Thoughts For The Times

Hokitika Guardian, 14 July 1920, Page 2

Thoughts For The Times

Peach anti E.mciiie Unity. “Our first purpose,” continued Hon. Lloyd George, “is to secure the adhesion of Till classes, all ranks, all creeds, and ail parties.t<> a policy wlijcli will reconstruct and restore this country after tile devastation of the great war. (Cheers.) AY hat is our second purpose? Peace—a real peace. A. sulky angel of peace is apt to become the liarbinger of a new war. Not an armed peace, nop an angel of peace winged with spears. We want peace in the East and peace in the West; peace abroad and peace at home. Ten mPons of slaughtered men and fifteen millions of jnujrilafod men ought to satisfy the most blood-thirsty appetite of any land.

•‘•AY p stand for tbe unity of the Empire becgu.se we bt*iev£ it is the most potent instrument ever forged for human liberty. Without it freedom would have been eyughod in Europe. AYe mean to have a fair deal and a fair reward for individual effort. Individual enterprise- should be encouraged, not destroyed and superseded. ‘.‘Th.e wild gamble of Socialism, if the experiment is tried in this country, will fail. But the experiment wild be harmful because commercial wepljh and prosperity, ogee they depart, very rarely come back again. So our peril is great, and these we have to defend and protect.”