“THIS INIQUITOUS THING”

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20018, 17 August 1939, Page 5

“THIS INIQUITOUS THING”

SYSTEM OF BORROWING VIEWS OF WOMAN M.P. (Parliamentary Reporter.) WELLINGTON, this day. Some of the references in the speech of Mrs. C. Stewart (Lab., Wellington West) in the House of Representatives show that she can be classed with her colleagues who criticise the financiers. She suggested that it ill became members of the Opposition to taunt the .Government regarding borrowing because, although she had listened carefully to them all, not one had said anything suggesting any change' of heart regarding “this iniquitous thing borrowing.” It was, she continued, mounting up like a snowball, growing larger and larger. She had no fear of mistakes, because' always in her mind was the constantly repeated phrase of the Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. M. J. Savage: “If we make mistakes we shall rectify them.” There is no harm in making mts-

takes, so long as one profited by the lesson. She v/as glad to be allied with a party not afraid to let old things go when they had outlived their usefulness, because they saw the horror and evil which had come through the use of an out-grown system. Some day. she hoped, the Opposition would be agreeing that what Labour thought was right, but they wanted Labour to take the risk of making a change, rather than risk anything themselves.