TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1931.
THE
PREMIER'S APPEAL
TO BRITAIN
WHY SACRIFICE IS NEEDED TO-DAY,
SWIFT ACTION
· NATIONAL DUTY IS THE FIRST CONSIDERATION.
Mr. Ramsay MacDonald broad cast his first public atutement on the political situation on August
25.
His address, which was relayed from a microphone in 10, Downing Street, to all stations of the B.B.C., was as follows:
1 speak to-night. in unusual and, to me, rather sorrowful circum-
stances.
I have given my life to the build- ing up of a political party, I wan present at its birth, I was its nurse when it emerged from its infancy and had attained adult years. At this moment I have changed none of my beliefs and none of my ideals.
I
I see that it is said that I have no Labour credentials for what am doing. That is true. do not claim to have them, though sam ertain, that in the interests of
the working classes I ought to have; them.
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saying that they ought not to be anxious. The important point is that they are anxious, and their anxiety has faced the Government with a financial situation which,
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"TERRIFIED AT DEATH."
Suicide's Horror of Illness.
our conts according to the cloth. our national credit, and anything We must try, of course, to get more which disparages that must be in- cloth; whilst it is limited our gar-stantly and firmly dealt with. ments will have to respond to ite I also want to emphasise as I limitation.
have already mentioned, that the This undoubtedly, will entail problem which we have been up sacrifices, but I am perfectly certain against during the last few weeks that, in order to put our financial | is not the systematic change of house in ordey, there is no person financial methods, the scrapping of in the whole community who will old ways, and the importation of full to give what response he, can, now ideas. according to his means, provided
A letter which the coroner, Dr. That takes time, that will have to. S. Crone, described as one of the always that he has an assurance be done, but this peculiar paychola- most remarkable he had ever sten that everybody is doing the same. gical storm which has suddenly pre in that court, was read at an inquest sented itself had to be dealt with at Kilburn on August 17 on Mrs. which as a matter of aupreme urgency. Elsie Winyard, aged. 43, of Craven
“Cutting the Bdle.” Apparently the matter troubles most
LETTER AT INQUEST:
**This is not
temporary in- sanity, but just the very limit of endurance reached, I'am in agony, consumed with misery and terri- fled at death.
of the people with Consideration of none of those Park Road, Hariesden, who was whom I have been associated, whose fundamental causative questions found with her head in a gas-oven. confidence is equally dear, is the could justify us in the fatal policy The letter read: proposal to cut unemployment bene- of refusing to use immediate men. fits. May I make ni or two on" that in order that the accordance
observation sures, even if they are not quite in
With the mass of our people may consider it which, in any great schemes of re
principles with some sense of proportion and construction and reorganisation, we ke an attack of appendicitis, can-equity in their mind?
should have to adopt.. not be trifled with but must have Unemploymeat benefit is not a
There is no time for alow change living wage. It was never meant so long as this lasts. We must act There is no danger whatever ifto be that. But I, like everyone of now. that treatment is given, but it must my old colleagues, have been, willing, No "Bankers" Imp." be immediate. It cannot be trified rather to with.
immediate treatment.
It is essential that the confidence of the world in our credit should be restored. Otherwise we shall not be able to maintain the value of the pound sterling, and the results of that should be very carefully con- sidered.
First of all, if there were any collapse in the pound, we should be defaulting on our obligations to the rest of the world, and our credit would be gone.
Confidence in the £.
This would be fatal, since this country, above all others, depends Be that as. It may. I have on the maintenance
of its credit, credentiala of even higher nu-having to buy, as we do, so large thority. My credentials are those a part of our food and our materials of national duty as I conceive it, from abroad. and I obey them irrespective of conserpuences.
Thus the pound storing is the You will have rend in the dally greatest medium of world trade, papers during the last few weeks of great activity in London. For my many friends who have been in close touch with things it has been a time of very great anxiety, There have been sensational stories and many rumours of all kinds.
You have heard the words "crisia" and "emergency," and will know that matters of great moment have arlsen In what is nominally a quiet holiday season. Let me tell you briefly what has happened,
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and the basis of the money of many other countries. Thus the com- merce and well being, not only of the British nation, but of a large part of the civilised world, has been built up on, and rests upon, con- fidence in the pound sterling.
And if that confidence be destroy- ed it means the dislocation of world trade, from which everyone, and most of all the working people of Britain, will suffer.
Swift Action Needed.
many
stretch than to curtail
"I have been cursed from birth with an abnormal capacity for feeling the crueltius of life, and an abnormal horror of illness and hospitals.
"The orden! of being strapped; rigidly on an X-ray table flye times has still power to set me shuddering and trembling
There is one other obstacle which those benefits. The proposal now I should like, to remove from the is that, as part of this urgently re-minds of many of my listeners. We quired national saving, these bene- are told that this is a bankers' fits should be reduced by 10 per ramp, or a conspiracy or something cent.. but that children's allowances of the kind against the Labour
Nerves have reduced me to a should not be touched at all. That Government. The Chancellor of the
weeping mass of incompetence." fooks pretty big.
Exchequer and myself were charged yard, said that his
The husband, William John Win by the Labour Government to be from gallstones, and some time ago wife suffered the contact between itself and the underwent an operation for appen- Bank of England.
dicitis. There was no insanity in From our knowledge and ex- the family; and perience I can give you all the threatened to take her life.
she had
most emphatic assurance that
A verdict of suicide while tem- that charge is not true. We were
porarily insane was recorded. BILLS OF FARE AT LONDON ZOO.
But will those who are listening to me remember this, that during the last two brief years the cost of living has been reduced by 11 per cent., ao that if the unemploy- ment benefit had been subject to thie consideration-a consideration to which hundreds of thousands of workers' wages are subjected; n consideration which not a few trade unions have deliberately arranged in the interests of their own people had that been so, unemployment benefit, automatically and without changing a hair's breadth of its value in maintaining their standard of life, would already have been re- duced without either clamour or fight by 11% per cent.
never presented with
any political ultimatum. We never found in the attitude or conversa. tion of those with whom we were negotiating any political bias, one way or another.
future.
Even a sea
Rever
sny's
fceders,
well into five figures, and of this The. Zoo's annual food bill runs.
They told us, when
sum a handful of exhibits would we put up seem to the outsider to be respon- proposals to them, whether in their sible for an unfair share, opinion those proposals would meet E G. B. in the Daily Telegraph. the circumstances, to give conild- once.. When they were doubtful they acquired are starting at about The two infant walruses lately were perfectly willing that tests £200 a year each. and they are The proposal to reduce these should be imposed.
estimated to be less than six months benefits, therefore leaves the
I wish to assure you that the aid. If all goes recipients 1 per cent, better off attitude which they will observe to- they will eventually incur for the well with them,
than they were in 1920.
wards the new Government will be society a bill of over £1,000 a year That is one thing which I hope of precisely the same character as in fresh cod, herring, rocs, mussels, you will all consider. And there tsit was to the old, and if the new and cod liver oil. another thing, this time something Government succeeds in getting a
lion, which scorns relating to individual pride and loan, the old would also have auc- nothing fishy, costs £150 a year, and Further, if the value of the spirit. How can any Government ceeded had the conditions been the a king penguin, only four feet high,' Causes of Crisis.
pound were to fall suddenly and go to the country and appeal for same. The situation is a financial is three times During the past few weeks the catastrophically, not by plan, ag general economy and sacrifice and one.
na expensive as an It belongs to the world of ostrich twice its height and ten country has been faced with a finan some people suggest, but, without say to every person whose income finance. The laws of that world times its bulk. cinl emergency. What has been plan. by the force of economic can be touched, "We want you to may have to be ennfiged by Armily going ou is that people and inatitu- circumstances, without
The king of all fish-eaters was the control; give up heartily something you now handling the position, tions abroad who have money in should that happen, prices would possess in the interests of your
Inte lamented elephant seal. His The only way to secure the neces-menu cost approximately £400 "a this country have been withdrawing] rise `much faster than wages and nation," and then go on to add, "but anry money it in considerable amounts. They incomes could be adjusted, even if those for whose benefit the State is who have money to lend, a security nursery bill. A much larger spezi
la to afford, to those year-and this, again, was only a had been accustomed to deposit; bia | adjustment were possible.
supplying well over £100,000,000 that it will be paid back when re-men kept in the Hagenbeck collec- sums in London for short periods, Further. conditions similar to
per annum, from them we ask quired. That we
whould have to tlon at Hamburg treblos this sum, Весдине they had complete confid- those in Germany, when some mil nothing."
borrow, that people should have to and what Д full-grown 22ft. ence that they could always rely on Hons of marks were given in ex- My friends, it is impossible in lend, may be against the laws that specimen would cost no Zoo curator goiting their money when they change for the pound sterling, reason, it is unjust in equity, but, some of us have in our hearts. But cares to contemplate. wanted it....
would arise by the widening of above all, I do not believe for a we are living in a real and not an Recently the confidence of lenders | vleious circle. ·
A few reptiles have very expen- single moment that there is any ideal world, and
the problems sive tastes. has been impaired, and they have The people who would suffer most large percentage of those who are which Governments have to face been withdrawing their money. are the people not with large but being benefited by these payments arise from that real world at pre-needing goats, duck and chickens Large pythons and anacondas There have been various cases for with the smallest incomes. Ques- who have not got the same senti-sent, and not the ideal one of the are comparatively cheap these fears about the soundriess oftions of international finance are
ments as other people. our position.
very complicated. A great
since the meals are few--and--far They, too, wish to assist the One thing, and one thing only. between--not more than thirty in a In the first place, a world do- people talk about them with great nation in the way other people are will put British credit in a position year. This does not apply to the pression in trade has hit all coun-assurance, but for myself I am no being asked to assist the nation. of security at this moment, and that more tries very hard, including our authority upon them.
active and always hungry profoundly believe that I am speak is a scheme.consisting in economies members of the cobra tribe. selves. Then there was the crisis
ing for the men and women of the on the one side and further revenue in Germany. It was known that we But I have consulted every shade best self-respect and of good spirit, on
Dinner "On Deposit." the other—- a scheme well had a lot of money in Germany of opinion and given the situation who, unfortunately, to-night are in-balanced, with burdens imposed as for example, is a cannibal, and a The king cobra (or hamadryad), which temporarily could not be the most careful thought of which cluded in the ranks ní the lightly as possible, but imposed specimen which recently died would repaid.
I am capable, paying attention unemployed.
equitably But above all,public opinion primarily to the actual pressing
only eat snukes belonging to a cer- In Interests of Workless.
The National Government. was concerned about our facts. Things are happening which,
That scheme will be produced. valued
tain species from the Far East and position. They saw a big deficit in If allowed to go on, will speedily
They know perfectly well that, in In order to do it a Government has Monitor lizards make a tolerable at £5 each wholesale. prospect. They said that
we had produce a crisis. In these circum- some respects, it is more in their been formed. It is not a Coalition substitute for hamadryad fare, but been borrowing for current expendi-] stances It is no use discussing interest that the national credit Government. I will take no part in a monitor, though common in its theories of banking. MacMillan re- should be secured and undasafled that. It is not a Government which own country, is worth £2 or £3 by They fear that we are living be.ports, who is to blame, and so on: than it is in the interests of more compels any party to change its the time it reaches ours. yond our means, and that we are This threatening cloud has to be wealthy people. For it is the man principles or to subordinate Its in- no longer exporting enough to pay dispelled and dispelled immediately. Who has but very little from State dividuality. I should take no part A certain king cobra placed some for our necessary and very large
Action, swift, decisive, and income who will be hardest hit, and in that either.
years ago by an Ignorant keeper in Imports of food and raw material. effective, is asked for, and that whose family life will be most 'com-
the same cage with eight common They are inclined to believe, there-
we propose to give. When the plately smashed up if those re- described. of individuals. It has cost the Zoo £25, aince the dinner It is a Government, as has been cobras engulfed the lot. This maak fore, in the absence of any contrary]
danger has been removed we can sources were completely dried up, or been formed to do this work. If was "on deposit"-placed in the evidence, that our troubles are not
have an nggize and a trial and a the shillings handed over to them the work takes little time, the life Zoological Society's keeping for the only temporary,
verdict, but my colleagues and were to lose their value. In view of the Government will be short time being and at the Society's Then there has been a great deal myself are determined that the of the circumstances I believe that when that life is finished, the work of propaganda which has had an aasize shall not be a coroner's in- those who are receiving-benefit de-of the House of Cominons and the evil effect abroad, even more ao
quest.
sire to be treated in the same way general political situation will re- than at home. People who speak in
Everyone from whom we have as other people are treated.
tum to where they were last week, public and use a platform the borrowed, or who has placed de When you think all round this and those who have taken risks will are heard all posits in dür keeplog, must be question, and oppreciate Ita con receive either one punishment or sounds from which round the world should be very assured that the Budget will be sequences and the alternatives which
our reward.. careful when expressing party balanced, and that assurance has to were presented, you will -çonclyde views that they are not damaging be given at once, not only as a de- that it is not mere words which will not be fought by the Govern- national interests.
claration of intention, but as a use when I say that, under present ment. There will be no coupons, Seven nuns, who for years have, In a sentence, foreigners who had programme in, the essential detail. conditions, It is of great benefit to and I hope, no illegitimate pre-lived in solitude at the Convent of been in our financial trust have There was no disagreement in the unemployed to ask them to go judices. In the meantime, I appeal Our Lady of Mount Carmel, at Dar- Jistened to ghost stories in a gloomy the Labour Cabinet that economics back, not fully but very nearly, to with all the force I have, to every lington, to-day left the city for atmosphere and have become rather of a fairly drastic kind would have the standards of only two years one of you--rich and poor alike, South Africa, where they will es to be made. None of tig want ago, than to stand rigidly by money employed and unemployed-to face,tablish a new foundation of the economies. I do not want economies | values and run the risk of reduc-as the people of this country al-dor at Johannesburg. It is not true 1o.. suggest that myself, but if I cannot afford an tions, not only of those Values but ways have done difficulties, with They travelled unveiled, and wore foreign countries are deliberately expenditure I have got to make of their purchasing power as well. trying to harm us. Nothing could them.
determined to overcome habits of heavy brown cloth. They It is most regrettable, at this them and their conscience ready to went in a saloon car to the station. be further from, the truth: They We certatuly do not want econ- moment, when the development of respond to whatever the call and and the journey was a novel ex- know that the consequences of inomies which mean tho suspension the nation is so urgently required, the necessity may be
perience for at least one ancial troubles In this country of programmes of work which wa that one of the consequences of the
party, who had not previously seen would be serious, not only for our belleve are for the national good, world's industrial plight should be salves, but for the whole world. nor
a motor vehicle. W a reduction of expenditure the slackening of programmes de-
The nuns were met at the elation They have helped us greatly, and which we also believe is in the long vised to help national development.
by relatives and friends, and before they are anxious and ready to help run sound. But if, by reason ofį But in my view the final re-
Pance Blucher, a great-grandson the train departed received a bless per shrinkage of national Income, these soures from which these pro of the famous Marshal of that ing from a priest, After staying But they need to be reassured good works mean such horrowing as grammes can be financed, whether name, died at a Boscombe hotel on overnight in London they will take- about our position. It is no good will damage credit, well we must cut from loans or revenue, le trust in August 19,
the boat train to Southampton.
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us more..
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