DAY OF DEMOCRACY

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 8750, 4 June 1914, Page 7

DAY OF DEMOCRACY

“PEOPLE MEAN, TO GOVERN THEMSELVES.” PERIL TO THE LIBERAL PARTY. Hr Tftltgmli-PrMi i wools Uon—Copy rlgkt LONDON, June 2. Mr Lloyd George, Chancellor of the Exchequer, speaking at Criocdeth, vValeS, said that tho day of Democracy had dawned —the people meant to govern themselves. The Parliament Act was not perfect, but would bo - improved. He hoped to 'see a better Upper House. The Liberals had been confronted by a great rock of disunion and had already suffered a ; fewhard knocks from dissension. Unless

the trouble was healed tho party would come to grief. Surely Liberals and Labourites ought to make a sensible adjustment.

MESSAGE OF THE ELECTIONS,

LIBERALS MUST NOT STAND STILL.

(Received Juno 3, 11 p.m.) LONDON, June 3.

In the course of his speech, Mr Lloyd George declared that the recent elections were not due to a revulsion of feeling against advanced legislation, hut to impatience with the Parliamentary machine, which was inadequate to deal with the grievances of the people. The contributory clauses of the Insurance Bill 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 were crowning jubilantly over the mutinies of the Army and a rebellious Ulster, hut the very dunghill on which they were perched WM being undermined by, flood. They wanted an election before the waters had gathered sufficient force to sweep them away, hut they would not get it.