HONEST TRADING AND MUTUAL TRUST

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 67, 13 December 1918, Page 6

HONEST TRADING AND MUTUAL TRUST

Sir-Now that the war hos ended Hie main object of legislation should be to restore the public confidence in respect to honest trading. No legislation would do more to avert t a serious growth of \ the Labour movement than an improvement in this, respect. I am quite aware that a rise in the cost of living could not be averted, but I am also nwarc that the advanced prices in many respects were not justified. No military force can lake they place of the moral force that must be recognised as a, factor in the development of the human race, and just now the .wage-earners have lost confidence ire the moral sense of our commercial men. It is the duty of 'our legislators to bring into force restrictive measures that will tend to restore mutual trust. This will do more good than any increase in wage*. However, I feel I am wasting words, and that the vicious principles will continue until greed ultimately overreaches itself. It seems to mo, Sir, that the salvation of the country depends more upon the restoration of the public confidence in respect to the cost of "living than upon anything .else, and if the governing classes do not recognise tin's fact they are indeed asleep.— I am, etc., WATCHFUL.