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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 January 1949Vol. XIX, No. 6

Socialism

p. 48 · Read in the full issue

A sincere, sentimental, beneficent story, which has but one objection— and that is . it will not work.

A plan by which the inefficient, irresponsible, ineffective, unemploy able, and unworthy, will thrive with out industry, persistence, or economy.

A social and economic scheme of government by which man shall loiter, rather than labour—a survival of the unfit.

A system of turning water into wine, kerosene into oyster soup, and boulders into beer, by passing resolu tions.

An arrangement for destroying initiative, inventive creation, and originality.