HIGH PRICES OF FOOD.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 23 March 1915, Page 3

HIGH PRICES OF FOOD.

(To the Editor.) —Tlio remedy suggested by some ol oinr tor llio high prices of iooii are arrived at by tho same oneeyed commercial diagnosis of the trouble as that of tho official rangitiras of our own poultry industry. In both eases it is tacitly taken for grantod tli.it entrenched we*lth-takiug "Business' with a big "13" eiui do 110 wrong, and that exploitation descends from the etheral rogions, so we have to make the best ol it. They I say in efloct: Doc® liig Business from i'»s political and industrial entrenchiiieiiisxlirect its noiseless shells straight U " X? " so > 's for i tlie country's good. It | will test your cash-box armour plate and isboll-re.sisting powers. You must bo more thrifty. Seek thee that gain of wheat with tho microscope. The thriftiest slave survives, and all that sort of tiling, you know- the fattest porker on top. The inhabitants of Edward Carpenter's island ''eked out a precarious existence bv taking in each other's washing" : why not vouP oiii are the insects that build the coral reefs; the slaves that build the wealth pyramids of the 20th century, which von Worship I On the whole it serves you right. AVe have made business a fetish and placed it on a high pedestal - the wealth-taken above the wealthproducer. Business with a big "B"' is now strongly entrenched and completely dominates tho situation, and demands more "balssheesh." Having placed this our "Joes" with hollow body and clay feet, high up. we are r.uw getting our deserts.—l am. etc., H. LEGER.