WHAT OTHER PAPERS SAY.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 11370, 1 September 1908, Page 4

WHAT OTHER PAPERS SAY.

The time has come for wider application of the indeterminPrison Reform, ate sentence and refusal to any longer al--low the criminal to be a scourge to him. self and others, but before this great advance can be made the prison system requires overhauling from top to botton. — New Zealand Times.

A country only gets the Parliament it deserves, and if the counDuration of try is to have a period of Parliament. Masseyism. it might as well have it for five years as for three. The result, we suppose, would be a demand for elections every third week. But no one ever dreams tliat anything of the kind would happen, and that is one of the reasons why an election every three years is now a nuisance and a financial waste. We will have elections in December, and all the turmoil and expenditure will only result in the position being the same as to-day. Every body knows it. In the interests of economy and efficiency, the Ministry should, at the expiration of the present Parliament, place the five years' period as a plank in their platform. — Wellington Times.

The division of parties is no longer a division between Tories Political Labels, and Liberals, for the sufficient reason that Tories no longer exist in this country. It is a division between Liberals on the one hand and Socialists of various kinds on the other, ranging from the State Socialist, who aims at Socialism by instalments. . to the Trades Hall orator who clamors for a sudden and violent plunge into Socialistic chaos. The political 'issue in this country is rapidly narrowing-' down to Socialism v. Individualism, and to classify candidates to any useful purpose the labels must correspond to the issue. — The Dominion.

If there lie any red blood left in either the veins of the MinisAn Unjust try or 'of Parliament, Attack. the unjust attack made upon Judge Sim will be keenly resented. Is there to be no maintenance of authority in New Zealand — no respect for qualified persons placed ill high and responsible positions? We are about sick of politicians toadying to Labor parties," '-and accepting with meekness any kicks which Unions think, 1 proper to give them. Day by day the Labor trouble .becomes accentuated through the weakness of the House. We are not going to say a -word' ir* defence of Judge Sim, for to excuse a man in his high position is. to accuse him. The country does respect the Supreme Court, and. believes in. the ability and integrity of its Judges. It is a bad day for New Zealand if its Ministry and its Parliament hesitate to. do their duty. The incipient revolution of to-day may become an actual revolution to-morrow*. — Wairarapa Daily Times; : '