THE WORLD'S PRESS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 251, 1 April 1915, Page 2

THE WORLD'S PRESS.

GERMANY'S ISOLATION. Germany, indeed, finds herself after 'nearly six months of war a pariah among the great and civilised nations, and the consciousness of this leads to a querulous and indignant astonishment. It is, of course, easy for German apologists to ascribo this infamous isolation to the vile machinations of England. But this parrot cry can hardly satisfy the most credulous German. The truth, so plai n that all may see. it, i.i that Germany has been betrayed to inevitable ruin and to the horrified detestation of her neighbors by the things that she has done.—Express.

TRADE AND THE STATE. The State, has a great power of industrial and commercial regulation; it has already exercised this power with fine effect, in fixing wage standards and hours of labor, and it can exercise the power still further by vigilantly supervising the conditions of trade, with the knowledge that it has a reserve strength to meet any emergency. The prosperity of workers in all occupations and the national advancement of Australia depend more upon the efficiency and ambition of the individual than they do upon high-flown, ill-considered theories about "collective ownership" of "tlie extension of the State's economic functions."—Age (Melbourne).