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 is in the line of economic evolution. But they are convinced that it has deprived, and will continue to deprive in an increasing degree, the individual worker of the means of independent production. The result, they believe, is the creation of a new social order, and there must in time be a readjustment of economic conditions to meet the change. There is no disposition violently to overthrow existing conditions.



A natural deduction from the growth of the Social-Democratic party might be that such growth indicates a tendency toward revolution, and that with increasing power and confidence it may become a movement to overthrow the Government. Probably nothing could be further from the future course of events.

The principles for which the Social Democrats stand are the sort that naturally