Day of Dsmocracy

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 14, 4 June 1914, Page 5

Day of Dsmocracy

SPEECH 15V Mil. LLOYD CKOROK. LIDKRALK IX DANCER Ul' DISUNION. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright London, June 3. Mr. Lloyd George, speaking at Crircictli, said thiit the day of democracy had dawned. Tlu> people meant to govern themselves. The Parliament Act was not perfect, but it would lie improved. lie hoped to see a better t'pper Hoitte. The Liberals were tonfronted by a great rock of dis-union. It had already suffered a few hard Knocks from dissension, and unless these were healed the party would come to grief. Surely tlic Liberals and Laboritcs ought to make a sensible adjustment. ■Mr. Lloyd. George declared that the results of recent elections were not due to a revulsion of feeling against advanced legislation, 'but to impatience with tile Parliamentary machine, whieli was inadequate to deal with the grievances the people were enduring. The contributory clauses of the Insurance Bill were doing mischief. The messages of the elections for the Liberals was not to stand still, but to press on. The aristocracy and their friends were crowing jubilantly over the mutinies in the Army and rebellious Ulster, but the very dunghill whereon they perched was being undermined by flood. They wanted an election before the waters gathered, sufficient force to sweep them away, but the time for it was not yet