LLOYD-GEORGISM.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10713, 2 December 1912, Page 5

LLOYD-GEORGISM.

CABLE NEWS

*ieci Pros Aiiociation—Bv JEkotrie T(Ugraph—Copyright.)

THE LAM) QUESTION

AND INSURANCE ACT.

(Received Last Night, 5.5 o'clock.) LONDON, December 1.

The Right Hon I). Lloyd-George, Chancellor of the Exchequer, speaking at Aberdeen, said the land was -fl.o root of all questions of poverty and social reform. He advised that the land system should be burst up. Our social and economic condition was. ho said, bound by a feudal system. There was plenty of land for tho race to develop and bring forth fruit by hundredsfold, for the people were hungering for it. This was the hour of the great inquisition of the people, Scotland was infected with tho pestilence oi a land famine. Thousands of acre-' of the Highlands were- given over to deer sport which once yielded t:*e finest soldiers in the world.

The Hon Lloyd-George also vigorously defended ■ the Insurance Act against misstatements, distortions and falsehoods. He gave examples of large returns from small contributions. One consumptive Avas receiving £2OO for a contribution of Is Sd. The Insurance Act Avas going along very well. After January, he would hav:>. £'1,500,000 for Avomen to nurse- iiid nourish the sick. He had already go;. £6.000000 for medical treatment. Avhich Avould benefit 2.000,000 workmen The .machinery of the Phnpire had once been directed to human slaughter, while poverty and sickness wer: 1 left to Boards of Guardians. Once a great Emperor had added lustre to his Crown by visiting the wounded after n battle. "Wo have an Emperor," said Mr Lloyd-George, "who will Avalk about the hospitals, and v.ho visits the :;iek and infirm." All of this, he said, brought uoav dignity to the Empire.