Mr. Lloyd George reaffirmed his version of the Gorringe case—which
he declared had -never been answered in the House of Commons—and of the "little tailor's shop" in Cardiff—" if he spoke of it being next door to the Castle he would not mean bang up to the door "—and after giving further illustrations of the inequality of rating drawn from Lord Bute's estate, remarked : " Who is Barabbas, I would like to know P " Mr. Lloyd George went on to say that the Peers " stood by and cheered and hounded on" when poor cotters in Ireland were thrown by hundreds and thousands out of the hovels they had built with their own hands. The Lords were not there to protect honesty and industry against confiscation, but to defend monopoly which plunders industry. They (the British people) were not a nation of wreckers, and were not bent on smashing any- thing up, except the six hundred persons congregated in the House of Lords, where the same feeling prevailed as in a lunatic asylum. At Llanelly on Wednesday Mr. Lloyd George was in the same vein. These speeches, with their passionate appeal to class hatred, may inflame extreme partisans, but they are not likely to convert the " balancing " elector.
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