POLICY.

Waikato Times, Volume 114, Issue 19070, 7 October 1933, Page 9

POLICY.

(To the Editor.) Sir, —True-Love revealed to my understanding certain pertinent truths having to do with policy, it became clear that the policy of any movement or party seeking to bring about wlmt is conceived to be some public betterment or reform must always have two sides to it—call them A and !L A is Hio policy of achievement, which is openly put forward for public, approval and support; B is tin' policy adopted for acquiring ihe necessary power to carry out the A policy.

Even as, with the A and B costs of industry, It is in connection with the B's that most of tho trouble arises, so with the would-be helpful policies of “progressive” movements. And this is the reason: Rarely If ever will a progressive body throw open, or allow to be thrown open, to public inspection the inside nature of its B policy. It has Us omcial secrets, its obscure motives and means for drawing to itself the support of the general public. It adopts its leaders, with their private weaknesses; to safeguard these weaknesses from uncomfortable pressure or open gazo they use their ruling power over their followers. Thus the movement steadily becomes more hidebound, more secretive as to political ways and means, more controlled by its high officers, and more restrictive of the individual liberty and freedom of ils followers, at the same time employing more sophisticated deception in presenting its policy to the outside world. Follow this tendency up to its natural culmination and you find obtaining a condition of affairs identical, whether on a smaller scale or not. willi that, brought about by the world's, present-day supreme rulers, Ihe iulernaliunai credit monopolists or hankers. The fundamental objective of the Douglas social credit proposals —going deeper than the much-10-bc-dcsircd orderly and efficient working of the economic system-—is io bring freedom into Ihe community life by guarau 1 oeing to Ihe individual such freedom as will promote the greatest expression of the best that is in hiui

—freedom from the goad of stark necessity, and likewise from official coercion and restriction —“caucus rule. The Douglas movement can only achieve this objective, upon which the more obvious aspects of its policy rests, by leaving no part of either A or B policy under cover of darkness, dictated by seeming expediency, thus inevitably giving rise to doubts and provoking mistrust, suspicion and misrepresentation (unwitting or hostile), which in turn must react on the movement, accentuating its autocratic and secretive tendencies as already described (Inherent in all organisations* —notably In well-organised political parties, all of which have made a good copy of the authority system of their financier masters). Can the Douglas movement sleer clear of the pitfall of authority which seemingly perverts and finally obliterates ttie original pure and often good intentions of every “progressive” movement? There is but one way (revealed by True-Love), and that is by encouraging members to place lie fore each other and the public generally whatever relevant views they may have or facts they may be possessed of; also by tho movement in no respect going out of Its way to barter for the support of other movements or parties with ambitions of their own to command t'nelr allegiance. In a word, cut out compromise (which is not strength, but weakness) to the utmost.—l am, etc., R. E. lIANSEN. Orini, October 5, 1933.