University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1914-05-03
p. SOCIALISM IN OUR TINE.
ESd4 Of The .N,hOOl 0r JoH,HalIm
tiaI.r,sH. ot MIssOh,I.

suggestion has any considerable politi-
cal support. The railway service is
crude, its finances are muddled and
it has followed in the development of
the country, rather than. as in the
about this development The back
blocks have not as many votes as the
suburbs of Sydney. brisbane, and Mel
bourne or the city wards. An apparent
improvement is noticeable in the railway
service and the general management
shows betterment. The politician.
through the pressure of an enlightened
public opinion, is coming, though slow
ly, to regard the railway system as
non-political enterprises The evils
of the system have been largely due to
hot-hOuse politics
Socialism 4 Growth.
Socialists and Anti-Socialists in
Australia" said W. NJ. Hughes, Labor
member of parliament and former at
torney- general, have the most extra
ordinary ideas of what Socialism really
is. 1t is not something TO be brought
about by Act of Parliament or by
vote. IL is a growth just as a boy
grows into man. Socialism will
come in Australia but by slow growth.
Complete collectivism, when We get
that far. will appear the most ordinary
natural and inevitable thing in the
world for those who live under it.
Many will think it perfect system
and others will object To il, but by all
it will be regarded as perfectly nat
ural. Socialism, which as | under
stand it. means the substitution of co
operation for competition, will re
place individualism gradually but
surely because it is the fittest to sur
yivc. The belief that Socialism cIn
be achieved by any coup. violent or
peaceful. can only be- entertained by
not only what Socialism is but wha.
those factors which make for change
are. The Lambeth conference commit
tee wisely concluded that any sys-
TEN of Social reconstruction may b.
called Socialism which aims AT uIIitin.
Labor and the Instruments of labor
tland and capitab whether by means
Of the state or the cooperation of the
poor. Modern Socialism is here: less
robust. less complex, less comprehen-
sive, than il will he in the years to
come, bur it is here. Just as IA boy is
less robust than man. and. in the
sense that a boy is not a man. Social
ism is not here now and. in the SENSE
that a boy is a man. Socialism is here
i'll Australia now
AS 10 the progress toward larger
Socialism. 1T is our policy" said the
Secretary Of the Sydney Labor Council.
to hold what we possess and strive for
more. What the Sydney working peo-
pie, for example. want lust now is
house room at a moderate rental and
this can be secured only by the govern
ment building cottages wherever the
workman may wish And A. W.
Pearse editor of the Pastoral Review.
able Anti-Socialist. said. few minutes
afterward: The state should assist
rural laborers to procure small areas
i'll rural districts. where they can
marry and rear families close to their
daily work. They would soon lose
their Socialistic inclinations." And
the Liberal Prime Minister of the Com I
monwealth. Joseph Cook. remarked:
The pictures drawn of Socialism would
be beautiful il il were not for the
black blotches on them. Against that
Kind Of Socialism the Liberals are
united These expressions of opinion
from PERSONS of widely divergent polit- 4.
iCal beliefs show the existence of so
cialistic sentiment in all parties in
Australia. Between them il is merely
Il question of degree.
1t is curious paradox that the So
called Anti-Socialists of the Liberal
party have enacted as much socialistic
legislation. laws directly opposed to
as the avowedly social
IStlc section of the Labor party when /.
in control. Names do not friehten
the Australian. He is rather con-
crrned as to results.
Aim OF Life Not Business.
And what are the results? General
ization is dangerous Certain results. f.
however. are apparent. The working
day OF long hours is passing away.
There is less work and more play i'm
Australia than in any other civilized
Private capital which finds
better returns elsewhere does not rush .
to the iSlandcontinent Individual
initiative is not SO keen. The average
leans against the wall or
no h.,