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PUBLIC NOTICES. TO-DAY'S ECONOMICS. (BY N.Z. AVELFARE LEAGUE.) 0 THE DISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH. AVhat is tho distribution of wealth? It is tho manner in which the social product is divided among tho various faciors that have combined to produce it. Labour, land, capital, and organisation (which is a form of labour) combine tc produce the world's wuiilh, and divide it in the form of wages, rent, interest, and profits. i How is tho social dividend composed? It consists of three parts: a maintenance factor, a development factor, and the surplus. Whut is the significance of this distinction? As regards the first, each factor of production must secure the minimum reward necessary to induce it to offer its service?, or proline- '■ tion will cease. It is therefore to the interests of. all that labour, capital and organisation should get the reward necessary to evoke their activities; and similarly, if society is to develop, each factor must get an additional veward to ensure growth, otherwise labour would not increase in numbers or efficiency, nor would capital be accumulated in sufficient volume. No real divergence of interests therefore arises here. Is it the same in regard to tho surplus? No. At present ihis is distributed b.y a mere {rial of economic strength, for there , is no natural or necessary principle of division. The surplus leally belongs to tho community, for it is communally . created. Has the result been satisfactory? No. The industrial surplus has hitherto gone into tho pockets of those individuals who enjoy a favourable strategic position, and has been handed on by inheritance, resulting in the creation of a leisured class parasitic on the community, whose futile and anti-social activities are < the mam cause of social unrest to-day. AVhat harm does this do? ' Idlers, whether rich or poor, are a nuisance in a community, ■ whilo busy pqoplc. whether rich or poor, arc an advantage. Wealth should be associated with social service, but at present there is no necessary - - connection. Is that ali?. ' No. The possession of wealth is the possession of p'uivhasing power, since productiiiii follows demand. The wealthy, therefore, by ■ exercising- this choice, are able to switch the productive resources of society on to the production of trivial and injurious luxuries, instead of providing an abundance of the necessaries of life for the community. Does not the wasteful expenditure of the rich benefit tho poor? No. It injures thorn, because the. amount of labour and capital at the disposal of the community boing limited, -if it is directed to the production of luxuries, there is so much tho le-ss available for the. production of necessaries, which are scarcer and therefore dearer. How can these , evils bo remedied? By tho growth of a public opinion hostile to the anti-social use of wealth, by ills penalising of idlers, whether rich or poor, by the State taking; by taxation communally-created values,, as far as this is administritively possible, and bv so.directing Hie incidence of luxation as (o bear most heavily on the incomes of the non-pruduciui,' classes. All producers, whether employers or ivorkoi's, have , common interests. as against the idle rich. Will inequalities anion? men ever be abolished? No. Some inequality or wealth, is the price we must pay for the productive efficiency of free enterprise. No alter.ition in the constitution of society would abolish inequalities among .'iieji, or prevent: such from issuing in economic inequalities. A. dead Ww\ of oqualily would be as undesirable as the present too unequal distribution. MORE MESSAGES FROilf CANADA. PROHIBITION CAUSES INDUSTRIAL STRIFE: Mr. Gompers has told the worid that Piohibition in U.S.A. has ink-Mini-fied industrial unrest, and the strike* in Winnipeg—with I heir bloodshed and destruction of property-have been mainly attributed to the discontent caused by Prohibition. PROHIBITION INJURES RELIGION: The Montreal Methodist Conference, on , . Tune i nf this year, passed a reso,lution declaring thai (he Church n Canada ought "to promote aud develop the spirit of lovn and brotherlinas. , ." This Methodist Conference, also viewing tho fact that the, "spirit of live and brothcrlincss" was not prevalent in (iho Canadian Provinces, and nalising tho cause, passed a resolution "favouring Government ownership and sale of alcoholic liquor.*." PROHIBITION MAKES CRIMINALS: PROF. STEPILEN LEA COCK, of M'Ciill University, say>-.-"It (Prohibition) has converted men into eriu.inals, drinking illicit poison in of honest beer, and raving themselves to ruin all the quicker. IN CANADA PROHIBITION HAS PROVED AN ABSOLUTF, FAILURE." SENATOR HON. M. BOYES, sp-airing in the Senate on June IS, 1010, said:—"Wo know thad in the Province of Ontario the police force te been considerably increased; that illicit drinking takes place; that illicit stills are-flourishing, and that IT IS U POSSIBLE TOR TUT! PROHIBITION LAW TO BE ENFORCED. We lnowby the reports of police officers or the City of Toronto that drunkenness is on tho increase." v SENATOR BOSTOCK. B.C.:—"lt s impossible to enforce Prohibition. A . . large number of people whom bh<y had never expected to do such things seemed to be becoming breaker,-; cf tho law." A CLERGYMAN'S EVIDENCE: THE REV. OWEN BULKI.EY.'.v A., of Vancouver, with reference to Prohibition, states:—"Prohibition n Canada has proved a RANK AXV) ARRANT FAILIiRK. In every City iml Town in Canada where Prohibition has been in torce weret drinking lakes plw;e, «M, of police administration :has increased, and the illicit fale ; f (irugs has increased enormous , !}- according to police court convictions, t'lo'nibition hns brought nliout hi Oinada exactly whi'.t we temperance Advocates have for years been Shilling against." A PROHIBITIONIST'S TESTIMONY: ALDERMAN GEORGE B. KNOAVI E,\ of Tnrllcnfonl, Sn.-katenewnn. says: —"Although a. Piohibitionisl. injvc.f, [ have to confess that Hipro is more druiikouueos thau ever and no mo. cy coming into the City Treasury to heli) keep order." A LEADING CITIZEN SPEAKS: A lciding citizen-of Caleary. Albrta, Mr. D. Algar-Bailey, on September 1 stated:'— "The Prohibition logishition of Alberta is nothing more nor less than a fiircc. Liquor is going into thi' I'mvinco in large quantities and every day ('lie shipments aiv incr.asing in number and quantity.'' PROHIBITION CREATES ILLICIT TRAFFIC: li.RGI.NA (SAS.), October a. Government reports covering tl o first six mont'hs of the operation of tho KnsliatehevvMii Prohibition Act nia.l o tho following striking showin<v as to the consumption of liquor:— UNDER LICENSE I.AAV: UNDEIt PROHIBITION ACT: Beer 17,267 gallons Biier -4,033 gallons Spirits 22,889 gallons Saints 37,885 gallons Decrease in consumption • f beer a 13,2:14 gallons Increase in consumption ■ f whisky ... U,WU gallons LAW-BREAKING ON TREMENDOUS SCALE: SENATOR HON. MR. BHADBULY:—"The present system is not (lie best that could be devised foi- tli/ well re of Hie people of Canada. Abuses hnvi; bcßii mont glaring. In lihc City (if ■ oronto there has been over One .Million Two Hundred Thousand Dollars olleeted in lines for violation of (he law, and in tho City of Ottawa the :im lint has been liremendoiis, showing? clearly that the law hiis been violntc-d to «\ ch an extent (mat IT IS IMP,()SfcUBJ t TO ENI'URCE IT." IS Tiris'TJlE PTATI , ; 01' AFF.'.IRS YOU WANT TO BEI , ', ESTABLISHED BY PROHIBITION /• ONCi "J'lrE LAW-ABIDINCi PEOPLE 01:' TITIi. DOMINION? PROHIBITrON CAUSES INEUSTMAL STRIFE AND UNREST. PROTIIiSITION MAKES CRIMINALS OF MEN. PROHIBITION DESTROYS TRUE RELIGION AND TRUE TEMPEIIANCE. PROHIBITION CREATES GENERAL DISHEGAI D FOR LAW AND. ORDER. BESIDES, IN NEW ZEALAND IT AVILL C(.ST .-£1,50(1,000 ANNUALLY IN VOLUNTARY TAXATION. ' . VOTE FOR CONTINUANCE. CONTINUANCE COSTS NOTHING. CONTINUANCE PAYS INTEI Bin , ON XMWM M DEBT.