THE "NEW" POLITICS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22541, 5 October 1936, Page 12

THE "NEW" POLITICS

Sir. —The Welfare League continue® to reit< rate a self-evident truth, namely, " that if the objective is impossible af realisation, then it cannot be given to us, however much we demand it." We agree with this. Let us assume .hat it is impossible to giye the moon to the fool that cries for it. But what has this to do with the relatively si 11 pie task of equitably distributing the abundance we can produce. We are living in the midst of plenty. A defective and necessarily evil money system cf private banking stands between ui. and the goods we need and can produce. Why object to politicians carrying out their specific pledges in this behalf by telling us that we cannot achieve the impossible? Hie next assertion of the league is that in res " pect of any change which the Government proposes to make to our monetary system the nature of such change ind method to implement it shall be submitted to the electors so that tlicv can see that its workability is " pro nerly investigated." It is not the province of the elector to a PP r ? TO of the methods to be adopted. He has been prnnised certain specific thing* and he in entitled to demand that those promises be fulfilled, i.e.. to demand results. T1 is is the very basis of our la* of contract that the person accepting an offer is entitled to expect and demand a fulfilment- of the od'er within its terms. We are entitled to demand and expect , from Labour a money system at cost sufficient to enable our people to buy at economic prices our total production; a money system which is free or debt an:l which will not involve increased taxation or any borrowing. * is not in the mouth of the Governmen , much less the New Zealand Welfare League, either to say that this is impossible or to ask that electors s ' icn '. again consider it. Xor is it practica e to expect the results which the electors have been promised from any committee or commission set up ? s _ , league suggests to " properly imes 1gate " its workability. No one won expect a. commission of brewers to OC" cide that prohibition was either desi• able or practicable. We all know ti in so far as the function of the COI ? J tee or commission would be to deci : the workability of the proposed scheme, so it would be constituted of orthocl economists, bankers and financier. These people would tell us what ... league would have us believe: is impossible to distribute what we can produce. The new politics there nierelv adopts a commonscnse plan demanding from politicians the results they promised. B. Beckekl