BRITISH FARMER IS RELIC OF MEDIAEVALISM.
LONDON, December 31. “ There is real danger in doing things for people instead of people doing things for themselves,” writes the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr Philip Snowden, in “ The Faith of a Democrat,” one of a book of essays published by Benn’s. “A self-reliant, self-respecting, independent people are rendered unreasonable by spoon feeding,” he adds. Mr Snowden describes the British farmer as a survivor of mediaevalism and says: ‘‘The first essential for the revival of British agriculture is cooperation.”
Mr A. V. Alexander, First Lord of the Admiralty, in an essay on “Parliament and the Consumer,” describes Britain as “in immediate danger of being subordinated to what would amount, to a general tariff. No taxation without representation clearly becomes the watchword of consumers 'who, at present, aue mulcted every year in new impositions by taxation on their daily needs.”
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 19267, 2 January 1931, Page 6
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