Newspaper Ideas.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 104, 19 September 1901, Page 4

Newspaper Ideas.

The Premier like all waverers, changeg bis mind and speeches from day to dayi Invercargill Times. Let the woman's rights aeitator vote her attention to the rearing of good, sons, and in a few years her sex will not desire to usurp meu's positious, but will be content with their management.— Manau Witness.

The true emperor, autocrat, is the man who Controls'the greatest heap of. cash, and he stands behind the other old' fashioned Rpecies of king, and works the figure according to his caprice.—Napier Herald. The flour trust is simply making a haul at the expense of the people of New Zealand, and it is in the power of the Premier to at once put on the screw by lowering the duty on imported wheat and flour, a proceeding which would quickly bring the millers to their senses.—Wairoa Guardian. There is an old adage that nioni>y raved is money earned, and considering the already unbearable magnitude of the burdens of some of the taxpayers of the colony, it behoves the head? of our legislature to use a certain amount of circumspection ere they dole out the l rea3urial plums from the Government coffers.—Carterton Observer.

In a free countiy we are to see a tied press, and editors toning down reporta minimising crime and disgrace, allowing scoundrels to go unchecked, b.ise politicians to pose unexposed, and drunkenness, gambling, and a thousand evils to rear triumphant heads for want of a strong critic and a wholesome fear of public indignation. Truly, our democratic country is an example of legislation gone mad.—Ellesmero Guardian. Go to a football match in the city and get among the hundreds of harumscarums who inevitably form the great army of " barrackers" and one oan hear juch obscene and utterly senseless remarks that would bring to the blush the nust hardened disciple of Bacchus.— Taieri Advocate. New Zealand deserves a bad name so long as if permits bad to become worse by refusing to admit that it is bad. This specious opposition to the bill wi'l not avail in any Legislative which keeps a level head.—lnvercargill Times on Young Persons Protection'BillLabour has been the great sheet anchor of the ship of State for the last nine or ten years; but, on the old principle that all abuses ultimately right; themselves, the labour liwj are being driven forward to an extent that, alarms even the*most ardent well-wishers of tradb uniorism.—Greymouth Argus. But when the lean days, which

,seddon and Company deny can ever return, overtake us once more, as must [inevitably happen sooner or later in the nature of things, de pite the most wise Government, the shoe will pinch overmuch, and discontent will be louder than ever. However, the prophet of evil is never believed. Let us therefore eat, drink, and be hi- rry for to morrow .—Christchurch Trut'ii Premier Seddon isn't g'>ing to attend th e Coronation next year unless it is agreed

that this time there will be no sordid row about the expenses, and he is going to " lay certain proposals before the House of Representatives for the proper maintenance of his dignity when nbroal." His dignity—the pomp of his paunch, and his embroidered coattail, and his cocked hat, and his £l4O uniform, and his ridiculous sword. To think that a onetime Democrat should come to this I, —Sydney Bul'e ; in. New Zealand is consistent in dealing with miller's trusts after regulating wages rates.—Sydney Sunday Timee. The Maoris alone could hold the North Island against foreign aggression, if only the arms and ammunition were at hand. —Christchurch Spectator. The Producers' Union may be fittingly described as being neither fish, flesh, fowl, nor good red herring, and in these circumstances no regret would be felt were its name never heard by the public aga ! n—Palmerston Times. Not satisfied with a share in the the working man wanted to run the whole show, to be the whole hog; and Mr Seddon prema. turely coming to his senses, hai found speech to tell the truth.—Adelaide Critic, Ask the fathers of families, the mothers and the song and daughters, and then quietly and dispassi mate'y consider whether the trouble, the unrest, the labour quarrels, and the enmity that has been caused, have not shown that the advanced legislation of which so much was expected has not had the anticipated result ? And the worst is not yet.—Thames Advertiser. Apart from the fact that the " boards"

will have paid officers, and that a large percentgae of the new tax would,go in expenses, in any case no benefit could accrue to country cyclists, who would be taxed to provide racing ground* for town residents. More insolent and unjust proposals than tl oaa contained in the Bill were never conceived.—Napier Herald, on Cycle Boards Bill. The law takes fewer lives to-day than it did half a century ago, but there is still need for very strenuous reform, and we are very forcibly reminded of this when we real that justice has demanded and had sacrificed another unfortunate victim to the evolutionary process, which, in our supreme ignorance, we fail to recognise.—Waimate " Witness," o.n " unfortunate " murderers.

When if ooraes to denyi/ig them the privilege of choofing their newspapers—lit seems like rutting a musUrd plaster on a bad chest and tb»n jumping on i*. We have no doubt but that the Bulletin [proprietary will overcome the difficulty by printing a speoitl editidn for this colony, and still the peop'e vill have their tickets in Tatteraall's grrat consul-, tationg—The Biunner News. On the piohibition in New Zealand of the Sydney Bulletin.