CONSCRIPTION OF WEALTH.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 248, 19 October 1928, Page 6

CONSCRIPTION OF WEALTH.

t tv'!* I*'1*'' 8 " letter on this subject is welcome, witwif ev< l r y. liberal-minded person agrees with the principle of conscription of wealth as 1 as of manhood. The issue was raised a ? g ° fa y the "Christian Science . , ni r » . and the amount of support the principle received was noteworthy. The difficulty is to apply the principle. In numerous cas« it is much easier to conscribe service than wealth, ft>r the reason that wealth is not easdy realisable. Many people persist in . . Ul ? wealth in terms of money; tiny imagine the wealth of a country as sovereigns neaped up in a room, which can be shovelled out when they are wanted. Wealth really exists in innumerable forms, and often it ii only wealth so long as it is used in a certain way. A business may be worth £100,000, but 1 is only worth that as a going concern. You cannot pick it up and convert it into a hundred thousand sovereigns or pound notes. Similarly i , Oln ®, * man over militarv age may be worth £1000, but it may be quite impossible to take that £1000 as his contribution to • war. On the other hand, it may be quite n«J to hanl his younger neighbour off to serve in *"»/• LIBERAL ALSO.