ECONOMIC RESEARCH
The Right to Sustenance Quoting from an editorial note in “The Dominion” on the claim to the right to State sustenance, Mr. P. B. Fitzhcrbert, lecturing under the auspices of the New Economic Research Association, last evening, condemned in strong terms the view that such right was open to question. The opinions of the Prime Minister of Canada and Sir Ernest Benn, who had challenged the idea that the State owed the idle a living, were described as representing a false and pernicious doctrine. “The Dominion’s” summing up of these views, namely, that “in other words we must not put a premium on idleness or make the industrious and provident bear the burden of the indolent and improvident,” Mr. Fitzherbert asserted contained more poison than there was in a cage filled with rattlesnakes. It was a false idea, he said, which flew in the face of every human emotion. The words that had been quoted by the newspaper were no support to a vile argument and a condemnation of the men who uttered them —men who threatened the foundation! of democracy.
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Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 289, 2 September 1931, Page 11
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183ECONOMIC RESEARCH Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 289, 2 September 1931, Page 11
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