Newspaper Ideas.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 104, 19 September 1901, Page 3

Newspaper Ideas.

Only two charactoiistics are necessary to b-* member of th« Government side of the Government Bide of the House of Representatives—a bad memory aud a toUi»h conscience.—Christchurch Truth. The process of bursting up political bargains has begun, and* the Premier is having a trying time, and will be glad to ge& away to the Coronation. If Mr Hornsby and his friends go ou like thi?, the Coniervativo party will have to tale Mr Saddon under its Times.

M.nfl, Mene, Tekel, Upharsih, has already been writteu upon th« wall; the people are getting sivk "of the turmoil and strife engendered by so-called conciliation ; they are to ask themselves, are there no other interests save those of unionist workmetts to. -Ba considered ?—Waiganui Cnrou'cle. There is another section of the com* munity which cas's glances at lingering affection at the high moral example of New Zealand'; bu:, if current Parliamentary and press records are to be accepted as authentic, the Seddon-nUed land is morally in an infinitely worse condition than New Soujbh Walsß. Sydney Truth.

Surely faissionariea can fiad of wo.k to do at home ! Under many a white waistcoat aa Well as filstiaa jacket b»ats a pagan heart that wntts reoUim; ing; acenea of sorrow and darkneaa abound on every hand, but these appari eatly have not the attractions that Burrjund the already over missioned ohow.— Egraont Settler. Uule»ff» however, we on&nge oiir.viciouß system of political interference, we are u likely to get an officer of any standing to accept the p>sition of Command *ns of tbe Forces, and if a good-man is inveigle J into taking it, he will find, lika the r-it, his "capacity for usefulness toomptefely dea&royed.-Christohurch £re«. ; ■ • It has taken fifty year* to demonstrate why Scotchmen' coosi Ota«o for a settlement. ' The wa?on has oowe out at 1 last.' Itisaats. Obagdj-andita/yottnger slater, Southland, are„pre.emine*tly "fl» home, of oftU. and .the oats from this colony arf nW WodoceaV affer r actual «perimeat;.b> a Jilgt *3*£**£K > B Wric* to.all-othex oafeftr tb e^jgHgaee

destiny than .porridge, and porridge i the national food of the ,"Scot. Pomesubtle ins'tinct led the founders of Otag.> to select trie spot moat auit*ble';for- their sustenance.—Lib "r«L

Many rogues may be found oat, many shady transactions brought to light, but *ven granting this, it as not necessary to apply the tar brush lo ffeely and «'o indiscriminately as has lately become fashionable among the submerged tenth, (or 'whatever fraotion it is) of the dredgitg world.—Cromwell Argus •

"Immediately oh an award 61 the labour court, the exact effect upon a given industry should be made known* It is popularly supposed that high are killing the boot trade. It' o'uglit to be known that low wages are killing the operatives. There has been uncontradicted prating about the increased cost of labour io the iron trade ; the sane in the building 'trade. The same dodge has been worked in respfof; to bread ; it has now attempted in the "case of meat.; And What liaa the Trades and Labour Com oil done? Simply nothing, except (-it in some secret place and pull politicil wires for billets. Every man Jack of V. thinks h'mseif a future member of Pail.ament, and this is the ro«dc on which Labour is going"to 'split,—Otagb L bera'l.

Labour legislation has advanced so far and so fast of late that it is astonishing to learn that less than eighly years ago r one'wbrkinah had to take as part of hi* wages such a miscellaneous oolleotion of articles as calico, ribbon, cord, an umbrrlld, silk handkerchiefs, watches, a tea chest, a parasol, an old mourning pall, aud ha; fa bnaliel of on c lis —Pies*..

Thd Catholic Church, ever to impress on her oniMro:> the beauty 0 f virtne, ha-i all down the ago 3 been endeavouring to make them walk the chalkedline of duty. Henvse she has conistently ael her face against the evils that have urisau ou6 of the habit o-f social drinking.—DmiecLh Tablet.

We are assured thatif tha demands of the Dredgemen's Union are acceded to by the Arbitration Court, there will be a wholesale closing.down of dredgeß. In a great many cases compnuies are carrying on only after a struggle from monh to month to mike bath ends meet. At the present time the workers themselves are getting eve'ything, and, to th**ir credit, it must be confessed, in this district they realise the position fully. The share, holders are getting nothing ; but it ia only fair that they should expect not only interest on their Investment, bub thei r original capital back within a reasonable time—before the dredges are worn to pieces and the claims worked out. Agitators are no d-übt responsible for th ■> demand for increased wages, and if they succeed in carrying the d*'y, the go&Se that lays the gold»n eggs will die from exhaustion.induced by over production. Dredges will be shutdown, and the men will be in the position of .being able to claim higher wages—if they can find work to do. The pinch will ba felt not only by the dredge workers themselves, but by every class in the community.— Mataura En^gn 1