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 ment of Denmark’s export trade in agricultural produce and the exceptional favor and high prices those products command in the English markets are held to be in large measure an indication of the advantages of coöperation.



Italian Socialists show considerable political vitality, and the revolutionary phase is emphasized there. The party demands universal suffrage for adults of both sexes; greater freedom of organization, of public meetings, and of combination; religious equality; a national militia in place of the standing army; neutrality of the government in disputes between capital and labor; a more humane penal code; the nationalization of railroads and mines; effective compulsory education; old-age pensions; the establishment of a ministry of labor, and the payment of deputies and members of local councils. The Italian Socialists have shown a pretty steady growth in the last decade. Their programme in the main is such that ordinarily progressive government and a fair measure of political rights would satisfy most of the demands of the party.

In England there are but two Socialist members of Parliament, and one of them, John Burns, is hardly considered a Socialist by the members of the party. In spite of that there is to be found in England an 183