THE ECONOMIC OUTLOOK.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20214, 17 April 1931, Page 13

THE ECONOMIC OUTLOOK.

' rJ 'TO THE JBDITOB 0* IHI PEXSB ■.:, Sir, —The . published statements in your. last jFriday's issue,. April 10th. of each-men 'as Dr.* Marsden, ' Dr. ■ .Kight, and ' Commissioner Cunningham ; also ! of • Professor' Macmillan Brown* in last Saturday's issue; give us material to astf ourselves: Are we on-the'right' tr4ck to'secure, "that,prosperity, -goodwill, and. contentment -which hi so. desirabie as a basis " for , further 1 . progress P 4 To quote' 1 Dr. Maraden: "Our.-pOople have jespoused a system?" government which has as ah essential condition - to its' success, apart from-the questionable tenet that all arebot-n equal, the"faith that : lneu and -woiUftt' can be trained to Chiqk 1 for themselves. That condition is as yet far/ from, fulfilment, .and democracy as'a "system of government is as yet /far from achieving success" vThe ballot' box, /..which' gives equal* adult' suffrage, ,ia a\ blunder of th 6 first magnitude. We can't ignore the fact*tJmi such a' systenj hash produced a class'of ;politicidns who'have climbed T into -power-,with tb'e 'aid, of' irrespon- i ssibleVoters. Tf 'proOf were needed, t we "have it :in the statement of'the Leader-of .the 'Labour- Party,''that -it ■ they were' to yppwer ;they would restore ;the wages-cut—a most infamous under our. present conditions. ' •" Referring', to Professor „ Macmillan Brown's statement- that history, 'and i 'excavations,' pr-pve that great Empires i have- risen qnd falleii/ and that "the! .reason ;f or- this fluctuation of "human' thought, and capacity ia, thattthe do- 1 feciives "have risen- to tlie surface and become'the most potent, &nd~the main breeder?' of posterity;/'/wh'ether - --the', inferarityveomplex is now/ greater than - in any/other, agfy is' not for me to say; (put. to.- equalise; all 'normal - com-. p)exea „at"the ballot box- is far too a--handicap. oi) ther industrious , and-. -thrifty-<jiorti4n> jof.the x»mjnunity. i .JC'Jwas, speabmg.;to:-a man' a "plays' ago, and tl £sj?pd ( hint his opinion about one vote. 'Hid reply Jrm.~ 'ltYi&vthe idfioni ;of. democracy.'' Tt 'has jbeen* v quite' tntpresting to read •tjte t of. r j politicians ofrecent dase. - And' ;to ■' - Their was on' the gating jP?wer. ' of.• theirf eonrti t Sight, trnTy '.'lthat; the' ' />f: lofLjapre : Mptortan<»' wW taptiiorifiing/j payment' qix< latter iit..A,..L.ejtiz,>l'% .4lfc hiL..J

standard-' have .involved .this Dominion in millions of' detit.thathas no earning cower. Not, the -least by any. means or otir- troubles is referred tj> by Comqjissidner where , states:, "The ( spiritual' values are being submerged by' the materialistic spirit of 'this age." The pid Book #ays: "Where there is no vision, the people perish." The irresponsible? vote 1 Is plunging uifjunto. that.' abyss.—Yours,; . etc.,' * • * . ' ■ ■ A.B. ! April loth,' 1931k "« > >