THE WORLD'S PRESS.
A CHANGE OF VOGUE. , Of course, 110 one wottld tal'e ; nounce. definitely as an absolute principle in social ethics that the ordinances of polite society absolutely preclude dancing at ■'' threepence a time " in a well-lit and well-ventilated public hall, where all who will may enter, and no one is denied, provided-" a mltto-'nif some kind is presents to stand sponsor for those who present themselves. There is nothing intrinsically, improper in entertainments of the kind; any more than in the more prosaic dances in municipal halls. It is merely a change of vogue.— "Australasian.?' ; THE MEXICAN EXPLOSION. Adding the later evidence to what was already charged against tlie Mexicans, there is an accumulating mass which may fire American sentiment to intervention heat. The task; of ing order would be a severe one, for the two Mexican parties would probably unite against a common enemy, and could put into the field a fairly large army of experienced and. ruthless guerrilla fighters. The United States, however, has once invaded and conquered Mexico and may do again; what it has done before. l —'' Daily Telegraph'' (Sydney). ANGLO-AMERICAN PEACE. There was much bitterness and there were many pretexts for friction; nevertheless Anglo-American peace has been unbroken for a century, and the very thought of breaking it has departed froin men's conception of the possible. With Germany we lvavenever been at war and have never had a serious quarrel or conflict of interest. The task therefore of giving to Anglo-German relations the same intimacy and cordiality as to is very ijiuch easier, and, to judge from appearances, will take nothing like as long to effect.—Daily Express." ME KOLMAN'S STRIKE SYSTEM. The whole case for every N.S.W. Strike is that either Holman's courts don't give justice, or else that Holman's system is so silly and stupid and cumbersome, and so much occupied in falling over its own feet, that it doesn't supply justice in reasonable time. And Holman, instead of enforcing his own law, or making a new law that lie won't be ashamed to spends his days negotiating with one series of lawbreakers after another, as if he were a petty commission agent instead of the head of the great Ma State.—"Bulletin." A SLIPSHOD THOUGHT. One of the cheap short-cut methods is to say that, since almost every child could be made to go right if placed in the right surroundings, it is society and not the individual that is responsible for the individual's criminality. This is as slipshod in thought as it is dangerous in effect. If we are to adrait the idea of responsibility at all, the idea of responsibility either in society or in the individual, we have to recognise that in either case it is a j relative matter.—" Evening Post" (New York). CLIMAX OF INCONSEQUENCE. What are we to think of the Labour Party which, as the "Westminster Gazette" points out, after disposing of Mr Larldn, is '' rushing to welcome nine super-Larkins ?". Having condemned Syndicalism by a resolution of its Glasgow conference on January 29, it is apparently to proceed on "February 23 to give "a rousing reception" to nine Syndicalists. That seems the climax o£ inconsequence.—*' Daily MaiL"
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Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 49, 3 April 1914, Page 6
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