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The Review of Reviews. 



December 1, IMi. 



the real interests of the very people for whose 

 benefit they were supposed to be framed. But if 

 the principle of old age pensions were once adopted, 

 and it only remained to find the funds with which 

 to carry it' out, he would do his utmost to see that 

 the additional taxation required was not filched out 

 ©f the scant earnings of Labour, as is done in Vic- 

 toria and New South Wales, or by the extra taxa- 

 tion of tea and kerosene, as is proposed by the 

 Federal Government, supported, I am sorry to see, 

 by so staunch a democrat as Mr. J. H. Carruthers, 

 the Premier of New South Wales, who in this 

 matter has fallen very far below his ideal. If old 

 age pensions are to be conceded there is only one 

 source whence the required revenue should be de- 

 rived, and that is from that great communal fund 

 of land values, which, having been directly created 

 solelv by the presence and needs of the community, 

 belongs by right to the community, and should be 

 appropriated and expended on its behalf ; no 

 graduated tax such as the Labour Party so un- 

 justly propose, but equably levied on all alike. 

 While admiring the lofty patriotism of the late Sir 

 Henry Parkes, who visioned a White Australia 

 through the spectacles of a seer, the new Individual- 

 ist would despise the narrow-minded action of the 

 Labour Party and others who have turned what was 

 a noble aspiration into a weapon of cruelty and 

 spite. While partly sympathising with the senti- 

 ment underlying preferential trade, the new Indi- 

 vidualist would recognise in the proposals of Messrs. 



Deakin and Lyne an attempt to sneak in Protection jl 

 under the guise of a nobler aim. f 



THE STANDAED OF DESIOCEACY. 



In the great struggle between Socialism and In- 

 dividualism which is now being waged, the new In- 

 dividualist, however little he may sympathise with 

 the merely negative policy of the anti-Socialists, has 

 no option for the moment but to support Mr. Reid, 

 since, whatever may be his shortcomings, he is at 

 any rate by far the ablest advocate in Australia of 

 personal liberty and individual rights. The sweetest 

 and most precious thing that this round world holds 

 is the right of every man to do what he wills with 

 his life, and this paramount liberty, for which our 

 fathers for centuries past have fought and bled, is 

 offered up as a sacrifice by the so-called Labour 

 Party, and is in danger of being trampled in the 

 dust! De Tocqueville, who said a good many 

 sprightlv things, never said a truer one than when 

 he pointed out that Democracy and Socialism were 

 agreed as to the primary importance of one single 

 word, EQUALITY, but' that, while Democracy de- 

 sired equality in liberty, Socialism sought equality 

 in compulsion and servitude. The Labour Party 

 offer us the latter, which, I am convinced, the 

 great majority of the workers, so soon as they 

 realise what it means, will indignantly reject, and 

 ■ that instead of the banner of Socialism, the stan- 

 dard of the new Individualism will be unfurled 

 wherever the principles of true democracy are rightly 

 understood. 



I have been very pleased with the warm personal link which has been established «ith a 

 great many of our subscribers whom I know only by their writing to ask for information upon 

 different matters. I shall be glad if this acquaintanceship extends to others. I cannot guarantee to 

 be able to answer every enquiry upon social and political matters, or upon any others having re- 

 ference to different subjects, but I will do my best to get in communication with friends who are 

 authorities upon different subjects, in order to assist my correspondents. If, therefore, any subscriber 

 wishes for any information which he cannot get locally, I sihall be pleased to do what I can to help. 

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