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Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 263, 15 November 1901, Page 1

Workers have their rights, and they know how to guard them, and farmers would be foolish not to follow the example thus set.—North Otago Times. Next to “ General Holiday ” (a pun for

which we decline responsibility) the most popular General just now with colonials is General Sir Hector Macdonald.— Christchurch Truth.

Tariff wars are amongst the most disastrous forms of strife : and it will bo a calamity if a fiscal war breaks out be-

twixt New Zealand and Australia.—Review of Reviews.

'With such a record for conflagrations, it is no wonder the New Zealand Government abandoned the State Fire Insurance scheme.—Sydney Sunday Times. In spite of our boasted legislation, the relations of capital and labour are more healthy in England, because more intelligent, than they are in New Zealand. —Napier Herald.

Thero is a great outcry against Barton’s abortion of a Federal tariff in “ Digger Dick ” Seddon’s country. The go-ahead population of that little patch of mud are threatening reprisals.—Sydney Truth. Any attempt to bring about cheap coal by allowing Ministers to fling away the taxpayers’ money in a business which they do not understand is likely to make the coal very dear in the long run to the people who have to find the cash.—Christchurch Press.

"Why should not domestic servants participate in the general amelioration of the conditions of industrial workers that has taken place within the last dccale ? Given shorter hours, better pay, and a more tolerant class of mistress, and there need be no talk of importing Asiatics to do the house-work.—Balclutha Free Press.

New Zealand ought to be a free country, but is not so while the Premier is its master. Therefore we shall be glad to hail Mr Seddon as His Excellency the Prince of Orange. —Masterton Times.

Premier Seddon now maintains a body-guard of Maori soldiers. Is this to protect “ Digger Dick ” from the people? “Digger Dick’s” enemies say it is to protect the people from “ Digger Dick.”—Melbourne Punch. The genius for lying seems to be a strongly marked characteristic in both Houses, and the different degrees of mendacity are plainly evident to those who study the proceedings in an impartial spirit.—Carterton Leader. It is not to be expected that we are going to stand idle and allow Australia, as big as she is in her new clothes, to filch our pockets thus. It would be much better for us to withhold our timbers from her.—Dargaville Bell.

Pro-Boerism is not merely a faith, but a passion. Its votaries would perhaps hardly care to go to the stake for their creed, but they would dearly love to send their antagonists there. Reason does not touch such people.— Daily Graphic. The idea of members being paid at all is simply to defray their expenses while the House is in session : it was never intended to turn the honourable office of representing the people in Parliament into a means of earning a professional livelihood. —Christchurch Press.

Nearly all we get from ’Frisco wo can get through the Vancouver route, and what American goods we cannot thus get, and want, the spirit which proposes to spend a million to capture the British tobacco market will find a way to place its notions on our market without subsidy from us.—Hawera Star.

The present law is idealistic in its fairness when compared with Mr Heddon’s libel law, which makes a hero of the ruffian and stops little short of canonizing him, while at the same time it degrades the independent journalist, however truthful and conscientious he may be, to the level of a criminal.—- Auckland Observer. As the law stands, the police have no power to suppress the pernicious habit. Opium smoking is not a breach of the law, and, however degrading its effects upon the victims may be, the police cannot interfere. At the same time, they can raid a house where Chinamen are gambling for pennies,—Auckland Observer. We hope Mr Seddon will not besmirch his political reputation by handing his name down to posterity as the head of a Government who attempted to muzzle the pressindeed we still trust that ere he retires from office he will give to journalism in New Zealand the same measure of legal protection as it now enjoys-in Great'Britain.—Auckland Star.

KEEP ’EM GOING. One step won’t tike you very far— You've got to keep on walking; One word won’t tell folks what yon are — You’vs - got to keep on talking; One inch won’t make you very till— You’ve got to keep on growing; One little “ ad” won’t do it all— You've got to keep ’em going.