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 voters would become the most potent factor in the field 

 of modern politics, and the Government of the day could 

 use this new force with powerful effect. Among other 

 things, it could be used with deadly results against the 

 advancing ranks of Red Socialism, which, taken in flank 

 by this new and unlooked-for foe, would have to bring 

 about a speedy change of front or suffer crushing defeat. 



We have seen, in the foregoing pages, how Sociahsm in 

 Germany met with a fatal defeat in the general elections 

 in January of last year because industrial Germany, 

 particularly the agricultural industry, being in a highly 

 prosperous condition, wanted peace, not riot and tumult, 

 and she got it. Go to Germany to-day, and you will 

 find a state of prosperity unequalled by any civilised 

 State in the world — general prosperity and social and 

 economic peace. 



This powerful reinforcement of the political power of 

 the State used against the forces of this modern de- 

 structive Socialism, would destroy them as surely as the 

 fervid sunbeams melt the snowflakes, while they might 

 be used with equal force in many directions to "right 

 the wrong " and to sweep away much that is bad and 

 hurtful in the administration of national affairs. 



Create this multitude of new voters, treat them justly 

 and with consideration, and you will have a new political 

 power before which Irish Nationalists, Socialists, Little 

 Englanders, Empire wreckers and paid political agitators 

 of all sorts will be swept away as easily as the strong 

 autumnal gales sweep away the fallen leaves of the 

 orest. 



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