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PUBLIC NOTICES. TO-DAY'S ECONOMICS. (BY N.Z. WELFARE LEAGUE.) WEALTH AND WELFARE. What is wealth? It is all commodities ami services that hare exchange value. What is welfare? It is all things, including social organisation, that make for the higher good of humanity in the broadest sense. What is the distinction between wealth and welfare? Wealth is economic, and has only market value, while welfare is ethical, and has moral value; market and moral values do not coincide, and one chief problem of society is to mako them coincide. In what respects (loos wealth fail to coincide with welfare? (a.) Much market, wealth is devoid of rational utility, and is really what Buskin called "illth"; for example, vulgar and demoralising amusements, shoddy and adulterated goods, stupid and trashy literature, and many other commodities and services that minister to the lower tastes of man. (1>) Much wealth is accumulated by speculative monopolistic and other activities that are socially injurious? Where does the responsibility lie for this state of affairs? In the apathy, ignorance, bad taste, and passion for cheapness of the consuming public. What is the remedy? Tho mental and moral education of the community, especially enlightenment as to the social and economic consequences' of its action's and the consequent creation of a strong public opinion hostile to business'activities of an anti-social nature. Would a change in industrial organisation, e.g., from capitalism to socialism,' have the desired effect? _ No. It would not affect this problem to any appreciable extent inasmuch as production must follow consumers' demand under anv system. lou won't change the nature of a man bv giving him a new suit of clothes. What is the lesson to be learned from these facts? The basic problems of society are ethical and psychological not 1 economic, and ,onr worst evils are due to the imperfect mental and moral development of the people. What then is the policy of the Welfare League? .Progress through education and welfare through enlightenment. I 9 this the ideal of extreme Labour? • . We haven't noticed them mention it. A COMPLETE SOMERSAULT. WHERE DO PROHIBITIONISTS'STAND? COMPARE THESE TWO STATEMENTS A STRONGLY WORDED TVHAT DOES PROHIBITION' PROTEST. MEAN? „m , ~ . ' The following is the' comTo make, the possession of plelo text of llio opinions of liquor a crime, the effective Messrs. 0. P. Skerrett. K.C., detection of which would re- A. Gray KG and P T quire the correlative right of O'liegan, barrister and solid', search iu every house, would tor, all of Wellington — ho to establish an odious and 1. We are asked to advise inquisitorial tyranny entirely succinctly what acts a person foreign to the fundamental will bo prohibited from doing, principles of British law, and if Kationul Prohibition should to the whole pint of British come into force in Kmv Zealiberty We protest land pursuant, to the proviagainst the threatened invasions of the Licensing Amcmlsion of the privacy of the incnt Act, 1918. home by inspectors of police, 2. We advise that in that against the espionage that event a, person may not do clause 9 (total Prohibit inn-no any of the following thingslicense, no liquor) would pro- . (a) He mav not manufacture •duee, against the - strained re- intoxicating liquor of any delations and suspicions that srription, even for his own priwill arise amongst, neighbours, T ate, personal, or domestic, against tile incentives -to use. (b) Ho mav not import breaches of the peace on the it into Now Zealand, (c) He part of decent and self-respect.- may not sell it, or have it in ing citizens, which would ac.- , bis possession tor the purposes . company/ inquisitorial qucs- ot sale, tionings and domiciliary visits; 3. Tho doing of any of these w.nd, above nil against the in- prohibited acts is constituted eidious attempts to handicap an offence against the.Statute, a great and gcilnine social re- punishable by a fine not exform by attaching to it ait un- feeding £100 in the case A a prcccde.nted invasion of prl- first offcnce, and by imprisonvate rights and iiberties. meat for a term not exceeding three months in Inn case of a "Signed for the Executive of second or any subsequent nfthc New Zealand Alliance, fence. < "PRANK W. JSITT. Dated March 6, 1519. "Secretary. (Signed! 0. P. RKEKUKTT, , "•T. DAWSON, Chairman. A. GRAY. "September 7, 1904." P. J. O'IiEGAjY " AN ODIOUS AND INQUISITORIAL TYRANNY" THIS IS THE EXPRESSION OSED BY THE REV. JOHN DAWSON. 1 ' Tho principles ot British I/aw and Liberty have not and never will change, and what was true and in accord with these principles ill 1904 is as true to-day. Therefore, every Prohibitionist who would avoid what the I(cv. Jrhn Dawson, now president of UlO jN'ew Zealand Alliance, calls "an odious and inquisitorial tyranny" luiwt vote for Continuance. Every woman and housewife v.-ho reveres tbo sanctity of licr home must vote for G'eutinuancc by striking out the Two Bottom Lines 011 December 17, thus:— I. I VOTE FOR NATIONAL CONTINUANCE. 0 ATr m inciucr o l. 1 vwiliuh jiniL i'OiTcn7Tj~r^~i'^r^or: 0 1 IfQTr TAn M.' . J. 1 V\J I I OT\ .IrtllUMttL 1 Uui ULJi 1 ivJi'VT

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