Newspaper Ideas.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 193, 24 August 1901, Page 3

Newspaper Ideas.

The plain truth is that the administration of the Aot so far as these prci loos so : ca!led “ Conciliation ” Do.irde are concerned—•' Aggravation ” Boards wounl be a better title—has becomo a bye-word and a public scandal’—Marlbo ough Express. “If you want to see the advanced economic thinker really at it, w itli his coat off,” says a London paper, “you must go to the other end of the Emph e—lo New Zealand, in faef.” The writer continues; “ There is,'indeed, so muni fine spirit Und sound sense about New Zealand ihat we ho hate to belabour the ctdony 'for its 'socialistic fads, a- d we would not do so’if there seemed 'a go. id prospect that the experiments w-ul < be kept within moderate bounds’; but agoo ; .leal of English cap. al is invented in NeW Zealand, and it wouldn't hurt New Zealand if she had some more, as she might halve, and will, we hope, ha-e. This position an.l prospect make it needful that sun t h iuld nut go too recklessly upon her flighty WU Y- Capital ddesn t like too many experimehts in the art of building Utopia at Capital’s expense ; nor does it tend to open the capitalist’s pursestrings to dub him officially as a sort of criminal at least, as an outlaw whose property is fair public plunder. Yet not only do some of the past achievements of "the New Zealand 'Government and Legislature smack strongly of this policy, bub the ffi sfc reefenb proposals indicate that the colony’s passion for Socialism has been whetted, rather than; sated by previous ■accomplishment.” The life of the average man is a warfare. The life of the “ pore woorakuu man” ie worse—its football. And the part of the ball is generally played by the man.—Sydney Freeman’s Journal. One'bf t?he disadvantages df -ft fletao-1 cracy is that the people’s represents. ■ tives feel that they mast 'advertise them, selves to the country.—Queenstown Mail. The incendiary, and the inducement to incendiarism, are-factors of en rrmoos influence in actuarial calculations oh which ■Are insurance operations are add it may bo averred without hesitation that under a State Administration of insurance that factor would teoome domiimtlij£.~W«h»n

“ Preetrado” is, and must always be, I the watchword in the fight between j liberty and slavery. The triumph of, fre. trade makes direct taxation inevit able, and that means justice to all men, '■justice to the poor, ahd the forcing of returns to the tr usury from the rich, . according to the benefits they leeeivo from State expenditures*—Sydu.-y Newsletter.

Verily we are hurrying on to t’ e millenium or to the new Utopia, when the servant shall rule the master and the State shall say how long we shall live.—Woodville Examiner.