PROPS OF CIVILISATION

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 139, 7 March 1919, Page 5

PROPS OF CIVILISATION

Sir,—Tour "report cf Chancellor Bradford's address shows it to have been very good from his point of "'iew, but not so good from that of the interest of his hearers. "Big red-blooded props of civilisation," " making the standard of men's honour higher,", "less bridge and more Bridget/' "Charlie Chaplin's salary," none of which strikes tho keynote to the teaching wanted to save politics from the fangs of tho Red Fed. and Bolshevik bloodhounds. The teaching that goes unbridled and unmasked to-day .is ~"jjrab." No thought of justice; ao recognition of real merit; no protection'for the rewardof honest industry; no place for such in their creed. Spouters are made gods of, and their common vapouringe helped on with the gratuitous credentialling of a mere pretence of the appeal to reason, while the real lesson to be taught is that there is no more to-day than any other day a roval road to affluence. If the only test of merit be the power to grab, and Labonr travel on its weight, alone, its last case will be worse than the first. Shouting from the. hoisetops, as a political mßchine, has sunk to the lowest level, and those who rely on it nvust be viewed with suspicion. The future watchword must be, not what did ; lie say, but "What, has ho The bugbear is money, becanse money, is not; •understood. The king's fool, mates more' money than the king himself! What of' ( that? Money is not a standard. Money . is the serum of' commerce, which gives, it its fluidity, arid tnablefl its constitn- j ents to balance and find tkeii level. No ( more could money make a nation than ' serum could build a body, the cor- ■, puscles being absent. Labour is noir, "eyes out" for money, and sees it ijadTj ■ in the deepest bloodshot red. Hence Chancellor Bradford en the Charlie Chaplin screw. Moneys but - the - guinea's , stamp, the eeonomio balance erf the go- | cial equation is the gold for a that—l' am, etc, . '• KENftS" BOtDHJSL March 3.