Even without "State Socialism" or labor reform the working people would share temporarily in this prosperity as they did to a large degree in that of the United States immediately after the Civil War, until the free land began to disappear.

It was impossible to pay exceptionally low wages to a workingman who could enter into farming with a few months' notice.
The Labour Party hopes to use nationalization of monopolies and the compulsory regulation of wages to insure permanently to the working classes their share of the benefit of the new prosperity.

How much farther such measures will go when the agricultural element again becomes dominant is the question.

It is already evident that the Australian reform movement, like that of New Zealand, includes, or at least favors, the same class of employing farmers.

The fact that a Labour Party is in the opposition in New Zealand, while in Australia a Labour Party has led in the reforms and now rules the country, should not blind us to the farmers' influence.