HOW TO PREVENT WAR.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 14933, 5 March 1912, Page 8

HOW TO PREVENT WAR.

,: LABOUR HAS IT IN ITS HANDS." Dr. Bevan, for many years pastor of the Collins-street Independent Church, Melbourne, and, now principal in the Park Theological. College, Adelaide, has just returned to the latter city after a trip through Europe. "From what I could gather," ho told an interviewer, " there seems to be a most remarkable tendency towards peace among the nations. All thinking men must agree that the question of Avar has been taken out of the hands of monarchs and politicians, and has passed into the safe keeping of tho International Labour party, and the bankers of the various countries of the world. Credit has during the last 25 years becomo the universal basis of transaction, and in the event of war, if the banks' closed down, the shops would cease to operate, and internally the country would be at a standstill. Apart from that, I believe that Labour has it in its hands to stop war, and if the working men in the country which declared war downed tools to a man war would stop by dinner-time the same day. It would resolve the position into a question of ways and means. It would place the matter entirely. in the hands . of the bankers as distributors of wealth and the source of credit, and at the disposal of Labour as the producer of wealth. This aspect 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