LABOUR IN OFFICE

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20763, 25 June 1937, Page 6

LABOUR IN OFFICE

To the Editor of " The Timaru Herald

Sir, —I notice with great surprise in your issue of May 21 that the Hon. Adam Hamilton, addressing the National Club on May 20. said. "The British Empire should pin its faith to democracy.” As every reasonable educated man with a sensible normal brain knows, democracy, like civilisation, has failed ever since the fall of the Roman Empire. To-day in a modern world we must forget for ever the silly custom and traditions of the British Empire which cannot stand the light of truth showing on many of their proceedings which history does not record. The main object to-day is a matter of legislation for the people as a whole, which guarantees them a life of comfort and contentment, and freedom from the fear of want; otherwise it is better not to have been bom into a world that ever since humanity has been in it, despite the improvements he has made, he has been responsible for needless waste and

wanton destruction for which Nature will eventually exact an awful punishment. The idiotic Governments New Zealand has had in the past and its disgruntled members who care nothing for anyone but themselves, are obvious to all who care to review the position. A dictatorship Is useless. The perfect remedy is to nationalise all industry. As to the Hon. Adam Hamilton’s statement “that good government could not be hoped for from the Labour Party,” this is as false as his prototype whose name the hon. member has adopted, and proves and exposes his ignorance, since the pre-

vious Government lost control in favour of the best and greatest Government the British Empire has ever known. Results prove this. Here in Australia the Victorian Government is already copying the New Zealand placement system of using up the unemployed. I leave the whole position to the judgment of the people; not to dissatisfied Opposition members who have an axe to grind—l am, etc., CHAS. F. B. ANDERSON. Melbourne, June 17.