THE CAPITALIST SYSTEM.

Evening Star, Issue 19894, 16 June 1928, Page 3

THE CAPITALIST SYSTEM.

TO THE KDITOR Sir,-—Some liiu© ago Mr Doivnie Stewart finished his' speech against 1 labour's- policy 'with the statement that i ho. present system had tins advaiita; works.- Yes, it works. So does, the hangman’s noose, but w ; iib no .immediate advantage to the victim. It ho peruses to-night’s ‘ Star ’ he will find how it works in the Rhondda Valley, diaving made, it the A alley ot :t.-mr Shadow of Death. Act these minors were the recipients some years ago o) a pressing invitation to fight lor, their country. In the meantime a Scottish laird, the Marquis of Bute, draws £120,000 per annum from mining royalties in Wales, and we atheist Bob shevists have read somewhere: “Land shall not be sold for ever; the land is mine; ye are strangers and sojourners with me." Of course, there is a remedy. Callous statesmen hero say; “Hike to the country.” At Home they say: “Hike to any other country!” And when they have made a mess they cannot clear up they become united and say: “Hike to Flanders, Gallipoli, Archangel, *' etc. In fact, they become so eager as to pay your passage. It works all right: ten mil-

lion cloud, twenty million wounded. All lor the small sum of eight million per day.- It also works in Spreydon, where a boy dies of starvation and the father has no money to bury him. However, it is not the only thing that works. “The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceeding small.” —I am, etc., CVmsT. Juno 14.