Thoughts For The Times
Utopian— Ykt Rossini. e. We may gain the liest and clearest id,-, ~| i - duties of .Government it we thin:, o. Hie State as supplementing the work of other bodes and of individuals above all, by keeping ordei, but also bv intervening to provide for public welfare wherever the enterprise of private persons has failed to meet the need, wherever the minimum standards of life requiri-d by the State are lust Otherwise maintained.; Indeed some important matters, such as public aid and education (and, perhaps, in the future, medical service), we may think of the State as doing the main work and of private efforts as supplementary. And we may notice, finally, that as standards of conduct improve ami men learn to behave well of their own accord, there will he less need of compulsion, and the State will become more and more a, free association for mutual service.
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Hokitika Guardian, 3 September 1921, Page 2
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