Land for the People
l.l.OYl) GEORGE IN SCOTLAND. MEETING' AT GLASGOW. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright London. February i. Mr. i.loyd George opened the Seotlisn land campaign at (iiasguw. lie said that thi! housing conditions in Glasgow and Edinburgh were appalling. The death-rate was double and treble that of other working-class towns. The speech was punctuated by suffragette interruptions and ejections. • THE DAWN OF RESURRECTION.
Heceived (J, 12.20 a.m. London, February ,5. Mr Lloyd Ueorgu says that although there are substantial dill'dences in agricultural conditions between Scotland and England, there was the same o-reat underlying principle that Providence created land for the benefit of all. Despite agricultural difficulties, wages in Scotland were higher tha-n in England. The Scott Mi laborer was more intelligent and more independent than the English. The housing problem in Scottish towns was worse than in the English towns, and infantile mortality was appalling. It cost Ulasgow'a quarter of a million to clear the .slum area which the landlords should have been comoelled 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 for the Glasgow waterworks. The Admiralty was forced to pay £27,223 foil ten acres of land for the torpedo depot at Greenock, assessed at £ll per acre. The Duke of Sutherland had thr "n in every crag, every mountain, at 22s (id an acre. Be wanted 1C9,000 for the lean, scraggy end of his huge joint, while his' trustees valued his million acves for nrobate at £400,000. There was never such a case since Ananias and Sapphira. In the great cities' were quagmires of human miser,,', seething, rotting, and fermenting. But there was an ominous rumbling, and the chariots of retribution were drawing nigh. He 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 plate the burden upon right
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 187, 6 February 1914, Page 5
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349Land for the People Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 187, 6 February 1914, Page 5
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