THE COMMONWEALTH

Evening Star, Issue 14533, 8 December 1910, Page 6

THE COMMONWEALTH

'I'HK CONSTITUTD>N RKFERF.NDU.M. Mil DKAKIN'S API'EAB. YOTIT^XQ." Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright SYDNKY, De.'ember 8. (Received December 0, at & a.m.) ilr Ileal;in liius i-rittco! an appeal lo the. men and woman of Australia in connection with tlic refexendum that is to 1,0 taken in April on the subject of altering the Constitution. Jle dedaifs iimt. the people'.-; rights and liberties, labor, ami Mor-'riy arc .it slake. 'Dm picsent Omi-lit-jtion was admirably adapted to preserve the necessary co-operation of State and Commonwealth, and contains ample provision for whatever rcadaptation is rendered neeessary by their national giowth. I'ae dovelopmeni of the Constitution .should proceed steadily. ciT-eumspec tly, and in a natural and healthy wanner. If the I!■>vernmenfs proposul amendments were carried, business of all kinds coul-i !>e <r.::-u..-.d and starved by legislation, witho-nt. compensation to either the men or the nwsterf,. The changes would give, the Federal Government ]K>wer to acquire certain ba-i----nesses, irrespective of their need or of any gain to the. employers or to the- public from the tranf-avclion. This was Socialism naked and unashamed. The amendments would authorise the Omens to juocipi'.-ate-political, social, and imlusirial revolution affecting tho whole Gominoiiwo.a.hh and the Continent. 110 strongly urges every elector to keep on preaching, -ind to vote "No" to the, amendments.