killed by High Rates_, p. 9. [684] Suthers, _Municipal Debt_, p. 4. [685] _Daily Mail_, November 26, 1907. [686] See _A Municipal Bread Supply_; _Municipal Bakeries_; _Municipal Drink Traffic_; _Municipal Fire Insurance_; Washington, _Milk and Postage Stamps, &c._ [687] _Municipalisation by Provinces._ [688] Sidney Webb, _The London Programme_, 1892, pp. 208-213. [689] Jowett, _Socialism and the City_, p. 17. [690] _Forward_, October 12, 1907. [691] See Chapter IV. [692] Suthers, _Mind your own Business_, p. 14. [693] Jowett, _The Socialist and the City_, p. 40. [694] Irving, _The Municipality_, p. 6. [695] Bax and Quelch, _A New Catechism of Socialism_, p. 42. [696] Suthers, _Mind your own Business_, p. 9. [697] _Ibid._ p. 8. [698] Snowden, _The Socialist's Budget_, pp. 3, 4, 6. [699] Jowett, _The Socialist and the City_, p. 38; Snowden, _The Socialist's Budget_, p. 83. [700] Suthers, _Mind your own Business_, p. 119. [701] _Ibid._ p. 122. [702] _A Labour Policy for Public Authorities_, p. 19. [703] Suthers, _Mind your own Business_, p. 103. [704] Snowden, _A Straight Talk to Ratepayers_, p. 8. [705] McLachlan, _The Tyranny of Usury_, p. 15. [706] Jowett, _The Socialist and the City_, p. 42. [707] McLachlan, _The Tyranny of Usury_, p. 11. [708] McLachlan, _The Tyranny of Usury_, p. 13. [709] _Ibid._ pp. 13, 14. [710] Jowett, _The Socialist and the City_, pp. 45, 46. [711] See p. 281 ff. [712] _Independent Labour Party Report, Annual Conference_, 1907, p. 50. CHAPTER XVIII SOCIALISM AND AGRICULTURE In one of his books Mr. Blatchford gives prominence to the following statement contained in Prince Kropotkin's book, "Fields, Factories, and Workshops": "If the soil of the United Kingdom were cultivated only as it was thirty-five years ago, 24,000,000 people could live on home-grown food. If the cultivable soil of the United Kingdom were cultivated as the soil is cultivated on the average in Belgium, the United Kingdom would have food for at least 37,000,000 inhabitants. If the population of this country came to be doubled, all that would be required for producing food for 80,000,000 inhabitants would be to cultivate the soil as it is now cultivated in the best farms of this country, in Lombardy, and in Flanders."