SOCIAL CREDIT.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 243, 11 September 1935, Page 6

SOCIAL CREDIT.

(To the Editor.) Sir —Your correspondent, who signs himself “Sanity,” must have been missing his usual Sunday afternoon nap when he attended the Social Credit Convention. I presume he 111 us t have “dropped . off” and possibly dreamed he had backed a winning outsider. Followers of the movement are far too familiar with the true application of the “gift of money” mentioned by Captain Rushworth to viix hysterical about it. “Sanity” probably woke up just as this “gift” was mentioned, and being still confused with his dream shouted “Hooray” himself. Had he been awake, “Sanity” would have heard the speaker say that under social credit this “gift of money would be made available through a discount on goods purchased by the general public. “Sanity,” Had. he heard this, would not have been afraid that he would get “something for nothing,” as hard work will still be necessary to earn the money to buy the goods, and so obtain the discount. He will, however find that his income will go further than at present, and articles which he has had to deny himself will, under social credit, be within his means. Scoffers such as “Sanity” would do well to remember that the social credit movement is an Em-pire-wide organisation of men and women whose object it is to demonstrate that “Britons never, never will be slaves” whether to national conquest, or subjugation by international financiers through financial stringency, or to dictatorship. If “Sanity” is such an admirer of the present banking system, why does he not go to live in Germany or Italy, where the system has reached its logical consummation? Finally, Mr Editor, I would respectfully suggest that we would greatly appreciate seeing in print a fuller account of the movement’s activities. — I am, etc..