SOCIALIST'S CONSCIENCE.
PRINCIPLES HAVE TO GO.
When- a socialist comes into a fortune his creed nev-tr prevents him from accepting the money.; says an English writer An instance is furnished bv Mr John Muirhead, one of the 12 Halifax people «L Vfi ,'' St , received ; ' windfall of £2000_ each under the will of an uncle who qiM in America.
Mr. Muiihwd is caretaker of Halifax Socialist Hall, a member of the Independent Labour Party, and a well-known socialist.
"It does place me in rather an awkward predicament, doesn't it '! " he said in an interview. "But there are many rich socialists. I may tell you at once that 1 shall accept the money. "It i? the system that is wrong, and If I were to forego the windfall that has come to me the good my individual case would do would he out of all proportion to the harm it would do to me and mv familv.
"I shall not touch the principal, I shall invest it—and that is where part of the trophic comes in. We as socialists are opposed to all rent, profit, and interest, because they always come out of the working class. But. 'as I have said my individual sacrifice could do no good I until the system is altered, and I shall 'take this interest."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15748, 24 October 1914, Page 2 (Supplement)
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