GROWTH OF SOCIALISM

Evening Star, Issue 14529, 3 December 1910, Page 8

GROWTH OF SOCIALISM

The international bin win of Six inlets at Brussels publishes statistics of Socialism llinmtrhout tin; world, amt l!io figures arc instructive. in (lermany, we loam dial of a population of 63.000.000 there hit 5.250.000 Socialists. Trance, with her forty millions, accounts for one million of Socialists. The United States, with its 84X00.000 of people, has 600,000 Social ists. England. with 31.000.C03. has only .500,000 Socialists. The population of Belgium is 7,000,000, yet there are half a million Socialists. Italy, with a population of o4,C\)0i000. accounts for 390.000 Social ists. Finland—and here (lie cause is not far to seel-;—has a population of 2 750.0C0, with 337,000 Socialists. On file olhov hand, it is diilicnlt to assign the reason for 100X00 Socialists, in the Swiss liepublic. tin’ population of which is 2.730.000. Denmark, with a population of 2,750 XOO, ittt.s 99.0C0 Socialists; and Norway. with 2,500.000 people, shows 90.000 Socialists. Holland fares much belter. AVith a population of 5.500,000 she is only troubled with. 82,000 Socialists. Sweden is better still, for nut of 5.500,000 puoph' there are hut 75,000 Socialists. The bureau has not been able to obtain any statistics from Russia or Australia or Spain. It is known, however, that the Cortes pos-ses-:c-s hut one Keir Hurdle, and lie is Senor Nylesins. the member for Madrid, who has recently made himself notorious over the Ferrer incident. At the last elections in Servia 30,C00 votes were cast for Socialists. Bulgaria possesses but 3.000, and Argentina is the next happiest country as far . s the Socialist nuisance goes, with only 5,000. A Socialist movement has manifested itself in Japan, but (he electoral system is unfavorable to the forces of disorder, so Socialism there ts onlv marking time