Thoughts For The Times

Hokitika Guardian, 1 June 1920, Page 2

Thoughts For The Times

Food For World-Wide Thought. “Saving and production govern distribution. Greater ' distribution comes from greater capital. If we can produce and save, economic law distributes, No power can prevent.it. Capital must accrue to the use of the people, or it perishes. “If we want more coal, and wheat and sugar, we shall ge it by giving more clothing and shoes and machinery.'- Changes in price wjll give no ul-iniate-relief. Shorage is met only hv saving and production. “Taxes have to be paid by the public. They cannot he imposed on anv class. There is no power that can prevent a distribution of the burden. The landlord may be the one who sends a check to the public treasury, but bis tenants nevertheless make the payment* \ great manufacturer may contribute a large share of his income, but still the money comes from the consumer. “It is impossible to escape the. tonelusion that high taxes make 'ugh prices. So long, as the cost of Government is high, the cost of living will be high. “The best that is in man is not, bought with a price. To offer mooev only is to appeal to his weakness, not his strength. “Employer and employed must find their satisfaction not in a money return, but in a service rendered; not in the quantity of goods, but in the quality of character. Industry must be humanised not destroyed.” “There are strident voices urging *esistaiiee to law in the name of freedom. They are not seeking freedom even for themselves—they have it They must be resisted. “Laws- are not manufactured. They are not imposed, they are rules of action existing from everlasting to everlasting. He who resists them, resists himself; lie commits suicide.”—The Governor of Massachusetts. .