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Disarmament is not dictated by a love of peace. It is an expression of naval rivalry. All the nations hated our naval supremacy. Do the Americans love us? Do the French love us? Is France, America, Italy, devoted to an unselfish and human peace? Can we dispel the bellicose sentiments of Russia and China and Japan by sending an old pantaloon to talk platitudes at Geneva, or by disbanding the Horse Guards and scrapping a few submarines?...The England of my affection and devotion is not a country nor a people: it is a tradition, the finest tradition the world has ever produced. The Labour Party do not subscribe to that tradition; do not know it; could not feel it. And if that tradition is to survive, the policy of scuttle and surrender must be abandoned. You agree with all this I feel sure. You always upheld the
460:, which lost him support from some sections of the labour movement. Blatchford denounced his "cosmopolitan friends, who are so cosmopolitan that they can admire every country but their own, and love all men except Englishmen". He criticised the "smug, self-righteous prigs" in the labour movement who, while "despising military glory, are yet so eloquent over the marksmanship and courage of the Boers". He wrote that his "whole heart is with the British troops ... When England is at war, I'm English. I have no politics and no party. I am English." Responding to claims from the right-wing press that he wanted to ‘turn people against their country’, he retorted that he wanted ‘to make people so fond of their country that they shall desire to possess it’.
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system of industrial co-operation for the common good. His arguments and illustrations were drawn from facts and experiences within the knowledge of the common people. Socialism as he taught it was not a cold, materialistic theory, but the promise of a new life as full, sweet and noble as the world can give...Mr. Blatchford is still living, hale and hearty, his mental powers undiminished aged 83. I saw him recently, and we talked of those grand and inspiring times of forty years ago. Only the men who were in the
Socialist movement in those days can know the great part Robert Blatchford took in making it popular, and of the personal devotion he inspired by his writings.
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Thompson in 1933: "In the early days of the war the movement howled with indignation about the lying charges brought against the German General Staff and troops. The noble Germans were incapable of such crimes. British and Belgian and American witnesses were all liars. Today the same intelligent comrades are denouncing the atrocities committed by the Nazi 'storm troops' upon innocent and helpless Jews. Well, old pal, may I suggest that if the Germans of today are guilty perhaps the Huns of 1914 were not quite innocent".
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535:. The first edition sold 30,000 copies. The year after, a pocket-sized edition was published, which sold 25,000 copies. A penny edition was published in 1894, with 250,000 copies being ordered before publication and within a year 750,000 copies had been despatched across the English speaking world. In Britain and America, the book sold over two million copies. In the opinion of
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243:. Sarah was the daughter of a domestic worker and a mechanic. Around this time Blatchford became frustrated with his job and decided that he wished to become an artist. Because employment opportunities for artists in Norwich were scarce, however, he instead decided to become a writer. Blatchford's writing career began in 1882 at the
288:, Blatchford took a short holiday on the Isle of Wight after the death of his two children. At this time he had not begun to espouse socialist views, but the societal reactions to the competitiveness of industrial society in Northern England began affecting his sentiments. The largest political influence on Blatchford was the South
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I write these articles because I believe that
Germany is deliberately preparing to destroy the British Empire; and because I know that we are not ready or able to defend ourselves against a sudden and formidable attack...At the present moment the whole country is in a ferment about the Budget and the
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Blatchford criticised free trade from an economic nationalist perspective. Free trade had made it impossible for
Britain to feed herself and had destroyed British agriculture. This was especially serious in wartime because Britain could be starved into submission due to the dependence for her food on
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Blatchford's "love of country" themes were not a late aberration but can be found throughout his output. His combination of libertarianism, socialism and conservatism mark him out as one of the more original activists in
English political history. The first Labour Chancellor of the Exchequer, Philip
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Socialism. But careful observation of the facts of for the last twelve years or so has convinced me that Socialism will not work, and a study of Mr. Ford's methods has provided what seems to me as good a substitute as we may hope in this imperfect world. Socialism as
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Socialist propaganda. No man did more than he to make Socialism understood by the ordinary working man. His writings in them had nothing of economic abstruseness. He based his appeal on the principles of human justice. He preached Socialism as a
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Blatchford visited France in
October 1914 and was shocked by the conduct of the Germans in waging war. Initially warning his readers of fake atrocity stories, Blatchford was shocked by the ruined villages in France and the stories he heard, "too horrible and too unclean to be revealed in print". He
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Germany to suspend hostilities pending a friendly mediation by America, England and Italy, or any one of those powers. But I do not think really that European peace is possible until Germany has been defeated and humiliated. And I realise the great possibility that we shall be
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In 1909 he began advocating conscription but in 1912 troops were used for strike breaking and Blatchford turned against it: "Universal military service under the (present) ruling classes would result in slavery. I regard invasion as the lesser evil". However, he supported conscription again in 1915
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of his pension...I am glad the Labour Party is defeated because I believe they would have disrupted the British Empire. I dreaded their childish cosmopolitanism; their foolish faith that we could abolish crime by reducing the police force. All the other nations are out for their own ends. American
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will not work in international politics, because the nations are not good enough to live up to it. Real Socialism strongly resembles real Christianity. It is a counsel of perfection and cannot be adopted and adhered to by our imperfect humanity. There is nothing the matter with Socialism, but the
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I am convinced that...they will be plunged into war without their will. I like Germany; I like German cities; and I like the German people. But I believe that the rulers of the German people are deliberately and cynically preparing to hurl them into a wicked and a desperate war of conquest...The
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Blatchford voted Conservative in 1924. However, his later books indicate a continued faith in his own English version of socialism. Moreover, the Clarion Movement carried on as a socialist popular movement, taking its cue from Blatchford, into the 1930s and beyond, as indicated by the continued
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Blatchford was impressed by the cleanliness and efficiency in Germany: "You don't see anything like that in Germany. I thought to myself, is this how we are preparing to fight for the existence of our Empire? What use will these ragged, famished spectres be when we have our backs to the wall?"
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Blatchford's father died in 1853, leaving him in the care of his mother. She continued her acting career for nine years, and Blatchford spent much of his early life close to the stage. To help support the family, Blatchford and his brother Montagu would perform with their mother, doing comedic
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that Blatchford's appeal was not based on a partisan, political basis as he had said that the country did not want a Liberal or Unionist government but a MAN: "His strength is that he knows what he wants and is not afraid to ask for it in plain language...The burthen of the song is—compulsory
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Germans cannot prevent that war, because they do not believe it is coming. The British could prevent that war if, before it is too late, they could be really convinced that it is coming. That is why I want to convince them that war is coming, because I want to prevent that horrible war.
707:: "In a long experience...I do not recall a foreign journalistic event which so focused the attention of the German press and public". There was universal condemnation in German newspapers, including Social Democratic, Catholic and Pan-German organs. When the German Chancellor
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When the first Labour government, led by Ramsay MacDonald, took office in 1924, Blatchford responded to Thompson's enthusiasm: "I don't like their policy and I don't trust them. They are in no sense Socialists. At present they are Liberals and we shall have a blend of Liberal
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argues that the departure was due to a quarrel with his mother, but Blatchford's daughter Dorothea maintains that his decision to leave was caused by the difficulty of his life in Halifax. On May Day 1871, Blatchford walked to Hull, then continued on to London via Yarmouth.
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became German Chancellor in 1933, Blatchford "began to smell brimstone", in the words of his biographer Laurence Thompson. Blatchford said: "The people ought to know; but who will let me say what ought to be said?" Blatchford feared that people would say: "Oh,
865:. It is important that this should be said, and that the country should understand that the voice of Lord Rothermere is not the voice of public opinion. His standardised newspapers are journalistic tied houses, where proprietorial dope is sold as honest beer.
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and said that "if Jesus Christ were a man on earth today, He would read the book not only with interest but with approval, and He would say to any officious disciples who took exception to parts of it, “Forbid him not; he that is not against Me is for Me"."
360:, but a printing error made its first edition almost completely illegible. Nevertheless, it still sold at least 40,000 copies. It continued to sell this number and more during the following years. By 1910 it was selling about 80,000 copies of each issue.
811:, the NDP stood in eighteen constituencies and returned nine Members of Parliament with 156,834 votes. It thereby became the first party formed by a right-wing split from the Labour Party in Britain to win seats in Parliament at a general election.
539:, the book "helped to make socialism really well known in England for the first time...It was Blatchford's highest flight as a propagandist; he never surpassed it, and through it mainly he left his mark upon history". The book was translated into
314:; the rest of my Socialism I thought out myself. English Socialism is not German: it is English. English Socialism is not Marxian; it is humanitarian. It does not depend upon any theory of 'economic justice' but upon humanity and common sense."
898:. Not long ago you told me in a letter of some trade union delegates who were smoking cigars and drinking whisky at the House of Commons at the expense of their unions. You liked them not. Nor do I like the Trade Union bigots who have cheated
861:...the public should be helped to realise that the political judgments of the syndicated newspapers are not sincere and considered opinions of trained, independent thinkers, but the broadcast railings of one rich man in a panic over the
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would, Blatchford replied: "I am sorry. I cannot help it. You want peace. But you cannot have peace without victory...The struggle with Germany will not end with the present war, and we may some day have to fight Germany single-handed".
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and SDF resulted in the formation in 1892 of the Manchester Independent Labour Party, which soon devised the Manchester Fourth Clause. By 1893 Blatchford was the leader of his own clique within the newly founded national
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praised his aims—the revival of British agriculture, a self-sufficient Empire, and producer-focused instead of consumer-focused economic system. Blatchford said he did not believe in tariff reform as applied by
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published Blatchford's series of articles on ‘The Greatest Issue of All’, the German threat. However these were nowhere near as influential as his previous ones and defence was not an issue in the election.
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every Sunday its circulation rose by 50,000. In his first article for that paper, Blatchford correctly predicted that the German Army would not reach Paris and of General Joffre's flank along the Marne.
239:. While employed as a clerk, he carefully used his spare time to learn grammar, syntax, and shorthand. In 1880 he married Sarah Crossley, whom he met in Halifax, at the Zion Chapel. They then settled in
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Blatchford's wife died in 1921, and later he took an interest in Spiritualism. In 1923 he wrote in response to claims in the press that he had been converted away from socialism by reading
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There was a revolt in the county federation created by the ILP in 1894, as Blatchford urged the formation of a united socialist party. In the same year he resigned from the editorship of
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and proclaimed it should be implemented along with the "conscription of wealth". Before the war, Blatchford toured Germany and after he returned to England he wrote:
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newspaper, where he had a sketch published. He obtained his first full-time writing job through his friend Alexander Muttock Thompson, who worked for the Manchester
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Peers and the Election. It seems sheer criminal lunacy to waste time and strength in chasing such political bubble when the existence of the Empire is threatened.
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crowd were out of harmony ... I loathe the "top-hatted, frock-coated magnolia-scented" snobocracy as much as you do; but I cannot away with the Keir Hardies and
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by 1874. By the time of his promotion, he had also achieved the Army's second class certificate of education. Blatchford served with the Irish regiment 103rd
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people are neither wise enough nor good enough to make it a success. Socialism implies the self-abnegation of the individual for the good of the community.
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The articles received considerable attention in Britain and Germany, and when published as a pamphlet sold over one and a half million copies. The
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comes out. And I hope we are". The Clarion Movement was split when Blatchford swung his paper in support of the British participation in the
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get it in the neck". Later on, Blatchford believed Churchill's conduct redeemed what he considered his past political errors.
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publicly declared that he shared Blatchford's patriotism. The articles ensured that defence was a major issue in the ensuing
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service, a strong navy and a general raising of the standard of education and living of the masses of the British people".
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movement also supported many industrial disputes at this time, including the three-year lockout of the slateworkers of the
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961:: "I found it a cogent and reasoned argument for Socialism. It was written with a clearness and bite which were unusual".
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advised Goschen to explain the articles as "not really anti-German but alarmist...to create a scare".
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in 1903, Blatchford's response was ambiguous. He did not formally endorse Chamberlain's campaign, but
338:, in 1891. Later that year, he used his column to announce that he had accepted the invitation of the
328:, Blatchford became actively involved in the Labour Movement. He founded the Manchester branch of the
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due to ill health and developed depression. He started to edit it again in 1896. He supported the
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began warning of the dangers of Nazi Germany, Blatchford remarked: "Ha! He's learning! Now watch
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1701:, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2006, accessed 13 January 2014.
1181:, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2006, accessed 13 January 2014.
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in 1907 that "Dr. Cozier is mistaken if he thinks I took my Socialism from
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renditions and dances for extra income. In 1862 the family moved to
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boasted that Blatchford had not cost the Liberals a single vote.
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who died the year before. His maternal great-grandfather,
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1129:, Great Britain, Cassell & Company Limited. 1931.
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1117:, London, Hodder & Stoughton Publishers, 1928.
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803:(NDP) as a splinter from the right wing of the
1085:The War That Was Foretold: Germany and England
342:to become the Independent Labour candidate in
1695:Blatchford, Robert Peel Glanville (1851–1943)
1175:Blatchford, Robert Peel Glanville (1851–1943)
600:the reviewers) find a great deal in it!" The
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1808:Robert Blatchford: Portrait of an Englishman
1727:Robert Blatchford. Portrait of an Englishman
1045:, London, Clarion Newspaper Co., Ltd., 1901.
1708:(London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1984).
16:English socialist campaigner and journalist
1722:(London: Ivor Nicholson and Watson, 1934).
1123:, London, Cassell and Company, Ltd., 1928
1087:, Reprinted from “The Daily Mail” of 1909.
1033:The Clarion Office, (also Chesworth, 1900)
507:(1905). Again, to antagonise the ILP, the
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1234:10.5949/liverpool/9781786940025.001.0001
931:On 17 December 1943, Blatchford died in
178:to teach music. One of his grandnieces,
1867:, with 36 library catalogue records
1720:An Autobiography. Volume One. 1864–1919
1699:Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
1601:An Autobiography. Volume One. 1864–1919
1179:Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
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1073:The Sorcery Shop: An Impossible Romance
1067:Not Guilty: A Defense of the Bottom Dog
531:were published in book form in 1893 as
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114: 1880; died 1921)
1892:Robert Blatchford: Neglected Socialist
1768:Hyde Park Pamphlets Number Nine, 1986.
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215:Military and early journalistic career
1105:Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1926.
920:. He has Germany on the brain." When
527:A series of articles on socialism in
154:Blatchford was born 17 March 1851 in
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1878:at WCML.org.uk (archived 2005-10-26)
1729:(London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1951).
801:National Democratic and Labour Party
688:. After the election the Liberal MP
413:The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
1993:19th-century British Army personnel
1837:Works by or about Robert Blatchford
1005:Clarion Office, Walter Scott, 1893.
1803:George Routledge & Sons, 1937.
1616:(London: Hutchinson, 1964), p. 62.
1099:, London, Methuen & Co., 1925.
1027:, London, Clarion Press, May 1899.
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1766:Robert Blatchford and the Clarion
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1943:English male non-fiction writers
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1666:(London: Pelican, 1976), p. 174.
1340:The Review of Reviews, Volume 11
1224:Swift, David (1 November 2017).
1145:Julie A Study of a Girl by a Man
686:general election of January 1910
124:Robert Peel Glanville Blatchford
91:Socialist campaigner, journalist
47:Robert Peel Glanville Blatchford
1983:English vegetarianism activists
1978:Royal Dublin Fusiliers soldiers
1894:at Rutgers University Libraries
999:John Heywood, Manchester, 1892.
845:, Blatchford wrote a letter to
841:sold most of his newspapers to
799:In 1915, Blatchford formed the
762:at war with Germany before the
551:, Italian, Spanish and German.
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1876:The Clarion Movement 1891–1914
1810:Victor Gollancz, London, 1951.
1688:Men and Work. An Autobiography
1614:Men and Work. An Autobiography
1366:. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 107.
1228:. Liverpool University Press.
1109:Essays of To-Day and Yesterday
1093:, London, Clarion Press, 1910.
1075:, London, Clarion Press, 1907.
1057:, London, Clarion Press, 1903.
1051:, London, Clarion Press, 1902.
1039:, London, Clarion Press, 1901.
837:and communist insanity". When
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1792:Suthers R. B. and Beswick H.
1337:William Thomas Stead (1895).
1153:, London, Clarion Press, n.d.
1147:, London, Clarion Press, 1904
709:Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg
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1968:Manchester Regiment soldiers
1918:Military personnel from Kent
1789:Pendulum Publications, 1945.
1752:The Blatchford Controversies
1640:Rutgers University Libraries
369:Social Democratic Federation
293:Social Democratic Federation
1852:(public domain audiobooks)
1690:(London: Hutchinson, 1964).
1015:) Clarion Newspaper, 1895).
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