Press Opinions.

Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 359, 8 March 1902, Page 4

Press Opinions.

There can bo no question but that tho political nepotism showu in the appointment of raw and inexperienced subalterns to New Zealand Contingents is one of the sins of the Scddon administration, especially when wo know that tho services of men in every way fitted for the positions are overlooked.—Palmerston North Standard.

Why is not one Union as much entitled to protection as another'? The sale of tiour is just as much the living of the Hour miller as the sale of labor is tho living of the laborer, and if ‘preference to unionists’ is fair in one instance it is fair in the other, and yet we hear that- Government, ti e very father of all unionism, is to be appealed to to put down these ‘iniquitous trusts.’ —luglctvood Record. Il takes ten years to build up a Premier who scales twenty stone ; every banquet has been a brick in that splendid structure; and now that it is completed he is the envy of other colonial Premiers, and the admired of tho Empire.—Masterton Times. As wo in New Zealand have not yet reached that ideal stage when our education system shall be free from the primary school to the university, it is idle to talk of giving our children tho benefit of the higher branches of learning unless we make it possible for them to enjoy those benefits. —Masterton Times. Mr Piorpoint Morgan is to pay the cost of lighting St. Paul’s Cathedral by electricity. He considerately refrained from bringing it to this country as a souvenir of his visit to London.—Brooklyn Eagle. We regarded the calumniations of the frantic Contiental journalists ns rabid outpourings of a set of hired Auglophobiacs, straining their dirty imaginations to heap contumely anil hatred upon Britons, and were disposed to laugh at the Rabelaisian fancies of tbo wild and whirling scribes. —Mrbournc Punch. If Mr Seddon be a comparatively poor man we would gladly give a guinea to the purse ; on the other hand, if he, a com parativoly rich man, is to be offered it in cash, a 'right thing is evidently being lone in a wrong manner, and we would reserve our guinea till the time arrived for erecting a statue in his honor.Masterton Times.

If Air Seddon has amassed riches, then lie is the first politician in this country wiio has done so, and that would be another reason why he should be regarded as a man of wonderful capabilities, and worthy -of recognition. But wo take his version of tho position to bo tho fact, and being so, a heavy purse is the “sovereign ” remedy in all such eases. It was never known to fail. —Stratford Post,