"MATTERS OF MOMENT."
The Press Association agent at Hastings has thought fit to let the Dominion know what Mr Is. H. Williams, the President of its Chamber of Commerce, thinks are "matters of moment." Mr Williams is an amiable solicitor of Hastings, who plays a good game of cricket and grows big peaches. He says there is too much restrictive legislation in this coun"try, and that if peopi? are : poon-fed, and live subject to strict regulations, they will become mere machines. That is quite right. He goes further, however, and says that the interests of capital and labour can only be differentiated by the us? of formal terms. That is only right in &o far rs it implies a desire on the part of the one class to exploit th? other.-. Mr Williams thinks the rnillenium would probably be reached if the agitator were done away with. The agitator, however, is only the product of the exploiter. There are agitators on tiie capitalistic as well as the la-' bour side. Before anything like a community of interest can be established there will require to be a common ideal and an elimination of selfishness and greed.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10210, 12 April 1911, Page 4
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195"MATTERS OF MOMENT." Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10210, 12 April 1911, Page 4
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