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328 VIOLENCE AND THE LABOR MOVEMENT
it was not yet born.
In '64 efforts were made to bring it
into being. In '72 it was broken into fragments. In '90
it won its first battle— its right to exist. Now, twentythree
years later, nothing could be so eloquent and impressive
as the figures themselves of the rising tide of
international socialism.
THE SOCIALIST AND LABOR VOTE, 1887-1913.
1887 1892 1897 1903 1913
Germany 763,000 1,786,000 2,107,000 3,010,000 4,250,329
France 47,000 440,000 790,000 805,000 1,125,877
Austria 750,000 780,000 1,081,441
United States.... 2,000 21,000 55,000 223,494 931,406
Italy 26,000 135,000 300,000 825,280
Australia 678,012
Belgium 320,000 457,000 464,000 (a) 600,000
Great Britain 55,000 100,000 373,645
Finland 10,000 320,289
Russia 200,000
Sweden 723 10,000 170,299
Norway 7,000 30,000 124,594
Denmark 8,000 20,000 32,000 53,000 107,015
Switzerland 2,000 39,000 40,000 70,000 105,000
Holland 1,500 13,000 38,000 82,494
New Zealand 44,960
Spain 5,000 14,000 23,000 40,725
Bulgaria 25,565
Argentina 54,000
Chile 18,000
Greece 26,000
Canada 10,780
Servia 9,000
Luxembourg 4,000
Portugal 3,308
Roumania 2,057
Total 823,500 2,657,723 4,455,000 5,916,494 11,214,076
(a) The vote for Belgium is estimated. The Liberals and the
Socialists combined at the last election in opposition to the Clericals,
and together polled over 1,200,000 votes. The British Socialist
Year Book, 1913, estimates the total Socialist vote at about 600,000.
The above table explains, in no small measure, the
quiet patience and supreme confidence of the socialist.