The Taihape Daily Times. AND WAIMARINO ADVOCATE TUESDAY, JULY 15, 1919. IS IT WORTH WHILE:

Taihape Daily Times, 15 July 1919, Page 4

The Taihape Daily Times. AND WAIMARINO ADVOCATE

TUESDAY, JULY 15, 1919. IS IT WORTH WHILE:

T With which its incorporated ~ “The Taihape Post. and Waimarino News.”

Itv hua_s .b'een'fsai'd- by a farmer in this ne~igh‘f)ourhood ' that. ‘\ somiethings tegrible fshould.-.-I'._lor our‘ spunilshment “for ‘L the 4z_zud_a-city. ~We display-.- urging: that.apec_),pl_e ;"e.shou;-Id? bow. humanely fhollS€d~,» .:~,a_nd . Jghat .it=. i's{.not4=;th‘c dusty of .t_ownsln-en, alonea,«=bu~t: of J,..ev,ery' -«taxpayer. =in :1-the-2, -.c.C>l.ln’(‘ry‘,'_j;_()__ become =responsib_lei ;‘fo.r :tlie--provision ~,0fi.» ;wha.,t vhouses: are .. requ.isite.'c

‘We; ae‘tua_ll;ly;~_ came‘ into con-tiacst: ;-witha farxner some years ago who-liacl not a good word: to say for any G_o.vermnent; he said -Grovernnients qveregqtoo -.expensive and unnecessary; and he did _l_l;o_ty see why he should be taxed at all to keep up any. Government; he wanted no Government, as he had found them nothing but a nuisance. No doubt there. are men with -much similar notions to-‘day, as our friend who would reproach us for advocating that farmers, vas Well as every other man, wonian, and child in the community, should bear their share ‘of responsibi~ lityhin solvingithe housing problem. There need not, of course, be any money to pay, for Vall house—ere_crtion sh-ould be self—supporting,V butbthere shoulndv be no pl'ofi‘t.s_e§:nctetl by_the_ State from whence.’ must come the money for which all property, tvhei‘lier ‘town or country, must furnish A {the security. We‘ think ninety-nine per cent of taxpayers will admit this to be a fair.,.»avnd just proposal, It has been said_ that the growing democracy has iiorthing to fear, but from those who are/clie éieknowledged conservators of folly.” The ‘country expects nothing from self-imposed governments, who claim the right to make laws, whatever their fitness or unfitness. The humane g'CllCl'w?ll moves his forces with caution, the inhumane general rushes them into an unt-qual battle and invites disaster. 111 ‘Sy<lney’s Discourses” we road: “He that oppugns the public‘ liberty overthrows his own, and is guilty of the most brutisli of all follies, whilst ll_&far|x'og:=.tes to himself that which he defiieysmto all other men.” Is it not;

this "§i)il'i.t operating to-day, regardless of .111 "popular rights and liberties, igllorhntly provoking the destruction of the whole political machinery. T 0 deny_thcsc popular rights and liberties

is,‘ silurcly, an~illVituation to the razement of the whole house, political and social. ‘VO cztnxfot deny in this twentieth century the privileges to o'fhors we fzlaim for ourselves. One man may

(lesiice to blow up the Government, cause he finds it: nothing but machinery for compelling him to pay taxes; another -beeause that same Govei-nment does not tax the other so much as it "should do, and from the untrziined thought. of such extremists we learn that the present menace to society is largely attributable to the faults of our national education. VV'fiat is written in this column is oft—«t.inles designedly couched in highly confentious sentences. but our chief object in view is to make men think. We urge upon capital and labour the common-sense of diplomacy in open conference, not the butting atogether of their heads like mad bulls in a fight to the death. One is the natufal peaceful change from One state of society to another, the other is bloody ‘revaluation. The great Burke raged '3/gainst th‘e ‘lfirstt wild deeds :of freedom; but _he Btrongliy

counselled a. genefoixs refit;-dying Véf abuses. Surely one of the grandest.

.specta.cles is to see ra.- vigoious nation 4endeavouring to save itself from dis-

aster by an intelligent revision of its laws, not so much ina permissive and restrictive sense, but with a, determina. tion to conserve the health of society through whatever changes it may be led. By a toning down and fusion of passions and prejudices of the people, We might be saved from the danger of crime and ignorance of the masses, and from the cu-pidity of legislators. With a spirit of honesty and justice, pervading every page, sentence, and line in the countr-y’s Statute B'ook, trade and commerce, freed from State coddling and political restriction would lead to a nobler state of labour and 3 more just distribution of larger profits. The men Who would blow us up for advocating universal responsibility, «and those who would confiscate all wealth and divide it equally with the worthy and unworthy, are’ labouring, perhaps unwittingly, towards the destruction of society and the confiscation of all property. To -again quote from Burke, he says: “Early reformations were made in cold blood; later reformations are made under inflammation. In that state the people behold nothing in the Government that is respectable. They see the abuse and nothing else. They fall into the temper of a furious populace, provoked at the disorder of a house of ill—fame; they never attempt to correct or regulate, they go to .work by the shortest way. They abate the nuisance—they pull down the house.” Is it not worth while for all parties to cultivate a spirit of tolerance for all that is just, humane, and noble? Is it not worth while to save society, trade, commerce, and production from. those who, in mistaken, unworthy self-interest, are rushing them into destruction and chaos? Is it‘ not time the badges of nobility were torn from the parasites upon the people who lead lives of vanity, luxury and contemptible ostentation, on riches dishonestly taken from the starving. poor, and have them pinned on real patriots? Those are the _men who have hitherto reformed in cold blood by taking to themselves privileges. at which humane thought

‘revolts. Those are the men who -have provoked the new order ofreforrn by ,- inflammation, thevorder thatfwill raze vflzlld» ,;ie.st£oy~;~ Again We. may .as,k_, _our ..rea;g_lers, is. ,i..t worth, vvhile, to put uso.l_n,e,e'lleck upon B these, .c,onservators of: ;folly?..A-re .s_v_e goingto take,-the awful risk, ,-stand; idly, ~ _i_ndiife_renzt_ly by Q until everything is tu_mbli_ng‘.and crumb_ling«:arou,nd us. .When.labour organisations become so inflamed that they can _Successfully defy the British Govern'ment, shall we still continue our blind vfolly; ostriehflike, burying the sealt of what intelligence we have in the sands of our selfishness? _The electricians of London decided there sh-ould be no peace illumination, the British Government had decreed there should be such illuminatio_ns,_‘but the Governmenxt did not rule, the_ electricians‘ did. After I__l'elading the evidence taken by the British, Coal Corhmissionpiand the reports sublnittedM,_to_:, Parliament, ' _shall we madly “pur_.§ue_t,_lie'A head;-butting policy? It, is. an ipnjtipispiftable ,layv. of‘ nature .tlll-at _eyer_v. iiianysapnd jvom;an_ is born into .t_he W_o_rld pv_vi_th¢,_,an inalienable right to whatever landland air is necessary to their healthful development, yet conscription in Britain disclosed that only a eoniparatively few were starving nearly half the populasti-on-to death, or were forcing upon them such eon~ ditions of life in which health was impossible. Lloyd George said Britain had to bow its proud head in shame before the hideous Turk and the ignorant Russian. A returned soldier was recently buried in Taihape, only one person following to his last resting place. He was not a. Taihaipe man, and had been brought in from an outlying town, but the country for whom he fought should not. have so wabandonecl him in his last moments. This land is undeniably in similar danger to that discovered in the revolt of electricians agaiiist the Brifisli Government; is it not Worth while to endeavour to establish a sinner regime; to put an end to reformaifion by inflammation; to stop the acts of irritation; to bury our combativeness, and seek by all friendly, tolerent, just and humane means to bring all our people togetlier in determined communion with a view to ending the political cupidity and the eon~ servative trust folly with which this country is menacod?