SOCIAL CREDIT

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXV, Issue 12306, 21 April 1937, Page 2

SOCIAL CREDIT

HARD TO DEFINE Wellington, April ,20. “Before you change your present system, which works passably well, just make sure you substitute something that is an improvement upon what has stood the British people in good stead for centuries,” said the Leader of the Opposition, the Hon A. Hamilton, in an address to the Wellington branch of the Douglas Social Credit movement. Mr Hamilton said New Zealand was enjoying the best standard of living the world had ever known, in spite of the slump. He warned people not to he led astray by the lure of easy money. Social Credit was very difficult to define. It involved a study of the monetary system, and a study of anything was good. “British people,” said the speaker, “talk about their troubles and magnify them. Very often they give ten times more discussion to their troubles than to the blessings they enjoy. I often think of the old hymn, ‘Count your blessings and name them one by one.’ You magnify everything that is wrong hut don’t look upon everything that is right.” Mr Hamilton told his hearers that if they could evolve a perfect standard for money in place of the present system, which had been built up over centuries, they would he performing a mighty big service to the world.