RAPACIOUS "REFORMERS."

NZ Truth, Issue 834, 12 November 1921, Page 3

RAPACIOUS " REFORMERS."

Dear "Truth," — The meaning of reform is to amend, to improve, to make better. That being- so, the unsophisticated student of the rapacious reformeVs' political regime must wonder wherein there can bo. shown any amendment or improvement, if, as many were led to believe, the Reformers' Political Reformatory was formed, 'not for the special benefit of plutocrats, but for 'the financial benefit of j the democracy. '"We are now realising I the results from the "dodgery" of the Influential reforming- wasters of the working producers' wealth, some of tho worst results being- tho expenditure o£ over twenty millions of the people's money m buying lands m productive use, while millions of acres of the people's lands are lying- 'waste. It should bo carefully noted that the astute exploiters of the people's -wealth I now. possess the easli, inflated Interest t thereon, and also immunity from the 'very serloun dangers of the slump now confronting the producers, many thousands of whom have to borrow from 'the non-producers, and pay usurious interest or face actual ruin. Undeniably the working producers are the mainstay of our financial solvency, j therefore the maintenance of thejr j financial solvency m the present stage | of political insolvency is an indispenI sable concomitant of the welfare of a nation so dangerously overburdened I with public «nd private debts, and by the great preponderance of non-pro-ducers, who are allowed to manipulatea financial stringency at a time when cheap money is moat xirgently wantecli How long are the [people to be tormented by the political iniquities of an oligarchical despotism acting m the guise of a Democracy? What is the use of urging the intelligent working producers to play the game, when it is bo evident that the political cards are being shuffled to suit the political devilment of omnipotent opulence? Indubitably the political fabrlo is corrupt, rotten, and unendurable, urgently re» quiring a structure based on an imperishable solidarity for upholding the righteous principles of a political superstructure so endurable that citlzpna will always be enabled to confidently rely on the permanency of its uprightness- — Yoursi etc., "IMPRIMATUR."