The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-05-06
LLOYD GEORGE IS BITTERLY
 ASSAILED

London, May 6-I1oyd George has forsaken the cause of the people, after having failed in the great opportunity or reconsTucting society on lines of justice, which opportunity was pre- sented to him by the ending of the war.
 Such is the Interpretation placed upon the Prime Ministers recent se- ries of attacks upon labor by Arthur Henderson. M: F., secretary of the Labor party.
 Lloyd George made two speeches at dinners, and twice took occasion to repeat his sermon against what he termed the threat of revolution, while making announcements in the House Of Commons.
 ':No political leader has ever paid greater tribute to his opponents than the Prime Minister paid to the Labor party in his speech to the new nen- said.
 ''They wanted a new justification Tor the continuance of the coalition and new inspiration for the coming their careers will be at stake. And the only plea their leader could ad- vance was that the Labor party would come into power in the near combined to oppose its phenomenal progress in the constituencies.
 Aligned with 'PrviIege.''
 By that speech MT. Lloyd George has aligned himself definitely and ir- revocably with the party of privilege and property which he once aSsailed with a vehenence of language and a recklessness of spirit that no labor propagand1st, even among the little group of extremists whose influence among the workers is by no means equal to their sense of seif-inpor- tance, ever eXcelled.
 He has forsalzen the peoples cause. He had an opportunity-given to no statesman for many generations fn I,14k-- . and impoverished by the war, on the principles of social justice and eco homie freedom which he once ar dently advocated. He has betrayed these ideals. And to save himself from the just consequences of such instncerity, inconsistency and cyni- cism as no other political leader in our history has shown, he has in augurated a campaign of unscrupu- lous villifcation against the one party in the State which seeks to realize the aims he once professed to serve but now denies.
 Could Not CajoIe Labor.
 ''The Prime Minister knows, none better ,thta his description of the La Dor party's policy and program is a mere travesty. There is only one ex- planation of his attack on the Labor party; he knows he cannot cajole it, so he denounces it.
 By his betrayal of democracy he has lost all hope of obtaining further support from organized labor and he turns so rend the men who had trust ed him.
 Premier ssIn the Know, '"The Labor party will not merely survive his attack, will be strength ened by it. The hysterical exaggera- tions of Lloyd Georges speeches de | ceived no one, least of all himself. ''He does not believe that labor's aims are subversive: one knows better than he how much importance attaches to the revolutionary senti- ments of a few extremists in the or ganized movement; no one has shrewder opinion as to the influence these exercise in the cOunsels of or ganized labor.
 He appeals to the creduilty and imidity Of the electors, but to the self-interest and the fears of those who have made him their leader. To maintain him in office is their only hope of maintaining a system which involves undeserved privileges for the few and undeserved hardships for the many"