WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE.

Otago Witness, Issue 2809, 15 January 1908, Page 26

WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE.

LONDON, January 9. Mr Haldane, addressing the Liberal Social Council at Glasgow, 6aid it would soon be recognised to be impossible to withhold the suffrage from women. DIFFERENCES IN CABINET. LONDON, January 10. The Manchester Guardian and other Liberal organs, hint that there are difficulties between Lord Tweedmouth (First Lord of the Admiralty) and Mr Haldane (Secretary for War) on the one hand and Mr Asquith (Chancellor of the Exchequer) on the other. The former are unwilling to surrender their votes for old-age pensions. The Cabinet is uneasy about the naval and military expenditure, and is inclined to retrench if the Liberals will support them. LORD CROMEB ON -FREETRADE. LONDON, January 11. LoTd Cromer, speaking at Glasgow, claimed that Freetrade was a safeguard against the creation of the huge American trusts. . The adoption of Protection or of preference would stimulate Anglophobiathroughout the world. Freetrade was the soundest basis of Imperial policy. The Socialists and the extreme tariff reformers had met in Australia on a common ground, each entertaining an exaggerated belief in the State's power to remedy economic evils. , i /