LLOYD GEORGE’S BLANDISHMENTS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3427, 5 March 1920, Page 3

LLOYD GEORGE’S BLANDISHMENTS.

'ifh«: |.’l'em§er, :IJdl'essing :1 gatherilxg of Liberals at the Mzmchester Reform Club, said national unity was necessary to the securing and estab lishment of a. settled peace. They had only to keep their ears to the ground, zuld they could hear mul'mu‘l'ings of the eonflict even to-day. This was 110 time for dissension anmug the people who won the victory. Mr Asquith, of whom he spoke with great I'espect—they had never had :1 quarrel in their !'lves——said that the time had come for :1 renewal of party st;-ifc, He dis-agl'eed with t-hatview.

'l‘lze Coalition believed in going tmc'r<-3tllel' as far as they could, fox-they could aet more effectively, more thorOugl2l_',', and, what was more important, more speedily. Time was the essenee of all things when the world was‘ill :1 condition of tumult and ":11rest.

After reviewing the Co:alit:ion"s legisglativg 1'«3«;0~‘fl.. in‘ c.\:CTklim.crl:"l\'ot bad for at reac-tiona.l'y Governzncnt during three anxious years.”

“But we are 1101‘ at the end of our programme. There is Home Rule. (C}lecl-5:.) I hope to make :1 real contribution towards settling this most bzlfifling of all ‘problems. The Unionists are pl'<'p:l.l‘o<l to make great .:’‘.:1(:x"oficu.< in order to pl'e>:crvo unity. ((}‘hoer.<.‘) That is why the Coalition

so fill’ from being an eneiny to progress, is its latest guarantee. I would despair of attempting to SCl‘l'lC that problem if I had merely the support of one party behind me. “We have been reproached for taking Sftpg to ensure order and good «_,»-mrermnent ‘in. Ireland. It is the first ()>'.SC“l]tlal duty of 3 Government to maintain order, and life and properiy. [1 is no use me talking about liberty v.’it.h discord, crime, anart-lly_. and cl:-fiance of the law. Wg should have failed in the essential duty of Government if we had not undertaken that task. We have not gone beyond the necessities of the Case. A FREETRADE AND DUMPING. “There is no gr-eat.el' enemy of human liberty than anarchy; therefore,- the great purposes of legislation ought to be to secure harmony b_,et\\'-veil law and liberty. That is '.\'ll2'.‘.: \\.'-9. hope to achieve by the measure we mean to introduce for Ireland. We shall do our best. to carry it, but national unity is essential to achieve it.

“There is another problem we hope to deal with on a great scale. It is the darkesf cloud on thc 'horizon of every foile.l'——‘(he prospect of enforced employment. Then there is the minimum wage and security of temxre, nationalisation of mines, with an improvement in the :ImCl]ifi(‘.< of the mines. Go through all the ]iSt'——:lnd I have not exhausted if. I my it is the legislation of :1 lifetime under ordinary <'om‘litions.”

There were two crhicisms ‘ with which he would deal. He was not going to shirk a little bill called the

Allti—Dulnpillg' Bill. The Paris resolutions (the economic "resolutions of 1916) in\'l"l\-‘end mudli nidro i‘ntol'foronce with the course of ’rl'a(ling lhan the Anti-Dumping Bill. They signalled out one nation for hostile l(g9;isleifion against its trade after the war. Ir"\\'.'ls (lnilg~3l'(rlis to go on Clll‘l‘}’illg on an economic wa,l' against a singglo nation after a nl‘.'i:7tar_v peace had boon gained.

“T. as 3, I'loc Trader, definitely refuse to "M-linvs? that the cause of E‘:-no '1:-arle is: il.s<—perable from what IS known '.‘«.‘.~‘. Cumping. jlhnt ‘is .nr-rel l-.2.rn.-ful to Free Trade. ill" \\ :19 rho m>:*l'(-st point in our outl.l|)SJ|—". ‘Nheil you remove it you 3.<tron;;n‘lnml tlu‘ whole line of Free 1» 111,-ad¢_ To admii: that foreign trusts ‘umlur rho p.'Ja2('.‘.iOll of a tariff wall r(,'._nul‘<l ralaargo lfijsh pl‘icC:~: in their own »,<:pmm'icS in ol'<l<'l' To sell goods mm~[fi}}lztlll_\' and persistently in our coun,;ty},c alga price below that at whir,-h wv .(r.quld pl'C(lu('.(‘ tlwm was unfair comper_:'fi(m. We ll(‘C'(l not fear fair (=mn~ ,;p;e_,f_,ition.”

-z 0.1;?’ ;I’l.l~j]’)GES FULFILLED. v"*v'l‘¥l:ll' was one Ineasure which had hocn»ll.~"ed to call upon Ijborals to abandon their plodgc, 10 dividn their relations, and to throw obs’m:!les um"! <‘xi.~:sonl‘ in the path of n:ltimlul I'9»'_'(:l!sll’u(3fi()n.

“Wu :m- asked to se\'ol' Oursolvos f'rm:a :1 <-/mnbinfion which has cal'l'iod .ih(‘ ,<,rl'cato.s‘r Reform Act of HlO zi;l'<'>'. iioiiéiizg i'Ci’ol'm, the gl'(‘3fo.'~'f land roFUi‘!n <:nrl'.ie(i in this counfvgy, HM‘ i.O{if.{l)lF of Nations, and which is ]_:l’m‘H;_r(v:i 10 Hainio ’\Rul'.o——(vil«iors)— v.'hic.h is I?arl'ying Liberal institutions Fo‘-' Indifl. We are asked to divide the nation in the faree mi’ 1) vigilantuiioiny, in Dl‘(i(‘l‘ to reinstate the Liboml Party on a G'nrnlan .(]ump—heap. That is not what is going‘ to make I.ibvl‘ali.<ul :1 living i'orcC. (Choers.)

“At the last 0I(!c'Ii0n .1. promised sll2ll‘ if I found any lugging, any failUYC in Parliament: in <-.:ll'l'ying through x‘ll<!:Lslll'P,s of I':\fm'm. which I pledged the honour of flu: Govul'llmellt, to put in its whole strength to carry through. T should advise the King to

ask for furtlier instructions from the electorate. I stand by every word of that. (Cheel's.) Let 1110' say——aml it is right I should say»-my Unionist colleagues have so far honoured every pledge they have given without stint, and so long as they do that 1 stand by every honourable pledge which I have given. (C‘~llo(_*l's‘.)