PEACEFUL AMERICAN METHODS.
Towawls the close of last year, Herr Alfred :lf. Fried, a celebrated German advocate of peace, published his views regarding the peaceful achievements of his conclusion being that America's policy of "diplomatic postponement," exemplified # by Messrs Wilson and Bryan's handling of the Mexican situation, was the supreme peace achievement of the year. A proposal was formally made to the Powers by Mr. Bryan that the principle of "postponement" should be made an integril feature of international law with the sole purpose of divesting political conflict of their inflammable character. Up to the end of l!)l:i no fewer than thirty-one Btates, or more than tlirco quarters of the civilised world, had informed the American (.'overnment that they agreed in principle wth Mr. Bryan. This is, no doulit, something achieved, although there is room to doubt whether ill every case the principle of postponement would fulfil a peaceful purpose. Indeed, experience in Mexico
seenw i.i. point in the opposite direction. There has been no improvement in the relations of the United States with .Mexico as the result of the "wait and see" policy, and the problem <<f internal order in Mexico is no nearer solution. So palpable is this that, us the cable informs us, the American Government has resolved to remove the. restriction it had placed 011 the importation of munitions of war into the dis- . < turbed country—the reason cynically adI iuimiiustriftiv^^fin^ni^S!itln!r 1 ons Government. Mr. Massoy's short J term of office has foeen packed with good work, principally with Hie enacting of legislation which 110 Liberal outside of New Zealand would have dreamed #f opposing, and which the Continuous Government, had they lieen true to their alleged principles, would have enacted long ago.—Auckland Herald. ELIMINATING WASTE. We have often heard people say that lea first-class business men wouid run New Zealand from a business point 01 view far more competently than our four-score legislators. There is a great deal in that. We are not always wisely governed. Those concerned with our politics waste too much time in recrimination and clamor.—Christchurch Star.
AN APPROPRIATED POLICY. ' If Sir Joseph Ward and his supporters can give the public a well-thought-out., moderately democratic programme. .110 doubt the present apathy, may be replaced by somo mild interest'in the political future. The trouble is, however, that Mr. Massey and his colleagues have / stolen—well, appropriated —so many of the planks which might other-wise-have composed the Libetal patform .that the. Liberals will now, we fear, be hard set to find anything specially notable and attractive in the shape of a new policy to put before the country.--Marlborough Express. A FALLEN DANIEL. At first when Labor was making reasonable demands and winning favorable awards, Judge Sim was held in very high esteem. Labor regarded him as ii Daniel, while employers accepted his decisions with more or less grace, lirst because they could not help it, and ch icily because they were, after all, recognised as reasonable. As soon, however, as the limit was reached, and Labor could secure no more, who so unpopular and execrated as the same Judge, Sim? His removal from the Arbitration Court lias been strenuously demanded by Labor leaders for the last year or so,' and *»n kinds of insulting statements made as to the bias of his decisions. Yet now that he has vacated the. position for well-deserved preferment, there will be no doubt in the minds of any—whether worker or employer—who as impartially review Judge Sim's work, as Judge Sim reviewed the many conflicting claims brought before him,'that the late President of the Arbitration Colli'f; was a Judge, and a good Judge, too/'
SLUMP IN THE STATUS. "Forty thousand people are idle in this rich pity/' says a Los Angeles newspaper, "mid these people and tlieir families are growing impatient. They demand a chance to work, to earn' food for themselves in this land of plenty." Apparently the industrial depression reported from California has taken a serious form. More than a thousand of the unemployed attended a meeting in Los Angeles the other week and passed a resolution calling upon tli» municipal authorities to provide employment either 011 agricultural land tr 1 on public parks. "That resolution carries 110 alternative," said one speaker. 'T move to add to it the provision that if the City Council does not act within seventy-two hours, we, the sufi'erers, will raze this city." The chairman refused to accept this' amendment, hut the newspaper reports show that the temper of the meeting ran very high. The trouble in California seems to ha v.« been accentuated by a movement or labor towards the »San Francisco lvvlt ihition, and the business men of the State are protesting that their eounlrv is being given quite the wrong' kind .if advertisement. Tile industrial depression in the United States extends f.-.v
beyond the borders of California. "Probably 2,000,000 men aro unemployed in the United States Wiis year," reports the Illinois State Burea» of La bo;. "The number is greater than in any previous year. Thousands of them are in Chicago or travelling here to find a haven for the winter months. 1 believe the city should give them lodging anil then put them to w»rk 011 public enterprises." A Chicago newspaper told its readers a few weeks ago that tli-v .were paying thousands of dollars a month for oxtra policemen to protect their homes from the hungry. "If the conditions are not relieved," it asked, "how many policemen will It take .0 keep the liungry army from raiding the residences and Btores of this city for food? Do you think you can deny men food and work indefinitely, or are von Ignorant of conditions?" " The cities of Portland and Salem, in Oregon, have used municipal funds to provide work for unemployed men lately. The trouble is being attributed to many causes, among them Dr, Woodrow Wilson's new tariff, which has removed a certain amount of protection from American industries. I!ut the trade depression anpears to be world-wide. The highl'v- | protected countries, the United States and Germany, are as usual the first to suffer.
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