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Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1522, 2 August 1905, Page 4

Wo shall probably Gnd the roason of Father Hays’compa. alive failure, not in any deficiency of his, but in tho changing ft-ehion cf the t'mes. The protagonists of tho temperance movement tu-day are not looking for individui-ls ; they are keeping their pyee on a “ system.” They profess, of course, to be anxious about tho human soul, but they think tho soul’s wJfare may bo best subserved by tbe dt-siruction of the public houses. That is their way of looking at it. They may bo fight, but tho way is not essentially Father Matthew’s way. Jt need not have boon Father Hays’ way, but, for good or evil, ho committed himself to tbo tutelage of tho Alliance, and ho was no more able to servo two masteie than the roet of ua.— Observer.

.Tile stock of arguments for and. against .tho freehold are paraded at great Icngtli by. the opposing sections of the Commission, but tho views as presented have neither, freshness nor the merib pr originality.—Hurw.era Stan.

Of course anyone with an ounce of nous must; know -that Premier Sedition and Jfis present Ministers cannot hold office for. • over, and that a change I must come to pass spoiler or later, but so soon as tjhjat change, does Come glong,' /them so soon will the 'Opposition have something to learn, anti .the country, something to regret, though we do not suppose for one moment they would hold office for more than twelve months if they got into power to-morrow.—Kawa-liawa Luminary. The return' of Georgo Hutchison, ex-M.11i.R.. to New Zealand is a leather in the cap of Mr Scddon, and a further vindication of his political policy. George Hutchisonf was. one of the capitalists' who was sjupposctl to have been driven away from the colony by the socialistic tre.nlcl of Mr Scddon’s legislation,, 'For months before lie took his departure it was darkly hinted in the newspapers and in financial circles that lie had been .instructed to withdraw a large amount of capital from investment in New Zealand owing to the alleged prevailing sense of insecurity. However, having given South Africa and England a trial, Mr Htmtejiisan is back amongst us again., evidently, convinced by. experience that ho can do better in this country than any other. ■ As for the capital, granting that! it wiajj withidnawn, the probability is (that it is back in Now Zealand again, also. Surely, this is an emphatic answer to the perennial “ stinking fish ”• cry. of the .QdPosifcioto.HObserver. j