THE WAY OUT.

Taranaki Daily News, 4 August 1933, Page 3

THE WAY OUT.

(To the Editor.) Sir,—ln reply to Captain . Rush worth and his Douglasites permit me to state that in my last letter I stated “that the distribution of wealth is the assignment of ownership, etc.,” which to date has not. been refuted. This definition raises the laws of distribution far above the level assigned to them by most last century writers on political economy, and establishes the fact that these laws are <as much laws of nature as those concerned in the production of wealth, though differing from the latter in that whilst the laws of production are physical laws, the laws of distribution are moral laws. No one can look around to-day on the prevailing disparities 'without being profoundly impressed with the conviction that we are suffering from the consequences of the violation of the laws of distribution. Further, it is a fact that no man can possess wealth and not produce it without causing other men to produce wealth and not retain it, and so long as that state of things continues it is vain to hope to satisfy the claims of justice or in any way prevent poverty and all its evils by legislative interference, the A and B theorem, producer credit or consumer credit system, or control the affairs of the industrial population. The law of the distribution of wealth requires that justice and not money shall be the first and last consideration of the nation. — I am, etc., STUDENT. Tangarakau, Aug. 1.