By 1871 its vote
had increased to 1,000,000. Not till 1884 did it pass the half-
million point. By 1889 it had passed the million point, it had then
gained momentum. In 1892 the socialist vote of the world was
1,798,391; in 1893, 2,585,898; in 1895, 3,033,718; in 1898,
4,515,591; in 1902, 5,253,054; in 1903, 6,285,374; and in the year of
our Lord 1905 it passed the seven-million mark.
Nor has this flame of revolution left the United States untouched.
In 1888 there were only 2,068 socialist votes. In 1902 there were
127,713 socialist votes. And in 1904 435,040 socialist votes were
cast. What fanned this flame? Not hard times. The first four years
of the twentieth century were considered prosperous years, yet in
that time more than 300,000 men added themselves to the ranks of the
revolutionists, flinging their defiance in the teeth of bourgeois
society and taking their stand under the blood-red banner. In the
state of the writer, California, one man in twelve is an avowed and
registered revolutionist.
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