THE PROMISED LAND

Maoriland Worker, Volume 10, Issue 447, 1 October 1919, Page 6

THE PROMISED LAND

Mr. Lloyd George has made 'another eloquent speech. His subject was the New World. His object of course is not to seek out this new world as Columbus Bought out America, afc the risk °£ his life. Being an astute politician, with all the low cunning of his craft, it is impossible to- imagine him doing anything or saying anything that would mean risking- even his political existence. Experience of this little Welsh conjuror dancing on the belly of John Bull, as Carlyle said of Disraeli, goes to prove that when ho talks altruism and lofty idealism, he has his tongue in his cheek and No. 1 in his mind. He resembles the newspaper lcadenvriter; ho can. trifle (.lcpiutly with the idea of tbe New World, but 1 over sets his face resolutely towards the west in a manly effort to get there. All of theso quacks piuo for the New World—but they do nothing but pine. To sail duo west would be to take too big a risk. They might become sea-sick! Mr. George talks of Labor's hard lot before tiie war —what does ho propose to do to prevent Britain from falling back into tho same old rotten state of things that made licr v di _:rac_. to civilisation in the year of our Lord, 191 _? He does not say. The people ask for light and leading! and he gives them words—glittering soap-bubbles of eloquence. A man who by practice and profession is a quack, who has allied himself with "falsity and fatuity, who has said one thing ami done another, been Liberal, Labor, Conservative by turns,, but always a Lloyd Georgite, is not worthy of trust. Like most successful politicians he is eaten up with self-love, vanity and a morbid desire for notoriety and office, which he is willing' to sell his soul to get. A nation that looks to such a simulacrum as Lloyd George to lead them to tho New World will look in vain. In any case why should Lloyd George assume the role of a Moses. Ai-e the people of Britain children? Cannot they set out for the Promised Land themselves—and dispense with Moses? If they do not it is nofc likely they will ever reach the glorious Laud of Canaan.