What do you think? (1909)

From the March 1909 issue of the Socialist Standard

The class of person to whom the Anti-Socialist is expected to appeal may be very accurately gauged by the character of its advertisements. Business men do not spend money for publicity through the media that will not get them into touch with the persons they want. The Anti-Socialist is, therefore, expected to circulate amongst owners of motor-cars, those able to buy gold and silver plate, trees and shrubs, and the like. It contains also an “ad” of a big firm of photo engravers, another of a wholesale stationer, and yet another of a legal publisher. From which may be deduced the fact that, whatever our optimistic contemporary may say it expects to do amongst the working class, its advertisers know fairly well that it is not the working class that will read it.