TEST OF DEMOCRACY
£5,000,000 STILL NEEDED (P.A.) WELLINGTON, this day. The test of democracy as to its ability to look after itself by voluntary means is what, after all, is represented in the Liberty Loan appeal, stated Captain Holm, president of the Associated Chambers of Commerce, to-day. Subscriptions were coming along splendidly, but there was still about 15,000.000 to be raised in the very short time remaining. All knew how increased taxation and higher priced goods had combined to make increased inroads into personal incomes or net profits, but difficult though the policy might be to adopt, it was a matter of imperative national urgency that all should dip deeper into their earnings past, present or future to provide the State with the sinews of war. We could deny personal expenditure by handing money in' trust to the State through the Liberty Loan. Thus could we forge the weapons by which alone our way of living could prevail against that force which threatened to destroy us.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 125, 29 May 1942, Page 6
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166TEST OF DEMOCRACY Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 125, 29 May 1942, Page 6
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