The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-01-19

4 same year the income of the party from ordinary sources was nearly doubled. The membership was increased beyond lthe widest expectations of the found- CTS.
 Tn rough numbers one hundred thousand meetings were held during the year in favor of Socialism and every single member is keen worker. and the large majority of them are able areuers and efficient platform speak CTS. The Independent Labor party spends ss75.ooo . year in support Of Socialism.
 The Social Democratic Federation is the past year has witnessed a great increase in new branches. It spends
 upward of s7s,ooo year in battling for Socialism.
 The writer who tells of the need of an immediate campaign to fight Socialism. says that after a trip through six counties. during which he passed through five large towns and more than twenty smaller centers. he is amazed and alarmed at the extent of the Socialist campaign. Every where he saw artisans and laborers in the towns and villages drinking in the words of the orators with extra ordinary attention. as if convinced that the millennium was-at hand.
 Socialism was never more of dan ger than 1t Is now. In England there are no fewer than twenty-six Socialist Labor periodicals pouring out their hundreds of thousands of copies week. ly.
 Tn the British labor world Socialists are advancing by leaps and bounds. Although as recently as 1908 they were defeated in their attempt to force or cafole the Miners Federation members into the Socialist-Labor party. they have pressed the matter to . ballot again. and the result will be declared shortly. If the Miners Federation goes over--and that is what is con fidently expected and prophesied--it
 will mean the destruction of the Trade Unionist Labor party in Parliament, and tho voting strength of the Social l ist-Labor element in the Commons will | advance from thirty-two to forty.seven sufficient. in an ordinary parliament,
 to overturu almost any ministry. French Socialist Aeader's Teachingm. M Gustave Nerve. the French Social
 ist leader and anti -militarist. who has been trying to make cowardice a national virtue in France, was sem fenced recently to serve . term of one year and to pay a fine of $500 for fibel- | ing the army. The basis of the prose- cution of M Nerve was an article pub-
 iished by him sympathizing with the
 Moors and calling the French soldiers
 "hired ruffians."
 Until few years ago M. Nerve was
 an obscure country school teacher. writing incendiary articles for viru- lent Socialist organ in Auxerre The corncr-stone of his career was typicaIly bitter sheer at the expense of his country. In one long abusive article, in The Auxerre Socialist news paper. M. Herve incorporated the obser7 vation that the French flag was founded on dirt"
 He was therefore execrated by the press throughout the country. and the universal denunciation brought the ob- scure school master into prominence in q single week. He abandoned his school, and went to his unpatriotic campaign against militarism.
 The Socialists welcomed him with open arms, and his popularity among them increased with the virulence of his utterances against the army and the government in general As pub lie speaker he possesses certain nu- ency, and his ability to abuse every thing that savored of law and order made him in great demand at Socialist demonstrations.
 M. Nerve soon found himself at the