CORRESPONDENCE

Hokitika Guardian, 9 May 1936, Page 4

CORRESPONDENCE

THE POLITICAL POSITION

(To the Editor,)

Sir,—There fs another aspect to the political question. Until recently, I» like thousands of others apparently, had very little faith in the Labour policy, but now that they are - in power, and have made it possible for us to hear the debatable questions do Dated in the House, which; I am quite sure is an education to those who had given politics litt.e thought previously, where we can hear two sides of every phase of reasoning unaffected by press influence, (thanks to Mr Savage) our views have changed very considerab-

ly. ■ . •' - 1 ' , Eor a long time V I have been able to see unjust flaws in the .present monetary system. It lends itself too casly to greed and selfishness. The world is teeming with these people, and the system permits them tp scoop the pool, leaving the good natured, hard working section of the community without any thing. BaiiKeis and others in control of the monetary system say it cannot be changed. Adjustments that are made must.be adjusted to the system and not the system to anything else. This is where they are wrong, because they put the question of the monetary system before the question of humanity.

Mr 'Savage is the one man in the world who is going to put humanity as first, consideration, and the monetary system the second consideration. The system will be adiusted to suit the [necessities of life, instead of adjustjog or controlling the necessities ol life* to suit the monetary system. In Imy estimation, tins is the greatest [humane measure a Government has •ever introduced and its operation can bo made a protection .to the good natured individual and a pror/ against the Unscrupulous. . The world situation at the present time informs us very definitely that the monetary system of yesterday is no longer a just working system for to-day, as to-day i s the’ working machines that are producing in plenty.) Just as motor replaced the horse, the machine lias replaced the man. To-day we have extreme riches on the one hand and extreme poverty on Hr o+her, and plenty of the necessities of life for all, vet all, cannot get; the necessities y of life. When the horse has no longer ed we turned him out and pontro.led his birthrate, but with man we can neither turn him out nor restrict his birth rate. "

I The machine that has replaced man ! is here to stay, and as the years gc by they will , increase very .rapidly; _ - therefore" under the present system, ‘ *r* l WOT* IH 1' ? t n st • and here-to increase. It then, the svstern has the right to use the machine in place of man. the man has the moral to benefit ..-bv the machine. If the svs f em lacks the pa-'acitv to snpnly this humantarian right H the man. whose job has been taken b' r w.ftiiie, we: cannot say the rpaasine ’8 in the wrong, b"t we can rigbtlv I condemn the system that, is using the vnorlTivi’e and +ho men using the system that- is applied both in peace and wr +ir>m to hjs detriment,. .These , rir facts, and no ; one can make them, of.he 1 ’ wise. To-day the peoples of the world are sitting on a. barrel o p dvnamite a* it were, whv?, because the learWs the world nut the ouestion of mohm T conV pml mntc-H gain, before the i question of humanity. >

In my estimation, no/ matter how clever a man may lie, not matter what qualifications he may have for a leader, if his love for mankind is not big enough to embrace the the whole of 'humanity, the qualifications without this God given guiding influence, are worthless, and such a leader is not | oply a menace to his. own people, but a menace to all mankind. Hitler and Mussolini are true examples of n D' j contention. They are great' leaders, so ' far as a leader is concerned, but bej cause they lhck the all important ijtfualificatioii, the love of righteousjlness, and the inspired desire to do | to ! the other fellow what he would like Ithe other fellow to do to him, whether : he be black, brown or white, they are slowly, but surely leading the whole world to disaster. Just imagine I what these two great leaders could do * for world peace and prosperity, if they possessed this divine quality, and guiding influence. Education has reached a very fme art in this age, but its leaning is in the wrong direction.- It leads to i n " ternal and external strife, one with .the other. Its objects is mainly to provide I the capacity for money making, to provide for self, not for living mak- , ing, peace making, character making and for service for the good of mankind in general.

Mr Savage has' proved himself to be the type of leader the world is in need of to-do y. He is not only going to weave his way into the hearts oi the people of this country, if he lives long enough he will be loved by all who hear of his good work. He v\il prove to be a power for good in this world, as his ideals are sky high, and not only for the welfare of New Zealanders, but for the welfare of humanity. It is the leaders that pi ce humanity first, who are going to put an end to war. To put an end to war is to pu J an end to war preparation, and to pul an end to that and its upkeep is put ting an end to three-fourths of the world’s taxation. Therefore it is clearly demonstrated, that if the leaders o the world possessed this all important quality, even though they may not be fully qualified in other respects, the world would he. far better off under them than what it is under fully qualified leaders from a business point of view, wild are lacking from the truly