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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 75

The Hunger for Gold

The Hunger for Gold

to the extent that men are in the Old Country. Not that you have not the incipient germs of this selfishness, greed, and meanness: you have all these, but they are not so developed as they are in the Old Country. So much the better for the new country! (Applause). We in the Old Country have had to meet with an opposition at once unscrupulous and powerful—an opposition headed by the most virile of intellects, whose resources—I was going to say devilry—defy every instinct of justice, every sense of right, and every human passion to alter, to combat us and to set us back; and we have to fight that opposition with our own forces demoralised. We have to fight that opposition when many of our workmen themselves are half inclined to believe what has been sedulously inculcated in them in the past, that God intended that they should be contented with their state, such as it is. We have to fight the representatives of religion—and I speak with due regard for many of the self-sacrificing souls that form the clergy of many religions—we have to fight a class of warfare such as this with many of our own people inclined to kick us, or to