Mr. C. Bradlaugh, M. P., and the Socialists.

Auckland Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 93, 21 April 1887, Page 7

Mr. C. Bradlaugh, M. P., and the Socialists.

i/,rv n% morning, before a large audience J2 Hall; 6f Londqu, Mr Brad,,^l concluding a course; of lectures on saidu [* m !ltß dangers and its Fallacies," SS WUgh. as a rule he was not in, ctjS'H^ttoiKling churches on Sundays ' ei f,S". officr'tirnes'(a laugh), he must incut. " vßtr°Pg disapproval of the copr "*4t\ i - s6;?Mldfl^Socialists who on Wm Ti y ■ '1101ininga uisturbed copgrpBot 4^ ."^omp metropolitan churches, Mote ar Jrcir^Qn4sey-s,rtuare T wherq eitiier ■T- ;t"e church parade a public S| a m;helr3, at which 'one' of the ■lilSLWN*;Morris, was r^ppr^ tcf clMßeߥf^ m Foydsi—'.'The. wovkinff thbif &S« - country - will. never improve resort to physical c W« ;Pyi&ls-*», revolvers of Sir by^ag JjpW Al4 the pojico myst b§ m.et «Bsf Sf Twolvorp and a resort to the efetj on Kf- S' m°re destructive in thoir a,'H9 and, propejty th 8 u dyr?amite."

Mr Bradlaugh said he had no hesitation in denouncing as most wicked and cowardly the men who spoke such dangerous and dastardly language as this to semi-starving and desperate men, arid' no amount of suffering by the unemployed wouldjustify the resort to such base and diabolical^ means a3 the Use of weapons and chemicals for the de^" striictiou of human life and property. JSeither were they iust|fie,d hi dlgturbihg qongregations in the churches "or otlier places of worship on Sunday mornings or ab Any other time—they should have some, consideration for the feelings of otjwr people, and if they thought proper to call attention to their grievances by such a curious method, they ought to conduct themselves properly and decorously whilst they were in theao places of worship, which probably many of them, were unaccustomed to attend. He denied the contention of the Socialists that them • was a combination of men of capital to oppress the labourers and workers, although he would bo the last to maintain that posspSfiprs of capital had nc\-or oi^pressed the labourer. The present unhappy relation between labour and capital had grown up through a long course of ages in tho struggle for existence, and-was. not tho doings of any man.gr set of men, capitalists or otherwise. It was a system of development, and nob of fabrication.