BRITISH ELECTIONS

Dominion, Volume 16, Issue 35, 4 November 1922, Page 5

BRITISH ELECTIONS

THE NEEDS OF THE HOUR STATEMENTS BY NEW PREMIER “GOOD TO SIT STILL AND GO SLOW” BY TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION. —COPYRIGHT. London, November 2. Mr. Bon ar Law, in addressing a meeting of women voters in London, said that women had a tendency to be conservative, not in the political sense, but cautious. “And that,” he said, “is what we want in the Government of this country. Mr. Lloyd George spoke of my simplicity, but was good enough to couple honesty with it. I wonder if Mr. Lloyd George knows where he is. So far he has not issued an election address. Is it unfair to suggest that he is waiting on Provider#?© before he puts his views in print?” 'There was absolutely no foundation for the statement, he continued, that the Unionist Party had been unfair to Mr. Lloyd George. If the war had ended under the Asquith , regime instead of that of Mr. Lloyd George, he believed the Coalition would have been between Mr. Asquith and the Unionists. Lord Balfour had deplored tne death of the Coalition, asserting that it had been wantonly destroyed. That was - not a true picture. The fundamental reason for the change lay in the fact that the people everywhere felt that under Mr. Lloyd George they J.d not know where they were to-day. and could not tell where they would be to-morrow.

> The ex-Prime Minister'was a man of tremendous energy and surprising vitality, and, when any big question emerged, he undertook to deal with it. “That is not my idea of fulfilling the important function,” said Mr. Bonar I.aw. “My idea is that the man at the head of a big business allows tho work to be done by others under his general supervision. 'That is the change we intend to make.” It was a great mistake, he continued, to fuppose that the new and younger men in the Government would not do the work equally efficiently. He had not wanted to diemiss the old stagers right away. He did not think it quite followed because Mr. Lloyd George was so good in war that he was equally good in peace. Mr. Lloyd George was the drummer. He Sid that better than anyone else could have done, but when the charge was over and some had fallen and some were in hospital, the drummer would be rather out of place in hospital, unless the drumsticks were taken from him.. “There are timeSj” ho said, “when it is good to sit still and go slow.” Ho hoped America would gradually take an interest in the League of Nations, in some form or and gradually feel it her duty to help to dissipate the post-war chaos of the world. “Our relations with France must be the keynote of our policy,” he added. _ “We must maintain our naval position and retain»forces for the adequate security of tb» .Empire.”—■■ Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. LABOUR AND A LEVY ON CAPITAL (Rec. November 3, 9.35 p.m.) London, November 2. It is considered significant that following a remark by Mr. J. R. Clynes that Labour was not wedded to the idea of a capital levy the Labour candidates at Glasgow received general instructions that the capital levy was only a suggestion and not a definite pioposal.—lAus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.