{1} Falsely; because the privileged classes have at their back the force of the Executive by means of which to compel the unprivileged to accept their terms; if this is "free competition" there is no meaning in words.
{2} Read at the Conference convened by the Fabian Society at South Place Institute, June 11, 1886.
{3} They HAVE been "rather rough," you may say, and have done more than merely hold their sentimental position. Well, I still say (February 1888) that the present open tyranny which sends political opponents to prison, both in England and Ireland, and breaks Radical heads in the street for attempting to attend political meetings, is not Tory, but Whig; not the old Tory "divine right of kings," but the new Tory, i.e., Tory-tinted Whig, "divine right of property" made Bloody Sunday possible. I admit that I did not expect in 1886 that we should in 1887 and 1888 be having such a brilliant example of the tyranny of a parliamentary majority; in fact, I did not reckon on the force of the impenetrable stupidity of the Prigs in alliance with the Whigs marching under the rather ragged banner of sham Toryism.
{4} As true now (February 1888) as then: the murder of the Chicago Anarchists, to wit.
{5} I suppose he was speaking of the frame houses of Kent.
{6} And the brick and mortar country London, also, it seems (Feb.1888).
{7} 1886, to wit.
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