FARMERS’ POINT OF VIEW.
To the Editor.
Sir, —I quite agree with “Same Old Party” in his summing up of the Democratic Party, but, unlike him, I have never had any notion of supporting that party. The quack medicine of Mr Hislop does not appeal to me at all. That grand old man, Mr W. F. Massey, the last time he was in Invercargill, when speaking to a few of his supporters, said that he was more worried about running this country during the slump of 1921 than he was through the war period. That slump lasted only a few months, but this depression has been with us for four - years, so just what must the present Government have had to stand up to? Surely the spirit of self-reliance of the pioneers is passing away, when fanners are heard talking of repudiating their just debts and voting against the Government that has done so much for them. Why, the raising of the exchange alone, saved many a farmer from ruin!
In conclusion, permit me to say that the ideas of some farmers make me ashamed of being called a farmer.—l am, etc., D.G.B.
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Southland Times, Issue 22728, 2 November 1935, Page 9
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