The New York herald., 1922-10-22

pletely abandoned and that Lloyd
George will make his appeal to the
country as pure Liberal and free
trader, strong ON economy and fa-
voring the League of Nations. He
| is credited with having at his dis
posal the Coalition Liberal machine,
whose funds, according to the Daily
Mail, amount TO nearly f3.000.000.
age pensions and the securing of
finance for operation. I also organ
lied in the time of peace health in
suranee. and worked for peace In
that respect that brought satisfac-
tion to the doctors and every one
else. ..-.I...
Praises League of Nations.
Before the war and after the war
the first thing we had to do to make
(here Mr.. Lloyd George broke OF his
sentence and continued). / know
the treaty of Versailles was opposed
by great number of People who
were constantly proclaiming that
some of the most important posi-
tions belonged to them. What did
I. the Treaty of Versailles stand for :?
The first clause of the Treaty Of
Versailles established the League of
Nations. What is the League Of
Nations? 1t is for the purpose Of
organizing good will and coopera-
ton among nations--a league of
nations which will provide some
means by which it can settle dis
Y putes between nations without re-
sorting to the cruel barbarism Of
war.
Removed Sources of Irritation.
Who proposed the League of Ma
tons? The resolution upon which
it is based was moved By me at the
peace conference as soon as it met
in Paris That covenant is now in
corporated in the first chapter OF
the Treaty of Versailles. We re-
stored Alsace-L Lorraine to France.
We restored the Italian provinces
in the north of Italy to Italy. And
!. these questions, which were the
constant source of irritation and in
( flammation, have been removed by
the Treaty of Versailles.
What nexe We emancipated q
number of races which had for CEN
turtles been under the rule of op-
pressors in central and southern
Europe-Poles. Czecho- -Slovaks, in
habitants of Pennsylvania, Slavs Of
Jugo-Slavia, Arabs in Asia-popu-
lations which numbered in the ag-
gregate 100,000.000. They had for
centuries been groaning under the
rule of oppression that penalized
their energies, destroyed their liber-
ties and prevented the development
of their nationally life. They were
freed by one great act prepared in
Paris and signed at Versailles which
has become the charter of liberty
for tens of millions Of people to-day.
GCheers.]
Worked forNDisarmament.
We destroyed the great arma-
ment of Central Europe which
made war. [Cheers. Conscription
has gone. Their navy. which was
a great source of anxiety and
menace to This country and to all
other lands has disappeared. Their
huge army. the greatest army which
probably the world has ever seen.
WHICH intimidated Europe, which
suppressed the spirit of Europe,
which darkened the horizon of Eu-
rope is lying In the hrt-that was
one act of the treaty of Versailles
which is abused by everybody.
ICheers.l And not only that. 1t rid
Europe of the burden of armaments.
That is the first act in the great
drama of peace.
predict to you that the democra-
cies in other lands will not continue
to bear the burden Of huge arma-
ments when they see central Europe
free from that oppression. 1t is be-
ginning to go.
Conscription mt an End.
Conscription disappeared here
within a few months after the war
1t will disappear before many years
in other lands as well. That will be
due to the fact that, the treaty of
Versailles stipulated that neither
Germany nor Austria--the- two
countries that made war--can raise
great conscript armies in the future
There is another provision In the