THE FARMERS' LEAGUE.

North Otago Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 7463, 10 September 1892, Page 3

THE FARMERS' LEAGUE.

TO TUE EDITOK. Sir, — It is somewhat hopeful to see fiom your respected paper that some of our neighboring farmers are noticing the cloven hoof of socialism sticking out here and there in the administration of our public affairs, and a% a first result a Farmers' and Settleis' League is now established. Sir, I am one of the small variety of .settlers, yet I have the same feelings in the face of injustice that brings all true British subjects to the scratch on the occasion of emei'gencies, and I do hope the league will become a great power, coextensive w ith New Zealand, so as to preserve those principles which uphold individual rights and ownership, which tho democratic socialist would piostitute. If it is fair and right of the democratic socialist when he gets into power to impose an unequal, bursting-up tax, at the bidding of Ins political supporters, on any party whom he finds justly and lawfully in possession of considerable landed property, then the same principle is as capable of expanding downwaids from time to time so as to apply to the case of the party that only owns 50 acres. Therefore the league claims the support of small ownership as well as tho larger, if there is to be any security at all for propeity. If the scheme of salvation was diafted on the same lines as the Ballance land legislation, there would be no redemption for mankind. Those honorable creatures in office at present that dangle away at the propeity tax valuation as a convenient w capon for squaring oft compulsorily a man's \alue, appear very small in the esteem of those who know something of the principle that guides eminent English and Scotch jiuists when dealing with nghts and property. When the league is fairly established, the first particular that claims attention is to ascertain the nature of the security for our national indebtedness. When Ocunaru defaulted (she was saved by an accidental shave from passing through the Land Transfer Court, and becoming the City of the Bondholder, simply on the giound that his security was limited to a lixed rate on the ratable ■\alue of the town. So the league will ha\e to* ascertain if the land is the security of our national loans, or is there a consuleiation to be made on the day of reckoning for the sentiments of the agitatoi, the demagogue, and the get-up of tho oily, wily, accommodating honorarium hunter, all lolled up in their dupes' swags, and pitched on the scale su as to lessen the true Ballance. When we speak about loans we aie touching a delicate topic, as we fail to see the connection between uimersal sullrage and the borrowing policy of what is only yet mainly a pastoial count ij*. The cry of uimersal brotherhood with our so-called Libeials, when it co.sta them nothing, may ha\ c a more congenial atmosphere in the nulennium, after the human family is decimated in the coining struggle, than in the present older of tilings, when the shadow of the tax collector is ne\cr away frcfin our doois, and the instinct of self-preservation is still strong. A wise people will adopt for their watchwoid a policy of Christian hunianitism, rather than tho presciiption our present authoiities have, and aio acting upon, from their frecthought physician ; to wit, that there is an easier way of get- j ting through life than by tho old paths denned by Mosts and others. J. Gakkow.

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