A WORD ABOUT POLITICS

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22512, 21 September 1938, Page 6

A WORD ABOUT POLITICS

to raa editos ot **s pbkss. Sir, —I was very interested in "Two* eyed's" letter appearing in "The Press" this morning. 'He certainly has hit the nail on the head when he stated that the Labour Party has wiped about

£2,500,000 off farmers' mortgages and is still wiping more off. What he overlooked, however, is that the money wiped off belongs, in many cases, to people who have saved'all their lives and invested their money in mortgages on supposedly safe securities—broad acres. Many of the farmers have had mortgages reduced, but are able to go round the countryside in the latest model motor-cars, at the expense of the mortgagees, who have to walk. As a result of the writing off of some of these mortgages, many middle-aged persons who have been able to live without the assistance of the State are now reduced to having to apply for the old-age pension in order to keep body and soul together. If this is what "Two-Eyed" thinks is an ideal state of affairs and is in any way Christianlike, I would not care to meet a heathen. .... As regards the fixed price of butterfat, etc., I do not think this calls for any comment except to say that whatever the farmer gets in excess of last year's price is going to come out of his other pocket through the Consolidated Fund, and if he- is fool enough to imagine this is prosperity, he only deserves one thing and that is a continued period of Labour rule —then finis.-Yours, etc., jAMEg September 20, 1938.