“DISHONEST SYSTEM’

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30289, 15 November 1963, Page 24

“DISHONEST SYSTEM’

—Mr# A. F. Thomson (Social Credit) This is my personal message to the electors of Christchurch Central and I give it because it is imperative that those same electors must take the blinkers from their eyes. I do not claim any special capacity to see more clearly than my fellow men. but I do thank God that I was one, amongst many others who were awakened to the fact that we are operating under a bad financial system Whether that system has been supported for so long out of ignorance or with malice aforethought is immaterial; what does matter is that many who should be able to assess the damnable effects of it still support it and denigrate those who are putting all their efforts into trying to awaken the public to the terrible effects of this utterly dishonest system. Mr Holyoake sneeringly says that we are "tigers for punishment,” but I feel that it is the public generally to which that statement could be more justly applied. New Zealand is a lovely country, with fine possibilities. but full development is impeded by the ever growing debt. Isn’t it utterly stupid that any country, growing richer day by day. producing more wealth, both primary and secondary, yet each day is going deeper and deeper into debt? Surely it must be obvious that there is something radically wrong when such a state of affairs exists. "Look Clearly”

I appeal to all people, even those managing very well under this system, to open their minds, look clearly at things as they are and try to imagine how much better things could be without this load of debt that we are carrying, and to ask themselves whether they owe more loyalty to a political party than they do to themselves. their families and their country. Loyalty is a very fine thing, but it should not be blind loyalty. Social Credit contends that the purpose of industry is to produce goods and services; it is the function of the money system to see that they are distributed.

I do not see our movement as one which will merely reduce rates and taxes and nelp this one and that one. I see our movement as a fight for a free and better way of life Dr. Thomas Robertson, in his famous book “Human Ecology,” states: “Without the destruction of the debt system and the issue of free money, there is no regeneration of society possible.”