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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 75

The Tigers of Capitalism

The Tigers of Capitalism

(applause); but that it shall be the home of the brave and the free. (Applause.) In coming to your country I have been met with requests to know how we are building our movement. "What is Socialism?" say some people. Some folks imagine, and the general common heresy of the more ignorant or wilful is that we Socialists want to put all the money into one heap and take our share, and then to come another day for a further distribution. I am stating that because some newspaper editors lack economic education so much as to publish such nonsense as that; and I want, if I can, to give you some of the reasons that have urged us to be more extreme in the Old Country than you page 6 appear to be here. I want to say at once that capitalism is not so well organised in New Zealand as in Great Britain. You have a settler class in this country—a class that has helped to build up its own fortunes; you have a class of men here who have helped to turn your scrub and your forests into smiling fields and pastures; and you have a class here who have grown with your growth and who have some pride in their country, and who are not as yet imbued with