Sayings of the Week.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLV, Issue 22, 30 November 1910, Page 3

Sayings of the Week.

A Bird in the Hand. I WILL confess that I have been for years dreaming of the day when I will lie able to get out of the turmoil, not only of this fight (the .temperance campaign), but out of other fights, and spend the rest of my days Under my own vine and fig tree and on the hills of Christchurch. I have got the fig tree and the vine I am going to plant this coming year. I don't want to wait for my period of peace until I get to heaven. I want it here.— Mr. T. E. Taylor, MJ*. Clothes and the Larder. Sin in Melbourne was omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent. The young Melbournite lived on bread and dripping in order to be able to wear fine clothes. —J. Watson. Melbourne. The Value of Brains. The race that always succeeded was the race that had brains. What had made Germany keep in the forefront but its education and its mental development? They must have intellectual development if they were to succeed. They

must make it a State question, with such a system of education that enabled all Children to sit together under one schoolmaster. whatever their religious beliefs, find to do nothing to set up that which had cursed England—the splitting up of "the people into sectional parties. Education liad made Scotland as it was making Japan.— Sir Hobert Moul. Modern Bushranging. Thank God the time is fast going when Jone American can clutch a huge slice of the world's Wealth, while his fellows find it difficult to get tlie necessary food "to eat, and here in Australia, as in New Zealand, it will soon lie no longer possible for a few men to grasp the people’s heritage in land. No longer, I say. nliould this great Liberal measure, tlie land tax. be branded by such an epithet as ‘•bushranging”—the measure which is for the good of the people and part of the march of freedom. — I'rofexsor Rentoul. * * * * Land and Sea. Hie Statute Book was filled now with legislation to protect the white race Against Asiatic laltoiir. and what had been fonnd necessary on land was just as essential for the protection of men who earned tbeir living at sea. — Uon. Dr. Findlay.

A Dying Message. I am going away; others remain who understand the purport of this life. To them it will be given to carry out what I aimed at doing and failed. —Tolitof. Tobacco and Temperance. Hotelkeepers should not be prevented from selling cigars and cigarettes, if only for the reason that it tended to the consumption of. less liquor, may people preferring to have a cigar rather than a drink.— Mr. A. 11'. Hogg. Ml’. So Very Thoughtful. For many years there had been an agitation to get the P. and O. boats to come to New Zealand. Now that this desire had been fulfilled, an agitation had been set up to keep them out of New Zealand ports. It could not be honestly said that these steamers were trading between Australia and New Zealand. They simply came on to Auckland from Sydney for the convenience of passengers.— Hon. ('. IVJohnson. The Best Fighters. The victory in the next war would rest with the nation having the least consumption of alcohol.— -The Kaiser.

The Finest Game. I am one of those who believe that the game of football is the finest in the world when played cleanly. It is the national sport of this country, and New Zealanders seem particularly adapted to excel in it. My only regret is that there are not more players and fewer spectators, because the game creates a young and virile community capable of holding any position.— Mr. T. M. Milford MJ*. Two Democrats. The Lords saw the writing on the wall. The Lords disliked allusions to peers who were bankrupt, who married actresses, or women from abroad, who brought more money than Mr. Redmond into the country, and therefore said, “Let us remove these unhappy people from the House and only leave sound, democrati-cally-minded. popularly approved people like Lord Milner and Lord Curzon.” — Mr C. F. (1. Masterman, M.F. A Patriotic Premier. History would show whether Australia, close to the gates of the great Asiatic 'Empire, had done wrong in insisting on training every youth to arms. They had to take measures for defence and for the

inculcation of a national sentiment. That was the reason for their navy. If the cost were £10.000,000 it would* have to be provided. He believed the people of Australia were prepared to pay the price.— Mr. Fisher, Federal Premier. • • • • The Value of Training. Man can train his body to do his bidding to a degree hitherto considered impossible, and evidently far beyond the capacity of a brute. Training should tie our habit of life, not an exceptional effort. Our bodies differ from machines in the important particular that they are developed and perfected by use. and the more they are used in any manifestation of skill and endurance the more perfectly adapted they become for that special purpose.— Dr. 11. ('. Newton. Smoky Auckland. It is absolutely scandalous, the way they permit factory chimneys to discharge black smoke in this city. It would never be tolerated in any other place.— Mr. C. C. Kettle. S.M.. Auckland. Pandora’s Box. The Pandora’s box of ecclesiastical dogmas had let loose innumerable evils and sufferings upon mankind. Reason was the real healer of those afflicted by superstitious beliefs. Every thinker and everyone advanced in knowledge had been regarded as dangerous. Even the introduction of chloroform had been strenuously denounced from the pulpit.— Rev. J. H. Chapple.

The Tory Ghost. The Tories were determined not to face the elections with the incubus of the Lords on their back. Something called a Second Chamber, with a thin coat of democratic varnish, must be substituted, consisting of a nebulous body of uncertain peers, officially qualified peers, others chosen by somebody, somewhere, somehow. The Opposition expected the country to vote for what to all intents and purposes was a ghost.— Mr. Asquith.

Unfair Competition. - It is well known that there are many speculative builders who are competent tradesmen ami fair dealing men. but the. work of the better class of builder comes into, competition with the work of the unscrupulous jerrv-builder who, by the use of inferior materials and unskilled labour, can easily produce a house of a given size, which appears to be cheaper when compared with that produced by honest workmanship with good materials. Mr. 8. I. Clarke, N.Z. Builders' Association. • • • • Fnll-blooded Swanking. New Zealanders are pretty well scattered over the world, but wo arc not regarded as a modest |>eople. I met a young Englishman who told me that Australians were pretty bad at thinking n great deal of themselves and talking a lot of their Commonwealth and their particular State, but, he added, “for fullblooded ‘swanking' commend me to a New Zealander.” We are a patriotic people, and we believe in our country, in its future, and certainly we believe in ourselves. — Rev. J. Mackens'-e, Christchurch. Two Extremes. The essence or “true inwardness” las the Americans say )of the political situation is a fight between the people and privilege: a fight for land for the people. The one side is typified by the Duke of Sutherland (president of the Tariff Reform League I , who monopolises 1.300.000 of the seventy-seven million acres in the Mother Country. The other is typified by the Finsbury elector who. at the last general election, put his land in a flower pot. and placed it in the window with the legend “Trespassers will be prosecuted.”—Mr. Arthur Withy.