The Auckland Star WITH WHICH AND INCORPORATED The Evening News, Morning News and The Echo and The Sun. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1938. TO-MORROW!

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 243, 14 October 1938, Page 6

The Auckland Star WITH WHICH AND INCORPORATED The Evening News, Morning News and The Echo and The Sun.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1938. TO-MORROW!

For the cause that lacks assistance. For the irrontj that needs resistance, Fur the future in the distance, A nd the good that ice can do.

To-morrow is the day when you have to decide f.hether you are to preserve your individuality or gradually sink down until you all become servants of the State. Three yts»rs ago the electors placed in power a Labour Government. In the interval that has elapsed this Government has shown you clearly by deeds as well as by words that its goal is the complete socialisation of the Dominion and the suppression of all individual liberty and ambition. This is a policy entirely alien to that to which we owe our remarkable development during a brief century. The history of New Zealand is a wonderful romance. Our assured position to-day is not the outcome so much of the leadership of our Governments as it is due to the vision and industry of our pioneers and their descendants. This little country, with its population of less than 1,750,000, lias achieved an economic security of which we may well be proud. Roads and railways have overcome geographical disadvantages and from Cape Reinga to the southern light on a pier at the Bluff is a people of city dwellers, urban residents, and those who make their living from the soil who all are well provided for and happy. The principles that have placed New Zealand where it is to-day are certain to advance the people to increased prosperity and a fuller life intellectually. It only remains for a younger generation to build upon the sound foundations that have been laid. Theirs is the opportunity of independence and an old age spent in comfort quite apart from adventitious State aid.

But a new order has arisen. Its view is that individual ambition is subversive to the interests of the people, that, in effect, everyone should be reduced to a common denominator. Instead of trying to build up to a higher degree of comfort and even luxury, the palpable effort of the Government is to bring about reduction to a level that might quite easily in this small and dependent country mean abject poverty and distress for the population as individuals and as a whole. The Labour party stands for Socialism. Mr. Savage, its leader, when questioned, cannot be pinned down beyond saying "We are going somewhere." Mr. .Lee is more outspoken and admits in his book on the Socialist State that he envisages that a person might be permitted a small deposit in a Government savings bank on which a limited return might be allowed. The reasonable assumption is that beyond this the individual would own nothing, neither home, farm, business, nor indeed anything beyond a feir personal chattels. His or her work would be regulated and paid for by the State and individual effort towards personal independence would be arbitrarily destroyed.

There are the two pictures. One presents the possibilities of independence in a country that it still young; the other the subjection of liberty to a State domination that in this as in other eases means the rule of Labour demagogues who would be themselves ruled by a caucus of trades anions. These are not exaggerated pictures of what the elector is faced with when he goes to the poll to-morrow. To him or her is given the opportunity of maintaining an individuality that may" lead, given industry, to any position that this country has to offer. The alternative Is to bccome an automaton in a Socialist State.

Those are the issues and it is for the electors to make their choice. Especially does this affect a younger generation whose lives through the years ahead are destined to be spent in Xew Zealand. Here they can remain either as units of a Socialist country or, as individuals, retain the right to carve out for themselves a career, and, establishing a name, leave for their descendants a worthy inheritance.