HOW TO DO IT.
"If I bad the power I' trotild settle the Waihi strike right away," said Mr A. W. Hogg at thtfStngleTaxers' dinner in Wellington. "And I will tell you how I would do it. I would put everj' Jo'ne of those men and every. one of those women on a nice little m ct?on of land, and give them a. f r>w cows ?o *-.''ik. Then they would >iat want to go back and work underground in the mine»s." Yes, but what would happen when the eingle-taxers got their way? The nice little sec■,'tioti wruld be* taxed so high, that the miner would be glad to get underground again. And if Mr Hogg put all the miners on nice little sections jjf. f land, who .would unearth, the gold,en sovereigns to pay for the butter and cheese ? But, we forgot. Mr Hogg would, of course,- pay for'-these products with paper money!
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10717, 30 October 1912, Page 4
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154HOW TO DO IT. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10717, 30 October 1912, Page 4
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