SOCIAL DEMOCRACY

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 19, 5 January 1911, Page 11

SOCIAL DEMO CRACY

LIBERALISM

WEARY WILLIE’S WAIL

In the November issue of “Justice” (London) appears the manifesto of the Social-Democratic party. Declaring that th*> ‘‘fraudulent Free Trade, under which the nation has suffered for two generations, and which those who admire it have erected into a fetish, has produced the precise results which our Chartist predecessors foresaw and predicted,” the manifesto continues: —

“The rich have grown richer md the poor poorer, until now in no country in the world is there to be found such a hopeless mass of misery and squalour in proportion to K ’ie population as exists here in Britain.” "Conservatism and Liberalism re present til® same class interests. Their pretended remedies fur' national evils are but pills for Jhe earthquake to be administered bypolitical quacks,” proceeds ihe manifesto, which adds: ‘‘But the Liberals are always the more hypocritical and treacherous of the two great factions. No Prime Minister has ever done more to strengthen the House of Lords than Mr. \squith, the self-advertised destroyer of that House. No Home Secret a. y has ever been more brutal to sti•: .- ers than ‘democratic’ Mr. Winstone Churchill. No head of the India Office has ever committed more crimes against freedom rnd justice than the Radical Lord Morley. No Minister for Foreign Affairs has ever committed the country to a more unscrupulous and iangerous policy than the Liberal S’r Edward Grey. No Chancellor of the Exchequer has ever increased the taxation of the working classes to the extent carried out by the . evolutionary Mr. Lloyd George. No Ministry, as a whole, has ever ,"ostered the creation of a costly, corrupt, and tyrannous beauracracy more assiduously than the most powerful Liberal Government of modern times.” To meet this “indifference” the manifesto appeals to “fellow citizens to work against both tactions.”