The Twenty-Second Annual Report on the Work of the Fabian Society for the Year Ended 31st March, 1905: Presented to and Adopted by the Annual Meeting of the Society on 12th May, 1905; Also the Rules of the Society (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Twenty-Second Annual Report on the Work of the Fabian Society for the Year Ended 31st March, 1905: Presented to and Adopted by the Annual Meeting of the Society on 12th May, 1905; Also the Rules of the Society For several years past the Society has been largely occupied with working out its collective political policy in relation to events and measures Of immediate national concern. The long conflict over the issues raised by the South African War was succeeded by the struggle over the Education Acts Of 1902 and 1903 and finally the Fiscal Policies of Mr. Chamberlain and Mr. Balfour occupied our attention in 1902 and 1903. Our contribution to the last-named controversy was issued on 3ist March, 1904, the last day of the Society's year, and it attracted some attention from serious students Of the subject, though the sale of the Tract has been small. NO fresh political question has come before the country during the year under review, and the Executive Committee felt that the time had arrived when the Society should turn its attention to matters Of less immediate urgency but of even greater ultimate importance. It was therefore determined to attempt to work out in detail a political program for the guidance Of reformers in relation to certain problems some solution Of which in the near future is indispensable. In order to Obtain the assistance of members not on the Executive Committee, and to secure that every proposal made should be discussed by specialists before it was drafted and submitted to the Society, the plan of referring subjects to specially appointed. Committees was revived after some years of desuetude. Electric Power and Transit - The cause Of the appointment Of this, the first, Committee was the introduction into the House of Lords of the Electricity Supply Bill, and the great extension Of power companies throughout Great Britain, coupled with the fact that by law the local authority for electricity is the Borough, Metropolitan Borough, and District Council, whereas in practice a County is, as a rule, too small an area for the economical production Of electricity for the purposes Of power and transit. This committee, under the chairmanship of S. G. Hobson, held six meetings, at which reports on special points, contributed by Boyd Dawson, F. Ackroyd, C. E. Chesterton and E. R. Pease, were read and considered. Finally, the chairman prepared a general report dealing with the whole subject, which was submitted to the Society at a Members' Meeting on November 25th, and was published as Tract no. 119 a few days after the close of the period under review. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.