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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 33, 2 August 1911, Page 4

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"KILLING THE GOOSE." In the Home Country the whole trend I of Government effort has, since it took office, been to remove many intolerable burdens from those least able to bear them and to impose further burdens on those capable of sustaining an increased load. Mr. Lloyd George, who has possibly achieved finer humanitarian results that any British statesman during a century, is, after a remarkably vigorous and effective fight for the people, accused by a Labor man (Mr. Geo. Lansbury, M.P.) of "tumbling over himself to save the pockets of the rich." The] accusation was made during the discussion on the Insurance Bill, and it is therefore likely that the member's reference was by way of objecting to the Government employee and employer sharing the cost of insuring the worker against sickness and other unavoidable mishaps. The statements of Labor members of the House of Commons are no more representative of the ideas of the people than the statements of the New South Wales member of Parliament is a mirror of the mind of the backblocks man. Mr. Lloyd George has had the couraga to show that by mutual thrift and organisation the terrors of sickness and unemployment in Britain may be lessened—and it is consequently growled at for his pains. The muchcabled Mr. Snowden, M.P., holds that a Insuranco Bill is "meagre pettifogging and ineffective" and based his concluI Dions on the fact that the workers were ; not getting as many free millions out of the Government as Mr. Snowden thought they ought to get. The Brii tish. Government is still Conservative enough to hold that the wholesale distribution of "largesse" is bad business, and Mr. Lloyd-George has based all his »chemes for the improvement of the backbone of Britain on the assumption that what is worth having is worth working for. The accusation that the "little Welsh lawyer" is unwilling to add a penny to the burden of taxation is short of the target, even though the i famous Snowden fired the shaft, and many a millionaire peer is still suffering agonies at the thought that his income is reduced a hundred pounds or two a year. With the disappearance of the Lords' veto and other beautiful and crusted British institutions useful in keeping the people poor, the time seems a little inopportune for the Snowdens, Lansburys and Graysons to cry for more millions. The Labor Party in Britain lias done noble work in insisting on the initiation of reform, but Labor parties in all countries liave a habit of thinking that the only possible way to reform is by pouring unlimited gold into the laps of people who happen to be represented by Labor Parliamentarians.