HON. D. LLOYD GEORGE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 2 August 1913, Page 5

HON. D. LLOYD GEORGE.

CABLE NEWS

(United Press Association —By MUctrie Telegraph—Copyright.)

DELIVERS A CHARACTERISTIC SPEECH. "vVHAT ORDERS, MY LORDS ?" Last Night, 9.30 o'clock.) LONDON, August 1. A demonstration was organised at Carnarvon to prove that.the Marconi affair had not undermined Wales' esteem for the Hon. D. Lloyd-George. - Ten thousand persons were present, and the Minister was given an enthusiastic reception. The Hon. D. Lloyd-George declared that a -conspiracy to overthrow the Government was being carried on under the pretence of upholding the doctrine of a mandate from the Lords. Their frdends were arrogating to themselves the right to reject Liberal measures and resort to violence to prevent measures being carried. If the doctrine of the mandate was upheld, it would make party government a farce. A Liberal Prime Minister would have to go round Bel-.-gravia every morning, like a grocer's boy, ring the alarm bell, and ask the butler if he. would kindly ascertain, "What orders, My Lords, have you for to-day?" Only the fear of a- revolution would induoe the Lords to. carry Liberal ' measures, if they disliked them. ; "The fact of the matter is;" .said the Chancellor, "we are fighting the -last despetgte effort to* restore' tlie grip of class ascendancy over the Legislature." The Lords, in their recent action, had made. the abolition of the Second T Chamber essential. The reformed Chamber would give equal treatment to all parties and creeds. The peasants, and guarrymen, of Carnarvon would be prosecuted if they appropriated land of which their fathers had been robbed; but the Tories claimed the right to chooSe what laws they would obey. Tlie Tories, however, were seeking to establish a tyranny over men who had destroyed monarchies and churches .when -they- became instruments of oppression. Tlie Tories , were ''negotiating for a revolution, with a blind, headstrong recklessness. r Mr Lloyd-George declared that It ebsegtial to clear tlie.. paths of I monfrpolftfs and , privileges*; that Pro- | vidence may have a free road to cal"*!;ry. its" the 1 light air j of to every coti vtage % "tho land Mr Lloyd-George said • the Lords were right in assuming; that he had organised his attack' on their arbitrary powers, through land and othior monopolies. Lord Northbourne . had expressed liis intention to roast sin ox to mark, his: (Mr Lloytjr George's) disappearance' from office.' That, said Mr Lloyd-George, indicated his opponents' temper, but the vit'rol-throwing of the Lords . aiwff I,their hangers-on and flunkeys,in tlse■ | pre)ss Tied failed to maim, kill, or .deface frijn. (Sensation.) '