PRESS OPINIONS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 19 June 1913, Page 4

PRESS OPINIONS.

One has only to read of the'dfom.inable "sweating"" that is going; on. in the big citiea of the world at the' present hour to realise with horror the degrading; • h»peless>-lwe»!' that thousands upon thousands of our fellow creatures have to endure to keep the breath in their bodies. And, so far ag we can foresee, as this country gets older, as population in thetities becomes more dense, ifr will witness the same condition of affairs. —Eltham Argus.

, ~,'propoitiori.' ,«f Stedaxt ,;ams!Ws{; 'I >. orerseas ; aa; oi the Dominion is in : itself-' a' startling indication;of a grave de-r Beei in the" emigration igyetianV at Heme-,»eeiDg thAt^some;at- i !^eaißt , <of these have.hatf Government .assistance : to coine out here; : Either the system of selection ns radically bad, or oliso sufficient care has not been taken to see that the persons who come out *re tJwse who have been actually seen and passed by the emigration ofPress, v

; ' ft is probable that in the lights the Commonwealth Senate returns the Hoas, W. F. Massey and hia colleagues, have realised how poor their [vrospectß would be if last year's Leglaw, alia tfte" result is\the proposal to arrange smaller electorates. The Government, of course, are committed to a trial' of the proportional representation system, but if the electorates are made small the result may be to counteract in some measure the adoption of the democratic principle. That is what the Reformers will strive for.—Timaru Post,

No one can spread out the map of the world' without realising that while- the safety of the Empire must depend primarily upon t<he undoubted supremacy of the British Navy in European waters, the security of Imperial interests in the Pacific is a duty which devolves npon fl Panada, Austraha and l New iZeaKnd,' and" tie dtity will be discharged only when some satisfactory scheme of co-operation has been fduua , .*- I Sotithland Times.

As a matter of fact the LiberalGovernment; first 'under'' Mr Seddon and I then under Sir Joseph Ward, largely decreased the Customs duties, practically- the only means of taxing the mass of-the people, and the growth of the revenue obviously <lue to the continued prosperity of the country. -The only.increases in the, .Liberal. Government or the .Beform, Govern-, ment have been additions to the Graduated Land Tax; and the revival of the miserable'''^ggestion 4 " iSii "the" which was branded as a coriterriptible trick from the first, is creditable neither to the Reform Leagues nor to the political party they support.—Lyttelton Times.

It is unfortunate that Mr Allen will h-;ve so little time to give to the affairs' of 'th&: Educ&tkm? Department between now and the opening of the session'. The-report of the Commission is one of the many documents that-ware set aside last session labelled' "during the recess," and placed in tlie pigeoriholea, and Mr Allen, of course, is admirably qualified to consider it. Probably ti-rie will be the stumbling Hock again. We wonder whether the report will have to remain in its pigeonhole until the next recess is taken.—Tinuwu Post.