STATE CONTROL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19792, 12 November 1927, Page 14

STATE CONTROL.

Sir,—Your correspondent "The "New Older" has pointed out many weaknesses of State trading, but in my opinion he has not got to the root cause of the present clamour for State enterprise. For some years past the Socialist Labour Party of New Zealand has waged war against onr business community. This party, with its doctrines of class-hatred, has continuously pictured to the people here our business community as greedy, rapacious, cunning who. do not work, produce, contribute or add anything to the well-being or comfort of our people, but who sit fatly ind snugly in huge, richly carpeted offices, raking in huge sums of money for which they have never toiled. The .picture is easily sketched and painted Some lurid splashes depicting "the pooi worker * who, it is alleged, is the life-blood of the country, twisted and schemed out of his full earnings: the names of some of .our leading commercial houses and banks thrown in. All this backed up by indignant threats of "strikes, boycott and sabotage" (as denounced by the Welfare League recently in your columns) if the leaders do not get their way; and the picture is completed. A thoughtless people has swallowed this class-conscious twaddle, hook, bait and sinker, and in turn has pressed the Government, which, after all, is hut a reflex of the intelligence of the people, for all manner of control. Hence, we have at the present time the inevitable iniquities * of State departments and boards, which have been set up by the score, harassing and interfering with the natural progress of the eouutry It is time New Zealanders got right back to those individualistic principles which made the British nation what it is to-day, and jettisoned Socialistic ideas of bureaucratic control, which will inevitably lead the country into bad times, person♦ oppression, and the usual accompanying unemployment. B EXITS HT.R.