A VIOLENT DIATRIBE.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1818, 2 August 1913, Page 5

A VIOLENT DIATRIBE.

MR. LLOYD-GEORGE AGAIN,

ABUSIVE ATTACK ON THE LORDS.

"HANGERS-ON AND PRESS FLUNKEYS."

By Telegraph—Presa Association—Oopyrisht London, July 31.

Sir. Lloyd-George, Chancellor of tho Exchequer, speaking at Carnarvon, Wales, said that tlio Lords were right in assuming that ho had organised his attack on their arbitrary powers, through land and other monopolies. Lord Northbourne had expresed his intention to roast an ox to mark his (Mr. Lloyd-George's) disappearance from * office. That, said Mr. Lloyd-Georgo, indicated his opponents' temper, but tho vitriol-throwing of tho Lords and their hangers-on and flunkeys in the press had failed to maim, kill, or deface him. (Sensation.)

(Rec. August 1, 9.30 p.m.) London, August 1. A demonstration organised to prove that tho Marconi affair had not undermined Waies's esteem for Mr. Lloyd-George was attended by a gathering of 10,000 people. Tho Chancellor was accorded an enthusiastic reception, and in the course of a specch, declared that a conspiracy to overthrow tho Government was being carried on under the pretenco of upholding tho doctrine of the country's mandate for legislation. Tho Lords and their friends were arrogating to themselves the right to reject Liberal measures, and were prepared to resort to violence to prevent these measures being carried.

If the doctrine of mandate were upheld, ho continued, party government would bo a farce. "The Liberal Prime Minister," ho, said, "would havo to go round Belgravia every morning, like the groccr's boy, and ring tho area-hell, and ask the butler if ho would kindly ascer-. tain what orders my Lords have for today. Only the fear of revolution would induce tho Lords to ca.rry the Liberal measures if they disliked them. Tho fact of the matter is that wo are fighting a last desperate effort by tho Lords tp restore tho grip of class ascendancy over tho Legislature. Tho Lords, by their recent action, have mado the abolition of tho Second Chamber essential. A reformed Chamber would give equal treatment to all parties and creeds.

"The peasants and quarry-men of Carnarvon," added the speaker, "would be prosccuted if they appropriated land of which their fathers had been robbed, but the Tories claimed tho right to choose What laws they would obey. The Tories, however, wero seeking to establish a tyranny over men who had destroyed monarchies and churches when these institutions became instruments of oppression. Tho Tories wero negotiating for a revolution with blind headstrong recklessness."

"It is essential," concluded the Chancellor, "that wo clear the paths of monopolios and privileges, in order that Providence may havo a freo road to carry its treasures of light, air, sustenance, and hope, to every cottage in tho land."