Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1906-07-28


''if the corporations are reasonable
and amendable to the laws they will
not be disturbed in their possession;
but the consequence of their obstinacy
is perceptible in Great Britain and
throughout Australasia, and that kind
of popular sentiment Is spreading
fast"
Mr.. Hearst's New York Evening
Journal, which many regard as KIND
of Socialist daily, rejoices over the in
terest shown by our President in New
Iealand's system of governmental
system, it asserts, (which the ignorant
call Socialism,, but which is simply
common sense" The same paper
thinks it is too bad" that "our eighty
millions of American people could not
talk for just ten minutes with Sir Jo-
seph Ward" and it adds:
"He tells the Americans whom he
is visiting that no government in New
Zealand could live an hour if it even
suggested changing back to the old
plan of allowing cunning rascals to
exploit the people through private own
ership of public necessities. And he is
wondering, as many Americans are
wondering already, how long it
take this nation to realize that it's
laws should protect the many instead
of promoting the extortions of the
few.
ut is lucky thing for this big, slow
moving country of ours, ruled and
managed by selfish interests, that we
have beneath our feet, on the other
side of the world, a small nation of a
million men and women, working SEN
sibly, managing their own affairs,
proving to us Americans our stupidity
in permitting ourselves to be exploite !
millions of us-by the clever corrup-
tionlsts and the political bosses-their
tools-who sell both of the great par
| ties to them"
The Pittsburg Leader reminds us
that there exists in this country ian
unreasonable fear of public owner
ship" To quote:
There is evil in government as it is
now constituted, it is argued, hence
| there will be gearter evil it there is
any addition made to the functions of
| 1t.
"If the policy of public ownership
should ever be adopted in this country
the satisfactory working out of il
would depend entirely on the men put
in charge. If they were rascals, they
would ruin any business the govern
ment might engage in, the same as
they now wreck banks and private en-.
terprises."
The Chicago Record-Herald also
thinks that there are lessons in Aus
tralasian policy for the American pep
pie" and adds 1--WE, too, are learning
to distinguish between rights and
abuses, between legitimate private
and corporate claims and absurd pre-
tensions to immunity and independ-
ence that are inconsistent with ele-
mentary honesty and true public pol
ICY"
Other papers, while admitting the
success of New Zealand's experiments
argue that our conditions are 50 diff
ferent that we can not hope to derive
any practical lesson from those ex-
periments. The Inter Mountain (of
Butte, MONTH thinks that "Mr. Ward
comparison of the economic systems
of the United States and New Zealand
and his hope that this country will
look to his province for guidance are
as amusing as they are naive and well
meant" Further:
New Zealand's white population is
near 100000, or about that of st.
Louis. The Maoris are fast disappear
ing, numbering only about 10000 now.
New Zealand's area is 1900 square
miles, considerably less than that of