February 11.--Lecture Hall, High Street, at 8 P.M. February 25.--Lecture Hall High Street, at 8 P.M. March 3.--New Cross Hall, Lewisham High Road, at 8 P.M. FABIAN ELECTION DODGER [The Fabians and other Socialists broke into London municipal politics under the name "Progressives." The following is one of their earliest election dodgers.] COUNTY COUNCIL ELECTION _Saturday, March 5, 1892_ Part of the PROGRAM OF THE PROGRESSIVES _Rates._--Reduce the Occupiers' Rates one-half, by charging that portion upon the great Landlords, whose ground values are increased by every improvement, and are now untaxed; and by a Municipal Death Duty. _Gas and Water._--Reduce the cost and improve the quality and quantity by new sources of supply, if the present Companies will not come to terms favorable to the Taxpayer. _City Companies._--Apply their whole Income of, say £500,000 (on leave obtained from the new Parliament), for the benefit of London. The Royal Commission of 1884 stated that this income is virtually Public Property. About £300,000 is now squandered each year among the members and their friends. _Homes for the Poor._--The Poor can all be comfortably housed, as in the Municipal Dwellings of Glasgow and Liverpool, without extra cost to the Taxpayer, and the "Doss-houses" abolished. _Cheap Food._--By doing away with the Market Monopolies of the City Corporation and other private owners, Food can be lowered in price. Good food, especially fish, is now often destroyed or sold for manure to keep up the price. _Poor Man's Vote._--One-third of your Votes are lost. The Registration Laws must be thoroughly altered. FOOTNOTES: [1] Debates, House of Lords, July, 31, 1885. The speech was privately printed. [2] Debates, May 19, 1890. This speech was also given private circulation. VI. GENERAL 1. ORIGIN OF THE WORD "COLLECTIVISM" "This word, invented by Colins, came into common use toward the end of the Empire. Bakunin used it in the congress at Berne in 1868, to oppose it to the communistic régime of Cabet. An economist in 1869 designated, under this name, the system under which production will be confined to communes or parishes. The Socialists who opposed authority, disciples of Bakunin, used the word for a long time to designate their doctrine. The section of Locle was one of the first to employ it. But by and by, about 1878, the Marxists, partisans of the proletarian reign, used the word 'collectivism' to distinguish their 'scientific Socialism,' of which term they were fond, from the communistic utopias of the older school, which they discovered. And they gave to Bakunins the name Anarchists. These accepted the name, taking care to write it with a hyphen, _an-archie_, as their master Proudhon had done. They soon dropped the hyphen and accepted the word anarchy as a declaration of war against all things as they are."[1] 2. TABLE SHOWING RESULTS OF PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS