MONEY AT BOTH ENDS.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4557, 30 April 1923, Page 4

MONEY AT BOTH ENDS.

« THE GOOD OLD DAYS. “Somebody said the other day, '* I think the Old Country is going to the dogs.” . The reply was: “Well, the dogs will have a mighty good meal.” A hundred years iu the life of a nation was a very little bit. But if they looked at what England was like 100 years ago they saw there was not a tram, not a train, practically not a steamer on the ocean, no telephone, photographs, no sewing machines —and no football matches. How- ver did the people live then?” sa.d the Bishop of Chelmsfoid a: Bristol. In the Nonli wom.u and girls were working in the mines, halfdressed, iu those daj'S; there were no laws relating to labour. In London beer had been sold from wheelbarrows; there were no trade unions, no working man had the vote, and hospitals were few and far between. Those were the “ good old days.’ Did they not feel cheered up? In the last 100 years they had made enormous strides upwards and onward in almost everj' department of life. They had to dethrone money. There were honourable exceptions. He took up his newspaper and he read the report of limited liability companies. Le looked at the Labour paper, and read the report of, trade union meetings. And what did he find ? As a rule he found the chaiiman of the limited liability company saying the dividend was less, but he expected it would be better nest year. He found on turning to the Labour paper that the workers were not tu accept lowyr wages cr an extension of hours. • Nothing was said at either meeting about the condition of the work people. At one end of the stick they called it dividends : at the other it was wages: but it was money at both ends. He wanted to sub.iliti.te something else for money. He wanted them to devote their lives, not to money, but to service. What was wanted all the way round was service.