The Washington herald., 1920-03-19
LLOYDGEORGE ]
LAUNCHES WAR
ON RADICALISM
Socialists, Bolsheyists land
Revolutionists Arraigned
In Platform Speech.
OUTLINES HIS POLICY
New Party Must Build New
Electorate, He Tells
House Of Commons.
OUTLINES HIS POLICY
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London. March 1s.-Premier Lloyd
George today declared war on Brit
ish Socialists, Boishevists and revo-
lutionists,. when making an address
in the house of commons. Most of
the hundred members persent were
coalition liberals.
The primem mister launched his
nav nationalism platform. unon
which he expects to build a new ma
tinaal democratic or progressive
party.
II am a liberal" said tho govern
ment leader. Il believe in progress,
but not in the policy of the labor
party In England. There are lands
where socialism might be tried, but
this country is no place for 1t.
lam still a liberal. because I be-
lieve In liberal principles and in
freedom"
Mr.. Lloyd Georges platform, ac-
cording to reports available at 8
O'Clock tnnight. follows:
!. A fight against labor and So
cialism at home.
2. The creation of a permanent
and powerful league Of nations.
.. The coalition Of all parties
against revolution. O.
I. The formation of a well-in-
formed electorate.
S. state purchase of the liquor
trade.
wants weII-isfsrnea Eleetsrate.
According to the westminster Ga.
sette,. while most Of the Premier's
addrsss followed the lines Of any
political leader who might seek to
found q new party. there was one
important plank. 1T is not enough
that the government should have a
united majority In Parliament. IL
must have an electorate well in
formed and an organization to in
form 1t. There are plenty to misln-
form and to mislead it."
Mr.. Lloyd George does not want
new party unless that party shall
accept a new task of building a new
electorate and of keeping ii fully
Informed on political questions. In
this connection he spoke of the
power of labor, which owed its pres
ent position to a generation of hard
spade work of Socialists in parks
and on street corners.
Real labor leaders" said the pre-
mier, ARE not In parliament. but
among the people. sowing seeds of
revolution which would bear fruit
ultimately unless 1 new party went
out to SOW seeds Of new political
principles and introduced intensive
cultivation"
1t is too early to know what the
London press will say, but former
Premier Asquith's paper. the West
minister Gazette's parliamentary
correspondent, calls, the premier's
the great man saw? Did he wave
his wizards wand and turn coan-
tion liberals into his humble and
obedient servantsf
No .Revolto Apparent.
There are various accounts of
what happened. There appears to
have been no revolt. hardly a mur-
muring in the ranks"
Introducing the premier, Chair
man Lambert. referrin gto political
leaders in England and their atti-
tude toward the formation of a
new party or a stronger coalition.
said: Our leaders have got to come
of their high horses and come to-
gether. They are not German gen.
erals, and the rank and file are not
to learn the goose step.-
When the soalition meeting was
the chief event of the morning,
hardly had Mr.. Lloyd Georges
speech reached the press, when the
National Federation of General
Workers. an organization represent
ing 100000 mon, and women, met
In Essex Hall and adopted a reso-
tuition which. Il is expected, will
have an important bearing on the
British labor world. The resolution
was that all trade unions support
the ..payment-by-result movement
now urged by both leaders of en-
ployes and employers to increase
Those two events in one day in
dicate something of the Importance