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Show An Experlmrnl In NjAlc .s'oclll. Th curlotlllee of th animal and vegetable world! lu Autlral a bid fair to llnd their countrirt lilnterntt In Ihe political aud eoelal d.veliipmelila Uklngplac III that antipodal world. We have eeeu alren y thai audi chauiM nny occur without Ihe knowledge know-ledge of the oulthle uatlonr, t or the welding of lb AuilraiUn rvlouleelnla ODe fedcrtled republic wtt ciinplelwi almoit Uforo the people or Ureat lliiulu, ho Are moil InterMtcd, wire aware or It. Thlt other iliange, the tramtormatlon or government In Australia Into aometnlng iletely an-pmarhliig an-pmarhliig the Ideal of Uie Htale mlallatt, bai gone forwarJ oven more tlleutly, and Tut now proceeded far enough to preicnt the world with Interesting leiiont In Uie way of !- InAuitralla lu general, and etpeclal-ly etpeclal-ly In tlmcolouy of Victoria, the labor organlritlont have carrleil pretty nearly ever)1hlngliefore them. Hlrlkiei have len more uumerput and more formidable than In any other country. Aa a rule, tho tlrlken have tuccceded In their oljrctt. The organisation have, moreover, ol telncd very complete com-plete control over the lltlcl authorities. author-ities. Thtie have ilervd to th labor vote, until thevot It pVactlcally tu-preme tu-preme In the tfi termination or Internal afjalra. We have, therefore, a community com-munity whoie airilra are arranged aud conducted eneiillally on the labor Ian) The eight-hour day la practically practic-ally accepted, not only In all Ibe leading lead-ing Iradi a but by the local And colonial Authorities. High wages have Uii aecurnllnlhe aamo nanuer. Hevire rettrlctloua on the number of penont eugaged In any trade are Id ellect; and the aurplut or labor for thrru jnuit alwa3abe a turplut where tucli llmllatlout are eiiforce.1 hat been employ! em-ploy! by the authorities In the construction con-struction of publlo worka. The Industrial Indus-trial orgAtiUatlon of the Houtli Hea oolony It fairly ettabllthed on Ibe trade union plan. A high protective tarlU secures home Industries agalntt oom-itltlon oom-itltlon from countries where longer houri and lower wagca Are In force. Ttie publla Undt of the colonies are held ruirilly for the future. There Is a tyiteui or minutely detailed factor y acta, which regulate Ihe employment or labor In manuracturlng luduilrlea. There It Iremeudoua educational ma thine. There are early clotlug acta for choje, and. In fact, everything that organised or-ganised labor has atked from the Htale, It has received. Organized labor la the rjtate, and it hat put In operation all the least doubtful of th socialistic Idea that have been auggeated elsewhere. These facta In the case are gathered from the elngle review of the aubject which liaa apeared. aa far at we are aware, an admirable peicr by Mr. Charles Fairfield, in A recent sibtka-Hoh. sibtka-Hoh. Now at to IhoreiulUof a t)e-tern t)e-tern which it urged ftr adoitkn In this country aa wellsas In others. And these, fortunately, are obtaluablo from an entirely reliable eource. A large nrtlon of the latest number of the consular- reporle of the United Htateala devoted tu an elaborate report on the ttatenf laburiu Auslralaala, by Mr. CI. W. Urinin, uouiul at Hydney. J'roni thlt we may gather exactly what hat been accouipllahed by this experiment liiHUtesoclallim. Mr. Urinin states, to begin with, that foreign immigration immigra-tion hat practically ceased. The labor organisations In the colonies colo-nies have decided that they want no further competition, and haveccaied loasslit ordetlrean addition addi-tion to their numliers. At a consequence, conse-quence, many Industries langulih from lack of skilled labor for their conduct. We come now to tlioqutitlon or wages. It it not open to question that the la. borert or Auilralla secure ahlghralo or remuneration for day's work restricted, re-stricted, In nearly all employments, to eight hours. That la oue side or the subject, and the tide which labor unions are able to control Let ut look at the other. "It It tho experience of American workmen In Hydney,"aaya Mr. Orlnlu, "that the coil of living, In tplte of lu being free port, it fully 3d mr cent, more than It It In nearly all the cltk of about the tarn tlse In America. Wheaten bread It about one-half dearer than In Han Francisco. Tint which retail here for 3d rents each can be purchated In the United Btalea out of season ror 12 tanta each. Tea andcofloere20ier taut, cheaper in nearly all the larger cltiea lu America than In Hydney." And to on through the Hit. A point to which wo with U call the etjioclal attention or our rrlindt who are advocating government govern-ment oonlrol of railroads la Hint, although all the railways are owned and controlled by the government, freight rates are 100 per cent, blither than In tbe United Htatra. Ho the high ratetof waget Is more than counterbalanced counter-balanced by high cost of living; and the worklngmau purehascs a short dyy'a work and la high wage at tbe cost ol lucreaied charget on every necessary neces-sary of life. He lias simply followed tho example or the Highlander, who proceeded to lengthen the tklrt ol hit kilt by outtlug piece from the ton and tewing it to th bottom of th t-ar. roent. Not III leaitilgnlnoant fact In thlt review It the relation or Ihe Hlate and lu fluancea to the soolalMIe regime. Where trudci are bound by rigid rules the number of penont admitted to them I restricted and non-union labor la denied Ihe right to exist, something mutt be doue for tho overplut of Jabnr thin excluded. It haa been provided with employment by the Hlate. Aa a result, tbe small colony of New Bouth Wales aloni, without aur war to waste capital, haa accumulated a lubllodebt of ISSO.BOMH. llie tame I. true or other colonies, while even works or private enterprise, which have to lo conducted by labor receiving prices ar-tlclflclally ar-tlclflclally high, have been Xonded for tremandoua turns, and are compelled to operate uuder A scaIo of sxtrAvagant iliargea In order to pjy ,, turns on an enormous Utl.t. The colonln are couttant borrowart In the inarkeU of (treat JlrlUI.. and the oontluenU They have not j tt thown au ability to maintain them, telves, on the existing eronomlo bstla without constant assistance from capital drawn from external sou nee In iblrt, tbe regime of Australasia bordering mora ntarly on tht aoolall f. Istlo than tl"l cfauy other clvl.l-l country,linotiiIylnl 1mI. .Income .In-come ilid it. for in Uborer have Intli Increased, loulor. Illui In lwl tbe time altiiAtbn, ellli rniard lotav-li,,athlrellow lotav-li,,athlrellow worker lu iwinUles whei wages art. reguUli-d by freedom of rupply aud deoiaudj but Ihe whole community It poorer by revolt or tho llmltatlou of producllon Ihroii; h trade iiulou regulatlone. and It l keln working order niily through is steady Incriixi of public Mid cortwrate In-del In-del tednrra. , , rhetystetnor lliiAriilerlng lu these colonlis is liotli loose nnd recklrs'. NobMly knows exactly what the In dfbtedneM Is. For cxara le, the- Hlale railways or Victoria report great stir ptusou hand! luvesllgstlott shows that it li nbUlneil by carrying forward this jiar't eice to tho next year's accounts, and thai A deficit really it Ills. II was at last kJmlttiU. n year ago, that Ihe net earning uf tho system sys-tem for the Uelveuiontli wet over n million dollars short of the accruing lutensl on Iwnda. Ilxtrnvageiit management man-agement and tho prosecution or needless need-less public workt, "In glveemploymint lu labor," h Increased the publla In-debledness In-debledness to such an extent thl Australian loan rannol bo floated wtlbout dinUulty In IliirjAud. During Dur-ing the last teven jeers thocxpeiisii ol Ihe government of Victoria hae Inor.finiJ by II r cent., while the iwHilallon IticrctM-U 13 lr cent, only, 1'itl Ho and coriurate debU rose, In the rami- time, Ji!.otW,0OJ higher, while Ihe annual eiports of proiluc and numifictures drorifl from $12, tKl,talloil1iKld,l)0. Bmill capiUlltla are leered away by the tyranny or the labor unions, and large ones by the Increase ol debt nnd taxation Willi the decllneof production and exports. If a country cat, find majority Along these lines, It will Accomplish a fiat never jillherto erformed lu the known Meanwhile Ihe coudltlou of tbe I ndl-vidua! ndl-vidua! laborer does not appear to be what one ought,to expect In A wotklng-mau'iradlic. wotklng-mau'iradlic. When wage are spoken spok-en at ''high," It It rather by way of comparison Willi l'.ngllah wazit than with those which revall In other couutrlc like Auslralla.whereabun-dautlandanilupiortuulty,wlthtcarcll)' Auslralla.whereabun-dautlandanilupiortuulty,wlthtcarcll)' of poiiutntlon, tueter ilimand for labor. Mr. Urllllu'a report glaes exhaustive tables or waLes In the dluTirent occupations. occupa-tions. An exainlnttlon of these shows aUmt tho same general average as It lalJinlheUiiUedHtates, n little below be-low rather Ihuu above. Ho, thai, while tho price of all ankles of ordinary continuation con-tinuation It greatly In excess of that charged III this country, and the cost or living Is from L'o to 10 per cent greater, the worklngmau's income is substantially Ihe same. All that he hat won byHstata Interference andState subordination to trade unionism It a scale of wage bated on the prlcis commonly laitd In a new country, and ices rather than more thaa would have beeu paid under free contract, At th experience of our own country proves. Thlt excrleiice not ouly deserves, it demanda study from those who believe be-lieve that the condition of labor can be bettered by constaut luterfereuio on thepartof Ihe Hlate. It remain! only to notice, by A word, the absolute denial de-nial of freedom of action which thlt system Involves for Ihe lalsjrer himself. Hero Is tho picture which Mr. Orinln, an Impartial authority, draws or the method or Kovernment by uulont And strikes in a nctiil instance It may be mentioned that patrols and pickets were aiiiolnled l) tho uulotislo Interfere with nnd lutluil date Ihose'who, because they did not come iiudir the orders ol the unions, endeavored lo irsue their ordluary occupations, oc-cupations, end the most arbitrary and uiOuitlflablo methods weru resorted to for the-avowed purpose of indicting hindrance and loaa upon certain em-employers. em-employers. No efleolhe notice wat taken by the government ol these proceedings pro-ceedings any further than to tend a police or military farce to preserve urdcrlulbeovenf of any violence being be-ing committed by either aide. Hpvclal constables were also aworn In, and their employment, together with the AddltlonAl expense entailed through the uto of the regular mllltln and ullco force, tnvblved the country In very heavy expenditure, but thla expenditure expendi-ture waa small in comparison with that occasioned by the atuppage of tbe shipping, coal mines, gat works, II our mills, Iron foundries, shearing opera-tlont opera-tlont aud trade generally while the sirlko lasted . Thlt la Ihe netieeultto dale of the nearest a proacli tohtale toclallim.vcn-lured toclallim.vcn-lured upon by any AnghHaxon o-pie, o-pie, with n fiee field for action, and with n high capacity for managlug new Institutions. How doea It teem to strike tho believers In Incessant Htato interference, and the ettabli)iraent or benevolent pAternallsmT St, J'aut 7tii liunter. |