HOW PROSPEROUS?

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22444, 4 July 1938, Page 7

HOW PROSPEROUS?

TO THE EDITOR OF THE PRESS. Sir, —I see that Ministers persist in saying that there are no poor now, and that every one has plenty of food and clothing. That may be, amongst a certain class; but among others who are wandering about the country there is a different tale to tell. There are five swaggers in one old place not far from here, and how they are living during such weather as we are having makes one wonder. Most of the swaggers have a very small swag, and they have no food but what the people around give them. The Government will have a doleful surprise on the next election day, when it finds all these people voting against them. We had a fine, upstanding, youngish-looking man here; and when he was having a meal I asked him if he was voting for the Government. His answer was a very decided No. The Government was no good to him! And he was quite right. We never had so many swaggers before, during 26 years, and neighbours of ours say they have been .on their fgtm 40 years and never had so nsany looking for food. The Minister for Labour says it is not - the amount of taxes paid;, it is what the taxpayer has left that counts. Well, during the last two or three weeks, _three farmers I know have had sales and gene off their farms. — Yours, etc., > GEORGE LEE. Templeton, July 1, 1938.