CURRENT TOPICS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 268, 11 April 1914, Page 4

CURRENT TOPICS.

A.\ r AID TO POLITICIANS. Everyone who knows anything about it recognises that the very best thing that can happen for Mr. Fisher is to have his meetings broken up by rowdy opponents. Although gifted with' a certain amount of superficial smartnoss on the platform the Minister of Marine is probably the least convincing speaker of all the members of - the Cabinet and the more, he talks during .the next few months the better it will be for the Liberals at the polls at the end of the year. .—Ljttelton Times.

IX JEOPARDY. We (irmly believe that the interests of the people of New Zealand were never in greater jeopardy than they are at the present time because of the bitterness that is being introduced into political questions. The only real difference bei tween the parties, so far as we can see, is that one side is in and the other side I is out, and the struggle of the "outs" to get in is just as keen and bitter as that of the "ins" to retain office. The public welfare is a shuttlecock between the contending parties, and the assumption by either that all the virtue is a monopoly of which they hold the sovereign rights is just so much dust that they are shaking in the eyes of tho electors. And the public will do well to remember that tlic politician to whom their faith should be pinned is not always he who can shake hia dust-can most ell'ectively, to aH accompaniment of glowing periods and flights of rhetoric. Tho (tattles for tho people's rights are not fought on the hustings, but in the quiet seclusion of Parliamentary committee-rooms, where only serious thought and unquestionable facta count.—Ashburton Guardian.