Republican farmer., 1918-11-22
Lloyd George Pays splen- did Tribute To This
 Country. PRAISES WILSON IN HIGHEST TERMS Pleads That World Must Be Organized Against
 Hunger.

l both houses of parliament on Tuesday. Andrew Bonar Law, chancellor of the excnequer,
 also presented the coalition
 program at a meeting of Con-
 servatives. This program is
 said to include safeguarding
 agriculture and essential man.
 ufactures, imperial prefererse
 and Home Rule without coer-
 cion of the six counties f'Ul-
 ster.
 MT. Lloyd-George's speech before
 the Liberals advocated a league of
 nations and emphasized the need of
 national unity. He begged the Lib
 erals not to su1k, limited protection
 and halfway Home Rule do not sat-
 isfy the stalwarts of either party. The
 great asset of Mr. Lloyd-George is his
 personal popularity.
 He said: 'fWhen the great ,Ameri-
 SS-A4 P0b41S JOA14SO uS III l1l6 6lTu6BlS
 it was not only with material weap-
 ons, but with all that moral rein
 forcement which came from the
 splendid vision and moral enthusiasm
 of President Wilson, speaking on be-
 half of the people of the United
 States His was the great vision of
 a league of nations, and our main concern now must be- to the saving of Europe for the future of the world. Let us now organize the world against hunger. That will be the best prep aration for the new order of tnterna- tional good feeling and co-opera-
 tion.
 'The position is tragic in the ex- tre9ne. A whole world order is pass
 ing away. There is danger of things going too far and giving Europe a
 setback from which she will not re- A cover for generations. The evils bred by hunger threaten not merely
 the old institutions, but civilization,
 We saved the soul of civilization; now Llet us care for its sick body. I Not only the liberated territories
 of our allies, not only our small neu-
 tra1 neighbors but the enemy tcoun- tries themselves require our helping hand. Let uE extend 1t in all gener- = osity and magnanity. The Adea of ! organizing food supplies for thoss lands will help to purify an. atmos- = phere cursed with war, hate and un- . truth. It would all have been so Il much easier if Germany had fought a
 clean fight and not stained her hands "a with such crimes, but even so we ,+ must be influenced by the larger
 considerations. We must feel that h q the call to common humanity there e are other purposes beside the preven- s tion of war, for which a league Of l. nations Is a sheer, practical necessity. il One of the first steps must be to cre-
 ate an organization against hunger - and ration all the countries where dis B aster threatens.
 @ ''The existing inter-allied machin- 1t cry, which Is the nucleus of league of
 nations, probably will undertake this e task. In the period of reconstruction d after the war. all countries, allied, n neutral and enemy. will have to be a rationed for certain raw materials. d Here again international machinery is
 necessary.
 a "We thus are making straight for a q league of nations charged with the r.. performance of these international , functions. Then as regards the pri-
 mary object of the league, from Fin
 land to ConstantinopIe, the map will A [ be covered with small nations divided F by profound antiquities and most B of them with minorities condu- 7 cive to internal weakness. We may,
 therefore, expect more dangers of
 wars in Europe than in the past,
 Therefore, it is imperative that we
 create an international organization to 1 keep peace.
 9 '"The age of miracles is never past. ? The history of South Africa since the
 Boer war bears immortal testimony to
 the wisdom of a polloy of concfliation. l. If the victors of this greatest of all ts wars Initiate the temper of Great Brit l. ain on that occasion, have hope that :, the bitterness of this war may lead
 to a great reconciliation of peoples in d the future, perhaps even to the dis of appearance of war"
 g The issue in the coming elections is
 whether the country will endorse the W Lloyd George administration. The d. electoral reform bill adopted by par d, liament during the summer of 1917 T. virtually doubled the number ot r. voters. It gave the ballot to all sr women over 30, men over 21 and sol In diers under 21,
 Id This added six million females and s. two million males to the voting lists le MT Lloyd George has before him 'h the difficult task of trying to keep to- T. gether that majority of the conserva' Id tive party which supported his wal Is. measures and enough liberals to give tn him balance of power. The decis- 1e i've factors will be how many Liber- T. als will follow him and what the la,
 bor party will do.
 So far as Ireland is concerned, the
 election probably means the aImos IL total disappearance of the old Ma
 tfonalist party of Redmond and Dill Ht lon from Westminster. The SeiI 7s Feiners are expected to sweep south ~ ern Ireland, but the members electes a1 by the Sim Fein always refuse tt
 take their seats. | In addition to trying to hold to- of gether his Conservative and Libera a. supporters, MT Lloyd-George is tryinl to to reconcile the Asquith faction. NH 1- Ascuith could have had a high sea a.. in the present cabinet if he wouli a have accepted it. There were tw' r. obstacles, however, Home Rule an' 1gt Protection One of these the Con bs servatives will not have and the othe
 Is objected to by the Liberals,i