PROCfiEDINQS OF SECTION F. 



land, having its agents in foreign parts, and sending its 

 messengers throughout the country to obtain and give infor- 

 mation ; to assist as far as possible by its agents in opening 

 up markets in foreign lands ; and by means of a deliberative 

 body, to aid as far as possible in all these efforts. To carry 

 out such an organisation such a department should be under 

 the control of men entirely free from political influences. 

 The electors should be represented by the different classes 

 engaged in gainful occupations, or divisions of those classes. 

 Employers of labour in manufacturing industries would be 

 one class or division ; merchants and those engaged in 

 importing and exporting goods should be another ; wholesale 

 warehousemen and wholesale dealers another class ; retail 

 shopkeepers and dealers, the owners of realised wealth, manual 

 workers in manufacturing industries, in mining industry, 

 those engaged in personal service, &:c. should all be separate 

 classes. The officials of the Department should be those 

 chosen by the majority of the classes for a limited time. 

 They would be the men most trusted in the community, 

 most distinguished for ability and integrity. They might or 

 they might not be eligible for re-election. Once elected for 

 a term they should be subject to no interference or political 

 influence. The constitution of the country would provide 

 that the law of the industrial system should be unalterable 

 to the detriment of any contract entered into, and that any 

 alteration therein should take place only after efficient 

 constitutional checks. 



What is to be the ultimate result of the present antagonism 

 between labour and capital? — of the existence of constantly 

 increasing numbers of unemployed in every large country ? 

 of the progress of socialistic thought ? — of the desire for change 

 and the reconstruction of society ? How are the contending 

 and opposing forces, whose joint efforts are so essentially 

 required for the work of progress, to become reconciled? — by 

 what means can they be made to work harmoniously together ? 

 — how are the rocks ahead to be avoided? — except by some 

 such organisation of the industrial system as that which I have 

 suggested. The existence of large numbers in each country 

 unable to find employment, must be recognised as a fact society 

 has to deal with — to be dealt with indiscriminately, or by the 

 State. The obhgation of the State to concern itself with the 

 question is, 1 believe, the opinion of the vast majority, and 

 one which it will insist upon. If the operations of capital in 

 the formation of trusts, which absolutely control production 



