Hevietv ut Heviews, SOiS/OG. 



History of the Month, 



22: 



questiO'ii. The day for that is over. A strong 

 group of a dozen men behind resolute leaders, act- 

 ing with the inspiration of chivalry and a sense of 

 their responsibilities as trustees for the unenfran- 

 chised, could easily put woman's suffrage on the 

 first OTder of the day and keep it there until it was 

 passed into law. As both Sir Henry Campbell- 

 Bannerman anci Mr. Balfour are pledged to woman's 

 suffrage, and more thaii 350 Liberal candidates 

 promised to su[)port it, there is no question of prin- 

 ciple involved, excepting the principle of giving ef- 

 fect to a measure which the majority admits to l>e 

 just and expe- 

 dient. It is non- 

 sense to disfran- 

 chise \\;o.Ten as if 

 they were unfit 

 f. r politics, when 

 we remember the 

 help Mrs. Corn- 

 wallis West, as 

 Randolph's wife 

 and Winston's 

 mother, has given 

 in turn to both 

 political parties, 

 to sav nothing of 

 a host of other 

 candidates' wives, 

 like Mrs. Lulu 

 Harcourt, who 

 did good strvict 

 in the campaign 



Moral instruction 



as a 



Secular Subject. 



Ministers are 

 busilv engagt^d in 



deciding on 



what 



principles they 

 will frame- the 

 Kducatiim f5ill 

 which Mr. Birrell 

 will introduce - 

 into . th- House ; 

 of Common s — 

 early n;-'Xt month, 

 forthcojii'.ig Bill : 



their respective dogmas as they may- deem necessary. 

 Within school hours the education will be secular; 

 but it is possible Ministers may propose as a com- 

 promise to permit undenominational B blical instruc- 

 tion as part of the education for which the State 

 may be responsible. This solution, acce[)tabJe 

 enough tO' Nonconformists and non-ecclesiastically 

 minded Churchmen, is gall and wormwood to the 

 sacerdotal.sts and the atheists, who for once find 

 themselves in close accord. The only way out 

 of the difficulty that is at once logical and just 

 is to declare moral instruction a secular sub- 

 ject, and substi- 

 tute sv;ch instruc- 

 tion in character, 

 conduct and citi- 

 zenship for the 

 u n denomination- 

 alism which has 

 hitherto been the 

 onlv alternative 

 to denomination- 

 a 1 teaching. 

 Everybody wants 

 the children to 

 be taught moral- 

 ity. It ought not 

 to be difficult to 

 d r a w u p a 

 manual or sylla- 

 bus of moral in- 

 struction as a 

 secular subject 

 saturated with 

 Christian ethics, 

 without asserting 

 a single Christian 

 dogma, which 



could be accept- 

 ed by parents of 

 all religions and 

 of none as em- 

 bodving the re- 



Dailf/ -V'uV.] ISkeleton Miip 



Fulfilment — January, 1906. 



Seats actually lost ny Unionists to Lioerals black and to Labour black with white cross. 



llglOUS 



teaching 



The general outline of the 

 tolerably clear. All public 

 elementar\ .schools will be put under public con- 

 trol, tests will 1 e abolished, and some measure of 

 compensat.on, either in the shape of rent or of 

 purchase, will Le ])roposed for those denominational 

 schools which have not already drawn from the Ex- 

 cheriuer more than ade lUate compensation for the 

 priginal outlay of tiieir builders. M.nisters of all 

 religions will be allowed free access, either person- 

 ally or through their de{)uties, to the school l>efore 

 or aft^T school hours, to imijart such '.nstructioii in 



A foreign Policy 



of Entente 



Cordiale. 



There 

 foreign 



they want their 

 children to 

 have, 

 have been Ministries whose 

 policy was one of war; 

 there have been others whose policy 

 was one of non-intervention ; 

 while, again, others have jmrsued a jjolicy of meddle 

 and muddle. The new Cabinet in Britain has a 

 foreign policy of its own — a distinctive foreign 

 pctlicy, an active foreign policy; that is, not a policy 

 of selfish non-intervention and of unneighbourly 

 isolation. It is a jxilic} which, in the Prime 

 iSIinister's words, will seek peace by promoting an 

 cnti'ute cordiilc with all nations. This can be pur- 



