The Archive · 1924

Mr, Philip Snowden

Born in 1864, the son of an operative weaver, Mr, Snowden entered the Civil Service in 188¢ and retired seven years Inter, to take up lecturing and journalism evil" from' which man suffers, fore Living.. He attriGutos every

from war to venereal discase, Capitalism," The' devil, was not more real to. the late "General" Booth than Capitaltsm to: Philip, we say "was? advisedly, " for Parliament, rubbed some of the angularities off this proletarian Savonarola. During the war he was" more pro-German than Tne Re How.

Colonial MacDonald. He favours bureaucratic State Socialism of the most pestilent kind. A bicycle accident in his youth made him a cripple for life, and he can inly walk with the' aid: of two sticks." He entered Paxiament la 1009, and retarned to it in 199% when the working classes realize that: it was tho- intention of: the

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