SOCIALISM.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 15 April 1913, Page 4

SOCIALISM.

Those who are out to secure the 'Socialistic control of our municipal and general government should be interested in the experience of Milwaukee, a large town in America that tried the experiment, a. town,, also, that accommodated 1 Professor Mills for a number of years. Here is a passage from a leading London paper, describing the outcome of two years of "beneficent Socialistic Government":— ".Remarkable disclosures as to the extraordinary manner in which the hooks of the City of Milwaukee were kept under its Socialist municipality have l>een made in a report that has just been presented to the new Mayor. The Socialists were defeated at the polls last Aoril, and dislodged from power. • Fifty thousand errors have already been detected :n the hooks, involving almost every contract entered into by the Socialist administration. Records of purchases and contracts | were hopelessly mixed, and in a. large number of oases there were no receipts for payments that had been made. According to the chief clerk in Milwaukee, he came across cases where contracts to the amount of £4OOO were involved, and a year later no record showed whether or not the money had been paid. The expenditure was prodigal. To provide public works for the poor, the rates were raised by £90,000 in 1910, and by £IBO,OOO in 1911, and a further increase must have occurred this year if the city had not risen against the Socialists and driven them out."