GOVERNMENT POLICY.

Evening Star, Issue 22440, 10 September 1936, Page 5

GOVERNMENT POLICY.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —It is to be expected that the Welfare League would oppose a new idea. When that idea strikes at the very roots of the method by which the league seeks to further divide our people protest is even more certain from that quarter. The Welfare League exists to intensify the political differences of the people of New Zealand, especially against Communism and in favour of Conservative orthodoxy. The new campaign against setting one section of the people m opposition to another strikes right at the roots of the league’s existence. Hence the criticism from Wellihgton. l am taken to task for urging action without regard to “ how ” the objective is attained, and then naively asked “by what practical method (sic) the objective is to be realised ”? Does the league really think that its few sentences criticising the electoral campaign disposes once and for all of the idea put forward by myself, and of the great campaign along these lines now proceeding' in Australia and England? The problem facing the world to-day is, indisputably, a money one. Of no other article is there or, can there be a shortage. It is somewhere in the highly specialised money' mechanism that the trouble afflicting us originates. Therefore we should use our power, as electors, to bring pressure upon the Government demanding that the fault be at once rectified. This can only be done by pledging parliamentary candidates to place this matter first and foremost if returned. Should candidates ask, like the . Welfare League, “ how ” the matter is to be rectified they are to be told that it is obviously a matter for experts in the field affected. Their job as elected members is to pass on the people's order to the money expert and give him a certain limited time to fix the defect in his department. Should the money experts want to be told “ how ” to, do the job the answer is that, as they are the trained men, they must know how to give effect to the people’s demand. If they did not carry out the people’s orders in a given time then men would be appointed who would do it. it is trim that an electoral campaign emanates from the Social Credit school. But there will be no mention of Social Credit in connection with the programme outlined. We do not care what means are taken to rectify the matter so long as the “ objective ” is attained,—l am, etc., September 8. • A.