MONETARY REFORM

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 17 February 1933, Page 7

MONETARY REFORM

(To the Editor) ■Sir, —I’m jiggered if I cun understand why Harry Atmore and Co., don t chuck up the sponge over this currency reform racket. That chap “Gamma” is too slick for them. In Harry’s last letter he seemed to be worried because “Gamma” wasn’t quite polite enough. It just' reminds me oV the other day when a bloke billed me for T 9 for seven quids worth of stuff. I argued the point with him and bowled him right out but he was so polite that, if it hadn’t been that prices for our stuff were low, I believe lie would have put it over me. These polite swervery tongued fellows are dangerous. One of them sold me a car that I don’t want and can’t sell now. Harry Atmore politely tells us that 1"? knows just how to get the rabbit out of the hat by fanooclliiig with the cu'rency. A nice hoy he would be to manage our finance. How many millions did he cost us when he was Minister of Education? lie politely told us that, if we didn’t give our children a high-fain: - ing education and build a school about every hundred yards all over the country we would be depriving them of their birthright. The other day, Bill Jones told me that he has given his girls a first class education and now they know about as much as an average hedge-ho He spent nearly £2OO for one of them ’.o learn music and now if he wants a tune lie has to turn on the wireless or the gramophone. With nil our education, what’s it done for the country? Wo can buy school teachers for about a bob a dozen.

Jones said to me, “Look here Brown, all of us old Tins know what’s the matter with the country. Even ‘Gamma’ with all his learning is barking up the wrong tree, although lie’s quite right when lie says that Atmore and the rest of them would make things a darn side worse. You know Brown, all that’s the matter with this country can be summed up in one word—lnterest. When Dieit Seddon was premier the freezing business came into operation and all our primary products went up to billio. Well, instead of paying off our debt Dick borrowed more money than ever and this sort of thing has been going on ever since. The people have been spending and wasting all the money and the interest has been piling up. Tn fact all the people are mighty well spoilt. If they want the moon and can’t reach it easy they howl to the Government and if the Government doesn’t haul it down for them there’s a row. You know Brown,” lie says, “suppose all the finances and everything else was put straight in this country would it be any good? Not a bit of - it. You can’t do anything with spoiit youngsters. Even when people say they are hard up nowadays they want all the luxuries iu creation. When we first started farming w e didn’t have reapers and binders and tractors and all the advantages of science these Cawtliron fellows are now giving ns. Our cows gave about half as much butter as they do now. But now that all the people are getting everything nearly given to them they say the are starving and Harry Atmore says it is because the uiirroucy is wrong. Currency my hat l Too much humbug, I say. If you follow out Harry’s scheme and print more notes for a time it will give Unpeople more money to spend that they haven’t earned and will make them bigger fools than ever.” I said: “LooU liere Bill Jones, you borrowed my song That’s the tune I’ve been whistling all along the line.” You can’t help spoilt youngsters. Perhaps “Gamma” would like to tackle this interest question. He seems to know more than anybody else in this town. 1 should like to know why if a mail lias a deuce of a lot of money the bank not only keeps it for him hut pays him a lot more money tor doing it; wfiile the fellow that hasn t got an money lias to earn more for those who have alremlv got too much. 1 know what would put this country in order. Just stop borrowing and all hands get to- work and pay our debts in goods. They say that all the countries in the world have over produced; and yet the are all bankrupt. 1 never heard such rot in all my life.—-I am etc., FARMER BROWN. 17th February.