PUBLIC OPINION.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 9112, 18 December 1907, Page 1

PUBLIC OPINION.

■■- : — — +-. — — FROM YESTERDAY'S PAPERS. (By TELEGRAPH.)- , . > THE MERCANTILE MARINE. ..It is gratifying to observe that the treat shipping corporation of New Zealand, the Union Steam Ship Company, 1b able to boast that as many as 95 per oen^of the seamen in its service 'are British subjects. This is a noteworthy proportion, and it .may, .we think, be accepted as an indication that whatever may be said from time io time in interested quarters in , disparagement of it, the Union Company Is patriotically determined that British bailors shall, as far >as possible receive a preference in its .employment. — »« Otago Daily Times." } THE NEW PROTECTION. \ : No 6ystem, old or new, can alter the Incidence of protective duties or lessen their burden. New communities, howlever, are willing in special cases to ihoulder this charge for the benefit of the whole, but when it is sought, as In Australia, to make ''the people believe that a board of trade can so arrange matters that wages shall be high and living cheap, and everyone better off under a high tariff than' they tinder a low, we feel justified in Expressing our scepticism and in questioning the wisdom of the policy that jbas given it birth. — Dunedin "Star." THE ALLURED SERVICE. Sir Joseph Ward is as firmly -as <*ver attached to the All-Red project, and if tile servioe becomes an accomplished ]£act, it will be owing in large, measure fco the strenuous advocacy of Sir Wilfrid jDaurier and himself. The Prime Minister, possesses the happy faculty of never difficulties, and at a ■period when the prospect of getting aid from the Imperial Government looked extremely doubtful, he took a view of ifche > situation no less sanguine than thas Vhich he entertains to-day. — "New Zealand Times." THE LIBERAL AND LABOUR FEDERATION. Has it moulted the old feathers and. tout on a cleaner plumage?' Not a great period has elapsed since its sycophantic johirrup was loud in the land. Is its (roioe now to be more respectable? fa {the days before it went into ' winter quarters it was cordially disliked by ii jolean-minded people in New Zealand, •fend some of the strongest haters were J&ivil servants, who were expected to : «upport. the party machine in spite of jthe Government's own regulations. Ts ifche Federation in its revived form to jbe free from the scandals which aroused ko much indignation' in New Zealand a £*nple of years ago?—" Evening Post."

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