A NEW WORLD.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 2030, 18 September 1919, Page 3

A NEW WORLD.

THE NATION’S TASK. MR. LLOYD GEORGE’S REMARKABLE STATEMENT. London, September 13, Mr Lloyd George has addressed the following message to the people of Britain through the national publication entitled “The Future,” issued under his authority, and which is to be distributed free throughout the country on Monday: Millions of gallant young men fought for the new world. Hundreds of thousands died to establist it, and if we fail to honour the promises given them, we will dishonour ourselves. What does a new world mean: What was the old world like? It was a world where there was toil for myriads of Inmost workers, and where men and women purchased nothing better than squalor, penury, anxiety, and wretchedness; a world scarred by slums, disgraced by sweating, where unemployment through- the vicissitudes of industry brought despair into multitudes of humble homes, It was a world where, side by side with want, was waste of the inexhaustible riches of the earth, partly through ignorance and lack of forethought, and partly entrenched selfishness. If we renew the lease of that world we will betray the heroic dead. AVc will be guilty of the basest perfidy, and may store up retribution for ourselves and our children. The old world must and will come to an end. No effort can store it up longer. If any feel inclined to maintain it, let them beware lest it fall upon and overwhelm they' households in

ruin. It should be (lie sublime duly of all, without thought of partisanship, to help in building up a new world, where Labour will have its just reward and indolence alone suffer want. -