THE ECONOMY COMMITTEE AND SOCIAL CREDIT

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21431, 4 September 1931, Page 6

THE ECONOMY COMMITTEE AND SOCIAL CREDIT

TO THE EDITOR,

Sje.— The instructions to the Economy Committee should be to invite the submission of evidence for the social credit proposals and, of expert evidence against them, the witnesses on either side being allowed to hear each other’s evidence and to cross-examine each other on it, and being, of course, themselves subject to examination by the committee. Tins would be a reversal of the usual abortive procedure which consists in calling prac* tieal men (frequently agents sent to confuse the issues) to submit evidence to theorists. What is now wanted is for the straightforward .practical man to be on the Bench and the theorists to be in the witness box. The committee should publicly invite the professional banking Interests to nominate and produce their witnesses on these terms. The subject ot the debate could be Major Douglass s submissions and evidence before the Macmillan'Committee together, with, perhaps, some practical method embodying the principles involved. The whole trouble during the last 10 years has been the obstinate silence of the bankers abou what they are after and What they are doing—two things which vitally concern everyone in the country.—l an^etc^