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If Seddon’r-’ambition is to become a “Lord" hewilldieabitterly disappointed mam—Sydoey'Bulletin. Next yeai? we can expect to find one legislators making a bold bid for £4OO per annum.—Greytown Standard. • We trust the House will never bo Co weak and foolish as to agree to the outrageously costly contract proposed by the owners of tbe San Francisco linb.— Marlborough Express. 'lt may be that the Premier hopes to persuade the trade that be can only get. what they want for them by instalments, and that if they will be satisfied with what He is trying to do this session he will secure a bigger slice of privilege for them next year. But we venture to think that Mr Seddon will be in a bigger state of funk then than now.—Wanganui Chronicle.
As to the guiding; rule that men should be appointed to the Council who would “ render efficient service to tbe colony,” the Premier has consistently and invariably violated i . The guiding principle of his creed has been that nominees should reader efficient service, not merely to Liberalism, but to SeddunLm, for no politician has ever before mrde such general and successful tfeo' of personal admirers and parasites to secure his position in the State.—Rangitikei Advocate. -
The sailors on board the New* Zealand Government steamer who struck for higher wages and were replaced by Kanakas will be enthusiastic “ white Australians ” in future. Sunday Times.
The House of Representatives la at tiniwa strangely Members allege that the Government are sweating their employees, and yet when proposals are made for increased payment cries are at once raised of extravagance.—Greymouth Evening S ar. Tra h has no hesitation in asserting that the black labour system at present and for many years past in vogue in Queensland differs only in degree from the old-time slave systems of England and America—systems that aroused the just indignation of Wilberforce and Harriet Beecher Stowe.—Sydney Truth on a White Australia, If aver there was a tied House, the present Assembly of Representatives supplies a brilliant example. And these self-same members, having sacrificed promises, private judgment, and conscience upon the altar of Seddoni&n fanaticism, are at this moment pondering over the problem how they shall contrive to increase their honoraria to £3OO per annum and escape the odium their miserable conduct exposes them to. — Mataura Ensign.
Think of the rapture of that gladday when every Australian’s home is not hi 8 castle, but a factory where factory inspectors and inspeotoresses may drop in at any time and investigate the roasting of ti»© meat and take exception to the manner in which the cabbage is being boiled ; when a man may be summoned for keeping his kitchen open after six or for giving his housekeeper less than the minimum wage because she has a wooden leg but no permit, and when the housewife may be dragged up before the local Bench for permitting a girl in her employ to fry a chop on Sunday. Hurrah for eight hours’ labour, eight hours' recreation, and eight hours’ rest in the home — the labour for the mistress, and the recreation and the rest for the maids.— Melbourne Punch on the new Factory Act.
It is hard to say where the new Liberal will draw the line when it comes to a question of helping himself from the public purse.—Chrsstohurch Press. Supposing the worst fears are realised and our trade with the sister colonies killed, if the result causes us to turn our attention to Home manufacturers it will prove a blessing instead of the loss now anticipaied.—Carterton Observer on the Federal tar.ff.
li U a ridiculous position for a Ministry lo occupy—on one hand urging the settlement of tbe country, on the other sacrificing the interests of the country population to pan ’y the clamour of the towns.—Napier Herald on Farmers Unions. > The truth Is that the whole idea of conciliation and the existence of socalled Conciliation Beards is an absurd incongruity in a system applied not for a settlement of real disputes, but for the regulation of all industries on the demands of unions.—Pahiatua Herald.
Of course it is hardly fair to compare a great man like our Liberal “ Premier” with an insignificant nonentity who leads the Conservative Ministry in England, but still we think that Mr Seddon should strain a point and try to get through his work with' the same help as the Marquis of Salisbury. —Palmerston Standard on private seerstaries- 1 .
The Department of the State in New Zealand of least utility is that known as the Defence - Department, which is a useless excrescence upon the body politic, and it ie growing to such enormous proportions as to constitute a menace to the welfare of the colony—Palmerston Standard.
It is all very well to say the birthright of the people is being taken away, but the fact remains that the “freehold will ever be preferred to other systems, even though the terms connected with the-latter may be easier. Those who go on the land aim firstly to make it their own, and have a far greater incentive to make necessary improvements.—Waimato Witness..
There is scope .how for a vigorous young New Zealand party with a progressive yet self reliant policy, free from the spendthrift shackles of ,tieddonism. The tide is turning fast, and that party looms largely in the future.—Napier Herald.
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Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 119, 24 October 1901, Page 3
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