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can't have the armaments of Empire without paying the price. " (i)
Even 3ocialinto made their own contribution to militarism by
advocating a citizon, army. Juntice urgod, - "Volunteers should
consist of the whole male population trained fron childhood to
the use of arms as a portion of their oducation.... It is the
right course for every Socialist to join the Volunteers, No man
can be the worse for knowing how to defend his country, « when
he gets possession of it. "
(2)
Attempts to inculcate the population with a military
ethos were backed by a feeling that the mass of tho people had
indeed declared in favour of Imperialist expansion. There had
been come speculation an to how the now electorate of 1885 would
react, - Radicals believed that their sympathies would lie with
Gladotonitnioo,
- "... thero ooomd to be coos reason to believe
that the grast democratic infusion into the voting body would bring
about a tendency to accept a reading of international ethics
which would alter the tradition of British Forolln Policy in an
altruistic conne$ while undorating the roquironcnto of national
occurity and dignity. "
(3)
But democracy appeared to have given
its approval to Imperialism; it could not be denied that "Tb®
(1) WS, Blunts fly Diarien1 op oit, p. 351.
(2) Ju,.,
ntice, 11th A; ri1 1885.
i3ý ()unrterly Journnl, January 1899, op cit, p. 21+2.