The Taihape Daily Times. AND WAIMARINO ADVOCATE MONDAY, AUGUST 11, 1919. THE ALMIGHTY TRUST FATHER.

Taihape Daily Times, 11 August 1919, Page 4

The Taihape Daily Times. AND WAIMARINO ADVOCATE

MONDAY, AUGUST 11, 1919. THE ALMIGHTY TRUST FATHER.

With which is incorporated “The Taihape Poss and Waimarino News.”

l The appalling fact that meat stores fiin New Zealand and in Britain are so congested that ‘they are practically iincapablc of taking in more was fully idiscovered by the niecting of the !lExcc'utive ofithc Wellington Provincial Farmers’ Union, helll last Thursday._l 'l"lie meat situation was shown In its utmost _nake,d_ness,"ancl prospects of greater consumption and increased shipping were so obscure as to render useful discussion impi-actic‘a.ble. New ‘Zn-alan-dcrs are being nauseated with sickening praise for the part they 'playcd in the war. Every irresponsible jack-in-the-box thinks he has rt mission to vent his disgusting, irritating verbiage on people who, by nature, are apposed to patronage and cajolery. New Zcalanders have had enough of angcrsonic insincerity,; prompted by interested trust bang-‘ sters, who make newspapers pay for‘ the dissemination of their viperous. twaddlc, which is merely the snake] licking its prey in readiness for swallowing. It is now known beyond feari of tl'u‘,tl£ul contradiction that meat;

stox-es in New Zealand are seri-

Ilously full, that the prospects for the colnin<.;; season are black indeed; but Ican farmers expect anything more be'ing dor-.-. than previously experienced? [lt is only by discussion of the meat ‘condition that the whole country will be made to realise what it means_ Year by year something consid_er-ably, less than the output finds its way to Britain. Those who manipulate ships and markets are forcing back on New ‘Zoaland storage a considerable portion [of each year's killing; an occasional ship or two is promised when the cry lbecomes dangerously insistent, but farmers are lulled into quietude by [promises of more shipping which are not kept’, 01' have been only partially kept in the past. Farmers are told to , go on using the money they have in, ‘building more storage until their pa—l ltience and eredulousness is over-g istrained. ’l‘oo much of trust cozeniiig‘ and crustness has rendered them suslpicuons, but has not the awakening‘ ‘come too,‘ late. The spectacle new be-] {fore New Zcalanders is that there are‘ some 8,000,000 of freight carcascs of meat in this country, all that storage] loan well car.ry—while Britain’s stores I l'are so full that relief for New Zealand I ‘is impossible unless something out ot‘| ithe ordinary trust style takes place. l’l‘ime' was, in accord with laws of“ [supply and demand, when the supply ‘iof perishables was overwhelmingly? greater than the demand, an effort to; create demand would be made by re] 'l.uei.-ng prices, and prices would go! down ard down ‘until the possibility of goods being lost through decay and rottenness had been overcome. By virtue of tar.‘ honest ngplicaticr of the law: of supply and demand, it was‘ better to sell at a low price than that anything should become a total loss. Not so to-day; but are we in New Zealand any more honest in this respect than the foreign trusts? Have not New Zealanders been hoodwinked into Draetice of trust methods; into forming a lot of little trusts, that the 3-mighty father of trusts may swoop down upon and absorb all in its own good time? Our trawlers go out to - Sea’ and bring in an abundant crop from the 090311 that no one has yet j Purchased for his own enrichment, but < rather than Se“ the fish at a price A that Wtolild avoid any loss, the fish is 4 11821111 ‘EI ten to sea d 0 - and dumped oVel'boarc?dl: ntiri: :1Io1:p: 4 crime against Society? If not our . laws most assuredly need some amend- -,

illß. .Woollen mills nurtured on protective duties levied for many years, now refuse to make what people want; they will only make what they like and Dcople can take it or leave it_ These Illilling Companies having -been living and distributing» profits on taxation collected from every class of peoPle—°ld ago pensioners, those in hosipitals and even those that are dying cf star-vation—~and now that adversity overtakes the community ‘we find them SoiZillg upon the people like mad dogs; kllawing the public bones bare by virtue of their 500 and 1000 per C“-11tS- The per cent. malady is ultrarabid and seems incurable.‘ Is it to reach its climax like any other disease and disappear, involving the death of the subjects it has attacked? Those are pertinent questions that will furnish their own answer if we in our seizure of madness and greed neglect them; It will require all the 53116 Ollergies of people and trusts with in to combat and conquer the trust‘ from without. Every living being in; this country is as deeply in the com-! mon danger as farmers, and as the‘ only way of escape is by a plentiful supply of shipping every man and Woman should insist upon a cessation‘ of internal strife until the enemy from without is destroyed. If our farmers become slaves of meat trusts they cannot provide the money required in other industries. Trust in power would buy our coal, but, most assuredly, 315, their own price; then what would be the condition of miners and mine-I owners, / A- wise Creator has decreed some of His creation should work and others should think. There is no clearcut line between them, they merge one into the other until they become indis- t ccrnible one from “the other. The, sc‘i=ence‘ ott‘ economics "teach‘es these things, but it seems that science is only for the class from which pro-fi-teoring springs. VV-hcther we realise it or not, we live by the science of economics, then why is it not as commonly taught as dess important subjects in our schools, colleges] and universities‘? By flouting the laws of supply and demand in endeavours to practice extortion, the meat storage of the British Empire iseongestcd so that one polftion"is'incapable of giving help to 'anotl_'lc'r._‘ "To _’sliake_ ‘.tlielllselv'es clear of trust.‘ 'encumb'r'ané'e there’ is no occa.sion_ for farmersgto butcher and re-. tail theirhnicat; "the very essential‘ to theirfrcc ‘existence is"’well known to trusts, who have seized upon it because they know by its possession they control both ‘producer and consumer. That essential is shipping—ample ship-ping-—to take the nicat’ right into the best available m;a~rkct.- New Zcaland farmers have produced‘ millions of pounds worth of meat which they now see lying in store, rotting. becoming valuelcss; but worse, there is no better prospect wliatevorfifor the moat they are to produce in--‘the immediate future. New Zealand f’al'nlcrs lmve striven to feed a hung.‘:l'_v world. but

trusts have got possession of their meat and are content follet sfarvatiorr reign and the meat rot in store rather fh-an sell it at a. price that is in accord with that farmers receive for it. Farmers are striving to ilnprove and build up, trusts are unremiftingly pulling down. and this will continue until frusts are in supreme control if the State does not come to "the rescue with shipping. It is too late for a farmers’ shipping line, trusts are too powerful to permit success in tha«t direction. It is the 1.12;: hope that is now availablez; slripphzg must be furnished by Hl(‘. Stat}, or We must be eontent to He hmded over, body and soul, to a foreign people; to be ruled just as surely as though the conquest had been of .1 nlil'Lt:'ll'y chrzracter. instead of by }‘~'.".l"~o%f\.}l penetration, as it is improperly terzned.