LAW AND ORDER.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 22 October 1913, Page 4

LAW AND ORDER.

*Mr W. M. Hugheer; M.P., iQ an in the Sydney Daily Telegraph, waxes satirical on the question of "Law. and Order." He :~Evea "Law afcid order", are threatened. Ulster has expressed its emphatic contempt for this sacred and venerable institution.; We must not, however, asfrom this that 'lkw and order" ars in extremis. Indeed, it is, only "jfaii* ;"io' say 1 that while in Belfast, ''* law and orders are under a cloud, In Dublin they seem to have shone forth with atoost dazzling brilliancy. Nor [must we' forget, either, that in South Africa "law and order'' achieved one of its old-time triumphs. Both in Dublin and Johannesburg, we .are told that as a result of "law and order" in heroic roses the hospitals were full, the. morgues overflowing, and the streets looked like a battlefield. From these facta it would appear, then, that "law and jarder". is likefy. to last but TjuiTthat it is to/' bo" a^plip, with '■' Its chief 'virtue, t r 'it ; keeps the people in their places. It was' never meant to do more than ihist If youf are a lord or' a baronet, or even a millionaire, you can apparently sleep peacefully in your bed after furiously defying in lurid , language the Government and ' all'. its works. The pungent argument of bullet, bayonet, or baton was never m'e4nt to be used against one's pals. Whilst the gentlemen of England share the Gbvenment between them, starving men and women, in Dublin may be bludgeoned into insensibility or, the ■ grave, for asking for a'Hiring wage, but open defiance of the Government and active preparation for armed resistance by the lords of the earth, of the mine, and of the factory, will never be treated harshly.