THE GOLDEN RULE.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13595, 15 May 1908, Page 2

THE GOLDEN RULE.

(To the Editor of the "Timaru Herald.")

Sir,—l see in your correspondence, a letter in regard to letter, in regard to. Mr Guthrie's maiden speech ai Pairlie. There are one or two questions I would like to ask your ' correspondents. One says : "As T. Thomson neatly put it in writing, the man who can make money for himself can make money for others." In a letter Mr T. Thomson wrote a few days ago, he had a word! or two on Socialism. I would like to know what is real Socialism. Is it a man wJio acts fair and square to his fellowman and try and build him up and ptut him on a good footing, as he himself perhaps has been put on ? Or is it) a man who tries to do all he can to bleed his fellowman to make a big pocket for himself? How many poor boys and girls have we known to be working for twelve months and more for the big wage of nothing, and when they have been long enough to get a few shillings they are put off to make room for others? Call -that Socialism'? I don't. Again, how many have we seen leaving our town by train and boat, who have been trusted with money, not from those only who could more afford it, but poor widows' and orphans. There are a lot in our town to-d!ay who if they were treated as fair as they should have been, would not be in the state they are to-day. I say let us do to others as we would be done unto.—l am etc., FAIR PLAY.