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The Review of Reviews. 



June I, 1906. 



The Gridiron Map — The Senate. 



Showing the strength of SociaI;sm in the Federal Parliament The Mack fars (red in the original; show the atja of land 



■ in the differenB States represented b> Socialists- 



^Sopyright by the Australian Fress-Cutting iaency.^ 



bers are i)ermeated with socialistic ideas. One very 

 Striking feature about it is that Queensland, South 

 Australia and Western Australia are so largely 

 affected. The comparative blankness of Victoria 

 and the freedom of New South Wales from what 

 Mr. Reid would call a socialistic taint are ver\' mani- 

 fest. Queensland and West Australia are very much 

 on a level, and South Australia follows closely be- 

 hind. Of course, the first question that everybody 

 will a^k is, " What is the basis upon which Mr. 

 Connell has made his calculations?" In reply to 

 that question, I cannot do better than quote from 

 a letter or two which he has placed in mv hands, 

 with permission to reproduce. These letters are re- 

 spectively from Mr. J. C. Watson, Senator McGregor, 

 and the editor of the Queensland Worker, in reply 



to letters sent to them by Mr. Connell for definitions 



of Socialism: — 



Sydney, March 12th. 19C6. 

 Dear Sir,— 



In reply to your letter, I may say that in my view those 

 people are right who class as Socialism all schemes for the 

 atlvancement of the commanity. While I tliink that to be 

 so technically, the word has acquired a significance as par- 

 ticularly applying to Collectivism as against Individualism, 

 Accepting this view. I should define Socialism as aiming at 

 the abolition of the present competitive and therefore 

 chaotic, industrialism, with the object of substituting the 

 collective ownership of land and capital and the scientific 

 control of production and exchange, and distribution on 

 behalf of the whole people. 



Sincerely yours, 



(Signed) J. C. WATSOX. 



ilr. W. J. Connell, Melbonrne. 



Senator McGregor gives as his definition : — ■ 



Socialism: The carrying out or performance by the Go- 

 vernment of the State or Municipalfty of all those services, 

 undertakings, and possible monopoliei that in the interests 



