BUILDING THE NEW WORLD

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 301, 16 September 1919, Page 5

BUILDING THE NEW WORLD

MESSAGE TO THE BRITISH PEOPLE

BY MR; LLOYD GEORGE By Telegraph—Press Association-Copyright ;Kcc. September 15, 5.5 p.m.) Londoi, September 13. Mr. Lloyd George has addressed the following message tu the. people of Britain through a national publication entitled '•The Future," issued by his authority, ind which is distributed free throughout Ilk; country: - "Millions of gallant young men fought for the new world. Hundreds of thousands died to establish it. If we fail to honour the promises given them wo dishonour ourselves. What does a new world mean? "Wiiat was the old world like? It was a world where toil tor myriads of honest workers, men and women, purchased nothing better than sfiuaior. penury, anxiety, and wretchedness; a world scarred by slums, disgraced by sweating; where ' unemployment, through vicissitudes in industry, brought despair upon multitudes of humble homes. It was a world where 6ide by side with want, was ihu waaic of lue niexnausuo.'j riches of the earth, partly through ignorance, and lack of forethought, partly entrenched selfishness. If we renew the leaso of that world we betray the heroic dead, and shall bo ".uiUy of the basest perfidy which nw store up retribution for ourselves ami our chikiren. luc out world must and will come to an end. No effort can shore it up longer. If any feel inclined to maintain it, let them beware lest it fall upon and overwhelm them in the ruin of their households. It should be the sublime duty of all, without thought of partisanship,' to help in the building up of the new world, where labour will have its just reward, and indolence alone suffer want."—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Ass'n.