UNIONISTS AND THE MASSES.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1895, 1 November 1913, Page 5

UNIONISTS AND THE MASSES.

MR. BONAR LAW ON SOCIAL BETTERMENT. TILT AT THE CHANCELLOR; By Telesroph-Presß Ae6ociation--oopyriglit London, October 30. Mr. Bonar Law, speaking at Newcastle to-day, said: "Mr. Lloyd-George is one of th© greatest demagogues that has ever existed in Britain. Ho is not altogether insincere, but has the actor's temperament, and when on the platform plaj-B the rote of a Little Brother of the Poor. Ho feels it, hut when the lights are out, and his eloquent tirade against luxury is finished; ho probably does not deprivo himself of his littlo comforts. The Unionists are not going to seek power by competing against Radical vote-catching schemes. Disraeli's ideal, to raise the conditions of the masses, must bo our ideal."

ENGLISH LEASEHOLD SYSTEM. TOWN TENANTS' LEAGUE AND MR. LLOYD-GEORGE. London, October SO. A deputation from the Town Tenant's' League waited on' Sir. Lloyd-George, Chancellor of the Exchequer, and pointed out traders' difficulties and losses and the grave injustices suffered under the leasehold land system. Mr. Lloyd-George replied that the Government proposed adopting the principles promoted by the league by setting up an. impartial tribunal and appointing experts to decide questions between landlord and tenant, including the renewal of leases. It was monstrous, he, said, that a landlord should confiscate the goodwill and fixturoß of a.tenant at the expiry of his "lease unless he paid for a renewal. Not merely the value of the premises, but also the value of the business which the tenant had created with his brains and industry, should be considered, and the sooner this grossiv iniquitous law was altered tho better. '