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the employers of labour should " if necessary 

 send to foreign countries for workmen and then 

 let the refractory see who will be able to hold 

 out longest." This is the struoforle a outrancc y 

 though he makes no express reference to the 

 evolutionary formula here. Few thoughtful 

 Englishmen would now venture to o-o so far 

 as that and deliberately to propose, as Strauss 

 does, the complete suppression of the liberty of 

 association among the workmen, however much 

 they may envy autocratic methods and imitate 

 them, when they get the chance, on a small scale 

 and in a feeble way. But there are very many,, 

 even of our most Radical politicians, who, 

 while allowing or encouras'inQf trades-unions to 

 struo-o-le for higher waQfes and a reduction of the 

 hours of labour, object to the State meddling at 

 all in the matter, except in the case of women 

 and children, or as J. S. Mill would have put 

 it, except in the case of children only. Adults 

 are to be left to shift for themselves. Well, we 

 know what that means. It is needless to use 

 any vivid or picturesque language. Those 

 who have eyes to see and ears to hear can see 

 and hear for themselves. This system of un- 

 checked competition one cannot repeat it too 



