THE WORLD'S PRESS.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 153, 4 August 1914, Page 6

THE WORLD'S PRESS.

ATTACKING THE FUNDS OF MILITANCY. But no Government that could be formed could carry a woman suffrage Bill through Parliament in the temper to which the militant outrages have rer duced members. There remains Mr McKenna's new plan of attacking the funds of the militant organisations. It has obvious limitations, but energetically conducted the new order should make a fairly speedy end of an organr isation whose continued public existence, in the face of outrages such as that at Westminster Abbey is .an affront to, tolerance itself.—''News and Leader." WAGES BOARDS AS ARBITERS. Considering the few instances in which the Court of Industrial Appeal has been asked to intervene, it may be assume*! that Wages Board decisions as a rule give satisfaction, or at any rate a* much satisfaction as a defeated litigant usually enjoys. It would seem reasonable, therefore, that Wages Boards in all questions as to hours, wages and conditions of employment, should -Jbe the final fubitejs, leaving only abstract issues to go before the higher court. —"Age." - PEACE FOR IRELAND?

There'seems to be a comfortable idea in some quarters that the more completely Ireland is provided with the means of warfare, the greater will be the prospects of peace. Irish history gives no support whatever to any such notion, and though the circumstances of the Country have profoundly altered in the last hundred years, the latent hostility between north and south, Catholics, and Protestants, the "people" and the "English garrison," still endures, and a. single spark may easily set it ablaze. The Government looks on and does nothing except invite the Opposition to rescue it from a pit of its own digging. -—"Daily Mail." ENGLISH LIBERALISM.

It ■will be the task of Liberalism, byits enlightened efforts to redress the inequalities of society, to restore that respect for government which tha Opposition has done so much to destroy. It will not be an easy task, and it will not be a short task. But*we have sufficient faith Iu ; the instincts of the British people to \ believe that in the end the victory will be for orderly government. But in the : interval much will happen to those who have sown the dragon's teeth. —"DailyNews."