IMPERIAL POLITICS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 167, 2 December 1912, Page 5

IMPERIAL POLITICS.

i MR. LLOYD GEORGE AT ABERDEEN THE LAND SYSTEM. s THE INSURANCE ACT. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright t Received 1, 5.5 p.m. e London, November 30. Mr. Lloyd George, speaking at Abei 0 deen, said that the land was the roo f of all questions of poverty and socia ['_ Tefohn.' He advised that the land sys . tem should be burst up. Our social ant economic condition was bound by th feudal system. There was plenty o land for the race to develop and brinj . forth fruit a hundredfold for thq peopl hungering for it. This was an hour o great inquisition of the people. Scotlani was infected with the pestilence of lam famine. Thousands of acres in tin Highlands wore given over to deer park and sport, in a country that once yield ed the finest soldiers in the world. He vigorously defended the Insuranci Act against the misstatements, distor tions and falsehoods that had beei aimed at it. He gave examples of th< large returns and the small contribu tions, a consumptive receiving £2OO foi r 4a 8d insurance. "All going well/ hj( > said, "after January we shall have s ' million and a half for, women to nurse ' and nourish the sick. We have alread) : got six million for medical treatment ! which will benefit two million workmen ■ 'The machinery of the Empire was onct 1 directed to human slaughter, while pov i erty and sickness were left to Boards oJ 1 Guardians. Once a great emperor added ' to his lustre by visiting the wounded after a battle. We have an emperoi who walks about the hospitals, and visits the sick and infirm. All this is a new dignity to the Empire." THE DISESTABLISHMENT BILL. London, November 29. The Government is forcing the Welsh Disestablishment Bill. The closure only saved its defeat by the full strength of the Irish vote. Received 1. 5.5 p.m. London, November 1. There were heated scenes in the House of Commons on Sir A. S. T. Boscawen's amendment to bisect the Welsh Bill and treat disendowment and disestablishment separately. The amendment was defeated by 251 to IGB.