ARROGANCE OF POVERTY.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 15 June 1927, Page 8

ARROGANCE OF POVERTY.

AS WELL AS WEALTH. ARCHBISHOP .JULIUS’- VIEW. The nation is breeding an enormous amount of insanity and disease and did not know how to cheek it. That there is an arrogance of poverty as well as arrogance of wealth, and that character in the individual was of lar more value than repressive legislation, were statements made by Archbishop .Julius at a social of the Justices of the Peace Association at Christchurch. Justices^ were keepers of the peace.” said the Archbishop, but peace is not easily to keep when one considers the arrogance of wealth and the arrogance of poverty. “The arrogance of wealth. Need wo talk about it?” he added. “It- is wellknown. It. is the case of a man who has made money at the expense of other people, and who wants to own the whole world. When his right- to such is challenged, he says : this is for me anil you go to hell. Then there is arrogance of poverty, the idea that men who do not want to work should live, whether they work or not. They say they are here in this world, and have the right to he led and housed irrespective of whether they will work. This idea brings unemployment and crime.”

What can we do? Wo are multiplying and breeding an enormous amount of insanity and'disease, and we don't know how to check it. i have often told people to come to me lor help. One woman, a mother of six and expecting another, asks if anything can be done for her husband who is out of work. iSix children anil a husband out of work. The King gives a prize to mothers of triplets, but sometimes it would be (letter that only one instead of three were brought into the world without much of a future.

“The older I get the more distrustful I am of repressive legislation. The fewer laws, we have the better. We want character, and if we have that we don’t want much law-making.”