LIMITATION OF INCOMES.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19769, 10 April 1934, Page 9

LIMITATION OF INCOMES.

To the Editor of " The Timaru Herald ” Sir—Just a word from “the old digger.” Allow me to thank you for publishing in your weekly magazine section, the opinions of your fellow editors, both at home and abroad. This is, no doubt, a move in the right direction, and it is a great thing to a paper to have an editor with such broad views. Now we hear a lot about what should be done to make this country what it ought to be, but, until we get a more equal distribution of the wealth produced in the country, we will not get anywhere. Why do not those Labour Members and all who profess to have the welfare of the people it heart, join those men from the south who reckon that no man should have over £SOO a year? There is no douot that this sum is quite ample for any man. If this was done, it would give us a great number of wealthy men where to-day we have none, because there is no limit to their wealth, and any man who cannot live on £SOO a year should be with the unemployed. There is no doubt that the better distribution of the wealth among the people would make us more happy and contented, for nothing creates such misery as paupers and millionaires. Why do not the people of to-day do as they did forty years ago, when the cry was “Burst up the big estates.” The cry to-day should be, “Burst up big incomes.” Think of the amount of money lying idle in the country. Burst up the big incomes and you set most of this money into circulation. The reason why this thing has not been done as yet, is because people have not given the subject the thought that it requires. Let them once start to think properly, and the thing is as good as done, for we have got into our present trouble simply and solely because the people will not think; for thought 's the life of the world.—l am, etc., W. CUNNINGHAM.