what may be called an official document of the international
revolutionary movement.

These are high lights upon the revolution--granted, but they are also
facts. And they are given to the rulers and the ruling classes, not
in bravado, not to frighten them, but for them to consider more
deeply the spirit and nature of this world-revolution. The time has
come for the revolution to demand consideration. It has fastened
upon every civilized country in the world. As fast as a country
becomes civilized, the revolution fastens upon it. With the
introduction of the machine into Japan, socialism was introduced.
Socialism marched into the Philippines shoulder to shoulder with the
American soldiers. The echoes of the last gun had scarcely died away
when socialist locals were forming in Cuba and Porto Rico. Vastly
more significant is the fact that of all the countries the revolution
has fastened upon, on not one has it relaxed its grip. On the
contrary, on every country its grip closes tighter year by year. As
an active movement it began obscurely over a generation ago. In
1867, its voting strength in the world was 30,000. By 1871 its vote
had increased to 1,000,000. Not till 1884 did it pass the half-
million point. By 1889 it had passed the million point, it had then
gained momentum. In 1892 the socialist vote of the world was
1,798,391; in 1893, 2,585,898; in 1895, 3,033,718; in 1898,
4,515,591; in 1902, 5,253,054; in 1903, 6,285,374; and in the year of
our Lord 1905 it passed the seven-million mark.

Nor has this flame of revolution left the United States untouched.
In 1888 there were only 2,068 socialist votes. In 1902 there were
127,713 socialist votes. And in 1904 435,040 socialist votes were
cast. What fanned this flame? Not hard times. The first four years