LLOYD-GEORGISM.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10122, 19 October 1910, Page 5

LLOYD-GEORGISM.

EFFECT OF TARIFF REFORM. THE POIGNANCY OF POVERTY. (Rec. Last Night, 10.5 o'clcok.) LONDON, October 18. The Right Hon. D. Lloyd-George, Chancellor of thd Exchequer, addressing the Liberal Christian League in the City Temple, declared that, for the causes of unrest and discontent common to Freetrade England and the Protectionist Continent, they liad to look beyond the fiscal system. "The Right Hon. J. Chamberlain's Tariff Reform has," declared Mr. Lloyd-George, "rendered outstanding service by calling attention to the crying evils which are festering amongst us. I never realised the poignancy of poverty until I administered the Old Age Pensions Act." Proceeding, the Chancellor said rthat out of 420,000 adults who died ammallv, live-sixths had no property. Of the £300,000,000' which was parsing annually at death, half that amount belonged to under two thousand people. This fact betokened that the organic diseases in the British system had been doubled by the alleged waste and thriftlessness of the wage-earners. ' Civilised countries ' were spending £51)0,000,000 annually upon the machinery of war. If Britain's- burden were removed, she could pay the wage-earners four shillings more weekly without interfering with the profits of capital. Britain's climate was, said Mr. Lloyd-George, a hard ono for poverty. Millions of acres were devoted to those who preserved game, while the. avarice and selfish niggardliness of other people perpetuated the congestion in the cities, which resulted in fifty per cent, of the recruits for the army being rejected as unfit.

APPEAL TO THE MASSES

''HYPOCRITE! SCOUNDREL! TRAITOR!" THE CHANCELLOR ASSAULTED. Rec. Last Night, midnight.) LONDON, October 18. The Hon. -D. Lloyd-George, in the course of his address, condemned the idle rich. Their families and retainers, he said, number two million. "Great Britain cannot afford so large a free list. The time has come for a thorough overhauling of the national and Imperial conditions." The masses were, he said, in expectation of great things, and it was disheartening to witness the sweeping burst of popular enthusiasm spending itself on a trivial project. "My counsel to the people," said the Chancellor, "is to enlarge the purpose of their politics, then adhere to the purpose until redemption is accomplished." Outside the hall the Suffragists greeted Mr. Lloyd-George Avith cries of "Hypocrite! Scoundrel! Traitor!" ' Two men wevo arrested for striking Mr. Lloyd-George in the face and back.