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The Shadow
Although the question of alien immigration into the British Empire has been frequently brought into prominence during recent years, there are comparatively few people who realize its tremendous importance.
This ignorance is partly due to the growing tendency of the majority of people to avoid great questions because they appear to be abstruse and complex, but the chief reason lies,
undoubtedly, in the fact that the press, throughout almost the whole civilized world, is so completely under the heel of the capitalist that it dare not make the truth known.
For it is the capitalist who is chiefly responsible for such immigration. It enables him to work his great industries with cheap labour, and, therefore, it is to his interest that the people should be kept in the dark as to the evil consequences arising therefrom.
And so perfectly is this blindfolding system '[maintained that the ignorance of one British colony of the internal condition of another is just as complete as it is amongst the respective inhabitants of any one of them.
It is only when the veneer of seeming prosperity and respectability is penetrated, and when one enters the ranks of labour, that the terrible ravages created by the alien can be properly appreciated.
The reader will not need to be reminded that the British Empire is represented entirely by her labouring classes; from them she receives sustenance, and from them only she obtains her strength in time of peril.
This ignorance is partly due to the growing tendency of the majority of people to avoid great questions because they appear to be abstruse and complex, but the chief reason lies,
undoubtedly, in the fact that the press, throughout almost the whole civilized world, is so completely under the heel of the capitalist that it dare not make the truth known.
For it is the capitalist who is chiefly responsible for such immigration. It enables him to work his great industries with cheap labour, and, therefore, it is to his interest that the people should be kept in the dark as to the evil consequences arising therefrom.
And so perfectly is this blindfolding system '[maintained that the ignorance of one British colony of the internal condition of another is just as complete as it is amongst the respective inhabitants of any one of them.
It is only when the veneer of seeming prosperity and respectability is penetrated, and when one enters the ranks of labour, that the terrible ravages created by the alien can be properly appreciated.
The reader will not need to be reminded that the British Empire is represented entirely by her labouring classes; from them she receives sustenance, and from them only she obtains her strength in time of peril.
30 pages, Hardcover
Published January 1, 1904
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