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

The Literary Digest, was hailed by the
press as the most interesting foreign
er visiting our shores. AS premier of
New Zealand, that experimental lab
oratory of sociology" which claims to
be per capita, the richest common
wealth in the world, and which boasts
immunity from trusts, rebate and in
surance scandals, and strikes, S.r Jo
seph had something to say which
caught the attention of the American
public. In New Zealand, he tells us,
the government, which in this case is
equivalent to the people, owns the
railroads, the telegraphs, the tele-
phones the state life insurance depart
ment, and certain local steamboat
lines; strikes are precluded by sys-
tenn of arbitration; a graded income
tax Is in force, which classes as i'm
mune all incomes below $780, and
poverty Is as rare as Is the enormous
individual fortune. In this modern uto-
pia even woman-suffrage is an accom-
plished fact, and apparently the only
problem which remains persstently
unsolved is the domestic-servant prob
lem.
Discussing with a reporter the suf-
ferings of Toledo, Washington, Phila-
delphia, and other cities at the hands
of the Ice Trust, Sir Joseph said
IF a private ice company charges
too much for its product, let the city
go into the ice business and furnish
ice at more reasonable rate. If
coal-owners combine against the peo-
pie, and, acting in collision with the
railroads, practise extortion, the peo-
pie of the United States have their
remedy, which we have already APP
piled in New Zealand with satisfactory
results. In order to reform transpor-
experiment with. Do teh ice-dealers
pie of the United States will be forced
to drastic remedies
Making and selling ice," remarks
the Chicago Daily News, "would be
about as easy and practicable a form
of municipal ownership as a city could
experiment with. Do the ice-dealers
OF the country wish to see the exper.-
ment undertaken" Sir Joseph is fur
Their quoted on the subject of trusts
by the Louisville Courer-Journal
Dem.), which finds in his words the
text for an attack on the Dingley tar
if. We read:
I'VE had in New Zealand a milling
trust said he. When flour had reach
ed figure where the people no longer
cOulu StdHu IL, our governments gov
ment for the people in the broadcast
sense of the word-stepped in. The
heads of the combine were notified
that unless the prices came down. a
law would be enacted removing the
duty on flour. The price did come
down, and we have no milling trust in
New Zealand today,
Here is an instance worthy of the
thoughtful consideration of American
people.
"The Dingley tariff is the father and
protector of American trusts. 1t en-
ables them to rob the many for tn
enrichment of the few. BY its provis-
lions they are enabled to overcharge
consumers and pad their treasures
with millions of unjust profits"
Commenting upon "the New Zeal
and cure for trusts" the Detroit News
says:
THE remedy advised is sanctioned
by experience, and it goes to the very
root of the matter.
"Sir Josephs advice is quite in line
with the policy that the reasonable ell
ement approves. The people do not
want to bother with business other
than strictly public functions, unless
compelled by extortonate corpora
tons There is no sentiment for pub
lie ownership except what is provoke
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