LLOYD GEORGE ON POVERTY.

King Country Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 304, 19 October 1910, Page 5

LLOYD GEORGE ON POVERTY.

350,000 People Leave no Property. £150,000,000 GOES TO 2000 , PEOPLE YEARLY. / GAME PRESERVES AND CITY CONGESTION. HALF ARMY RECRUITS REJECTED. By Telegraph..—Press Association.—Copyright Received October 18, 9.5 p.m. London, Yesterday. Mr Lloyd George, addressing the Liberal Christian League in the City Temple, declared that the causes of destitution, unrest and discontent were common to Freetrade England and the Protectionist Continent alike. They had to look beyond fiscal systems. Mr Chamberlain's tariff reform scheme had rendered an outstanding service by calling attention to the crying evils festering amongst them. "I never realised," continued Mr Lloyd George, "the poignancy, of poverty until I administered the old age pensions. Out of 420, 000 adults who die annually five-sixths have no property. Of £300,000,000 passing annually at death halt' belongs to under 2000 people. The fact betokens organi ic disease in the British system which I is double the alleged waste and thriftlessness of the wage-earners. Civilised countries spend £500,000,000 annually upon the machinery of war. If Britain's burden is removed she could pay the wage earners four shillings more weekly, without interfering with the profits of capital." Britain's was I a hard climate for poverty. Millions of acres were devoted to who preserved game, while avarice and the selfish niggardliness of other people, perpetuated the congestion in the cities, resulting in 50 per cent, of recruits for the army being re- : ject'ed unfit, ; Received October IS), 8.45 a.m. A telegram from Mr Balfour, wishing success to the Liberal Christian League, was read at Mr Lloyd George's meeting.