THE NEW WORLD.

Otago Witness, Issue 3418, 19 September 1919, Page 20

THE NEW WORLD.

MR LLOYD GEORGE'S MESSAGE. (By Cable.) LONDON, September 13. . Mr Lloyd George has addressed the following message to the people of Britain through a national publication entitled " The Future," issued under his authority, which will be distributed free throughout the country on Monday : " Millions of gallant young men fought for the New World, and hundreds of thousands died to establish it. If we fail to honour the promises given 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 squalor, penury, anxiety, wretchedness —a world scarred by slums, disgraced ..by sweating, where unemployment through the vicissitudes of industry brought despair into multitudes of humble homes. It was a world where side by side with want was waste of the inexhaustible riches of the earth—partly through ignorance and lack of forethought, partly through entrenched selfishness. If we renew the lease of that world, we betray the heroic dead; we would be guilty of baseness and perfidy, and may store up retribution for ourselves and our children. "The Old World must and will come to an end. No effort can shore it up longer. If any feel inclined to maintain it let them beware, lest it fall upon and overwhelm their households in ruin. It should be the sublime duty of all. without thought of partisanship, to help ,in building up a new world where labour will have its just reward and indolence alone suffer want." IMPROVED CONDITIONS PREDICTED. 1 LONDON, September 15.. In addition to Mr'Lloyd George's message, nine other members of the Cabinet outlined the future of their departments, including Mr Churchill, who says: We contemplate having an army not substantially larger than before the war, but better paid and equipped, on the voluntary basis. Lord Milner says: The United Kingdom and the dominions are partner nations, not yet of equal power, but all of equal status. The time will come when the dominions will surpass the United Kingdom in wealth and population. The paramount duty of British statesmanship is to see that the free union gloriously maintained during the war is strengthened in the years to come. Sir Eric Geddes visualises the casual dock labourer of the future living ina garden city, putting in his spare time ha a garden, and called to work by telephone from the docks, thus abolishing the present hanging around street corners.