MR. LLOYD-CEORGE AGAIN.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2677, 6 December 1909, Page 5

MR. LLOYD-CEORGE AGAIN.

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A VIOLENT SPEECH.

BITTER PERSONAL ATTACKS ON PEERS.

United Press Association —Copyright (Received December 5, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, Dec. 4.

Mr. Lloyd-George, speaking at the National' Liberal Club, vehemently denounced the Lords as mad mullahs and wreckers of popular hopes. He declared that the Upper House had now perpetrated its last act of destructive fury, and had initiated one of the greatest and most promising struggles of modern times. Mr. Lloyd-George reiterated the late Sir Henry CampbellBannerman’s formula that Liberal legislation must become law within a single Parliament. Describing Lord Curzon as not very wise or tactful, Mr. LloydGeorge remarked, “He is less dangerous as ruler of the House of Lords than as ruler of India. For further particulars apply to Lord Kitchener.

. . . Then there is Lord Milner. There is one thing in common between Lord Milner and Lord Curzon. Both are very clever men. Both have every gift except commonsense. Lord Cromer found his country (Egypt) devastated b,y mis-government, and left it abounding in smiling prosperity. Lord Milner found his (South Africa) smiling lands, and, after years of mismanagement, left a scorched and blackened desert. His is a peculiar genius for running institutions and countries into destructive courses; Mr. Lloyd-George next attacked Lords Rothschild and, Revelstoko (of the firm of Baring Bros, and Co., bankers), twitted them on their ancestry (Jewish), and said that both were running down British investments, of all things, and the country that had offered hospitality to their forefathers.- After arguing that the Lords were overborn by the liquor trade, Mr. Lloyd-George exclaimed: “We’ve -got ’em at last. I mean not to let ’em go until all accounts are settled.”

Lord Carrington, who presided, characterised the speech as a marvellous one, destined to have a farreaching .effect.