FAITH IN OUR FUTURE

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 720, 20 July 1929, Page 7

FAITH IN OUR FUTURE

D LETS DISPEL THE WRAI'I'HS! When the acid test of true citizenship is applied it will be found that the only worth—while New Zealander is the one with a full. sure and abiding faith in the future of our country.. One pal» sessed with a firm and grim determination to pull his weight and do his best to develop and build up our country to its utmost capacity and the furthest limit of our resources. The greatest hindrance to national development is lack of faith in our ability to stand alone and supply our own want: by our own enterprise. Last year a National industrial Cor. t'erenre was held in \\‘ellington, a' which all classes concerned in tin(levelopment of the Dominion were represented. and Professor “'illian‘n. of the Massey Agricultural (Willem. told the delegates present that he could not conceive of New Zealami ever being anything but u "humblvcountry." The professor was only blurting out in plain English what has been implied more obscurely by those who are constantly reiterating the assertion that we are unfltted by nature or (leitiny to ever become other than a .cattered community of farmers: clearing the bush. growin: grass, tending our flocks and herds. and tilling the soil. REALISING OUR DESTINY That myth has always been thn greatest hindrance to our national development, and those who have been responsible for creating this prejudice against increased internal production have done a. dis-service to their country, by destroying our faith in ourselves. and cultivating instead what is sometimes termed an “inferioriiycomplex," which deludes us into believin; that we are unable to provide for ourselves, and are destined never to be other than a nation of shearers. dairy farmers and slaughtermen, competing with our exported produce against the cheapest-paid labour and lowest-living class of producers in the open markets of the world. But a new faith in a higher destiny than that. is now springing up and demanding the right for us to grow no as a sturdy, self—supporting British community, whose members can apply their brains and skill to excelling in arts and crafts just as much as we may in scientific farming. DEVELOPING NATURE’S STOREHOUSE We are no longer an infant colony. tied to our Mother Country's apron and dependent on her to supply us with the needs of a modern people. while in return we send her our wool. dairy produce and meat, competing in her open market for a. suflicient return to pay for our manufactured requirements. ’We have been eudowed with cheap power and an abun. .dance of raw materials. and our §future must lie either in utilising these to the full or remaining a. “humble” community of a million or so, living on our pastoralists and farmers. Then if some international } or industrial cataclysm secure to block ‘the exporting of our primary produce i or the importing of our manufactured igood's. we must. be content to show a “humble and a. contrlte heart" and patiently await a. return to normality. A war may cut off our shipping ser—vice; a lengthy industrial war may hold up that service; our freezing works would be filled to the doors and production brought to a standstill. EXORCISING EVIL SPIRITS The only escape from those fears and the only way to dispel those wraiths is to have faith in ourselves and our undoubted ability to do for ourselves. To realise our true and natural destiny we must set to work on a policy of self~help and selfsupport. Our primary industries in the last two years have produced record surpluses from our overseas trading. That money lies idle in our banks: “frozen capital," which should be reinvested, and turned over and. over again, in the production of ferther wealth by creating new industries! and expanding existing ones to supply our own needs by our own labour, power and materials. Instead of which we are advised to spend it on imports, sending our manufacturing work outside, while the number of our own unemployed are growing daily. and charitable relief is reaching break—ing point. HINDRANCES T 0 DEVELOPMENT Our leading bankers and economists tell us that the reason we are faced with the amazing spectacle of our banks congested with record deposits, While our relief offices and depots are haunted with record numbers of idle artisans, is that investors lack confidence in either our primary or manufacturing production. There. is a general sense of insecurity and capital has become timid. Prejudice against our own products; ignorance of what we can do to provide for ourselves; indifference to the sufferings of our idle fellow citizens; these are the haunting spectres which have destroyed our self-confidence and created a. state of depression and stagnation. Sending our surplus wealth abroad for the purpose of imports, or investment of it in providing work overseas will not help us here. Set our idle capital to work producing further wealth. Produce for ourselves and use our own products. That is the only way to restore prosperity and happiness, scattering the mythical hindrances to our progress and natural development. and setting us on the right path toward fulfilling our destiny as a nation. RA.

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