VELLE'S SCHEME.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 233, 17 December 1887, Page 2

VELLE'S SCHEME.

(To The Editor.) Sfr— Mr JB. Why to at the spicinlly expreased wish of hi* con-«titiientB has heen ttying to imlnc* the Government to give a triil to '' Vailes's Railway Fchcrm*" on the Auckland Railways. " Now I do not believe that lowerin" the faro* would conduce either to the benefit of the Colonial finances nor to the real advantage of those wh-> nii^ht avail themselves of th • increased facilities for travelling. Mr Vaile pretends that tho iowarir.i; of the v:iilway fares vnuld be beneficial to the small settlers. This I believe to me an entirely erroneous impression. Tho small settlers are quit; able to pay tlu; present fare*, if they find lit redly "nevessary to go a journey by rail ; and to encourage them to travel with out sufficient cause, is to encom.ige them to waste both their timn and their money. [ know quite enough about the affairs of a small settljr to be qiite well aware tint unless he dois most of tho labour himself ho is not able to make both ends nu-et, and that if he wcrj t> spend his time on the railway instead of on his f.inn all thctim'j 80 spent i.s taken from tho sum of hin earnings on bin farm. A»ain, directly a rn-in gets uway from homo he begins to spend money. A drink here and anotli.r there, a visit to the tlieatve, a few unnjcessary purchases; and however low m ly be the faro, he will yet find himself a £ood deal poorer when he returns home. Wbeivftq tho same money expended on q?f>d and manure, and the timo applied to putting them into the land, would ha\e mido him licher instead of poou-r. Tho usual remedy preached heie for the depression in tiade is to encourage people, win cannot offord it, to spend mon<\\\ Those who advocate this theory being- supremely indifferent as to to whether 'the money so spent is applied for the purpose of producing wefikii or not. I mean that tbi' mei\; f.ictof mnnpy passing from one mmd to another in no way benefits the countiy ; but th it .same money applied to extracting useful am] saleable commodities from tho hind, whether minerals, corn, wool or beef, i« increasing the production of the colony, and consequently increasing the wealth of tho colony, and indirectly of -very individual iv it. [ ntn far mor>i intTmul to pi each oconomy ; it u old iashioiu-d but it is Mit'o ;it i-f no t ;>t tract iv\ i but it is iv!i<>l>!o. I* n t the smdl y-ttler stay at bom 11 , uiul devoto his cupital and labour to impioviug ,\U(\ cultivating his land, ami let him take his small pavings aud put them into a safe invent invent, although tho i.iterest tn.iy not by wry hi»h ; :>nd i will hack him to bo a rich mm before tho R'-ttlor who -u'.iiU hiiusoif of V.iile's Scheme to b& con-itantlv on tliG move. Hulling stones gather no mo.v. — I lonuin, etc, E Viavvi:. Te Arohn. Dec. Kith. 1887