"AN AWFUL EXAMPLE".

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 955, 24 October 1910, Page 8

"AN AWFUL EXAMPLE".

v''"''.;■-'—- —'♦■ , - ■■■■,; -■ ■;■ >. HOW SOCIALISM IS KILLING THfl; ' fijians. ... v; r: :-'::]l :It would- be a good thing,' suggested ; . : Professor Macmilian Brown, in. Christ?'.-. 1 .church the.; other day, .if ,a : ; band of :Socialists, made. a trip to Samoa- and,. ; ' Fiji, and saw,for themselves ;what the ■ communistic system has done for the. peoples of those countries. ■ The awful. example of, the : should ..be a warning against Socialistic doctrines." "The Fijian,"; he explained,- "will not • ; work, simply because -,he is a- cohimiln-; .;,. ist. Under 'the old Fijian s'ystenl Of holding land, no individual had a chance, of selling for himself what lie cultivated.,--. His'neighbour had, as. much right to it. as he had. Consequently, he;declinesto labour. He no longer has Wars to call forth his,'energies, and luxury and idleness are sterilising him. When he tries to work hisefforts are. only spas-, modic. Ho makes a-burst'.of it, and then 'stops for weeks, The Hindu,. who is swarmingjnto the Fijian's country, has ■ been disciplined by. thousands of years'.'.. of threatening famine into handling.his,' property and.eultivating.it.,Ho jsniak-, ■a good thing out of Fiji. He is pros-, pering whero the .Fijian isstagnating,' because, he is a freeholder,-or, at any rate,'a leaseholder, while, the,Fijian, is •a Socialist.. The. Hindu is increasing in,, numbers, the Fijian is decreasing. > That. . is what happens to a Socialistic com* -' munity. All Socialistic races will I die, '■!' just as the Fijian is dying." "-. _