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Auckland Star, Volume XXXVII, Issue 149, 23 June 1906, Page 9

If Lady Warwick's views were io prevail the phrase "Mother Country" would, in future, not apply only to the colonist. It would be the tprm of endearment employed by every child, be he "a little Liberal or a little Conservative," as Mr W. S. Gilbert has jt. who is born to parents of lowly degree. Lady Warwick is so strongly in favour" of the State maintenance of school children that she is convinced the time is coming Ti-hen everybody will speak not of "my J children"' but of "'our children." There is no Socialiet so extreme, some might say so absurd, as the aristocrat who takes up what is regarded as the people's cause. Lady Warwick is simply adapt - ! ing to the purposes of her own peculiar ' rrusade the ideas of the school of Rousseau. We can only say, "Pity the ; children" if they are to substitute the i parentage of the State for that of their ' fathers and mothers. The mere notion that any such thing might happen would ;be enough to turn half the fathers and I mothers of Great Britain against the modorn notion of popular education, and thus Lady Warwick, like all amateur propagandists, would defeat the very end ehe has in view.