THE NEW DOCTRINE.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 2595, 28 February 1889, Page 2

THE NEW DOCTRINE.

TO HI 15 KIHTUR. S[R, —"Harapipi" says lam right about the boos. But then he says they are living under communistic laws—what belongs to one bee belongs to the other. T think ho is not right there. T'aa honey b .ilnng-i to the workers exclusively; tlu'y tolerate the drones when there is plenty of honey; when the honey is scarce they kill off the drones. Human society does not act in this manner ; it has different laws to the bee?, for when the workers produce too much goods, the drones nianago somehow or other to kill off the workers by the sweating and other systems. The fortunate few by our systems manage to monopolise the productions of the workers, leaving thorn nothing but a bare existence, and when the warehouses are filled to repletion the workers are thrown out of employment, and have to go and ask as a charity for some of their own productions. The workers want to take a lesson from the bees. Cannot "Harapipi " yet see that land grows in value without any exertion on the part of those who hold it. This is not the ease with any other kind of property. Henry George's brains did not grow to what !hey are without a vast amount of very hard labour and dotted perseverance 011 his part, (ivory man is entitled to the rosult of his own productions,but this he cannot possibly get if one aere of city laud absorbs the productions of more than 100 men. Now, considering the material that " llarapipi " has got to work with, I suppose I must give him credit for having given the best possible answers to my questions. Although, at the same time, I cannot help feeling (hat a professedly honest man is compelled to make such lame apologies for that which he considers to bo rialit. 1 think I can safely say that no right-minded man is satisfied with the existing state of things. All are desirous of some change, but the difficulty is what that change ought to be. " Harapipi" says that drastic retrenchment will be our salvation. If we do not get this, he says, wo shall dio. Now, I should like to point him to America, where their treasury is overflowing; they are not over head and ears in debt, as we are. Are there no complaints there ? How it is that Henry (ieorjje is preaching land nationalization there, and his teaching is taking possession of the masses in that country ? All true and beneficiont reforms start from the bottom and extended upwards. His teachings ara being well received 111 England and the Australian colonies. No one has yet been able to controvert his arguments. He is tho apostle of the toilers—of every class that is filling a useful mission in life. If lie was better understood ha would be very much more appreciated. It is no use " Harapipi " saying that a, change of land tonure would cause dire calamity. He is a croaker, as there have been many before him. When the locomotive was invented the farmers and landowners stated that horses would be of very little value. They were wrong. When slavery was abolished in America we were going to be eternally short of cotton; it did not happen. If the laud is nationalized it is said dire calamities will take place; this also will not happen ; tho croakers will again be wrong. Justice never did and never will cause calamities. JS r o, it is injustice and sellishness that are causing our present troubles. Wo have got a grand country full of all kiiKU of resources ; ail that is needed is equal and exact jusLiee to everyone. This will bring prosperity and contentment, nothing else will, — V'ours, &c. K.vjuiuuk.