Hokitika Guardian & Evening Star THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 19197 A NEW WORLD.

Hokitika Guardian, 18 September 1919, Page 2

Hokitika Guardian & Evening Star THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 19197 A NEW WORLD.

j With the eye of a seer Mr David Lloyd George has focussed in the future a new world, to be built out of the wreck of ' the present one, and with faith and .confidence in that future he has set j about the rebuilding process. With his j unmatched gift of expression lie has j described the old world as we know it ! to be, and speaks of the nSwer region | as the habitation were labor will have its just reward and indolence alone suffer want. Mr Lloyd George would create the millenium period in his ecstatic faith, but what a troubled old world he addresses. How, even, can he be heard in the babel of voices all ■round him making confusion worse confounded by the clamour of their demands, anc 1 / the futility of their misdirected methods ? Mr Lloyd George has an ideal ‘before him which achieved would make the lot of mankind a much happier condition, and it would be well were h e trusted by the people as he should be. He is a man with a marvellous power of organisation. Ho has a remarkable vision and understanding of human nature, and knows and feels all the disadvantages of what the struggle for life and existence has been in the old world. His lifelong experience was one of personal struggle, and when later be achieved power and position, lie knew from bitter personal trials what the masses of the people had to pass through in their efforts to escape the drudgery of. life. His experiences prompted, him to make his famous Limehouse speech, and that event stands as a milestone in his life, marking his great personal services for the masses Now has come his message to the peope to rehabilitate the old world. Th e cable news gives us his masterly descriptive of living conditions in the oongested cities of the Empire, but there is lacking his proposed cure for the evils he ha® painted in such striking colors. His message would be incomplete wihoufi the panacea to replace the new order of conditions for th e old and details of these will be of the greatest interest. They will be of world wide interest, for there is not any place in the world which- is not distraught and in confusion more or less because of the unsettled conditions and the industrial difficulties arising daily. Mr Lloyd George holds a position conspicuous enough to lead the world, and doubtess his proposals will have sincere imitation in many quarters. For over five years domestic legislation has had to go by the board, but now th°i' e is nothing more pressing than internal concerns, which are all so much dislocated. Till industrial peace comes to pass there can be no settling down jto any rebuilding scheme. With a leader like Mr Lloyd George there is no occasion to doubt his sincerity, l>ut every reason to implicitly trust in his leadership. Will the people put their confidence in him, and give him a free hand to prove himsef the master-build-er? Sooner than later the present mixed condition of affairs must, resolve into something more stable an d satisfactory if there is to be any great hopes for a new world coming into being.