PRESS OPINIONS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 29 July 1913, Page 4

PRESS OPINIONS.

Mi* Herdman has not had the courage to frankly tell the workers of the Dominion that those of their number who sympathise wiili strikers are rogues, vagabonds, or dissolute persons, ibut with stu(jjpd ambiguity and large, empty phrases he seeks, by means of the Police Offences Amendment Bill, to place them in the same category with these undesirable people. -He wants to pass a law which would he so wide in- its operation that any worker who displayed the slightest sympathy with strikers, no matter how moderately or how decorously, might be haled off to gaol with no more ceremony than is shown to a common thief.—Lyttelton Times. The country wants the Government to justify their existence by doing things for the good of the people as a whole. Instead, the Government seem to hie !M!ioawber-l|fke, waiting for something to turn up. If they would take their coats off and turn to work, then they might turn out something so good that it would turn up trumps in the political game that at present seems to be in,the passive position.—Feilding Star. Parochialism has always been the curse of party politics, and in a young democracy like our own it can prove even more insidious than it has done in older lands. New Zealand has had lessons and to spare in this matter, and we are sadly afraid, from the results so far achieved, that the Reform Government is not going to materially profit by them. —Taranaki News. By the time that non-party government is possible, non-party government jvill he unnecessary. Men'and politicians will he so coldly perfect then that even Parliaments will he superFluous.—Christchurch Press,