MESSAGE TO THE PEOPLE.

Taranaki Daily News, 16 September 1919, Page 5

MESSAGE TO THE PEOPLE.

BY BRITISH PREMIER. THE OLD WORLD AND THE NEW. By Telegraph—rress Assn.—Copyright. Received Sept. 15, 5.5 p.m. London, Sept. 13. Mr. Lloyd George has addressed the following message to the people of Britain, through a national publication entitled "The Future," issued under his authority, which will bo distributed free throughout the country on Monday: "Millions of gallant young men have fought for the new world, and hundreds of thousands have died to establish it. If we fall to honor the promises given them we dishonor ourselves. "What does a new world mean ? What was the old world like? It was a world where the toil by myriads of honest workers, men and women, purchased nothing better than squalor, penury, anxiety and wretchedness. A world scarred by slums and disgraced by sweating; where unemployment through the vicissitudes of industry brought despair into multitudes of humble homes. It was a world where, side by side with want, was the waste of the inexhaustible richc9 of the earth, partly through ignorance and lack of forethought, and partly through entrenched selfishness. If we renew the lease of that world we betray the heroic dead; we would be guilty of the basest perfidy, and may store up retribution for ourselves aud our children. The old world must and will come to an end. No effort can shore it up longer. If any feel inclined to maintain it, let them beware lest it fall upon and overwhelm them wholly in ruin.

"It should be the sublime duty of all, without thought of partisanship, to help in building up a new world, where labor ■will havo its just reward and indolence alone suffer want"