Universal old-age pensions are only the dream of the Socialist, and can riovfir comowithin the pais of practical politics, for tho all-sufficient reasons that largo numbers, do not need them and large numbers do not deserve them.—Correspondent iii. tlio "Observer.'' ' . Most of us have in hand somo scheme for reforming ourselves or our neighbours or the world at large. Unfortunately, this samo zeal for reformation does not last longer than the month of January at tho outside, anc'l has often cooled before the Now Year is a fortnight old.—"Weekly Dispatch." Everybody knows that.self-government ;on Colonial lines in our great Dependency is not oven prospectively within tho spliero of prac-, tical politics. Any attempt to carry out such a policy would mean chaos in India, and chaos in India would mean starvation in Lancashire. —"Manchester Courier."
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 139, 6 March 1908, Page 4
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