QUESTION FOR CONSCIENCE.
“Real wealth cannot come into existence otherwise than by labour of head, heart, and hand, nor can that which is but its shadow or reflection-,credit, money, or purchasing power. What, then, has the moral sense to say about the picking up and appropriation, to our own uses of these drifting values which we know, or ought to know, have not been brought into existence by ourselves, but have heen laboured for by others? Could we respect ourselves as we would wish to do if the fact were consciously before our minds that our ‘findings’ are other ]>eople’s •losings’ ; that for every unearned ‘plus’ there is elsewhere a ‘minus’ in the reward of someone’s labour?”—Alexander Mackendriek in the “Hibbert Journal.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 5 January 1927, Page 3
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122QUESTION FOR CONSCIENCE. Hokitika Guardian, 5 January 1927, Page 3
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