THE OTTAWA CONFERENCE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21117, 26 February 1932, Page 12

THE OTTAWA CONFERENCE.

Sir,. —i n view of the coming conference, would it not b 0 advisable for us to consider or reconsider the trend of our life with regard to others? How long are we going to sell our exports cheaply and pnv dearly for the goods we need? How long are we going to allow the pound to buy very lew articles and thus give little employment? How long in many of our gatherings aro we going to sing or stand to that prayer God Save the King," and ask that lie may defend our laws, and at the same time lnako laws that will shut out imports from Britain thus stopping trade and putting thousand# of seamen out of employment ? How long are wo going to continue increasing our tariffs against other nations as well and pray England to protect our unjust laws with her warships? How long will it be before England puts a tariff against her worldly wise children in order to protect her own farmers ? We who pride our' selves on being a Christian Dominion, who send thousands of pounds to foreigf< missions, and yet whose founder, when asked what is the principal law, replied "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, soul, strength and mind, and the second is like unto it.—Uiou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself." I leave it to tho majority of the peoplo to determine who aro New Zealand's neighbours, only pointing out that it is righteousness or justness that exalteth a nation or a peoplo. E. W. Boulton. We v mouth.