THE WORLD'S PRESS.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 75, 5 May 1914, Page 6

THE WORLD'S PRESS.

MR HOLMAN AND THE CAUCUS. If Mr Holman has nerve enough he can appoint whoever he thinks fit to, the Upper House to-morrow morning, ami all the Caucus can do about it is put him out of office, while his appointees to the Council would retain their seats. Whether he is prepared to/go that heroic length is another thing. But if he is not, his dignity will scarcely gain much by merely kicking against the priekl. And unless the Caucus is ready to risk putting him out of office it will vindicate no Labour principle by carrying vain resolutions. The point is which side has the courage to call the other's possible bluff.—"Daily Telegraph." THE MARCONI SHARE EPISODE. We think it unfortunate that any Liberal peer, least of all Lord Loreburn, should have consented to join the Lords ' Committee on Lord Murray. The obvious purpose of those who secured the setting up of the committee' was to revive the Marconi episode, and to repeat as part of a mean party game the old nauseating orgy of mud-slinging. Doubtless tiie Liberal peers who have accepted seats on the committee have done so with the idea of preventing it being simply the engine of personal and party malice. — "News and Leader." GREATNESS, BUT NOT HAPPINESS. We are a democratic people here in Australia, and our young men very pro.-; perly turn their eyes to politics, stimulated thereto, doubtless, by the ambition to serve their country in a role that is honourable, but also by the alluring brightness of those high Ministerial positions which legitimately shine before the imaginations of talent. It is well that it is so. The country would be poor that would lack aspiring minds. But *t is none the less full of interest to know that when we have toiled to the utmost steep of fame, we may find greatness' there, but not happiness.—"Age." "THE ULSTER PROTESTANTS." How thorough and complete the preparations of Ulster are is shown by the able report of "The Times" Military Correspondent, who speaks, be it remembered, n&t as a politician but as a sol-' dier. One hundred and ten thousand Covenanters stand ready, organised and equipped. "The Ulster Protestants," he says, after the most exhaustive investigation, "come of a fighting stock. All they,ask is to be let alone. If they are not let alone they will tight. They may fight well or ill. But they will fight." This is a warning which no sane Government can overlook. —"Daily Mail." MR ASQUITH'S OFFER. Stripped of fine words Mr Asquith's present offer amounts to this. That Ulster should abandon her present position, should lay down her arms and should prepare meekly to acquiesce in six years time in the wrong against which she is to-day ready to fight. Ulster will never accept such terms. If they are the Government's last word and Mr Redmond's orders are obeyed, then we are surely doomed to witness such horrors as our country has not seen since the days when the Scottish highlands raised the standard of an exiled King.—"Evening News" (London). THE TRAGEDY OF DARKNESS. While we have our eyes it may be easy to forget the tragedy of darkness. But with a direct appeal to pity, the response will be sure. Books and music are the great solace of the blind, and printing in Braille type is an expensive business. The blind are mostly poor. They have little power of themselves to help themselves. But those who have eyes to see must recognise the duty of caring for the blind, and those who have ears to hear cannot pass by the appeal for generous aid.—"Express.'""