In England a socialist is equal to a French conservative republican.

In America it means a thief.

In Germany it means an ingenious individual of restricted financial resources, who generally fails to blow up some important personage with wet dynamite.

In Italy a socialist is an anarchist pure and simple, who wishes to destroy everything existing for the sake of dividing a wealth which does not exist at all.

It also means a young man who orders a glass of water and a toothpick at a _cafe_, and is able to talk politics for a considerable time on this slender nourishment.