Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, APRIL 24, 1919. THE RIGHT SUIRIT.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 1968, 24 April 1919, Page 2

Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, APRIL 24, 1919. THE RIGHT SUIRIT.

MR. LLOYD (IEOROE, speaking in London in March Inst, at I ho Joint Indus!rial Congress. said:-—‘T should not Ik 1 n hit surprised it' this old country —not for the first time-— 1 should he the land that will have civilisation in more senses than one. And 1 should like yon to do it. Hut it: will only save civilisation it' all classes feel that civilisation here is on a hisis of justice and fair play to all classes. There must he a, sense of confidence in the minds of all classes (hat they are getting what is rigid and what is just from (he community, and the appeal which ] am going to make to yon to-day is this- —yon are really a peace congress, you are settling the .future of this country, hut yon may he doing more (hamtlmt, yon may lie settling (he future of civilisation. You may be making a model for civilisation, which all lands will turn to and say, ‘Let us follow Britain.’ It is not the first time that Britain has given (he prineiple upon which liberty and democratic government have been settled in other lands. I want you to do something here that all lands in their despair will turn once more to Britain and say, “Sen how they have settled things there; they have settled things there In such a way that justice has been done to a.ll classes; all classes ar,j contented, grievances have been removed, wrongs have been redressed, and a new country Ims been built up. Let us follow’ the example of that little island in the sea once more.’ I want you to approach this in that spirit. Civilisation, unless we try and save it together, jpiay he precipitated and shattered to atoms. It would not be the first time if has happened "in the history of the world that great .civilisations have been destroyed, and you have to build up from the bottom again. I want Britain to save it this time,

mul it cannot save i( by the triumph ot any one elass. It can only save it by the triumph of justice and fair play to all classes alike. That is the spirit in which 1 want you to approach these great problems in front of you. The world has run short of things, and there will be great demands made upon the people of this country. There is a tear in the minds of the workers that if there is increased productivity, somehow or other that will lead to unemployment. If we come together, and come together quickly, 1 believe there is an era of great prosperity before this land. But 1 am sure you will not get it unless we establish better among ourselves. Having done that, and having made everybody feel that when prosperity comes every - body will have a share in it, that the sunshine will not be kept, as I ventured to say once, to one held, and somehow or other you manage to get nothing hut shade in the other, but dial the sun’s rays wilt cover duf whole land, and enter the workman's collage as well as the. employer's house —see that everybody gets a share iu it, and I am certain that then you will get this land into such a condition of happiness and contentment that it lias never seen, and it will be a model to (lie whole world, and it will be said once and for all, ‘Thank God that He planted this island in the sea to lead the world along the pa 111 of civilisation.’ ”