THE GAME OF GRAB.

NZ Truth, Issue 797, 12 February 1921, Page 3

THE GAME OF GRAB.

f)ear "Truth," — W.e may as well make, up our minds that the money kings or financial sharks ,m Britain and America are out to squeeze every possible penny out of little New Zealand. Th Q American and -British financial groups control practically everything needed here, whether through the manufacturers combining, the banking combine or shipping combine. I am very much afraid they have also got control of the facilities for the storing and marketing of our produce. This be-

ing so, it simply means that we will have to grin and ibear it until we are m a position to manufacture practically all wo need. If wisdom and not empty talk were the qualification for entry to Parliament we might have been m a much better position, for a wise statesman would have foreseen the need of fostering secondary industries and also of getting a standing m the shipping world before the present shipping interests became so immensely powerful through the wealth they have gained, largely owing 1 to the -war. Governments seem powerless to do anything to rectify, matters, and/Will continue to seem so until we, the people, have gained sufficient wisdom and unselfishness to vote only for the wisest and morally .best, instead of for, as is the case now, the man who says he will get us all we want for our particular district or our particular class. "We will learn som c day that what is good for our particular, section of the community is often fatal to the State aa a whole; this applies actually to Labor, to the farmer, and the business man. Selfishnes will inevitably (hit back m time, and if we are content to go on as we have been doing, and we find that others more powerful are playing the same game, we cannot complain if we get hurt — Yours, eto,, T. DONOVAN. T« Aroha.