PASSING OF CLASS WAR

Waipa Post, Volume 49, Issue 3554, 6 December 1934, Page 8

PASSING OF CLASS WAR

“ The ‘ workers ’ have nothing to gain and much to lose by upsetting the social order. Their incomes, when we add to them their exemptions from taxation and all that they draw from the public purse, are about the avei'age family incomes for the whole country; and the few large fortunes which still exist would be very easy to destroy and very difficult to distribute. Unskilled labour is now almost as well paid as skilled. The dole has put ’ai weapon into the hand of the unskilled workman. “ Wfe may hope, therefore, that the class war may gradually become a tiring- of the past. “ . . . My own opinion is that the only Socialism which could be made to work is Russian State-Capitalism, miscalled Communism; and that the price which would have to be paid, the total destruction of liberty, the placing of the life, livelihood, and liberty of every man, and the honour of every woman, at the absolute disposal of State commissars, is far too high a price for the efficiency of a cast-iron bureaucracy.

“ It is quite certain that our people would never stand it; and therefore I think that, following our invariable pr’actice hitherto in this country, we shla.ll try to mend our existing institutions, and not destroy them.”—Dean Inge.