DISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH
PROBLEM MUST BE SOLVED. OR WORLD WILL “BLOW UP.” Ottawa, Jan. 12. Dr. Stephen lueucocK, MoGill Lniversiiy proiessor ot political economy, warned a large audience here on Monday night, m a lecture arranged by tae rroiessiunal institute, that ii me problem ot distributing wealth was nut solved the world would "blow up.” Alter terming it an economically unjust world m which one man was wrongly valued at 2’dol. or 3dol. a day while anotuer drew 200,0U0d01., he declared: "we must go at least that tar with the Communist and Socialist. Vve can not analyze the world and find there is justice in it, and we can not solve the problem of social injustice by denying that it exists. “We live in a strange medley of complex forces, the blind forces of the industrial machine are getting beyond our control. All the more need exists, therefore, for the creation of a body of economic thought to grapple with this extraordinary problem.”
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, Issue 57, 18 February 1927, Page 9
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