_Means._--1. The provision of increased facilities for the acquisition
of land, the destruction without compensation of all dwellings found
unfit for habitation, and the provision of artisan dwellings by the
municipality. 2. The facilitation of every extension of municipal
administration, in London and all other towns, of gas, water, markets,
tramways, hospitals, cemeteries, parks, museums, art galleries,
libraries, reading-rooms, schools, docks, harbors, rivers, etc. 3. The
provision of abundant facilities for the acquisition of land by local
rural authorities, for allotments, common pastures, public halls,
reading-rooms, etc.
AMENDMENT OF POLITICAL MACHINERY.
_Object._--To obtain the most accurate representation and expression
of the desires of the majority of the people at every moment.
_Means._--1. Reform of registration so as to give a vote, both
Parliamentary and municipal, to every adult. 2. Abolition of any
period of residence as a qualification for registration. 3. Bi-annual
registration by special public officer. 4. Annual Parliaments.
5. Payment of election expenses, including postage of election
addresses and polling cards. 6. Payment of all public representatives,
parliamentary, county, or municipal. 7. Second ballot. 8. Abolition or
painless extinction of the House of Lords.[40]
This is the programme to which a century of industrial revolution has
brought the Radical working man. Like John Stuart Mill,[41] though less
explicitly, he has turned from mere political Democracy to a complete,
though unconscious, Socialism.[42]
THE NEW SYNTHESIS.
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