When it takes a definite position on the land question, favoring one-family farms and short leases or else cooeperative, municipal, or national large-scale operation, and states clearly that it intends to use compulsory arbitration to advance wages indefinitely, including those of farm laborers, there is every probability that, having lost the support of the employing farmers, it will gradually take its place as a party of permanent opposition to capitalism, like the Socialist parties of Europe--until industry finally and decisively surpasses agriculture, and the industrial working class really becomes the most powerful element in society.
Space does not permit the tracing of the "State Socialist" tendency in other countries than Great Britain, the United States, and Australasia.

Originally a brief chapter was here inserted showing the similar tendencies in Germany.

This is now omitted, but the frequent reference to Germany later in dealing with the Socialist movement makes a brief statement of the German situation essential.
For this purpose it will be sufficient to quote a few of the principal statements of the excellent summary and analysis by William C.Dreher entitled "The German Drift towards Socialism": "The German Reichstag passed a law in May, 1910, for the regulation of the potash trade, a law which goes further _in the direction of Socialism_ than any previous legislation in Germany.

It assigns to each mine a certain percentage of the total production of the country, and lays a prohibitory tax upon what it produces in excess of this allotment.

It fixes the maximum price for the product in the home market, and prohibits selling abroad at a lower price.