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A REPLY TO MR. LLOYD GEORGE.
LHY
A. G. GARDINER, EDITOR OF THE DAILY NEWS AND LEADER. "] =
A fortnight ago L addressed a letter
THE ALLIES AND PEACE
M. POINCARE'S PLAIN, WORDS.
Nancy last month received a visit from
you publicly in connection with the crispurs. To bring him to the ground has . Poincaré, Speaking to the refugees
that threatened the break up of the Goy-
crament.
who have been housed by the municipal
There has been hardly a day for a year pist that your chief, whose loyalty to his colleagues is one of the most splendid traditions of these times and whose loyalty to you has saved you in the past, has not been the subject of the sneers and to the venom of Lord Northcliffe's news- Been the declared and constant purpose and of the professional whimperer pahic-monger, who could not forgive him
· On Saturday you replied to for refusing to be his creature or to have ity, the President said :-
any dealing with him. For that end the antion has been gibetted as a coward before the world, every misfortune has been trumpeted as a triumph against the Government, the neutral countries have been taught to believe that Germany nust win and have been presented with faked maps showing her advance from Berlin to India and Egypt, everything that we have done in the henres shove or earth beneath or in the waters under the earth has been scoffed at as a means of discrediting Mr. Asquith and his Goy- -1) Iternment.
that letter the reference is to Mr. Lloyd George's speech, reproduced it the Dry Pread on June 18th. You said I was an assassin, you spoke of poison gas and nauseous slop, you talked darkly of in vented emversations, and you dismissed me from the charmed circle of your Triendship. But though you replied to you did not answer the letter. Nor did 1 expect you tv. Like the minister in the story you any This, my brethren, is Let us look it a very knotty problem. straight in face and pass on." is much easier to say assassin" than to meet an necusation which you know to be true and to which you have no answer. The cuttlefish, I am told, dis colours the water with an inky substance in order to conceal its movements, It is an artifice no politician employs with skill greater than your own.
But you mast forgive me if I cleanse this rather dirty water and leave your evolutions visible. I shall do so, not by way of defence, bat because your relations to the Government and the country have the most direct hearing upon the subject which occupies all our minds--the win ning of the war.
THE RESULTS.
the
And through all this you have been silent--you who have not disdained the ultimatums to the Prime Minister services of Lord Northeliffe, you whose are announced in Lord Northcliffe's newspapers, you who with one word of fearless repudiation of this infamous campaign could have ended it. But you are the one exception to the vilification. You are
the little wizard from Wales " upon whom Lord Northcliffe's hopes are fixed. You share with Sir Edward Careon and Lord Milner the daily inconse that steams up to the nostrils of the "strong" men who are to deliver us from the Asquiths and Kitcheners and Greys.
-I
Let me parenthetically glance at the all this calculated
And let me say at the outset that I have never doubted the sincerity of your pas sion on that subject, the great value to the country of your many-aided gifts.consequences of Your speech at the Queen's Hall is still despair, this virulent glander of the coun the most thrilling utterance that has been try, of ite people and. of its public men. made on the war, many of your early It is tempting Providence (says the activities in the struggle were invaluable,New Statesman this week) to sup- and no one regrets more than 1 do the pose that the capable statesmen in the failure of your splendid effort to nation Ministry can in the long run survive alise the liquor traffic. What has given so such a propaganda in virtue of their not your capacity alone. They must direct their many of your friends concern power of volition but your lack of judg-attention more than they do either to disarming it ar to fighting it with its ment, not your enthusiasm about the war
They ought to consider but your failure to understand your own weapons. countrymen, not your loyalty to the cause not only the harm wrought by it at home, but your lack of loyalty to the Govern- but the widespread mischief done among ment of which you are a member Your our Allies and neutrals.
Look at the
The Central Empires, haunted by re morse, appalled by the indignation and hatred they have inspired in the whole human race, are trying to-day to make the world believe that the Allies are alone responsible for the prolongation of the war. This heavy irony misleads na one. Neither directly or indirect- ly have our enemies offered us peace. But we do not wish them to offer us pence. We wish them to ask for it. We do not wish to submit to their con- ditions; we wish to impose cars upon
them.
We do not desire a peace which would have Germany, Imperial Germany, in recommence war, and a position to which would hold Europe under an eternal inenaco.. We desire 1 peace which, through the re-establishment of right, shall obtain solid guarantees of balance and stability. Su long as this peace is not assured, so long as our enemies do not recognize their defeat, so long shall, we continue to fight.
At a reception by the Municipal Council, upon whose members he con- ferred decorations, M. Poincaré, after recalling the proud defence of Nancy, said:-
"If ever the impossible happened and A Frenchman weakened, he would find in the contemplation of your virtues a restorative of his courage, a reten- pering of his will, But no one will weaken. The whole of France has heard the voice of Nancy, and of her captive or tortured sister cities, and the whole of France replies: Rely apon me. I shall not rest before I have achieved victory. By the heroes of the Marne, the Veer, and of Verdun, I swear to you, that you shall be freed and revenged."
confidence in yourself has destroyed your following from the New York Tribunehim by the Government, or more likely..
confidence in something greater than your self. The impatience of your swift but shallow mind has given you contempt for less mobile but inore stable, more patient, and your more trustworthy minds, powers of self-hypnotism have easily persuaded you that you alone can save the nation and that, anyone who obstructs your path is an enemy of the cause.
TEAD OF UNEESE
them
nation
have managed to
That incident gave the key to all that. has followed in the panic Press. When Sir Edward Grey was "feeding Ger- many," when Lord Kitchener was told that hu was no soldier, when Lord Derby was dismissed as an amiable muddler, when the fall of Warsaw and the retreat of the
ously, and I am That is my justifica and Sir Edward Grey as "a handful of Russian armies were hailed with a gloomy ̈
At the first considerable war the the House of Commons, he will and be - whote syswin has broken down in Eng should resign." Your friends affected to land, the system of Empire, of life, of believe that that threat to the "Gutartis, Government, A handful of insignment that had just been formed and the ficant and selfish politicians who nave Parliament that you served was only a been long in control of the fortunes foolish excursion of the militant diving of the keep control, despite their failures, into a sphere with which he was not fami- which in France would have brought liar, but they know it came direct from to a lamp-post. They have you. And they have learned to look for deceived the British people, and they your kites to be flown by the same demur What has been the result of this devour-:
are continuing to deceive the British band a hand that is linked in strange ing egotism For a year it has kept the
people, and the result is seen in companionship with that of Lord North country in a condition of feverish un-
Plantera in Asia, all over the world, cliffo. rest, the Government trembling on th
and it is flaming up in Ireland point of collapse, our Allies surfeited-and:su on for three calumus, It is with distrust of our good faith and our only a sample of what has been constantly efforts. I have been subjected," you
to a cloudy, discharge of poisonons: paring for me time in many of the Republican journals of the gay,
These things have been going on United States. We at home can afford Bas. for months clandestinely and surreptiti to smile at an allusion to Mr. Asquith
glad the attack has now been openly made.” tion, I have said in print what thousands
satisfaction, when every Zeppelin visit have said in private, what has been the
was a new proof of our dismal failure inaceant theme in Parliamentary circles,
here, there and everywhere, when the and what has lwen a commonplace in
Times called for a Chatham and the Daily every political club. The gas has been there
Mail found a hero in Mr. Pemberton- asphyxiating political life: I have only
Billing, when faked blockade figures were it a match that has exploded it and
invented and faked maps were published, cleared the air, Many bad come near
when the silly nonsense about the "ga striking
Why has the Government not "dis- the match: The Glasyon
was dinned into our cars day by day and when Mr. Asquith was saluted daily with Herald, one of the most responsible armed" it? The Government has not papors in the country, had already disarmed it because it was entrenched-in
It has not disarmed it his latest wobble," the motive, was al- named you as the source of the disease the Cabinet.
ways the same. It was to undermine the that afficted the Government, and had because to have done so would have pre-
cipitated the crisis and the national Government and give us that triumvir plainly asked that if you could not sub- ordinate yourself to the Government you disruption that Lord Northcliffe has ate of strong, stern men who were to get. should go into the Cave of Adullum, ought to achieve and Mr. Asquith and rid of this foolish democracy, its Parha- where you would find some very strange every responsible man in the Ministryment and its trade union and end the war by a wave of their strong, etern arma. Sir warriors". Duke's memorable pro has sought to avoid.
Edward Carson thought the moment had fest came hardly less near the mark. " There is a rábal every..
eome to strike six months ago, He came afternoon and
out of the Cabinet with an heroic declara tion in favour of hombarding fireen and
The
a crisis every other day," he said. "It is time to make an end of this." House knew the meaning of those crises It knew that they had nothing to do with compulsion, that compulsion was only the instrument and not the end.
WRAT 18 THE AIM
insignificant and selfish politicians." But what sort of effect is it likely to have in the United States on Great Britain's attempts to borrow money, there And
originates entirely in the abuse of British Ministers and British effort by the British partisans of the "strong
?
TE THE DICTATOR IDEA.
If we inquire what is the link between you and Lord Northcliffe, we shall find that it is the common belief in the idea of a dictatorship have no doubt it would turn to him as its deliverer. It a confident expectation that the country is an honest belief in your case. It
chines with the impatience of the Celtics strange miscalculation for such a mind which is at war with the phlegm, strong, stern man to make and he has steadiness and obstinate patience of the vented his wrath ever since in clumsy iz And what was the end? It was the English mind as represented by Mr.sults to the Prime Minister.
Perhaps the folly of this "strong man” destruction of the Government. In your Asquith, Sir Edward Grey, Mr. Long, reference to Mr. Asquith on Saturday Lord Kitchener. It is not without sign-business is best dealt with by the delight you said: We have had our differences, ficance that all the assailante of the Gov ful ridicnle which Lord Curzon has pour- and what use would I have been to him ernment are from the Celtic fringe-Sired on it and which has brought down on If I had always agreed with him? We Edward Carson, Lord Northcliffe, your him the lightnings of Lord Northcliffe. went counsellors, not automata; advisers, self and your entourage, Sir RobertsonWe are told, ho said, "that the War not penny-in-the slot machines That Nicoll, Sir Henry Dalziel, Mr. Garvin Committee of six is too numerous. Per is skilful. But if I were caught picking and the rest. We have great respect for haps it is perhaps it is not, but if it wers Lord Rothschild's pocket it would not be the Scotch and the Welsh and the Irish,
one and if we had one in two months
cut off his head." The Primrose League
ALL FOR VICTORY.
Ha
an answer to say that I disagreed with but the English temperament too has its reduced to three we should then have at ais political opinions, The charge merite and its firmness and resolution agitation to bring the number down to against you is not that you have had are as necessary in this business as the time there would be a public appeal to
But undoubtedly that agreements with Mr. Asquith, bat that Celtic passion. you have had agreements with Mr. passion is intolerant in time of stress or has rarely listened to words of more good Asquith's declared enemies and the the difficulties of a democratic society
nates of the Government and scizes on the idea of dictatorship as wense and more good humour.
You will not deny, I think, that your a royal road to victory. relations with Lord Northeliffe began at It is not an uncommon idea that in
period anterior to the compulsion ques- war despotism has the advantage. It is Let us make up our minds that wo ion being raised, anterior even to the
an idea which is not very well supported have to fight this war as a democracy and call of the Liberal Government and the by the present war, any more than it is not as a despotism. We do not want formation of the Coalition Government supported by the Dutch war against a directorates nor a dictator-least of all And what has been the single purpose to Spain, the War of Independence or any a dictator appointed by a Press campaign which the enormous engine that Lord other war where the spirit of freedom and subject to the violent fluctuations of Northcliffe controls has been applet has come into conflict with organiser? Lord Northcliffe's good will Such a die- almost from the day that the Coalition material power. The supreme blunder of tator, as Lord Curzon said, would have a Government came into existence Tai not the downfall of Mr. Asquith and this waras been made by the thoroughly short life and not a very merry one, the destruction of his Government organised despotism of Germany, and would, it is true, begin by suppressing all There is not a distinguished member of Russia has not shown despotism to be the newspapers, but he would certainly that Government, save one, who has not necessarily an efficient military tastra“ and unhappily and speedily himself. For been persistently insulted and whose ment. It is the democracies of France we have no love for dictators, and it is work has not been malignantly travestigd. and England that have astonished the because of that among other things that wa The story of the past year is the story world by their capacity to turn their happen to be fighting this war, and win-
ning this war. of vendettas, of scares and ploughshares into swords succession calculated pessimism, of attempts to pull
Let there be no mistake about that. Te down the Government, first from this
are winning this war. We shall win it Lord Kitchener Bat whatever the abstract merits of all the sooner if there is an end of these ide, then from that, was incompetent and must
as the Rev. instruments, there is no doubt that you for the first time offered the inspiration Dr. Sir Wm. Robertson Nicoll called him cannot convert the one into the other of a united Government. It is u vou
wen feeding the Germans and must the pidet of a war. You believe that you power more than that of anyone to gra go, Mr. Long has constituted himself can and for at least a year have us, that inspiration. But you must make claque and admiring echo to Mr. Asquith lived with that ideal. The Coalition your choice You cannot walk in step and must go, Mr. Bonar Law is worth Government had hardly been formed when with Mr Asquith and Lord Northcliffe at. less because he is loyal to the Govern there appeared in the British Weekly the same time. You cannot have one foot ment, Lord Derby is an amiable, weak- kneed meddler " and must go, even Lord that singular article in which Bir Robert in the camp of the Government and the
THE STRONG MEN" FOLLY.
ward Grey & sulky man, Sir Ed dictatorship and democracy as fighting wretched crises and if a united people ig
Curzon is found out" because he has laughed the Napoleone out of court, and must go. But above all the muddler and wobbler," Mr. "Asquith, must go
son Nicoll announced that If Me Lloyd George finds that he is hopelessly hampered by conditions imposed upon (Continued on next Column.).
other in the camp of its enemy. I hope you will make a wise choice, for we want to win the war with you and not without
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