DAY OF DEMOCRACY.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXV, Issue 16568, 4 June 1914, Page 7

DAY OF DEMOCRACY.

SPEECH BY MR LLOYD GEORGE. AN APPEAL FOR UNION. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. LONDON, Juno 2. Mr Lloyd George, speaking at Criccieth, said that the clay of democracy had dawned. The people meant to govern themselves. The Parliament was not perfect, but it would be improved. Ho hoped to see a better Upper House. Tho Libcrab wore confronted by the great rock of disunion. They had already suffered a few hard knocks from dissension, and, unless these were honied, the party would come to grief. Surely the Liberals and Labourites ought to make a sensiblo adjustment. Several suffragettes were removed for interrupting. Others smashed windows in High Street. Threo wero arrested. THE MESSAGE OF THE ELECTIONS. NO REVULSION AGAINST ADVANCED LEGISLATION. LONDON, .June ,3. Mr Lloyd George said that the results of recent elections had not been due to revulsion of feeling against advanced legislation but to impatience with the party machino which was inadequate to t'eal with the grievances the people were enduring. The contributory clauses of the Insurance Act were doing mischief. The message of the elections for the Liberals was not to stand, still but to press,, on. The aristocracy and their friends wero crowing jubilantly over the rmitinies in the army and rebellious Ulster but the very dunghill whereon they were perched was being undermined by tho flood They wanted an election before the waters gathered sufficient force to sweep them away, but they would'not get it.