LLOYD GEORGE'S CREED.

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 101, 30 April 1923, Page 5

LLOYD GEORGE'S CREED.

TASK OF LIBERALISM. TO OVERTHROW THE SWORD. SOCIALISM'S ENSLAVEMENT. LONDON, April 29. _Ir Lloyd George, in a speech at Manchester, declaimed his social creed with all his old fervour. Liberalism, he said, was not a proprietary medicine sold in bottles with one label, but something that belonged to all. It meant fair play. Us first great task was to overthrow the tyranny of the sword. There must lie greater co-partnership between Capital and labour. Capital was made for man, not man for capital. The resources ot the country were adequate to provide a decent wage if there were less waste. There was great waste through bad housing. He regretted that £100,000,000 last year was not devoted to a development fund for this object. . The existing land system crippled energy. There was not, a civilised country in Europe which made so little use of its land for enriching the people as Britain. Another waste was the waste of the Empire. The British Empire was the richest Kmpire in the world, but it was an undeveloped Empire, needing capital and labour. But for Liberalism there would have been no Empire. It was the duly of Liberalism to make the Empire stronger. It could lie developed and strengthened and its riches could be made to pass and repass until every home got some of its sunshine. "If there is to be a fight about Free Trade," continued Mr. Lloyd George, "let us clear the decks: let us get rid of the McKcnna tariff, the Taris resolutions, and the Safeguarding of Industries Act. Let us go forward a united party..' Speaking of the dangers of Socialism and Fascism, Mr. Lloyd George declared that Socialism would enslave Labour for its own benefit; Liberalism had made Labour free.—(A. and N.Z. Cable.)