AN ANTI-SOCIALIST CONGRESS.
LTO TUC EDITOM OF Tel ..erecrarott.'1
Sin,—As I have received a good many letters expressing approval of the announcement that the Executive Committee of the London Municipal Society proposes to take steps to summon a Conference of the representatives of different bodies and persons who am opposed to Socialism, I venture to lay very shortly before your readers the reasons which have prompted our action. The London Municipal Society may justly claim considerable experience in dealing with Socialistic questions, as candidates supported by the Society and those speaking on its behalf were strenuously opposed by the Socialists, not only during the recent municipal elections, but for many years past. During the last few months it has been brought to the notice of the Executive Committee that in London numerous open-air meetings are being actively con- ducted on behalf of Socialism, and that a steady distribution of Socialistic literature is being disseminated among the working-class population. It has been resolved, therefore, to summon together all those organisations which are opposed to Socialism, so as to formulate a common ground of campaign, and thus actively combat the propaganda of Socialistic ideas, which if allowed to go unchallenged must prove detrimental to the interest of the common welfare.—I am, Sir, &c., H. M. JESSEL, Chairman of the Council, London Municipal Society. Sanctuary House, 11 Tothill Street, Westminster, S. W.
[We are delighted to hear of the action proposed. The true plan for fighting Socialism is not to bewail the folly of man or to manufacture vituperative epithets, but to show that there is a better way for meeting the admitted evils of our social organisation.—En. Spectator.]
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