For the Masses.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 28, 25 May 1914, Page 5

For the Masses.

THE BONDAGE OF WEAP-TH.

LLOYD GEORGE ON TORYISM.

|By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Pre** * London, May 23.

Mr Lloyd George, addressing six thousand people at Ipswich, said the present election was critical in the country's history, hence his breaking the rule against Cabinet Ministers meddling in by-elections. He described Mr Bonar Law and Mrs Pankhurst as anarchist leaders, defying all authority, each in his or her own way. The question before the country was not Home Rule or Welsh Disestablishment, but that of representative government, which the Tories were endeavoring by a deliberate conspiracy to destroy. If Mr Masterman were returned the verdict would resound through all ages as a great blow for freedom. The Tories were fighting for oligarchy, through anarchy. The question was; Were the liberties of the people to be destroyed by aristocratic lawlessness? England had the richest soil under the sun, yet, with £40,000,000 rent rolls, the producers were living in poverty and wretchedness. But the Liberals would put that right in a year or two. Referring to old-age pensions, he asked, Who is paying for them? A Voice: Tne supertax.

Mr Lloyd-George: Yes, and why should not a man with too much contribute something towards those with too little?

The rich, he continued, complained of the super-tax, but those with incomes of £25,000 per annum would have, £21,000 left after the super-tax. and the latter would keep 137 old people from misery and humiliation. The super-tax on £IOO,OOO per annum would keep six hundred out of the workhouse. Similarly, the death duties would maintain thirty thousand people for a year. His Budgets were "luck-sharing Budgets." The Insurance Act was a great repairing institution, and a good investment. Ipswich was getting £21,000 in pensions, £35,000 yearly from insurance, and from the Budget £14,000. He hoped Ipswich would send a message of hope to Ireland and the whole democracy of Britain, for "Blessed is the nation that considereth the poor."