HOMELAND LIBERALS

Greymouth Evening Star, 15 October 1928, Page 6

HOMELAND LIBERALS

MR. L. GEORGE & OPPONENTS

(Australian Press Association.) (By Cable—Press Assn—Copyright.)

LONDON, October 12

“The Liberals have little choice as between strangling prosperity with a ■tariff rope, and drawing and quartering it with socialism, and therefore they will fight the general election next year as an independent party, and will act in the next Parliament fis an independent party,” declared Mr. D. Lloyd George at the Liberal Party Conference at Yarmouth, amid enthusiastic cheering. “We shall resist,” he said, “any attempt to overthrow the great fiscal system upon which our trade has been built up, and shall resist any attempt to establish Socialism.”

He added that both the Tories and the Labourites were conspiring to destroy Liberalism by putting up candidates with no chance of winning, but with a view of spoiling the Liberal chances in straight-out lights. He predicted that the British electorate would in an overwhelming way condemn the Government, thereby giving Liberals an enormous accession of strength. Whatever party had a majority, it would not be Labour.

The Daily Herald, in an editorial headed: “Our Reply to Lloyd George” says:—Mr. Lloyd George’s hopes of holding the balance of power will fall to the ground, and that the Liberal Party will be in ruins. Nobody knows that better than Mr. Lloyd George. He is one of the chief authors of its ruin, It may linger for a long while on the political stage, but the days of its greatness are gone, never to return. The Liberals, to achieve power, must, win 280 seats. The odds are that they will lose 280 deposits at the General Election! Labour is the only Party entering this fight confident of victory.