NON POISON GAS

Gisborne Times, Volume LXVIII, Issue 10739, 9 November 1928, Page 6

NON POISON GAS

(To the Editor.) Sir,—l note your journal carefully avoids the real point in my letter of last issue, November 8. I mentioned no names, but you evidently thought the cap fitted and rightly deduced that one reference applied to your charging Mr Coleman with ‘‘political dishonesty” not ‘‘political trickery," as you have transposed it. I cannot fathom whv you call upon me to defend. the new Labor policy. Surely that is the candidate’s job? I have no doubt you will get your repi “officially” in good. time. Be patient, for I have no reason to believe that Mr. Coleman is swerving from a policy agreed upon by the whole Labor Party. I cannot .see where the present platform of the Labor Party is at variance with their objective. You are evidently looking for'a bone to bite on, so I will do my best 1 to oblige. Your journal. has had much to sa v about the Labor Party’s objective, namely . “The socialisation of the means of production, distribution and exchange.” Is there anything- morally wrong with that objective? Just, get the “red ’ out of vour -vision for a .moment and think clearly and conscientiously. That objective is only a human effort to bring about a state which the Creator- surely intended. Will your journal deny the suggestion that every' human being born into this world has the right to the susten-r-ace of life to the degree or- sufficiency to maintain that life, a sustenance that the Creator has ordained shall be produced by the earth, m a, primary sense? No one can look upon nature and its wonders and fai to realise the truth. 'Furthernwe J don’.t believe that your journal would support the theory that any one human. being should lav claim to a God-given right to determine how much of the earth-given sustenance nnv other human being; should gam for maintaining life and health for the allotted, span. . It would be absolute irreverence to pur Creator to even imagine that man can ever hope to brine the world back to where the perverted mind, of man changed the Creator’s design. The. Labor Party may not all be angels,; but, to. my mind, their efforts, as a - whole, though seemingly clumsy and crude, are the nearest in their objective to the original design. A perfect poll"'’ will -.never be • produced until it is based .unswervingly n«on the Ten Commandments,- but‘l m afraid that will not occur till the Day of Judg-ment—-I am vonrs, etc., ment.—l.a .’g AMfLPEARSON