POINTS FROM SPEECHES

Maoriland Worker, Volume 12, Issue 299, 22 November 1922, Page 3

POINTS FROM SPEECHES

EXACTING THEIR TOLL

If a foreign powjjr located itself on the- n^aflin;>fthe. Suez canal with a B'xteeii-inch gun and halted each ship as it passed"- through in order to extract a right-of-way toll of £10,000, we Would see. British soldiers and British "men-o-wars hying from the ends of the earth to wipe out the gun and its ; users. The. shipping comblnp has "a more effectual method of dejalaig with U3. ft extracts its toll under tats cloak ot : business acumen and bolsters up its activities, with tho parrot cries of their servant "politicians.—H. E. Combs. Wellington North. DIRTY LINEN ■-.-.. •J object to-any polished party. puttltfig the Union Jack .do soak with its' polities! dirty linen, in. the hope that Ihe colours will run jand so hide the stains 1 which' no rubbing or scrubbing of boiling '-will " wash out. —I-I, B. Combs, Wolling-ton North. LABOUR PARTY FOR THE PEOPLE . To-day throughout the. world there were two distinct sections of society ; -r-one .working for what was called free industry, in other words, for the right to run Indus ti'y freely and unrestrictcdiy; and the other section the Labour Party, which contended'that the people themselves had the right either to control or own industry. The members of the Labour Party as a party stood for the rights of ownership of public Utilities. He Wanted < the people to consider that.— C. M.; | Moss. iDunedin West. - i . # « **• •» ■•.-. ,' j IS OVER-TAXED ~..',". Wo' heard' a great deal to-day about people being over-taxed. There was a section. of the people which was overtaxed, but he was afraid it was not the section- Mr. Massey reprewas the working section. ( "Piio workers, were being paid wages , to-day..-which were over 20 per cent. . tower than in 1914. During the last , •session ..of Parliament Mr. Massey had , given, a .rebate on income and land tax-of £1,000,000, while at the same time he had taken ' £1,000,000. off ..the. wages of the public j servant's —a cut which he justified by , saying, that it was necessary in the , interests of economy. But that was ' just the opposite of what he should , have done.-—G. M.. • Moss- Dunedin West. . = '".. LAND TAXATION * There mlight be people in. the country who were paying just taxatXm on their land, but generally speaking iho 1 land wias not taxed according to tho 1 valuation ot tno owner at tho pre- t sent time. This principle applied c w£lh cve-n moro force to property in the 'town*?, and there were properties c tn th'S' city which were rated on such i r, basis that we wwe losing a great £ deal cf revenue. What the Govern- f tnent sliQuld do W;ao to say that a person; should be taxed on whatever - value- he placed on his land. If he jbjeetod. the" Government should have - llio power to compel him to sell his. [and. That had been proved to be :he -most- successful method t 0 radopt, iecauso in practice a person . would fot put a low'value on his land, and leltker would he put on a higher ,-ulue than the Government's valua:ion, and therefore he would be taxed m a fair basis.—CM. Moss, Dunedin' I iVc-St. ■ J » * * * SHIFTING THE BURDEN Taxation 'reduction—what a faree — ~ vliat a -'ham-—what a make-believe — •p far as the Reform and Siberal I •blitieians : are concerned. There is 1 io reduct'lon. The Tre>asury has cer--ainly sui-fendered £1,000,000 this •ear to tho r well-to-do, but it has y lalanced its books by reducing the vages of the public servants. This s not reducing taxation —it is shifting tile, burden on to other shoulders ,iid.tj-e new shoulders are far less A .bio" to ..carry the load than, those vliich have been relieved.—H. E. k?mbs, Wellington North. _ •» * # # IfEW -'ZEALAND IN PAWN. ' * in We have allowed tho banks to vr'. the" public credit to tha extent It; f £7,000,000. worth of bank notes, ai •hey certainly pay us three per cent- a* -)r the accommodation, but when wo lo ;o to the banks to pawn our private er> redit they charge us seven per cent, wi nd if we take the accommodation In tsi ash they hand, us out tho same bank in otes that wo provided for them at ar \itee per cent. A sweet transaction, al t-the public credit is to bo pawned 3. nd a profit made from the Iran's ac--[on the people aro the ones who "W hould benefit and through a State •ank w» can guarantee them this sa esuft.—H, "E. Confbs, Wellington if forth. ""• W< BEVOLUTIONafiIY O ti< EVOLUTIONARY IN MET-lODS W Wo ard "upV-bUt to imp'roye the wage llni ;mc-m. W*fsr« out to traneniiile itiCl

into fconie form of co-partnership | where each labourer will be a ca_*-j Italist, and each capitalist a labourer,] and all will share in the ownership, management, toil, risks, profits, and losses of These enormous, changes, like some other changes which have-taken place in the organisation of Boc*oty, are revolutionary liii-nieir result*.? but, as far as we are concerned, they will be"brought; abo\it by evolutionary methods.— 3. K. Archer, Chrif; .church riortli. * * * »■« WELFABE INSTEAD OP Life would Co rich iand full an<£ satisfying'for all reasonable if it *was Lullj on tho principle welfare-., instead ot wealth,, tabo-ftrj Ls cut for welfaret. We are not par?; tlcaiarly intayestea in trade reiutfnsJ We are im-nieiiSiLdy interested in worfc-jl ing conditipns."-~Rcv. J. X, Worth,