From "Records"

Maoriland Worker, Volume 12, Issue 299, 22 November 1922, Page 12

From "Records"

When a British Admiral allow© himself to tell the truih hehas some -quite . interesting things to say! It really -might have .been a, "Labour Leader" instead of Lord John ;Fishe_v -who defined Democracy as "Equal op-; 'portunity for all," and who said, "we . light God when our social system dooms the brilliant, clever child of a poor -fjather, to the same level as his father." .His advice to the aristocracy j-is, to "Get rid of the present Obsolete ; for-ms and antique ceremonies that are laughing -stocks —of sinecures ; that are -exasperating—and -so taaij ticipate another Cromwell, who is : certainly now coming fast along—to : remove another Bauble.'* • After .praising the Caiiadian Act 'forbidding ;hereditary titles in Can-; ada, he says: ;: 'r '•Hereditary titles are Judiciously '' out of date in any modern democracy, and the sooner we sweep awlay ail; the gimcracks and gewgaws of: snobbery the hotter. The fount of so-called Honour has hecon_e a ~de-,-lu.ge, and the newspapers are hard put to it, to find room for even tho enrnv *-.f f Yt cv . A *-l \icm ttd-ov ..-_nf '

spray of the deluge. The war ; has not begotten isimplicity and austerity in this respect. On -the contrary, it 'has 'made what used to be a comedy, a senc'iming farce." It is quite refreshing to read (per recent cables) that a few -'Honaurs", have been "Resigned" dur'ng the last day or two!