For the People.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 31, 6 February 1914, Page 5

For the People.

1 DAWN OF A RESSJRRECT2OM ‘‘CHARIOTS OF RETRIBUTION.” j By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] I United Press Association] Lomlou, February i. Mr Lloyd George opened the Scottish haul campaign at Glasgow. He said that the housing conditions in Glasgow and Edinburgh were appalling. The death-rate was double and treble that of other working-class towns. ! The speaker said that although j there are substantial differences in ‘agricultural conditions between Scot- | land and England, there was the j same great underlying principle that j Providence created land for the ben p - Jfit of all. Despite agricultural difficulties, wages in Scotland wore higher than in England. The Scottish laborer was more intelligent and more independent than tht\ English. The housing problem in Scottish towns was worse than in the .English towns, and infantile mortality was appalling, it cost Glasgow a quarter of a million to clear the slum area which the landlords should have been compelled to clear as a nuisance. They must make land contribute on the basis of its real value. The Duke of Montrose extracted a 2000 years’ purchase on" the basis of his contribution to the rates for the land lor the Glasgow waterworks. The Admiralty was forced to pay £27,225 for ten acres of land for the torpedo depot at Greenock, assessed at £ll per acre. The Duke of Sutherland had thrown in every crag and every mountain at 22s Gd an acre. He wanted £479,000 for the lean, scraggy end of ids huge estate, while his trustees valued his million acres for probate at £400,000. There was never such a case since Ananias and Sapphira. In the great cities were quagmires of human misery, seething, rotting, and fermenting. But there was an ominous rumbling, and the chariots of retribution were drawing nigh. Ho could see the dawn of a resurrection of the oppressed people. The sun of that resurrection was now gilding the housetops. The Government hoped to formulate a scheme which, without unduly disturbing those using land, would properly place the burden upon right lines.