The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-28
cialsn. the publicity bill would serve very we'll"
 Exnarirnanfs in Australia.

MT. Parry then turned his attention tc Australia, as an example of what il means for a country to embark upon SO cial experiments designed to evade na' tural law and to destroy individual rights for the supposed benefit of all. "Compul- sorry arbitration, eight-hour bills, old age pensions. land tax, government ownership of railroads, etc.-what a repertoire we find there of millennium makers" said the speaker. 'One ought to expect that pros- perity. plenty and happiness there would point a moral to the rest of the world. but instead, the land is full of controvor- sial strife and public works to keep the unemployed busy. Althought a new, un- developed country. it appears that 1t is only by free expenditure of borrowed money that a semblance of good times is maintained. even during this worldwide prosperity"
 Mir. Parry then pointed out that the public debt per capita in Australia was s263.s0 and in New Zealand it was about s333. He compared these figures to the $12.H per capita indebtedness of the United States. The speaker declared that immigration into New Zealand had prac- tically ceased and that its birth rate Is only a slight fraction higher than 1t was in 1890: And yet" said he .this is the boasted country without strikes, the home of compulsory arbitration, land tax and don't know what all. The prophecy is freely made that 1t is rushing head long into bankruptcy despite all the ef- forts to lift itself by its boot-straps. as it were, into the millennium. Do you gentle men want any New Zealand nostrums ex- perimented with in this country? Yet you are being asked today by many infential gentlemen to adopt conciliation and arbi- tration of more or less compulsory character"
 Effects of Strikes.
 Mir. Perry also gave few of his char
 acterizations of strikes, saying that they were violent attempts to override nat
 ural law and that the only thing they succeeded in doing was to dislocate in. dustry, reduce production and lower the rates of real wages. They are marked by outrages on personal liberty, by mur- derous assaults. by defiance of organized authority, by black-mail and by displays of the basest passions of men. The lead CTS of organized labor proudly claim that there were but eight murders committed in the anthracite district on account of Mitchell's strike, only four of which the leaders say. can be justly laid at the door of organized labor-only four. Thus the claim is made that organized labor does not sympathize with crime and vio- lence. But would like to ask these de- luded men if any one of these murders has been avenged by the law. Suppose that the Catholic Church. or the Masons or the Odd Fellows should commit four murders to advance the alleged purposes of their organization. What a wave of protest would go up if even one murder were committed by such an organization. yet the agitators take pride in the fact that they won the anthracite strike and only four men were ambushed and .mur- dered in cold blood. Look at the case of agitator Parks of New York City. This man has been indicted and thrown into prison on the charge of bribe taking and extortion. but organized labor trium- phantly re-elects him to office. No won- der that the public stomach is rebelling against the tyranny of organizations which seemingly prefer to be governed | by blackmailers. thieves and grafters Compromise must be resisted to the Issi and the only adequate means of doing this, in my mind is to be found in wide spread and thorough organization of the