THE SOCIAL REVOLUTION.

Evening Star, Issue 14965, 27 August 1912, Page 1

THE SOCIAL REVOLUTION.

In the Quosn's Theatre on Sunday evening Mr H. E. Holland gave a lecture entitled "Fi'-uii Uie lavage to tile Revolution.' After tiacir.L' the development of man down the ages," the lecturer dealt with th« various great inventitins that revolution ified industry in the eighteen.h and nineteenth centuries, and ihe accompanying progress 01 organisation of the workers on the industrial and political field in all civilised countries. The lecture:- proceeded to say that man, conqueror of Nature, had yet to free himself. He still bowed his reck to the system that rested on his own wonderful contrivances. In England the. workers only received about one-hfth of the wealth they created ; in Air.err.a the share was 17 ]»r cent. ; in Australia and New Zealand about one-fifth But the records of socialism all over the world showed how surely and how rapidly this order was destined" to change. Jhe workers were awaking, national bo'indariei were disappearing, and the internationality of labor was being proclaimed. Xational flags were being hauled down in the ranks of the workers, and the red flag was fast being recognised as ihe only flag worthy of tha salute of the world's workers. " To-day oppression rules." lie declared ; "to-moi-row freedom comes. To-day political government prevails; to-momv we shall have industrial democracy. To-day, in all the lands of capitalism, there are want and hunger and misery in the midst of plenty; to-morrow the birds *hai eing and the flowers shall bloom in tb" gardens of life where the children pi«-/'; the pun of economic freedom shaJl rriine eu the lives of the women we lore ; and for evermore, as Fj-anklyn Wentworth haa splendidly <-:; id, the name of master sha'l fade into the shadows of a tyrannous past."