Excerpt from An Exposure of Socialism: Three Addresses and a Debate

The Address and Debate here reproduced took place in the Athenaeum Hall, Melbourne, on four successive Mondays, between the 26th of July and the 15th of August, 1904. They arc now published in response to a widespread demand, and I have to thank several public spirited and anonymous citizens, who have generously furnished a guarantee fund for their publication. The debate arose through a challenge, issued at the termination of the first lecture, by the Social Democratic Party of Victoria, which selected Mr. H. Scott Bennett, M.L.A., as its champion. The report of the debate has been examined by representatives appointed by the two debaters, and certified to by them as being a correct and verbatim report.

My thanks are also due to the eminent gentleman who kindly consented to take the chair, and especially to my friend Mr. W. H. Renwick, to whose organising ability, employed on this as on many previous occasions on my behalf with absolute unselfishness, the success of these lectures was largely due.

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