RICHES AND POVERTY

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 129, 4 June 1927, Page 8

RICHES AND POVERTY

THE ARROGANCE OF BOTH

COMMENT ON WORLD'S

TROUBLES

(By Telegraph.)

(Special to "The Evening Po-A.")

CHRISTCHURCH, This Day.

That the nation was brooding an enormous amount of insanity and disease and did not know how to chock it, that there was an arrogance of poverty as well as arroganco of wealth, and that the character in the individual was of far more value than repressive legislation, were statements made by Archbishop Julius at the social of the Justices of the Peace Association last night. "The Justices are the keepers of the peace," said the Archbishop, "but peace is riot easy to keep when'one considers the arrogance of wealth and the arrogance of poverty The arrogance of wealth—need we' talk about it? It is well known. ■It is the case of a man who has made money at the expense of other people and who wants to own the whole world. When his right to such is challenged he says, 'This is for me, and you go to hell.' Then there is. the arrogance of poverty—the idea that men who do not want to work should live, whether they work or not. They say they are here in this world, and have the right to be fed and housed, irrespective of whether they will work. This idea brings unemployment and then crime. "What can we do? We are multiplying and breeding an enormous amount of insanity and disease, and we don't know how to check it. I have often had people come to me for help. One woman, a mother of six and expecting another, asks if anything can be done for her husband, who is out of work. The King gives a prize to mothers of triplets, but sometimes it would be better that only one instead of the three were brought into the world without much of a future." "The older I get the more distrustful I am of repressive legislation. The fewer laws we have the better. We want character, and if we have that we don't want much law-making."