THE Wairarapa Age MORNING DAILY. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1911. UNIVERSAL UNREST.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10465, 1 November 1911, Page 4

THE Wairarapa Age MORNING DAILY. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1911. UNIVERSAL UNREST.

The Loudon Chronicle, dealing with tJie great social unrest now prevailing, points out that riots" mostly connected with dear food and unsatisfactory industrial conditions, are spreading over the face of the earth., from China in the Far East to Austria, France and. Spain in the West; and goes on to say :_The Vienna riots, which-resulted in loss of life as welt as great material destruction, were due to the enormous rise in food prices and house rents. The latter, it is said, were doubled. Some alarm is naturally felt in Germany, where food* prices and house rents are also high, and it is suggested iby tlie Berlin Liberal Press that in order to allay the general discontent the frontiers should be opened to the free importation, of moat, corn 'and fodder. Tlie Conservative ami Aigrarian papers, of course, urge the employment of more force, which John Bright years ago in another connection said was no remedy.' Spanish* strikes mid riots are extending. Martial law has been proclaimed in Valencia, and it is possible that the constitutional guarantees may be suspended throughout the country. In Vienna the food question is complicated by a continual worsening housing problem. Two million people have to find hailbourage within a closely confined area of 'block dwellings, and there is a grim

irony in the circumstance that a metropolis which is carrying out the magmfioent scheme of the forestring should ibe, in the essential matter of accommodation for its workers, as badly off as Berlin, or perhaps New York, and infinitely worse off than London. Tariff reformers in Britain attempt to obscure and confuse the moral of .these movements, says the "Chronicle." "The moral is the folly of recommending to •the people' of Britain to put a tax upon imported 'bread and meat."