LLOYD GEORGE AND THE FUTURE.

Ohinemuri Gazette, Volume XXX, Issue 4060, 29 December 1919, Page 2

LLOYD GEORGE AND THE FUTURE.

Mr Lloyd George, 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 i,t. If we fail to, honour the promise given to them we dishonour ourselves. What does a new world mean ? What was the old world like? It was a world where toil for myriads of honest workers, men and women, purchased nothing better than squalpur, penury, anxiety, and wretchedness—a world scarred by slums and disgraced by sweating, where unemployment through the vicissitudes of industry brought dispair to multitudes of humble homes ; a world where, side by side with want, 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 lease of that world we shall detriay the heroic dead. We shall be 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 will come to-an end. No effort can store it up much longer. If there bo 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 worild, where labour shail have- its just reward and indolence alone shall suffer want."