Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1904-01-20
EVIL EFFECTS
OF SOCIALISM
Australia is Totally Paralyzed by the
Class Legislation Of the soeialis-
tic Adherents.
THE POPULATION DECREASING
People Rapidly Emigratins-No
Chance for the Man Win Is Net
Labor unionist.
THE POPULATION DECREASING

washington, Jan. lE.-lne NoiohiH
err, a London journal devoted to col
o~nization and immigration, In Its De-
tober number prints the following
from the Globe:
The steady increasing number OF
departures from New South wales
and Victoria for Canada, South Al
RIGA and even Great Britain Is be-
ginning to awaken alarm in the com
monwealth. The steamers OF the
White Star and other lines are con
tinually leaving Australian ports with
full passenger lists. and nearly the
whole of the passenger accommoda'
ton has been booked for several
weeks to come. During the first SIX
months of the present year. according
TO official reports, no fewer than It,
1927 persons left New South Wales
alone for ports outside the common
wealth, the immigration exceeding
the immigration by 2,116. In addition
there has been a large influx Of New
South Wales and Victorian popul1.ion
into Western Australia. This Is one
OF the immediate effects OF socialist
labor legislation in the mother state
and Victoria. The people who are
leaving Australia are no mere clrls
of passage. They are mostly a class
who have been born or long settled In
Australia, many being steady, conlpe'
tent tradesmen; not a few belonging
TO the ranks OF master craftsmen,
others being pastoralists, farmers,
station hands-in fact, the very men
of which the commonwealth stands IN
most need. Scarcely any are trade
unionists. The non-unionist, under
the new order of things, has no place
in Australia. The g South Wales
industrial arbitration court and Tie
Victorian wages boards each refuses
to recognize his existence. He must
either Join O trade union or-stlrve.
Decreasing Population.
In the New South Wales provinces
the population during the decade
lS9l-l90l has remained almost sta
tionary, or has shown only limited
increase, while during two succeed
ing years there has beena marked
decline. Well may ii be said that
these facts afford a scathing common
tary on the socialist labor policy of
the existing state government.
Here" we are told, lis a country
whose state industrial institutions are
now run solely in the interests of The
worker; whose politicians leave nc
stone unturned to meet his every de
mand; in which, out Of all countries
in the world, II might be thought that
labor had found its elysium; and YET
the working man, as well as his en-
ployer, finds he cannot make a living
in It," Not in a land capable OF sup
porting the whole of the European
populations several times over. Tht
socialist labor party Is the declared
enemy of private enterprise and free
labor. Only within the last two Of
three days a deputation awaited or
a member of the state ministry In
place of the state premier, who was
absent, to ask that the manufacture
OF wire netting be included In the lis
of state industries, and received Z
sympathetic reply. II a state wire
netting factory is established, all thu
private works must be closed. II II
the same with the docks. Private en-
terprise is ready to supply the por
of New Castle with some dock &C
commodation urgently required, bu'
the socialist labor party insists tina
it shall be provided at the cost o.
the state, and when it is pointed ouI
that further state loans will be diff
cult to obtain, the reply is: "Increast
the taxation on capital No wonder
the capitalist as well as the laborel
Is anxious to leave a country in which
they are treated as enemies of thu
public welfare"
A Different Picture.
How different was the situation {
few years ago. previous to the advent
of the socialist labor party in thu
state and federal politics. AS Mr.
Reed, the leader of the federal oppo
sition, lately pointed out, Australia |.
the only new country In the yorlt
which Is not attracting population
Between 1861 and 1891 the additions
TO the Australian population had beer
between 100000 and 100000, but dur
ing the last ten years the excess Of
arrivals over departures had been on
ly 5000. At this rate OF progress Il
would take 1,200 years to reach the
level attained ten years ago. In the
one state (Victoria) where there hat
been the most legislation to make
the people happy, in the one state In
which there had been all these effort.
to do justice to the working people
wage boards and taxes to promote co
lonial industries and so on-peoplt
had cleared out OF 1t more extensive
ly than they had out of the other five
states. In the last ten years Victoria
had lost 10000 people. Official sta
~tistics show that the excess of emf
grants during the period 1879, 1901
was as follows: Victoria, 1889,
South Australia. 1929; and Tasman
ia, 1,94S. During the same period
Inc excess of immigrants was: West
ern Australia, 130,133; Queensland
2l,22l; and New South Wales, 8 1923
With the commencement Of socialist
labor legislation under the admins
tration of Sir John See, New South
Wales began to share the fate of Vic
toria, and appears destined to lose
the greater portion Of its most cap
able population within the next few
years unless the prohibitive restric
lions on labor and capital become
modified, II not improved. No wonder
that thoughtful men like the presi
dent of the Sydney chamber of com
merce, ask. HAS New South Vale,
ceased to attract the desirable immi
grant, the mar with more or less cap