PROBLEMS OF EMPIRE

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 117, 10 February 1908, Page 7

PROBLEMS OF EMPIRE

SPEECH BY MR. CBDRCHILI.. . "ACHILLES" KEEL-iOR CIVILISATION. THE TREND OF LIBERAL POLICY, or TELEGEAPn—PBESS ASSOCIATION—-COrTUIQHT. (Rco. 5.130 p.m.)' ' V ' London, "February 1 B.' Mr. Winston Churchill, Under-Secretary of State for the 'n"ddrossittg'the League' of Young Liberals, said tho greatest problem of the Empirewas'ait, Home;" namely/'this' condition of the people. Tho problem of unemployment was the "Achilles' Heel" of civilisation, and the Socialists and Tariff Re-: formers fastened thereon likcj greedy vultures hoping to be carried into •power. Ho was not prepared to say that all men should be oqual, but he would say that nobody should have everything until everybody had something. Tho trend of Liberal, policy must be increasingly to build up a minimum standard' of life, and to labour to provide* that above a certain level of, decent comfort competition' l must be free, but bblpw,ithat Jleveli no ono should be permitted to labour.'

"Achilles' Heel," referred'"to "in" Mr I .' Churchill's speech, means tho .vulnerably, part., It is said that when Thetis dipped her son in; tho River Styx to make him..invulnerable, ehes held him by the heel, and tho part covorcd by her hand was tha. .only—part not-washed. by the wafer. Sometimes-Iceland is'callcd the' "Achilles' Heel" of England,-..