socialists a world-wide international organization, and on all sides
space and race are bridged in the effort to achieve solidarity.
Resolutions of sympathy, and, fully as important, donations of
money, pass back and forth across the sea to wherever labor is
fighting its pitched battles.

For divers reasons, the capitalist class lacks this cohesion or
solidarity, chief among which is the optimism bred of past success.
And, again, the capitalist class is divided; it has within itself a
class struggle of no mean proportions, which tends to irritate and
harass it and to confuse the situation. The small capitalist and
the large capitalist are grappled with each other, struggling over
what Achille Loria calls the "bi-partition of the revenues." Such a
struggle, though not precisely analogous, was waged between the
landlords and manufacturers of England when the one brought about
the passage of the Factory Acts and the other the abolition of the
Corn Laws.

Here and there, however, certain members of the capitalist class see
clearly the cleavage in society along which the struggle is
beginning to show itself, while the press and magazines are
beginning to raise an occasional and troubled voice. Two leagues of
class-conscious capitalists have been formed for the purpose of
carrying on their side of the struggle. Like the socialists, they
do not mince matters, but state boldly and plainly that they are
fighting to subjugate the opposing class. It is the barons against
the commons. One of these leagues, the National Association of
Manufacturers, is stopping short of nothing in what it conceives to
be a life-and-death struggle. Mr. D. M. Parry, who is the president
of the league, as well as president of the National Metal Trades'