Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1919. LLOYD GEORGE AND THE FUTURE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 2066, 11 December 1919, Page 2

Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1919. LLOYD GEORGE AND THE FUTURE.

MR. LLOYD GEO,ROE, to the people of Britain, in the Future: — “Millions of gallant young men have fought for the new world. Hundreds of thousands died to establish it. If we fail to honour the promise given to them we dishonour ourselves. What does a new world mean / AVhat was the old world like? It was a world where toil fox myriads of honest workers, men and women, purchased nothing 1 better than squalour, penury,, anxiety, and wretchedness —a world scarred by slums and disgraced by sweating, where unemployment through the vicissitudes of industry brought despair to multitudes of humble homes; a world where, side by side with waid, there was waste of the inexhaustible riches of the earth, partly through ignorance and want of forethought, partly through entrenched selfishness. If we renew the louse of that world we shall betray the heroic dead. We shall he guilty of the basest perfidy that ever blackened people’s fame. ■ Nay, we shall store® up retribution for ourselves and for our children. The old world must and Avill come to an end. No effort mm store it up much longer. If there be any who feel inclined to maintain it, let them beware lest it fall upon them and overwhelm them and their households in ruin. It should be the sublime duty of all, without thought of partisanship, to help in building up the new world, where labour shall have its just reward and indolence alone shall suf-fer-want,” ,