SPEECH BY LLOYD GEORGE.
INDICTMENT OF LORDS. LAST DESPERATE EFFORT. By Telegraph.—Press Association.—Copyri^at Received Friday, 9.30 p.m. London, Friday. At the first demonstration organised to prove the Marconi shares affair had not undermined the esteem held for Mr Lloyd George, ten thousand were present and proved an enthusiastic
reception. Mr Lloyd George declared a conspiracy to overthow the Government was being carried on under the pretence of upholding the doctrine of the mandate of the Lords and their friends. were arrogating the right to reject- Liberal measures, or resor 1 " to violence to prevent the measures being carried. If the doctrine of mandate should make parly Government a farce the Libera! Prime Minister would have to go round Belgravia every morning like a grocer's boy and to ring the area bel! and ask the butler if he would kindly ascertain what orders the big Lords have for the day. Only the fear of a revolution would induce the Lords to carry Liberal measures if they disliked them.
Continuing, Mr Lloyd George said: "The fact of the matter is we are fighting the last desperate effort to restore the grip of class ascendancy over the legislature. The Lords' recant action made the abolition of the Second Chamber essential. A reformed Chamber would give equal treatment to all parties and creeds. The peasants and quarrymen o£ Carnarvon would be prosecuted if they appropriated the land whereof their fathers had been robbed, but the Tories claimed the right to choose what laws they svould obey. The Tories, however, were seeking to establish a tyranny over men who had destroyed monarchies and churches when they became instruments of oppression. The Tories were negotiating for a revolution with blind headstrong recklessness.'
The speaker concluded it was essentia! to clear paths ol' monopoly and privileges that Providence may have a free road to carry its treasures of light, air. sustenance, and hope to every cottage in the land.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 590, 2 August 1913, Page 5
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322SPEECH BY LLOYD GEORGE. King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 590, 2 August 1913, Page 5
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