A SHABBY CHAPTER

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 49, 3 July 1913, Page 5

A SHABBY CHAPTER

THE JARGONS DEAL. MINISTERS V INDICATED. .13v Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press Association.] London, July The National Liberal Club gave a

luncheon to 31 r Lloyd George and Sir Rufus Isaacs. Lord Lincolnshire presiding, said a small, vindictive and j unscrupulous minority had tried to drive Mr Lloyd George and Sir Ruins I Isaacs out of public life. Mr Lloyd George, responding, thanked the Unionists and the press for not partici- j pating in a fatuous man-hunt. He accepted Lord Robert Cecil’s standard of political morality, hut it was a pity that it was nob in force when millions of acres of the people’s inheritance were bartered by Parliament, governed by landlords of both parties. “VILELY AND DAMNABLY TR DATED.” (Received 9.30 a.m.) London, July 2. Mr Lloyd George’s speech is desscribed as one of the most emotional, vehement, and provocative since Liinehouse. One of the newspapers describe it as an attempt to canonize himself. The speech was raptuonsly applauded. He declared that the attacks on Sir Ruins and himself was one of the shabbiest chapters in the history ol tho Conservative Party. it was a case of hitting a man when lie was down with hands tied, but now lie was free to ishicld himself and to smile, not for himself, but for the case to which he would devote his life, and which he was going on with, lint before doing so, he would like to sling a Javelin or two at his persecutors. He commented sarcastically on tho Tories rushing from Ascot to pass a vote of censure on the semblance of gambling. He repelled the suggestion that Sir Ruins Isaacs was prepared to sacrifice their esteem and the multitude of opportunities for doing good merely for a turn in the market of a few hundred shares. He would not barter one heart beat of his devoted loyalty to the Welsh for all the wealth in the City of London. The Tories henceforth pinned Sir Robert Cecil’s principles of political morality.

Sir Rufus Isaacs made a moderate speech. He incidentally mentioned his own ill-advised, though well-in-tentioned act. Mr Churchill referred to the fact that his two trusted friends and comrades had been vilely and damnably illtreated in the Liberal cause. A NEW CONTRACT. (Received 10.55 a.ra.) Before the Marconi Committee, Mr Herbert Samuel, Postmaster-General, announced that the Government was unable to force the contract or obtain damages. The Government was now free to contract anew. The Committee thereupon carried a resolution that it was unnecessary to inquire further.