THE BEER MONOPOLY.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume II, Issue 226, 27 August 1912, Page 3

THE BEER MONOPOLY.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir,—£800,000 ! A Mr. McCarthy a brewer, is reported to have just died in Wellington leaving tins vr.a sum. Is it not a picture for workers to view and ponder over .' Did I t work for it '■ Did he produce anything that will live for the good < i his country now he is gone ' A nonproducer of wealth, a maker of sc inething that destroys his health and the happiness of thousands, an-i yet tli's huge accumulation comes u, bi- praised as a wonderful thing. We talk i.f runholders being wcalthv. hut why not ? They produce wealth. We cannot do without the sheep and the cattle that their lands produce. But how many industrious farnitr:ate likely to produce L'suu.uon < ,- tenth of this vast sum out of the land. While rail at farmers when Society has dangers lurking in is midst that are ten times worse than tin* dangers that come of land aggregation. When will the people look ; t facts squarely in the face ' If they choose to think for a few mimiti? they will food learn how it is that ‘Wealth and riches increase among the se v. h<; toil not nor yet spin. ” but whose barns and stores are abund.antlv filled whilst thousands find it a difficult matter to live.- I am. etc.. ’ CITIZEN.” P.S.--I wonder what i’loiessoi Mills would have to say <;n this subject.