Speaking to the Liberal Christian League at the City Temple
on Monday, Mr. Lloyd George discussed the causes of destitution. The speech has been described as "well meant," and very possibly it was, but there was also much that was utterly wild and foolish. Mr. Lloyd George no doubt has a warm heart, but he has also a very hot head, and it is not by hot heads that we shall cure the evils of poverty. He seems, too, to be utterly without the sense of justice. It passes our comprehension why the land, which has more obligations than any form of property, should be singled out as the offensive type. And the speech was studded with stray inaccuracies which detract from Mr. Lloyd George's seriousness. Why speak of land as given up to partridges P Mr. Lloyd George knows, of course, that they only thrive on cultivated land.
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