FREETRADE CAMPAIGN
LONDON; March 23.
The Unionist Freetrade Club has been wound up owing to differences of opinion relative to the importance of Freetrade and other political issues Lord James of Hereford, Sir Frederick Bollock, and othei members have joined the Freetrade UnionY' which has hitherto keen predominantly Liberal. The union's executive has promised to co-operate with representative Unionist Freetraders.
Lord Beauchamp, the president, states that the union has received £IO,OOO in addition to the £6OOO collected by the Daily Chronicle, for the purpose of an independent Freetrade campaign before V he election.
Sir E. Grey, addressing a Freetrade demonstration in London, declared that Tariff Reform would make British politics not only profligate hut corrupt, and would introduce the seeds of disunion and disluption of the Empire. .
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Otago Witness, Issue 2924, 30 March 1910, Page 26
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127FREETRADE CAMPAIGN Otago Witness, Issue 2924, 30 March 1910, Page 26
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