LLOYD GEORGE—JONAH.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17218, 8 December 1923, Page 1

LLOYD GEORGE—JONAH.

BY SINEAD. Oh, David the Welshman came out of the west, a strong-stand-ing statesman was he, and under his Premiership Britain was blest, and trade flourished finely and free. With metaphors muddled lie managed the land, and flirted with, friend and with foe ; he fixed the finances to baffle the band—such neatness we never did know. With skill all-surpassing he wrangled the war, until that great struggle had stopped; but then did he see his supremacy o’er, for David- discreetly was dropped. The party in power now Protection promotes, and David in p, we stands aghast-; his phrases are frenzied; disaster, he notes, for London ia looming at, last. “ Oh, London, 1 love thee!” is Lloyd George’s cry; “ thou art most tremendous in trade ; an Empire exceeding in finance full high the pitiful one we parade. The strength of the City no tongue could e’er tell; of commerce I crown it the king; it rules rolling regions both wisely and well, so I its supremacy emg; but if this protection proposal be passed, react to our rum it must, and London the lovely will lie at the last a dreary, dull desert of dust.”

Oh, David does prophesy peril* and plight; to me he Macaulay recalls, who said that a stranger from Maonland might sketch scat day the ruins of Paul’a.