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Show A FREE EDUCATION BILL. It Hae Been Drafted but le Meeting with Strong Opioit"on. London', April 21. A free education bill has been drafted and will probably be introduced before Whitsuntide recess. re-cess. It provides that fees be abolished iu elementary schools. Tho Standard strongly attacks free education. Ii says: "Free education may not abolish church schools forthwith, forth-with, but tho process will only be delayed. de-layed. Ii will impose a heavy and uncalled un-called for burden upon the. nation. The surplusses cannot continue indefinitely. We are within the mark in saying the adoption of free education will be equivalent to a permanent addition of three and a-half pence to tho inoouia tax." |