That the State or municipality may enlarge their functions in any direction and to any extent, provided a clear public interest is subserved.
Sec.7.Relation of Theoretic Socialism to Socialistic Legislation .-- Now it has been convenient in speaking of this growth of State and municipal action to use the term Socialism.

But we ought to be clear as to the application of this term.

Although Sir William Harcourt declared, "We are all socialists to-day," the sober, practical man who is responsible for these "socialistic" measures, smiles at the saying, and regards it as a rhetorical exaggeration.

He knows well enough that he and his fellow-workers are guided by no theory of the proper limits of government, and are animated by no desire to curtail the use of private property.

The practical politician in this country is beckoned forward by no large, bright ideal; no abstract consideration of justice or social expediency supplies him with any motive force.