The pessimists--the communists, and socialists of that day--seeing the same evils, had other explanations to offer.
The Progressive party practically disappeared, and the Socialists suffered a severe set-back, falling far behind the vote of 1912.
One voice, "Renegades, you call yourselves Socialists!" A representative of the Ukrainean delegates demanded, and received, a place.
These men who grouped themselves under different appellations, but who may all be designated by the generic title of socialists, endeavored to pierce that rock and to cause it to spout forth the living waters of human felicity.
No!--my sympathies in this district where I work are not so much with the Socialists that I know here--saving your presence! but--with the people, for instance, that slave at Charity Organisation! and get all the abuse from all sides."
This was the panorama of the progress of society as seen by both the conservative economists and the socialists of less than a century ago: continued invention, an increasing population, low wages, scanty food, growing wealth for the few, and growing poverty and misery for the masses.