SERVANTS OR RULERS?
We have not yet reached the stage at which the public servants hold the balance of power and elect or reject what candidates they choose, selecting for their support those who will help them to secure better terms of employment at the expense of the taxpayer. But we are approaching it, remarks the Chnstchurch "Press." And if the Socialists' ideal of the State as owner of all the means of production and distribution, the nationalisation of land and industries, could be brought about we should reach it at 6ne bound. The ideal is far from realisation, but it must not be forgotten that it is the object of the whole Socialist propaganda, and it is as well to remember that, in its own way, by the extension of the State's activities, with a corresponding increase in the number and cost of the State employees, the Government are lending material assistance to the Socialists' efforts.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9175, 26 August 1908, Page 4
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157SERVANTS OR RULERS? Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9175, 26 August 1908, Page 4
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