DEFENCE OF FREE TRADE.

Colonist, Volume LII, Issue 12763, 3 February 1910, Page 3

DEFENCE OF FREE TRADE.

London, Fcib 1. Mrs Pankhurst, the female suffragist, lias announced a cessation of the militant suffragette tactics in favour of an education campaign. Mr Ramsay Macdonald, M.P., xn an interview, said that the Labour Party had throe possible policies: First, to form a coalition Government with the Liberals; second, to demand certain measures from the Government in return for support ; and third, to remain absolutely independent. If a coalition were established it must be.for aspecific purpose. The "Chronicle" is. opening a campaign fund for the defence of freetrado and cheap food, and urgently appeals to all Liberals for service and ' sacrifice. Thei paper announces that -the co-oporation of freetraders had emerged triumphant in the elections, t but if freetrade was to be successfully defended there must be no slackening but rather an increasing intensity of Liberal propaganda. The paper says that the Liberals had won on the whole,bufc in some parts of the country had been set back. "What was wanted was freetrado scouts in every corner of the country. The "Daily News" has started a Gladstone League to propagate freetrade and land reform.