22 FEBRUARY 1908, Page 14

A FREE-TRADE UNIONIST PARTY.

[To THE EDITOR Or THY "SilscrATort."1

SIR,--It seems to me that there is but one way for the Unionist Free-traders to exercise any influence. It is by forming a party of their own, however small, and carrying on a campaign in favour of Free-trade principles with the same energy with which the Tariff Reformers have advocated the doctrines of Protection. I am too old, and too insignificant also, to take an active part ; but I would, this year at all events, contribute £25 to expense of offices, rooms for public meetings, &c. Quousque tandem ? How long is our inertness to continue ?—