LURE OF EASY MONEY

Evening Star, Issue 22627, 20 April 1937, Page 13

LURE OF EASY MONEY

MR ADAM HAMILTON'S WARNING SOpIAL CREDIT DIFFICULT TO DEFINE [Pek United Press Association.] WELLINGTON, April 20. “ Before. you change your present system, which works passably well, just make sure you substitute something that is an improvement upon what has stood the British people in good stead for centuries,” said the Leader of the Opposition, Mr Adam Hamilton, in an address to the Wellington branch of the Douglas Social Credit Movement. Mr Hamilton said New Zealand was enjoying the best standard of living the world had ever known, in spite of the stump. He warned the people not to be led astray by the lure of easy money. Social credit was very difficult to define. It involved a study of the monetary system and a study of anything that was good. “ British people,” said the speaker, “ talk about their troubles and magnify them. Very often they give ten times more discussion to their troubles than to the blessings they enjoy. I often think of the old hymn, ‘ Count Your (Blessings and Name Them One By One.’ You magnify everything that is wrong, but don’t look upon everything that is right.” Mr Hamilton told his hearers that if they could evolve a perfect standard for money in place of the present system, which had been built up over centuries, they would bo perfonnang a mighty big service to the world.