ASSUMING STATE CONTROL.

Manawatu Times, Volume XL, Issue 13565, 2 December 1916, Page 5

ASSUMING STATE CONTROL.

( (To the Editor.) Sir, —If State control obtained in Palmerston —by a vote of the peopledo you not think it would prove infinitely superior either to the existing system or to the altogether impracticable proposal which has been so zealously dinned into the ears of the people for the last twenty years? The facts I gave you the other day were all official —taken either from the municipal publications of the towns mentioned or from the census of the United States. Why did you not explain them? lam well aware of your ability, and for that reason would have expected a. candid examination of the position. If majorities prove the rightness of an action or a policy, then every known crime could be proved at one time or other to be of the essence of rightousness. You know too much to be committed to that. On reading your “leading article" I felt somewhat nervous until I looked at your list of shareholders and your advertisements, when I bethought myself that a subconscious motive may guide a business proposition. —I am, etc., WM.- THOMSON.