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Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 198, 5 September 1901, Page 4

Every drove and ploughman can coOduet a paper better than a paper has ever been conducted before. —Dunedin Tablet* If the Seddon Government were to be ejected from office to-morrow the colony would bo better for it in six month/ lime.—Gore Ensign." 5 The petitioners against the Factories and Shop Hours Bills, in noting the • success that ia crowning their efforts, aie sorry now that they did not work harder against previous Labour Bills.—Auckland Observer, It is the duty of the Government to P protect and to assist industry, but not bo r enter into competition with the people— they are elected “ of the people, by the people, for the people,"—Carterton Observer, on State Coal Mines. Christchurch Truth says“ Political y trickery is the Premier’s trump card, sad 3 he has played it for all it is worth of late 'n connection with the financial position of the colony." The Premier will probably retort that in this case “ Truth ” is » misnomer.—Masterton Star. If all those who are opposed to Seddofiinm organise, as Soddonism has organised, r the Premier’s long reign will be over* ' But if such a party is to spring into ’ existence, headed by strong men, it io time to sound the war-cry for the next election—Napier Herald. There are not more than halt a dozen members of the House who could criticise* our finances intelligently if they tried. > They lose themselves in arid and trackless deserts of words. They talk of every Subject under the sun, under the • raco i, under the stars—most of theix ’ speeches smack strongly of the moon.— Ohriftclmrch Press. .

If the Colonial Treasurer presents ia one aspect, “ the prodigal son,” ho depicts in the other “ the prudent, thrifty sob.” H anyone wants money, the prodigal son will be trotted out; but if anyone dares to say that things are in a bad way, then the prudent, thrifty-son will make reply. The Colonial Treasurer is equal to the occasion, and has ua either way.—Mastertoa Times.

Here we go in from year to year, receiving the congratulations of the world on our prudent finance and our balances on the right side of the ledger, and then, with singular hypocrisy, thrust our tengue in our cheek and authorise the inevitable loim without which we cannot pay our way.—Auckland Observer.

Suspicious, however, as we always have boon of Seddonian finance, we feej confident that so long as the country and the people are sound, healthy and progressive, no Ministry and no party can permanently cripple ns.—Queenstown Mad.

That never in the history of New Zealand were its public affairs bo welt handled; its finances so sound and elastic, or ins people so prosperous as a whole, as they are to-day. What more* do the Opposition and their friends want? Would they like a return of the “depression” which hung like a pall over New Zealand for several years during which the Conservatives held the, reins of office and all but brought the colony to a state of national and private bankruptcy.—Wanganui Chronicle.

Referring to the recent wreck of a sugar laden barque, bound from South America to Now Zealand, the Fiji Times says : “ With hundreds of thousands—' not to say millions—of acres, of land in this colony lying idle it la a little disconcerting to learn that South America has to be resorted to by New Zealand to snpp’y a commodity (sugar) which Fiji is so well able to supply. would therefore seem that the Colonial Sugar Refining Company’s latest venture at Lautoka in this colony was started none too early, and that its manufactures will largely assist to supply the deficit now noted.”

The stringent measures to be taken for the alleged lightening of the people’ll burdens will drive employers elsewhere. In New Zealand “Jack’s aa good as his master,” of course. Soon, if the tinkers still tinker, ha will have no -master to be as good as, and will eventually have to start out ou & prospecting tour for a country where employers still exist.— Free Lance. .