IMPERIAL POLITICS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 82, 2 December 1912, Page 5

IMPERIAL POLITICS.

LLOYD GEORGE AT ABERDEEN. (By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (United Press Association.) London, November 30.

Mr. Lloyd George, speaking at Aberdeen, said that the land was the root of all questions of poverty and social reform. He advised that the land system should bo burst up. Our social and economic condition was bound by the feudal system. There was plenty of land for the race to develop and bring forth fruit a hnndedfold for the people hungering for it. This was an Hour of great inquisition of the people. Scotland was infected with the pestilence of land famine. Thousands of acres in tho Highlands were given over to deer parks and sport, in a country that once yielded the finest soldiers in tho world.

He vigorously defended tho Insurance Act against the misstatements, distortions and falsehoods that had been aimed at it. He gave examples of the large returns and tho small .contributions, a consumptive receiving £2OO for 4s 8d insurance. “All going well.” he said, “after January we shall have a million and a half for women to nurse and nourish the sick. We have* already got six nyllion for medical treatment, which will benefit two million workmen. The machinery of ■ tho Empire was once directed to human slaughter, while poverty and sickness were left to tho Boards of Guardians. Once a great emperor added to his lustre by visiting the wounded after a battle! We have an emperor who walks about the hospitals, and visits the sick and infirm. All this is a new dignity to the Empire.”

DISESTABLISHMENT BILL. London, December 1. There were heated scenes in the House of Commons on Sir A. S. T. Boscawon’s amendment to bisect the Welsh Bill and treat disendowment and disestablishment separately. The amendment was defeated by 251 to 16S votes.