THE NEW AGE.

Hokitika Guardian, 17 September 1919, Page 4

THE NEW AGE.

MR LLOYD GEORGE’S MESSAGE, LONDON, September 13.

Mr Lloyd George ha* addressed the following message to the people of Groat Britain through a national publication entitled “The Future,” issued under Ids authority, which will be distributed free throughout the country on Monday.

“Millions of gallant young men fought for the new world and hundreds of thousands died to establish it. If we fail to honour the promises given them, wc dishonour ourselves. What does a new world mean? What was tho old world Info ? It was a world where toil for myriads of honest workers, men and women, purchased nothing better than squalor, penury anxiety, and wretchedness, a world mafrredl by slum’s and disgraced by sweating, whore unemployment through the vicissitude of industry brought despair into multitudes of humble homes. It was a world where side by side with want was waste of tin inexhaustible riches of the earth, partly through ignorance and lack of forethought and partly through entrenched selfishness. If we renew the lease of that world we will betray the heroic dead. We will be guilty of the basest perfidy and may store up retribution for ourselves and our children. The old world must a'nd will come to an end. No effort can shore it up any longer. If any feel inclined to maintain it, let them beware lest it fall upon and overwhelm their households in ruin. It should bo the sublime duty of all, without thought of partisanship, to help in 'building np a how world where labour will have its just reward and indolence a.]ono will suffer want.”