He knows that a great party like ours can, with his help, do things for him he could not hope to accomplish for himself without its aid.

It brings to his assistance the potent influences drawn from the great middle classes of this country, which would be frightened into positive hostility by a _purely class organization_ to which they do not belong.

No party could ever hope for success in this country which does not win the confidence of a _large portion_ of this middle class....
"You are not going to make Socialists in a hurry out of farmers and traders and professional men of this country, but you may scare them into reaction....

They are helping us now to secure advanced Labor legislation; they will help us later to secure land reform and other measures for all classes of wealth producers, and we need all the help they give us.

But if they are threatened with a class war, then they will surely sulk and harden into downright Toryism.
What gain will that be for Labor ?" (My italics.)[44] The Chancellor of the Exchequer here bids for Labor's political support on the plea that what he was doing for Labor meant an expense and not a profit to the middle class, and that these reforms would only be assented to by that class as the necessary price of the Labor vote.