If the controversy is ultimately fined down to this single
issue, we agree with the Daily Chronicle in thinking that a settlement may be secured by the adoption of the compromise which that journal has repeatedly urged,—viz., the restriction of the right to existing teachers. In spite of the risk of being told that it is "bad bargaining" to say so at the present stage, we hold that such a compromise should be accepted on behalf of the Voluntary schools. The right given to existing teachers will secure denominational teaching practically unimpaired during the existence of the present Parliament, and we feel absolutely convinced that the next Parliament, when feeling on both sides has calmed down, will relieve the " new " teachers from the statutory disabilities to which they are subjected by the present Bill.
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