CORRESPONDENCE

Grey River Argus, 17 August 1934, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE

CLASS LAWS. (To the Editor.) Sil-, —Birds and all animals excep man when. they propagate their specie undertake a responsible obligation that is, to provide for their offspring until it can provide for itself. Ther it has to rely on its own effort to pro vide its own living. But the. highly intelligent animals called men forn. themselves into so many different classes and call it a democracy an. send men to Parliament to pass clasf laws, so that some classes can live on the value of what other classes pro duct*, without producing anything ol value for what they receive. Class laws are the bane of our civilisation, for they have caused corruption anC hvpocrisy. Every class law passed onlv opens a fresh channel for corruptien and hypocrisy. Would oui ter.chers of theology tell us that the Creator will condemn it as a sin and a crime for a person to sell his neigh bom a lew eggs or to go into a public house after six o’clock, because om legislators have passed a class law b that effect, or to debar a person foi putting a motor ear or lorry to cater for trade, because our predecessors have borrowed money and s<piandere< i( <>ii political railways that are not paving for cost of construction? Ther? something radically wrong with om svstem of making laws, for we send men to Parliament to make laws, and then we put them out of office for making their laws. It is only right that the laws they have made should be repealed, as it, on those grounds that they are put out of office. Most of the class, laws that are valid were passed bv Government who were put out of office for making those law<. I’Tom an economic viewpoint, it is just as reasonable and logical for our legislators to pass a law to prohibit any more picaninnys coming, because we have 79,000 unemployed. On this score thev would only be a burden on the community; also to appoint a highlypaid Commissioner and official to see that such law is carried out, as to debar a person from trying to make an honest living in catering for the community trade. All class laws are unjust, for the reason that they increase the burdens on one class for the benefit of another class. It is time our legislators’ powers were defined, and that we only sent them to Parliament to make community laws, such as for health, education. defence and moral laws, and let the people rely more on their own effort to provide a living.

everyone to pay an equal proportion for what he receives for his service towards the administration of what we call our community laws. It is a

moral crime for any Government to borrow money and live on the proceed* and saddle posterity with interest and principle. Let each Government live within the value that is produced, and let posterity do the same. There is room and plenty for every one. The earth’s productivity is unlimited, for as it dissolves its produets from one form, it reproduces the exact value in another form. It. lias no waste product, and it makes no profits. It utilises all things. Man cannot create and he cannot destroy, he can only mould and form into different shape the things that are created. It seems that the Creator’s works were put down for the benefit of man and He put the onus on him to solve the problem whether he will use them to his advantage or disadvantage: and. looking at the condition of the world, man seems to be making a horrible mess of his job. All animals and vegetation are formed by a similar process that is bv inoculation, and al! decay and dissolve by chemical action and "return to the elements above the earth and to solids that are in the earth from which they were created.— T am, etc., J. WARD, Ahaura.