POLITICAL NONSENSE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22723, 8 November 1935, Page 4

POLITICAL NONSENSE

TO THE. EDITOR. Sir, —Mr Munro says: “We (the Labour Party) .nay ruin some, but it won’t be the working class.” Whom can be ruin in New Zealand without hurting the working class? The reactions from his ruination policy would hit everyone so that Mr Munro’s policy cannot benefit anyone. Mr Munro promises that Labour, if returned, would bring in an Act of Parliament giving a minimum wage to all workers. If he doesn’t know it cannot be done and will not be done he should take a course of study in social economy and practical politics, with a glimpse at political history. Dr M'Millan promises us many desirable things, but omits to tell us what he will use for money. The doctor is surely old enough to know that everything he promises can be paid for only by taxing the people or by borrowing money on which the people must pay interest. To provide for even a small part of his programme he will have to take a lot of money from the people. Some of it will be given back in benefits. _ Some of it will be spent in administration. He can give the people nothing for which the people themselves do not provide the money. The individual and national benefits which he promises to provide

must be paid for by the people themselves. To pretend otherwise is to practise a political false pretence. This organised attempt to scare the people on the one hand' and to offer them bribes with their own money has been tried before by Labour, but never on the present wholesale scale. It is bad political tactics to strain the commonsense ot electors too far. —I am, etc., Elector.