TELLING FACTS

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 49, 20 October 1931, Page 3

TELLING FACTS

Telegraph-

SNOWDEN'S LOGIC EXPOSES ! SOCIALIST PARTY'S | FALLACIES 4 NORANCE OR DECEPTION"

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• LONDON, Sunday. ■om his fireside at No. 11 DownStreet, Mr Philip Snowden, the lcellor of the Exchequer, is dodevastating work on behalf of National Government's campaign. pen is tireless and his tongue chant. Seated at the microphone night he riddled the fallacies which his ex-Cabinet eolleagare wooing the country. There silkiness in his voice and a subtle ination in his Yorkshire accent :h make every listener feel that s a personal talk to him; but s the facts Mr. Snowden pres that make him the campaign's .tanding protagonist. or example, the unemployed to m Mr Henderson promises to ree the dole uncut, learned from Chancellor that if the National ernment had not stopped the drift e would not have been funds to the dole in the middle of Nover. qually striking was his compari-to-day with 1906 when he enterParliament. Then the total exiiture was £123,000,000; to-day it 801,000,000. he social services then cost 000,000; to-day they cost £237,000 of which £132,000,000 is for dole, which is more than the on's total expenditure in 1906. axation then took one-thirteenth the National income; to day it is one-third. All this had to come ti industry. ivas appalling to think said Mr tvden, that the Labourites, eitlier iugh ignorance or wilful decep- , were telling the unthinking that e are enormous resources from ili the country could continue iding to its heart's content.