MR. SAVAGE AND FREEDOM

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22922, 28 December 1937, Page 13

MR. SAVAGE AND FREEDOM

Sir. —If Professor Algie and the Freedom League do no more than provoke Labour to outbursts typical of Mr. Savage's in Thursday's Herald, they will be doing a splendid service to this country. It was so very much the Socialist attitude, pitiful under any opposition or criticism, and really, whatever way you look at it, implying that the Opposition and all its supporters are a bunch of very, very wicked men. It is the tolerance and behaviour of Professor Algie and men like him —the true Democratic spirit—which has helped the Labour Party to rise to its present position. But, of course, Labour cannot see that. How tired_ I am of Mr. Savage and his reiterations about what he is doing for the sick, the lame and the lazy. Does he think he has a monopoly of such feelings? Also of Mr. Armstrong and his threats again to the wicked employer. If Mr. Savage doubts the sincerity of Professor Algie, he cannot complain if I doubt the sincerity of Mr. Savage. I am a New Zealander, but there is still England, and how humbly thankful I am for the Baldwins, Chamberlains and others of that wicked capitalist class, who rule this Empire of ours so wisely and well. I have no money, I am not envious, and there is always the future; meantime, under such men I feel safe and—free. C.G.S.