AN AUSTRIAN VIEW.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 33, 20 October 1911, Page 7

AN AUSTRIAN VIEW.

Tlie Iron King: "Not only are the Dreadnoughts demanded by patriotism, but we make 20,000,000 marks on each!"

the Catholic Church will undoubtedly conform voluntarily to the changed conditions, as will every other religious body. It will not be compelled to change its fxmdamental beliefs, but it will be seen then by Catholics and Methodists, and all other denominations, that a Socialist order of Society is in conformity with higher standards of living. But Socialists are not trying to force any change in the tenets of any religious body. They are tending to the breadand butter proposition of how much shall the working man get, and we believe '.that is of as much interest to a Catholic as to any toiler. The new note sounded by Mr. Russell should go a long way toward clearing up confusion created by misguided and uninformed Catholic spokesmen who have imagined it the special duty of that body to fight Socialism. —"Chicago Socialist,"

upon their having been affected by the things around them and the ideas that flow to them from others, it gets to be known how to shape or construct machines, engines, factories, ships, locomotives, railways. While this is going on, a knowledge of these things and of the economic situation flows to aaid affects the minds of those who have the money or other means ; they become sufficiently impressed with the promise that these things in themselves contain, that they put their money into them, or their energy. As they do this, they call for workmen in new.occupations or increase the demand in some of the old ones. They call for greater numbers, of people to come and live around about the sources of raw materials, around new centres of industry, or along, new routes, and they are able to successfully call these workpeople to where they want them because while they are doing this they are continually seizing on industry after industry, capturing market after market,. and-taking the bread out of the mouths of those who had been engaged in the- old occupations. These are driven to new centres to look for work. A man with a team of horses would take 2 to 4 tons say 2-5 miles inn day, but how many tons would bo taken 2o miles for •each man employed on a railway? The impress of things in the world, without upon the minds within of the capitalists, was followed by such new means and new ways as put men out of work in greater numbers than they wore called fo<r in the xi'RW occupations raid at the now centres of activity.

The call for more workpeople at this or that place' created opportunities for others at those places—landlords, shopkeepers, innkeepers, quacks, pedlars, and so on and so on. Just follow it out in your mind .and you can see the towns .and cities growing, dock and harbours coming into existence, following on from on© thing to another, using the creative faculty of the mind, you can reconstruct for yourself that life of the British people which is contuiuoiis and all connected with it that is of interest.. Those million, coalminers are not forgotten; I thought to have readied them again before this. Set your thoughts to work qn the growth of that army and its'present power..if only the forma of its liuU'er life were changed. ■~.y > .. (To b$ oon.tinu©4i)