Identifier: ArenaMagazine-Volume35 (find matches)
Title: Arena magazine - Volume 35
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: B.O. Flower (ed.)
Subjects: progressivism -- United States liberalism reformism social reform Christian Socialism Gay 90s political commentary Benjamin Orange Flower Progressive Era social gospel
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position has achieved anything like somuch for the wealth-creators or the massesas has Mr. Seddon. Under the Liberal gov-ernment of New Zealand land for settlementlaws have been supplemented by the buildingof homes for workers and the selling of themon terms to encourage home-building. Con-ciliation or arbitration laws have abolishedstrikes and lock-outs and thus saved to theworkers vast sums while removing from thepeople the hitherto ever-present menace whichstrikes and lock-outs involve and the enormousburden of increased cost incidental to thesewar measures between labor and capital.Factory legislation favorable to the toilers,old-age pensions, workers compensation,employers liabilities, wage protection andprovisions for the higher education of thechildren of the people are only a few of theradical measures carried into successful opera-tion under the Liberal government of NewZealand, looking toward increasing the happi-ness, security, prosperity and development Digitized by Google
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Frank F. Stone, Sculp. •THE TWO AMBITIONS. 515 Digitized by Google 516 Men and Movements That Are Making for Progress. of the wealth-creators. Then the generalprovision for marketing the products of laborand the operation of the railways and all pub-lic utilities in the interests of all the people areother typical examples of what a twentieth-century civilized government can success-fully carry forward when the welfare of allthe people is not subordinated to the rapacityand greed of a privileged few. Mr. Seddon has also gone further than anyother statesman in his efforts to protect thehelpless ones of the nation. His old-agepension laws have been supplemented by statenursing homes and other provisions for theprotection and help of those needing the sup-port of wisdom and love embodied in the State. With the Prime Ministers imperialisticand protection views we confess we have nosympathy, but we rejoice to note that sincethe recent election he has signified the inten-tion of the gover

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