(_f_) By abolishing official charity and substituting in its place compulsory insurance against unemployment, illness, accidents, invalidism, old age, and death. _Political Demands_ 8. The extension of inheritance taxes, graduated in proportion to the amount of the bequests and to the nearness of kin. 9. A graduated income tax. 10. Unrestricted and equal suffrage for men and women, and we pledge ourselves to engage in an active campaign in that direction. 11. The initiative and referendum, proportional representation, and the right of recall. 12. The abolition of the senate. 13. The abolition of the power usurped by the supreme court of the United States to pass upon the constitutionality of legislation enacted by Congress. National laws to be repealed or abrogated only by act of Congress or by a referendum of the whole people. 14. That the Constitution be made amendable by majority vote. 15. The enactment of further measures for general education and for the conservation of health. The bureau of education to be made a department. The creation of a department of public health. 16. The separation of the present bureau of labor from the department of commerce and labor, and the establishment of a department of labor. 17. That all judges be elected by the people for short terms, and that the power to issue injunctions shall be curbed by immediate legislation. 18. The free administration of justice. Such measures of relief as we may be able to force from capitalism are but a preparation of the workers to seize the whole power of government, in order that they may thereby lay hold of the whole system of industry and thus come to their rightful inheritance. FOOTNOTES: [1] GEORGES WEIL, _Histoire du Mouvement Social en France_, p. 208. INDEX Allemane, 77 American Socialist Party platform, 341 Amsterdam Congress, 228 Anarchy, 29, 65, 127 Anselee, 122 Anti-militarism, in France, 110-112; in Belgium, 129; in Germany, 201-202 Anti-Socialist Law (German), 160-167 Asquith, Premier, and the Parliament Bill, 238-240 Austria, revolution in, 47 Bakunin, 65, 71 Barthou, on French post-office strike, 97; on railway strike, 101 Bebel, August, 155, 158; on Anti-Socialist Law, 161, 162, 163, 165, 166; arrest of, 167; candidate for President of Reichstag, 190; on defeat of Socialism, 1907, 194; on inheritance tax, 188; as a party leader, 264; on new Alsatian Constitution, 198; on militarism, 202-203; on participation in legislation, 188, 189; on party discipline, 177, 193, 195, 196; on Socialism in United States, 268 Belgium, 118-145; government of, 121-122; co-operative movement in, 140-145; agrarian movement in, 142; nature of Belgian Socialism, 143-144; labor organizations in, 122-125; Labor Party in Parliament, 133-135; political parties in, 121; poverty and illiteracy in, 118-120, 125, 128 Bernstein, Ed., 192 Bibliography, 273-279