While dealing with the subject of old-age pensions we feel
bound to express our regret at the feebleness displayed by the bulk of the Unionist Press in their treatment of the question. The Daily Mail, however, in its. issue of Thursday takes a line of vigorous opposition. " The Trade-Union scheme of granting doles for which no service is rendered seems,"
declares, "admirably calculated to pauperise England and to weaken the energy and character of the British working man, but it would be most dangerous on that ground to suppose that no attempt will be made to realise it." This is a. refreshing change from the utterances of that section of the Tariff Reformers who desire to buy Socialist support on the one hand, and get an excuse for Protection on the other, by yielding to the demand for old-age pensions.
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