THE CHARTER OF LIBERALISM.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3154, 25 February 1911, Page 9

THE CHARTER OF LIBERALISM.

ACCORDING TO THE HON. DR FINDLAY.

Speaking at Wliangarei the other night, the Hon. Dr. Findlay describing what he called the people’s new charter, said it could be expressed in terms of access 1 to opportunity. The State must by all, proper means in its power provide its people — , (1) Access to land with security of tenure. (2) Access to capital at the lowest rate of interest the State could possibly furnish it. (3) Access to communication and transportation h;ec where possible and where not at- the very lowest rate of carriage for man and his produce the State could afford. (4) Access to motive power and to light and heat for industries and domestic purposes at the cheapest rate that would leave the State without loss. (5) Access to justice unimpeded by poverty, or avoidable delays. (6) Access to insurance at the lowest rates in case of death, fire, accident, invalidity, or unemployment. (7) Access to free education, be it primary, secondary, technical, or

university. . All these seven principles could be summed up as follows: Let the State as far as practicable supply all willing hands in town and ■ country at cost price with the economic conditions requisite to their working out their host material and moral well-beinrr; ‘place no brake or bar upon individual effort, but freo it by nroviding where necessary the tools be they land, capital, power, or transport, for its employment.” That lie claimed was the Charter of Liberalism.