Newspaper Ideas.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 189, 15 August 1901, Page 1

Newspaper Ideas.

The organisation of the farmers wil\ prove one of the most beneficial work*! that has ever been undertaken in th% colony.—'Palmerston Times. Suppose a landlord lets a farm to h bachelor at a certain rent, and tut bachelor subsequently assigns to a ina'ik with ten children, is the landlord it submit to a reduction of rent in consequence of the la-ge>- expense of maintenance necessary in the case of the as sign e ?—N '.pit,? Herald, on Fair Eent.

Wo may boast of our fcolony bein£ Labour's Elysium, but should not overlook the fact that whatever prosperity we have gained in one pocket, in thfe shape of increased earnings, we are havo ing t > nay for out of ihe other pocket by enhanced cost of food and clothing.--Gisborne Herald. We think the Conciliation Boards ais useless excrescences on the body politic and 'that disputes would be settled

cheaper and more prompt! ■ by a direct, appeal to the Arbitration Court.—Pal' inac-iton Standard.

If the overworking of conn try childroi continues, we shall be produc : ng a clasi like the English rustic of fifty years br.ch —a race little removed from the beast! of the fi“lii, ard a menace to the community at large N ipier Herald.

What is required in New Zealandv instead of all’ ihe tinkering with thfi licensing laws, is for somebody to tnkA the bold pin 'go, and introduce a mea* sure for State control.—.Masterton Star. The ws .es of unskilled labour has risen from 4- 6d to 8s per dav, but tht salaries >-.f oar judges remain the same. What makes the anomaly all the more glaring is that the honorarium of members of Parliament has been largely increased, and Mini-.ters have taken carfc to raise their own salaries.—Christchurch Press. We are destroying our manufacturing industries by our arbitrary and vexatious Labour icgi elation, and the startling truth is being withhold from the worker? by that section of the press which professes an advocacy of their causa.— Auckland Observer. The Premie's rough hewing will noli eland ; but the work he has attempted tb open may hereafter be converted into a road which will last for all time.— Ma-jtertnn Times. If the fanners were aware of the laws which have been placed on thfc statute book during recent years for the b nofit of nearly ‘every other class c? workers, w : think it probable that then: union would have be n called into existcure nt a considerably earlier date.— OpunrJce Times.