OTHER PEOPLE’S VIEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 8 January 1925, Page 3

OTHER PEOPLE’S VIEWS

INDIA. I lie Gin'erumnet. "ill support with their full authority the Government ef India in suppressing crimes of violence by whomsoever or on whatsoever motive they at" committed. I do me, ilciibt that with sleadlastness and insight a w.n lan t.e Intiiid |.i pi i".c| vc the welfare o| the peoples ul India ami to assist. I heir pcacel ul progiess in the. paths of economic and constitutional development which the nc.ipie of this country desire and have already done so niiiili to luster.- Ihe Prime Minister of England. .MR BALDWIN'S FROM ISM. " The real redenipl fim of l lie peir J ■ must eoinc from themselves. 'lhe instruments of redeiinilinn are the Iris*" of product've labour, and there can he no other I’l'itit -. and there can hi w. ■ 11 iicj task lor statesmen than to make an ctiviroiiiia'lit in which the workers - by v.hi.h I mean employers anil e;i. ployed alike call utilise their gilts for | roiliii l ive lab.eir to the utmost. We snail do all iii our power to "a surj that the children ot mir piople slmll have a lair chance of growing up into liealt.iiv men and women. \\ o shall seek lor peace' throng,li all the world. What the Govern ml:'), it- will tick dll is In attempt In the industries of this roiiiitrv, and we shall do all we can to prevent others fr mi ob laming that control. We bclir-e that bv a change in the basis ot oil" ‘-v*” tein we shoiilil fall into a pit ol P'- v erty and misery hardly lo he yix'.li used by our workers anil never experienced by ilieiii..”-- Stanley llnid CHRISTIANITY. AYlien I was young the shivering defen,lei of religion, as a lasi resiiur wrote to Alt' Gladstone, asking him tf he still believed in Christianity, and when a postcard came from Haw mien giving th" Dirty a testimonial, the poor, timorous Christian picked up heart again. To-day 1 rami it imagine a single Scotsman asking a po'iccinn of any school the favour of n u sti mount I to God. It is no long“r thinkable. Christianity lias emerged 1 rom that. A certificate to the KtniSial, dated from Criccicth or Bo \ !io\, ts to-day beyond all imagining. But I never lin.l myself in a pulpit lacing a great congregation without wonder. "They are still there, eager to lieai nnv news from tlie* land h'youd 'he ridge: and religion has been slain and buried so often.”. . . There is only one explanation : they are ' 1 ' e ho cause they cannot help it.- I"' ''iirman Maclean, in the " Scotsman.