WAR PROFITS MORALLY FORFEIT
"Wo are a!! going emerge from tl»fc war much poorer. writes Kenneth Maclnmuir. in his "Paper for War Tiiuo " entitled '' TJio Price <>l ! Blood." '"ls it right, that any shall emcrjio richer: tbu-t sli** 1 i yieiC. ;jII serviee <i-nd become impoverished i'or the commonweal and that :i toy,others grow rich beeaut-.o of thoir contribution to tbo fecrvice of the Statu in the hour •oi it->J need!' "That would be a s>trauge j>bariug oi' the n.itic taJ .bunion--ii would _be drinking of the blood of those men that have put their lives in. jeopard v. Men way be placed in bUch a position that tho'y cannot help making money, but there ought to be an honourable way of eseapo from the odium ot growing rich out of the needs of the present situation. . . " All extraordinary proiite at this tune arc morally iorieit to the nation, a I'd the Church shouid proclaim this before the Chancellor of 1110 Exchequer doe* so.''
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 11509, 4 October 1915, Page 7
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164WAR PROFITS MORALLY FORFEIT Star (Christchurch), Issue 11509, 4 October 1915, Page 7
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