"GIVE UNTO CAESAR"

Evening Post, Volume LXXXII, Issue 49, 26 August 1911, Page 10

"GIVE UNTO CAESAR"

Mr. Lloyd George ga,ve an address in Welsh at the Welsh Racist Chapel, CsstlcH-street^East, on, tho 26th Juno. Ho maintained 'that, in spite of tho .complaints of pessimists, the world was getting better, aiid if they road the history of three thousand, oce thousand, one hundred years ago, they would find progress, They knew the famous quotation, "Give unto Caesar."' But who was CaeSar? The people were Caosar. They were on tho throne. Theirs was the ldspoiisibilitj. Therefore they must bring 1 religion into the realm of statesmanship. Continuing, Mr. Lloyd G-eOi'go declared that there had never been a revival or reform carried through except with thb help and leadership of men who gained nothing by those movements. The Labour Parly wrongly thought they would win reform only through the people who suffered, whereas no retorm had ever been brought about only by people who *utfered. The men who worked for them made personal sacrifices and sacrificed wealth. This he saw in carrying the Budget through the House of Commons. Tho men who did the work were not those who gained but lost through the relortns they supported. The latter part of Mr. Lloyd George's speech was. whether so intended ot not, an extremely effective piece of oblique 1 self-laudation (commented the Spectator). Tho identification of tho people with. Caesar was audacious, but .not bo. audacious as the interpretation of a famous • Radical M.P.— no longer in the House— who was fond of tilling the story of, or against,, himself. He, too, had been invited to give ah addiess in a Nonconformist chapel, and chose the uame test After an animated discourse he observed in eon--olusion:-»"A General Election will short' ly be held. 'Render unW Caesar the things that are Caesar's. 1 lam Caesar."'