“TYRANNY OF STATE”

Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20277, 20 August 1937, Page 8

“TYRANNY OF STATE”

GOVERNMENT ASSAILED

INDIVIDUAL LIBERTY SAPPED. TIME FOR ACTION. (Special to Times.) PALMERSTON N. f Thursday. “ State control is the enemy of human progress," said the Hon. J. G. Cobbe, M.P. for Oroua, speaking at Halcombe this evening. “It tries to substitute the machine for the initiative of the individual. In other words, it means the establishment of centralised tyranny, controlled by a group of - dictators. 0 “It is difficult,” continued Mr L Cobbe, “to understand the mentality g of an individual living in a free 3 country, enjoying the benefits of free '• institutions, and having those opportue nities of success in life which a new land offers to men of spirit, industry and enterprise, who elects to surretia d er tiiat freedom and consents lo live under the degrading tyranny of State control.” The position in New Zealand at present was very serious, the speaker added. The property and liberty of the people were being menaced. People with capital were afraid to invest it in any new enterprise in the Dominion. The policy of the Socialistic Government was to spoon-feed the worker on the one hand and to paralyse his self-reliance on the other. To the farmer and the business man they offered with one hand a visionary Utopia of ease and plenty, while they ix carried in the other the degrading fetiy tors of Slate control. ■q It was surely time, said Mr Cobbe, in that, all patriotic New Zealanders s were up and doing, not only for the s protection of their own interests, but x also in the interests of the freedom and prosperity of the country.