WHICH IS DEPENDENT?

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 107, 21 September 1912, Page 7

WHICH IS DEPENDENT?

.**•"*'*' To tile Editor. v -' r '''*'"' Sir.—ln your report of the meeting of the. Reform League the president_ says: '•The working man. in common with all ] classes, was dependent on the English money market." Now, if Sir Robert Stout is correct when he says, "Nothing' without Labor"; and if our commonsense is to be relied on when it confirms that proverb; and. further, if the lessons from the great strike now just closed in the Old Country are of any value, they all certainly point towards the reverse of what the president said; and we may safely conclude that Capital is dependent on Labor, in England and elsewhere. We have been too often scared, or attempts have heen made to scare us. here in New Zealand during the last twenty years, that our democratic legislation ;;; the way of Mviuices lo SetI "tier.-/ ..hi-;iim' pension, graduated land | tax. and labor laws generally wooid drive awav capital. "We nave liepn too ! long under the-C attempts at fright to i take anv notice of Reform Leagues Hive the mark).--! «:H. elc. I READER.