DEMOCRATIC LEGISLATION.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXV, Issue 306, 24 November 1945, Page 4

DEMOCRATIC LEGISLATION.

(To the Editor.) Sir, —Notwithstanding the protests ostensibly on behalf of the farming community, against the splendid enactments being placed on the Statute Book of our country, nothing can hinder the onward march of Democracy, which, as a result of six years of tragic warfare, has really awakened. The present profit-motive system at whatever cost stands condemned as an incubus and a parasite no longer to be tolerated. As' a consequence of this we have the spectacle of politicians arid others who fervently wish to perpetuate a system which has stupidly permitted the apostles of high finance and money power to manipulate for their own .benefit alone the people’s credit and currency. We also see their final appeal to the innate selfish instincts of human nature. These also hope to stave off the day of reckon-, ing by attempting to create hostility between town and country, hoping to make the rqral community a tool to further their objective by inciting- to direct action, and by this to hinder or sabotage the country’s production effort when most needed. In this they will not have any success, either because every farmer knows that in animal husbandry as the chief source of food, supply, and also in crop rotation, there can be no stop, unless as under a previous Government they were forced to walk off their farms as bankrupts. In conclusion I -would like to ask Mr Oram, referring to his speech at Feilding, where was the farmer’s freedom then, which he so glibly prates about-. —Yours, etc., A. STENBERG.

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