{13} 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.
{37a} Read at the Conference convened by the Fabian Society at South
Place Institute, June 11, 1886.
{37b} 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.
{43} As true now (February 1888) as then: the murder of the Chicago
Anarchists, to wit.
{87} I suppose he was speaking of the frame houses of Kent.
{176} And the brick and mortar country London, also, it seems (Feb.
1888).
{184} 1886, to wit.