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Observer, Volume XXXII, Issue 51, 31 August 1912, Page 3

Why is there no pity expressed for widows with no land, with no money, widows who have to work hard at charing or washing to keep their fatherless children ? If it is to be a ques-. tion of being tender with widows, then it is not the widows with snug landed estates worth from ,£SOOO to .£15,000 unimproved value, who require special exemptions from taxation, but the widows with nothing—those who are, as St. Paul puts it, " widows indeed. —Napier "Telegraph." * * * Implanted in $he breast of every man is the undying desire, amounting to instinct, to own the land which he tills, and the ideal country for liberty, for prosperity, and for national character, is a country held by small freeholders— Invercargill " Times. * * * The spectacle of Red Flag orators parading the country taking up collections for men who refuse to work but idle their time away playing quoits in the public streets of the distressed towns, should surely show the need for something being done in this direction. The' question that every lover of peace and order would like to see answered is : Will Mr Massey do something, and do it promptly ?—Gisborne " Herald."