"A JAVELIN OR TWO."

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1793, 4 July 1913, Page 7

"A JAVELIN OR TWO."

EXTRAORDINARY OUTBURST , BY MR. LLOYD-GEORGE. LIMEHOUSE REDIVIVUS. By Telegraph—Press Association—CoßyTieht London, July 2. Mr. Lloyd-George's speech at the National Liberal Club's luncheon to the Chancellor and Sir Rufus Isaacs (Attor-ney-General) is described as ouo of the most emotional, vehement, and provocative since his Limehouee utterances. The newspapers describe the speech as an attempt to canonise himself. The speech was rapturously applauded. Mr. Lloyd-George declared that Ihe attacks on Sir Rufus Isaacs and himself constituted one of the shabbiest ill the chapters of history. The Conservative party had been hitting men when they were down, and with , their hands tied, but now he was free to shield and smite, not for himself, but for the cause to which he had devoted his life, and which he was going on with. But before doing so he would like to sling a javelin or two at his persecutors. He commented sarcastically on the Tories rushing from the Ascot races to pass a vote of censure on the semblance of gambling, and repelled a suggestion that either Sir Rufus or he were prepared to sacrifice the esteem of the multitudes and their opportunities of doing good merely for a turn in the market of a few hundred shares. He would not barter one heart-beat of the devoted loyalty of the Welsh for all the wealth of the City of London. The Tories, added Mr. Lloyd-George, would henceforth be pinned to Lord Robert Cecil's principles of political morality. Sir Rufus Isaacs, in a moderate speech, incidentally mentioned his own ill-advised, though well-intentioned, act. Mr. Churchill (First. Lord of the Admiralty), in the course of a speech, referred to his "two trusted friends and comrades, who had been vilely and damnably ill-treated in the Liberal cause."