WHAT IS MUNICIPAL SOCIALISM?

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 123, 15 May 1908, Page 4

WHAT IS MUNICIPAL SOCIALISM?

To tht*. Editor. Sir—l tlunk it may be intere.sling to niaiiv of your realtors at tin? [iroseiit moment lu gut a definition ol tho word v, Suri;ilisnj.'' J haw therefore taken the trouble to t'lielonu you a cutting taken from tlie Bulletin of 13th February, lIMIS, which I think puts the moaning in a nutshell.—l am, etc.,

W. .MOREV. "While Wade was shuddering about Municipal Socialism on the morning when .New South Wale rt was to elect its new hundred thousand (or sol aldermen, he ought to have turned to Paris, as well as lo London and America. There the Socialists have a clear majority, and their programme runs: '(1) Care of the unemployed. 12) Development of the Assistance l'ubliqiw (what Wade call* "charity"). (.'!) Building cheap and healthy dwellings for the poor. (4) Feeding and clothing poor ohildroii going to school. (5) .Municipal ownership of gas and electric light supplies, street cars, omnibuses, motorlines, gteamers on the Seine, metropolitan railways, and the undertaking business.' Already the municipality runs the twenty-one hospitals of the city; also it provides experienced uiidwives lo attend poor women at their own lionnvi. and asks no questions : and in its great maternity hospital it cares for both mothers and children, prying into tm but simpU giving help where it is wanted. If only Wade had Thought of Paris!"