LABOR POLITICS
PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT Sydney, Got. 16. The Political Labor League has welcomed Mr Ramsey Macdonald, the visiting British Labor M.P. Speaking on the British labor movement, Mr Macdonald paid tribute to tbe valuable lesson taught by the Aus-. tralian laborites. In tracing the growth of the industrial system in England, he said that the plutocracy they were lighting was not merely a rich class, but a vulgar I class who degraded everything they touched: whose art was merely ostentatious vulgarity; whose literature was I degrading; whose commercial morality was sapping the Christian conscience, aud whose religion was largely cant, humbug, j and make-believe.
He pitied the miserable plutocrats—whose lives were barred from everything that made life real—even more than- lie pitied the men and women in the works . houses. It was not poverty in pounds, shillings and pence that the Labor party was fighting, but poverty in mind, soul, and conscience- He maintained that the I Labor party in every country was standing for individualism, not against individu- ' nlisjii) and fgr liberty, not against it(
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1907, 17 October 1906, Page 2
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