BUTTER QUESTION.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1162, 24 June 1911, Page 3

BUTTER QUESTION.

iMs-'^V^U™, 1 ! 1 oI(1 Socialistic Book 11011 "i'e her there was in loh wj«dom """'" .«"»,« 'imitation. The poor • imois iall ,n for ~ i„ rge sharc rf x fllp lone. K seems to 1,0 a very sbro point . W, - 110 f "J 1 " 1 "'"!.' orators-n-ho Vary tne.r points 3ii all directions, and on subifi t my - va "°" s - l sre by (he paper one fanning man even ventured to ask ii the iarmcrs who had Socialistic tendencies were lunatics. Well, Paul had such tendencies, and he was called mad. In S l '' E h"' we J'" 1 !?;. P«>PIP nowadays b.\ their utterances. We hear of a certain professor sayinjf that there never was a slave but was made so and kept so by a Eold.er. Mere the slaves in the Southern btates ot America made so and kept so by soldiers? Again, we find the same gentleman saying when public Government enterprise was substituted everywhere for private, monopoly, (hen war famine, pestilence, and slavery would cease. He ought to have added rebellion. I in against established law and authority, les, sir. Overthrow private enterprise, establish one of the monopolies—even a Govern in en t monopoly. Where is the sense? Where is. tho justice? Now, sir, 1 will just for the sake of an illustration put it thus way. As tha'o public agitators have such a down on the farmers, what would they think- nr what Would they do if we acted in exactly the samo way as tho combined Trades Union are often urged to do, when they cannot have their own way? If all dairymen and farmers in general went on .strike, say for twelve months, and ceased production? Just think it over, you gentlemen who think yourselves so wi?e! So don't .chivvy too much, as flesh and blood cannot stand too much of those foolish arguments.—l am, etc., , •

HENRY WALTON. Waikanae, Juno 2(1, 1911.