WHAT THE PAPERS SAY

Evening Star, Issue 14531, 6 December 1910, Page 1

WHAT THE PAPERS SAY

Protest is not going to rescue the Legislature from the 6trai)gle-ho!d of the scandalmonger, nor give it relief from the paralysis caused by the abuse of its processes for gratification of tlie private vendetta. What Ministers have got to realise is thai the whole fabric of our representative institutions is altogether abnormal, and that until wo got a reform which shall alter its entire constitution and character there will be no end io the evil ; rather will it become intensified with the passing years.—Wellington 'Times.' Wo congratulate most heartily tbo Prime Minister on the bold and fearless speech he delivered—a speech which! carried conviction to every unbiassed mind. It is a .-jX't-ih which lias cleared the air. People will now no longer refer in secret corners and diminished tones to the Prime Minister as a man who failed, but as a man who rose above his troubles. His .speech will remove the pamphlet's sting wherever it is read, and we hope to see a copy of it placed in. t lie hands of even - elector in the colony.— Christchureh ' Spectator.' • * * Some, day we believe ihat the great .selfgoverning dominions will evolve some local Court of high standing and do away altogether with'the necessity and the expense lit- present attendant on ap)icals to the Pi ivy Council—appeals which in the nature of tilings are at present only even possible to wealthy litigants.—Auckland 'Herald.' Not ur.til Pailiament ceasee to be divided and cstianged by artificial ]>arty divisions and becomes a united national A.'fiembly uiil our politics, be purged of the evils which l)r Findlay has so eloquently condemned, and we are fain to think that the, malelicr-nt reign of the party system in New Zealand is drawing to its end.— ' Southland Times.' Xo Prime Minister in Xew Zealand has been move thoroughly business-like (Inn Sir .loseph Ward -. and certainly we hav c never lind a. more fatuous and obstructive Opposition than that led bv Mr Massey.— Hull 'Clnonicl;.' The (lowrouicnt of a country, as a rule, reflect the general character of the people, an.i wh'ile ill'.! public conscience remains as active as it always has hen in New Zealand a hi'j;li standard of public life must be maintained. —Velcon ' Colonist.' * * « The real and most apparent weakness in our educational system seems to us the unfortunate distaste which it produces or induces for good, healthy literature.— W.mganui ' Herald.'