It is a curlews commentary on the effect of an extreme Labour Government that in the State of Queensland, which alone has such a Government, there should be many unemployed. There are no unemployed in the other States, and there seems truth in the assertion of the Prime Minister, Mr. Hughes, that the lack of employment in Queensland is due simply and solely to the thoroughly bad government of the State Labour administration.
The fact is incontrovertible today, even as it was in the days of ancient Rome, that you cannot make people happy and contented by the gift of doles from the public funds, Some 2,000 unemployed have been clamouring at the office of the State Ministers demanding work The Government is compelled to say that it is without funds to make work, It tried, as the French did in the middle of last century, the expedient of sending the un-
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