“THE HAPPIEST NATION"
MR. LLOYD GEORGE’S IDEAL. WILD INTERRUPTIONS BY SUFFRAGETTES. [PER PRE93 ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT.] LONDON, June 30. Mr. I). Lloyd George addressed 5,000 persons at Woodford on the benefits of tiie Insurance Act. Men and women Ixdonging to suffragettes constantly interrupted him infuriating the stewards and a fierce struggle took place. Chairs wore broken. Women’s hats were torn off and many persons ejected so exhausted and. blood-stained that, they required ambulance aid. When order had been restored, the Chancellor, said : “We boast of the largest navy in the world, the greatest commerce on land and sea, the greatest mercantile marine and the greatest Empire, but when shall we think it worth while to boast “we have an Empire of the happiest people, free from poverty and the terrors of children crying for bread.’ ” Mr. Lloyd George, concluded, by saying ; “In front of you is the biggest task the of Britain will ever undertake. We have got to free a land, shackled to the chains of feudalism: from that which is a shame and a disgrace to the richest country in the world.”
The Insurance Act was a beginning with God’s help but beginning.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 1 July 1912, Page 2
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