REVOLUTION OR REFORM?

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 1, 1 July 1922, Page 6

REVOLUTION OR REFORM?

The British; Labour Party Conference is reported to -, have decided against (making" any alliance or electoral arrangement with* any section " of Liberals or Conservatives.^ " This month the New Zealand Labour Conference will be >sked to decide ;a question —whether an electoral : arrangement shall' be made between the, Labour Party- led by Mr. Holland and-the Liberals led by Mr.-Wil-ford.1 From the cabled proceedings it wouldappear that a Republican movement in ;the British Labour Party is showing/ some.!,activity, and that in proportion as "it advances 'the ballot-box prospects of Labour are likely to Retreat..; It is hard to see what appeal a Republican propaganda, can make. If the aim is to create a Kepublic on the line's.'of the United States, -the extremists who urge the destruction of capitalism, can have no real. interest in- it, t because where is. there ■■'■ a State more; i capitalistic than the iUnited States Republic? Republicans; in a democracy like England ;or"-Sew Zealandare either fighting for a' shadow, ■; or else they are;practising' camouflage} tb make/.Republicanism a ;transi-' tion stage.to Comrmiriism. A: constitutional Republic is not the Oomnninists' aim, and the United States Constitution,;is',not. their Mecca/ What greater freedom or opportunity is given by Republican constitutionalism than is given by constitutional monarchism? The real issue" iß* not between a President, and a Eing.,;'The real issuers between .property and no-pro-perty ; ■ and • "even. in, Russia they have been : compelled to come back to a property basis-and' to the capitalistic system. . ; .',