THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES
WU.IT Is LIIIKIIAUSM? 1 liberalism is the soul of the middle class, i becking the selfishness of the small but extremely wealthy class on the one hand, and the combination of the unoractica 1 visionary and ignorant irresp msihle somi-class-eanscious element of extreme Socialism. Fur some years hack the dormant lethargic middle (lass have been dubbed and shorn of both their wealth and their liberties .by the two- extremes. It is interesting to note how the extremes, professing to hate each other, have in reality embraced each other in p'litice.l action to the impoverishment of the middle class, including the larger portion of the wage-earners. I lie next two oi; three years are going to see throughout the world the greatest outburst from the awakening soul of Liberalism that modern civilisation Ims witnessed these last two decades. —A. Hall Skelton.
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Hokitika Guardian, 12 August 1927, Page 2
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144THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES Hokitika Guardian, 12 August 1927, Page 2
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