DOUGLASISM

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 77, Issue 82, 7 April 1934, Page 8

DOUGLASISM

Sir.—Tour leading article of 4th inst. is interesting in-so-far that it shows how the money interests are still smarting under the masterly ‘f rebuff’’ which Major Douglas administered unto their representatives on the “Government” Money Committee. Even those readers who arc not familiar with the purpose of Douglas’ visit to this coif try will fail to be impressed by quotations from a biassed journal like the Sydney Bulletin. It is an interesting characteristic of homo sapiens that he will often allow himself to be buffeted hither and thither—at times to extreme limits—without questixing authority or offering appreciable resistance to the powers that move him. If the pressure be continued, however, and the pace becomes too hot reaction sets in which, acting in the multitude, no power on earth can loose or alter. You illustrated this phenomenon very aptly in a previous article when you described how the Beaverbrook Press influenced the recent London elections in a manner in which it never anticipated or desired. In other words its weapon backfired with dire results to the marksman and advantage to the opposition. May I suggest that the guns of the Tory Press in this country are also afflicted with the Beaverbrook malady when they arc trained upon Major Douglas and his credit proposals? I would suggest, further, that the Tory Press in New Zealand is the greatest protagonist of Douglasism at the present time—indirectly and quite unconsciously, of course. Its futile efforts to ridicule social credit (it has long since abandoned reasonable argument —an ominous sign) is causing thousands of electors to flock to the Douglas, and incidentally the Labour Party’s, standard every week. The man in the street is not the silly chump some w'ould prefer to believe that he is, and he is going to register his vote at the next general election in no uncertain manner. The cat is out at last! Long may the “Chronicle” help forward a noble cause!—l am, etc., “ONCE A HARD-BOILED TORY.”