SOCIAL EVILS
MR LLOYD GEORGE S ALLEGATIONS.
-LONDON, June 10. Mr Lloyd George, speaking at the Westbourne Park Church, said: ‘‘There are social conditions in Great Britain which are a disgrace to the world’s greatest Empire. Multitudes of people are living under infamous conditions, which can and ought to be removed. We spent £10,000,000,000 on war, but we have never spent a thousandth part of that amount upon remedying the slums. If an appeal similar to that made in war time had been made to the nation’s patriotism for the redress of social evils, the nation would have responded, and the surface of Great Britain would have been transformed. Only the churches can arouse the national conscience to a- sense of its social duties. The world’s real trouble at present is the enshrinement of force above right, which appears in domestic, social, and economic, as well as international, questions. Unless the peop.e show a new temper I despair of civilisation.”
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Otago Witness, Issue 3614, 19 June 1923, Page 21
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