A CALL TO DEMOCRATS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 758, 5 March 1910, Page 14

A CALL TO DEMOCRATS.

Sir,—'Your report of a meeting of the Napier branch Df'the Hawke's Bay Democratic League makes interesting reading. Undoubtedly it is-to the.interest of every, wage-earner to join the league, and I hope to see -the Labour leaders throughout New Zealand co-operate -without further delay with a view to making it p. real, live political organisation with branches' everywhere; the objective being to considerably; reduce ,the cost of living by heavily r tailing' land values and correspondingly. reducing the Customs duties. As - Mr. Will Crooks correctly stated, we have the same thing to fight here as the workers, have in' the. Old Country— .land/•monopoly and the confiscation by 'private .individuals of the communitycreated value of land. As we have "one-man-one-voto" (which, unfortunately, thoy have not got in England) and could subscribe a few pence per week to put up Radical candidates in every constituency, we,, should'very soon 4 be able to wipe land monopoly and its . resultant' evils out of existence'. It behoves . all true Democrats to put their shoulders to. the wheel and grind this abominable social injustice to death, thereby- securing fov ourselves and our descendants a system of freedom-and independence, which is the birthright of eTCry ; '.'human being. Prom the tremendous/blunder'.'of allowing the people value of-;larid . to-,become' .the private property ;V6f-.a' ,few. persons, to the exclusion of ..the :many. spring the., almost numberless evils which form , the social problem. I -wish' the league every success, and trust/that" next ■ general .election its •candidates: will capture the and • oil it well, for it his. got-info;a.^f^fnlly-rusty condition.—l j.*am',.:cte.,.' ~ : oeTon syees.' March' 2. '