HOW TO PREVENT WAR.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLVI, Issue 75, 25 March 1912, Page 6

HOW TO PREVENT WAR.

"LABOR HAS IT IN ITS HANDS."

Dr* Bey.an, for many yea rs pastor of the Collins Street ... Independent, Church, Melbourne, and now principal in ; the-Park' Theological College, Ade-: laid©, has just returned to "the latter city after a trip through Europe. "Froih< what I could gather," he told an interviewer, "there seems to bo a most remarkable tendency towards peace among the nations. All thinking men must ,agree that the question' of war has been taken out*of the hands of -monaxchs and politicals, and has" passed into the safe keeping of the International Labor party and the bankers of the.various countries of the world. Credit has during the last 25 years, become the universal basis of transaction, and in the event of war, if the banks closeddown, the shops .would cease to operate, and internally the country would be at a standstill. Apart from that, 'I believe that Labor has it in its •: hajlds/to stop wax, and if the working men in the country which declared war downed tools to a man wax j<.would stop by dinnertime the same day. It would resolve the position into a question of ways and means. It would place the mailer entirely in the hands of the bankers as distributors of wealth and the source of .credit, and at the disposal of Labor as the producer of wealth. This as!pect of the question is dawning in the mind of the people" of the world, and already, it has passed beyond the (borders of dreamland, and is, a hard actual fact."