REVOLUTION REACTIONARY.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 54, 4 November 1913, Page 4

REVOLUTION REACTIONARY.

Dealing specially with the inflammatory utterances of the Federation o! Labour leaders the Otago Daily Times says:—That it is a matter of policy on the part of these Labor agitators deliberately to foment class animosity and encourage revolutionary ideas ia conclusion which their utterances demonstrate only too liberally. Bui the sooner those at present misguided enough to listen tojhom realise how far th'ey are from pointing the way of salvation the better it will be for all concerned. The age in which we live is one of progress, hut the revolutionist is merely a reactionary. In discussing and in pointing out the advance made by the British nation over a long period of years. Mr and Mrs Sidney Webb, in their paper. "The New Statesman." observe: "The proletariat, thus transformed, finds itself in 1913 in economic and political conditions which we think unsatisfactory enough hut which—except for unhappy minorities whom we have unfortunately allowed to lag behind—represent an amazing advance on the conditions of the proletariat of 1813." The details of the transformation to which Mr and Mrs Webb allude make impressive reading, and it is a pity that those who offer so much gratuittus advice to the workers of this lountry do not occasionally touch ipon this side of the industrial topic instead of seeking to inflame the ninds of people by verbal oxravagances and wild generalisations.