POVERTY OF THE RICH.
Speech Tiy Eamsay Mac Donald. (Received 0.14 a.m.) SYDNEY, this day. The Political Labour League last evening welcomed .Mr. J. Ramsay Mac Donald, M.P. Speaking by invitation of the British labour movement.. Mr. Mac Donald paid a tribute to the valuable lesson taught by the Australian Labour party. In tracing the growth of the industrial Jjstem in England.. Mr. Mac Donald said that the plutocracy which they were fighting was not merely tb.fi rich class, to the vulgar classe? who degraded everything they touched: whose art was merely ostentatious vulgarity; whose •feature was degrading; whose com"Hrcinl morality was sapping Christian conscience; and whose religion was K»gely cant, humbug, and make-believe. . . Ir ; w nt on to ?ay that he P'wu the miwTablc plutocrats, whose to were barren of everything that «c life real, even more than he pitied n-n ami women in workhouse?. It was pci that tbo Lnbour party were fightSice P ° Verty ° f mmd -' soul > and cou - Labou MacDonaW maintained that the tl,-.. P art .y ; » Pvpiy country was i S S , r indi "du.-,li Sm , not against £jgta»i for iibeSy, and° not
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXVII, Issue 241, 16 October 1906, Page 5
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