Mr. Lloyd George made a speech remarkable even for him
at Denmark Hill on Saturday lad. The Chancellor of the Exchequer began by insisting on the need for nerve, courage, and determination in the last stages of their political journey. In Ireland the situation demanded "judicious but resolute treatment." Mr. Lloyd George, having declared that he respected the convictions of the comparatively small minority in Ireland who still resisted Home Rule, proceeded to ridicule the protests of the Ulster Loyalists, and to charge them with insincerity. Turning to the work of the Government, be asserted that they had driven privation, hunger, and anxiety from a million homes ; they had already made the most systematic and scientific attack on tuberculosis ever under- taken, and they would annihilate it within a generation. They had organized a system for giving the best medical aid Avail- able to fourteen millions of workers in ill-health, and they meant to extend the guardianship of the State over the children of the land. We may be allowed to remind Mr. Lloyd Gearge that one of the later Roman Emperors mentioned in an Imperial Rescript that he was, and meant to continue to be, "a Universal Providence." He is remembered solely for this" futile, pompous, and pretentious" boast.
Previous page
