OLD-AGE PENSIONS.
[To TRH EDITOR OF TILE se muricroa.1 011t,—Mr. Asquith has stated that the principle of the Government scheme of old-age pensions is now only opposed by stray and belated fanatics ! Will any of these belated fanatics who wish to place on record their protest against any non-contributory scheme of old-age pensions, and its corollary of wholesale pauperisation, be so good as to send me their names for publication, and possible united action
Honorary Secretary to the Committee upon Cold-Age Pensions.
Denison House, Westminster, S. W.
[We trust that Mr. Bailward's request will meet with a wide response. If it does, it may yet be possible to induce Parlia- ment to pause before it is committed to one of the most dangerous proposals from the point of view of public finance that has ever been laid before it.—En. Spectator.]
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