THE WORLD'S PRESS.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 47, 1 April 1914, Page 6

THE WORLD'S PRESS.

"MUST COME,TO THE PEOPLE." Sooner or later. Mr Asquith must come to the people—with or without the horrors of civil war. -But in liiaßKßUvring" for position attempting to fulfil the terms of some onerous compact with his Nationalist - allies he may find that he has precipitated a huge catastrophe.—'' Express.'' ENGLISH DOMESTICS. Then there is another class of emigrant towards whom our Victorian housewives have, turned with hopes that are sorfiewhat bedimmed of late—-the domestic servant. We are bluntly tola that the domestic servants of the stamp we want are not willing to come to. us in any considerable numbers. It seems that they are well enough off where they are. Their , wages are less, but their places are easier. The reason as-signed.-for this, is that the English houses where two, three and more servants are kept are in greater number than with _us. The household work is more divided, and each domestic keeps rigidly within her own sphere.— "Age." . r : -, r.j : •- XBXSB HUMOUB-, . Because they have a bright wit .and a ready tongue the Irish are generally credited-with a sense of humour, which is by no means the same thing, yet they can seldom appreciate a jest when its point is turned : against themselves and any criticism which they think ieflects upon theiriselves as a nation they are apt to resent in an extremely forcible manner. —" Evening News' (London). . : THE DEPORTATION TROUBLE.

Every white working man throughout the Empire, and we should, think evei.y man who believes that working men are entitled to organise aiid agitate for the improvement of their position, .will see in the action of General Botha's Government the denial to. the South African worker of the most elementary privileges and his reduction to a rightless helot. As ,Mr Duncan says with obvious truth, that is not the road to industrial peace or any peace. Government by revolution will provoke revolution, arid those who substitute force for law will be answered by force.: i "News and Leader." THE TERRITORIAL EXPERIMENT.

The Territorial experiment has been a tragic, if in some ways a noble, failure. Lord Haldane's confident expectations have been falsified, his hopes frustiated, his promises unfulfilled. The grand scheme- never could provide us with the trained defence force that we absolutely need. It has not even given us numbers. Yet a Government afraid to face the facts and to te11..-the truth to the people derides the warnings of such veterans as Lord Roberts and Sii .Evelyn Wood, and awaits in easy indifference the panic that war : .would create in a country trusting for home defence to half-trained, ill-equipped,, and numerically insufficient regiments of amateur soldiers. Every candid person knows that national service for home defence is necessary. —'' Express*.';"