ADULT SUFFRAGE.

Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20490, 8 March 1932, Page 11

ADULT SUFFRAGE.

TO THE EDITOE OP THE PBES3. ' J In Friday's issu6 of The Press) appears a letter from who concludes by saying that "one adult, one vote, is not in the best interests of the community." Many business. men seem to be of the bame opinion, but do they +vf er logical alternative? Surely a vi V °^ e a wor^Gr with little or no debts is just as valuable to the community as that of a so-called propertyowner, owing four or five thousand pounds, which, on the principle of equality of sacrifice, he can hardly exrePay ' n one lifetime. J raises another question which may be of sufficient public interest to warrant discussion, viz., Qfrould % man

expect to earn interest on money lie has spent? Most farmers contend that they are entitled to interest on the money they have spent on their properties. If a man buys, say, a threshing outfit I can understand his right to interest as vell as depreciation; but is the mac who buys a home in the country entitled to interest, besides wages and running expenses? If so, who pays it, ultimately, and why?— Yours, etc., BAWBEE. . Mayfieldj March 7th, 1932. .