PROFESSOR MILLS.
Professor Mills, of the United States, made am excellent Socialistic speech in Masterton last night. He was riglht out against rnonopalies, and pulverised them wiitli rhetoric as a ston<>crusher does a beetle. Of course he had his audience with him. It was unfortunate that he -should have suggested to a New Zealand audience, however,that the expropriation of industries by the State was the surest remedy for the evils of (monopoly. As lie is here to investigate and leiarn, it is well that he should know that in this country tlie greatest monopoly we have is that controlled by ■ the State. The railways, for instance, which are outside the jurisdiction of • Arbitration Courts, ■ employ meai at lower, wages: and far longer hour® thanany private individual dare do. State ownership is • (alright in theory. In practice it pans tout badly indeed. Governments are human-—more human, perhaps, than individuals—and 'they do not possess I all the business acumen.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10265, 17 June 1911, Page 4
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157PROFESSOR MILLS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10265, 17 June 1911, Page 4
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