"INFLATION NONSENSE"
"I can understand certain very young men among the workers falling for this inflation nonsense," declared Mr. C. A. L; Treadwell, Nationalist candidate for Wellington North, at his meeting last night, when referring to Labour's scheme, "but I cannot understand anyone who has learned a skilled trade listening to it for a moment."
The candidate said that if anyone claimed to a practical carpenter that he had a scheme by which, ten nails could be hammered in at" once, and a dodge that enabled boards to saw themselves, the carpenter's common sense would reject the silliness. "Here is a mysterious discovery that money can in some way be printed, without harming the currency or imperilling wages and savings. It is as old as history. Greeks, Romans, French, Germans, and all races have had this idea in times of depression. They have all tried it with general ruin and misery as the certain result. No Labour party in England or Australia has considered it with the one exception of the short reign of Mr. Lang."
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Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 126, 23 November 1935, Page 19
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