WHAT THE PAPERS SAY.

Evening Star, Issue 14573, 23 May 1911, Page 3

WHAT THE PAPERS SAY.

If you love your country, young man, if thsrc is a spark of pah-ictism m you, play the man, and «nrol!—Wellington 'Post.' • * * T1» worst and most mischievous farm of rceicdal-mongermg is surely exemplified in the throwing *bont of reckicsu and unfounded charges of corruption against our Supwsce Court Judges.—Marlborough 'Express.' • • « One of tho grs«t queatiota of the day, tbo utilisation of Maori lands by European settler*;, ia in the hands of a Minister whose one idea oe*ms to he to L'et through life with the minimum of trouble, and who consoijnently merely trifles with the admittedly troublesome work Urat confronts him.— ChiTstohttrch 'Press.' •# * • Money to be spent on reading districts to encourage sottfcmenl should be a first charge on tho cstionai pnrso.—' Southland News.' » * * In the very heart of Pukckohc the Minister wrenched a vote of confidence pocsoual *.>. d political from the men represented by the Leader of the Opposition. It is now clear that the Government have passed the turning-point of the pro-election contest nrovokeH by the Opposition, and it is equally clear that tho Opposition's hope to find the coast clear, and no replies, was a delusion, aud is now being the object of a sneer as broad as tho face of the Dominion. — 'Oamaru Mail.' * * # If sectarian questions arc to be permitted to intrr.ds into the defence system, wo foresee the speedy destruction of the wlmle fabr». And, with a scheme like this, so meritorious and so newly evolved, destruction—whether premature or otherwise—would bo .■nothing short of a national catastrophe. — ' Observer.' # ■* * ft is the veriest cant and humbug for Opposition members to go before their constituents and weep crocodile tears over real or imaginary extravagance when they themselves aid and abet the Government in weakly acceding to the " stand and deliwr" I which is being coretantly directed at the State by the constituencies. —Blenheim ' Express.' The excuse of the necessities of development fails utterly to explain or justify tha enormous taxation per bead in New Zealand. —The 'Dominion.' * * ■» It is because war may yet come upon us like a thunderbolt from a clear sky, and because victory will go to the nation which is strongest in iis essential manhood, that wo in New Zealand have committed ourselves to a policy oi. universal military service.—' Lytteiton Times.'