THE PEOPLE'S PRESS

New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 6494, 14 April 1908, Page 2

THE PEOPLE'S PRESS

Tlio Greatest of All,—You will hear people talking of tlio success of this Minister and of that, but the greatest success of the present Government lias been “C.-B.” himself.—" Daily Mail.” Appalling.—ln tlio forty workhouses of Greater London there arc 80,183 boarders. And 45,831 people are receiving outdoor relief. This gives a rate of 20.5 paupers per 1000 of population.—'"Evening News.” An. Unpleasant —Wo in India owe to Lord Curzon entirely the unrest an Bengal, arising out of his desire to take an interest in Bengal affairs. As an "esasporator” Lord Curzon has no equal.—"lndian Daily News” (Calcutta.) What a great gulf separatee the Trench stage from oure ! The reason is that in Baris playwriting is a profession. Here it may be regarded either as an amusement for spare time, or as a form of gambling more laborious and less lucrative than roulette.—“Wo.rld.”Personal Experience Speaks.—The rarest quality in the world is sincerity. The one thing we never dare bo is ourselves—Lady Gordon in the “Western Mail.” Poorly Requitted France. —We have made sacrifices in the interests of all, and our only reward has been »hat we have received from Europe a mandate to do police work for it in Morocco. — "Gaulois,” Paris. Will They be Found?—The Unionist candidates in future must be young men, fully informed on their subjects, who have the energy and single-mindedness that the instruction -and nursing of a constituency require.—“ Daily Express.” Were They Mistaken?—Educate and enfranchise your mob, said the reformers; and tho age of reason will begin iodawn. So much for theories. Our hooligan is the product of nearly forty years of State education, and more than half that period of enfranchisement, and we are not aware that he is any improvement upon his predecessor.—“ Daily Telegraph.”

-Tactical Only.—The Labour party lias in. no .sens© declared against Socialism. It has merely declared that, as a practical party working for definite ends in our own generation, it secs no use in anticipating the problems that will face our children, and, above all, that it is not prepared to reject the aid of comrades whoso views about the remote future axe as yet. unformed. -"Daily Nows.”

Money Well Spent.—The .£137,000 lost in threo years" running of the Thames steamboats has been "remunerative expenditure'” in on© sense, for it has burnt the main facts about municipal Socialism into the public mind. The disastrous enterprise is to be brought to a close. Its Justification in history will be that it has been- a useful warning against far more dangerous phmges into Collectivism.—“ Pall Mall Gazette.” First and Always.—lt is by gesture that the child first tries to communicate with others; and gesture language remains an important accompaniment of speech throughout life. —Dr William ’Thomson, LL.D., in the "Windsor Magazine.” Sacrifice Ennobles.—Surely if a young man would male© the most of life, it must be by identifying himself with a cause; and the more the sacrifice demanded, the more the unfolding of his own soul.—" New Ireland Review.” If?—lf th© House of Commons, by neglect, or th© House of Lords, in deliberate malice, destroy the, promised land legislation, wo may be plunged back into the old days of blind, random violence encountering blind, random repression.—'tDaily News/'

Don’t All Think So. —W© hope the Unionist Party will have the good sene© to look at the practical problem which is behind the present trouble in Ireland. Clearly it is a situation in which, as every setwdble Nationalist must see, agitation only aggravates the mischief.— "Westminster Gazette.”

Slave of the Clock.—We are the slaves of the clock! Our distant ancestors were satisfied with the hour hand, our more immediate predecessors were contented with the occasional clock on churches and public buildings, we must have a watch in the pocket and a clock in ©verv room, and they have to be obeyed. —"Truth.”

Why Dancing Pleases.—The pleasure that accompanies dancing is not a simple emotion. In it are united the pleasure of motion, the pleasure of living, the pleasure of well-being, the instinctive of pleasure of order or rythm, and finally an aesthetic feeling in the practice of an art.—" Collier's Weekly,” New York. Colour Mania in Drees. —Tho English have in recent years developed the most extraordinary colour mania. They who, a century ago, imposed upon the world th© masculine fashion of using grey and black-coloured material only are now wearing th© most fantastic and ""loudest” of neckties and multi-coloured "fancy waistcoats.”—"Tribuna," Rome.

Nothing More. —As f’r yo’er expeeryenoe, what mor is it thin, a faulty recollection of th" foolish things ye done. —"Mr Dooley” in ‘'New York American.” Nothing in Trades Unionism. —Out of politics Trade© Unionism is absolutely nothing, and it cannot be in politics without the assistance of the Socialist party, for it lacks the driving force which Socialists have. —Mr Ramsay Macdonald in "Labour Leader/’

Bed Flap? Logic. —Street Orator; "Ym=s, there ought to bo no poor. W© ought

all to be woalfy, and the to bo fiti’.rTin' hkc usA —“Punch. Exactly.—The mournful gravity of the lineaments as the ouuvaia expre-vdon of it;? intellectual Omits. - • K. Jc-hr.wm in “Strand Mazarine.

No Longer tho Weaker Sox.- 1 he young women of to-day arc, a> a whole, more hardy and vigorous than oven Hie you:;., men.—Mio Ncish in “M.A.ib Claimant - making Climate., Xeardy every elnimant to a great English name seems to ccr.ic from the Antipode*. must bo something peculiar in the an of .Australia favourable to such P.rcten : Elens, tor hardly a month p»>*Sß without the noli float ion of another Jaw.smt begun by Sydney or Melbourne lar.yers iOJ tho recovery of property in the name of people of whom the hitherto secure possessors at home have Merer heard.— “Tov.ii and Country,” New, ITork.