LABOR IN POLITICS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81867, 17 October 1906, Page 3

LABOR IN POLITICS.

THE WORKERS' BATTLE

FIGHT AGAINST VULGAR PLUTOCRATS.

Sydney, October 16. The Political Labour League welcomed Mr Ramsay Mac Donald."

Speaking on the British labour movement Mr Mac Donald paid a tribute to the valuable lesson taught by the Australian labourites. In tracing ihe growth of the industrial sysiem in England he 6aid the plutocracy were fighting was not merely a rich class, but a vulgar class, who degraded everything they touched. whose art was merely ostentatious vulgarity, whose literature was degrading, who-e commercial morality tvas sapping the Christian conscience, whose religion was largely cant, humbug, and make-believe. lie pitied the miserable plutocra's, whose lives were barren of everything ;hai made life real, even more than he pitied the men and women in the workhouses. It was not poverty of pounds, shillings, and pence that ihe Labour parly was fighting, but poverty of m.nd, soul, and conscience. lie maintained that the Labour party in every country was standing for individualism, not against individualism, for liberty, not against it.