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"GIBES," SNEERS, ́AND SNARLS."
Mr. Lloyd George completed ́a three-days, tour of his constituency by addressing big meeting at Llanfairfechan recently. He took the opportunity to reply to Lord Melchett's recent criticism of his unemployment proposals..
SATURDAY, MAY 1929,
FALSE PROPAGANDA
BY LIBERALS.
SAFEGUARDING PAMPHLET
PUT TO THE TEST.
In spite of the spring drought, the stream of political propaganda leaflets is in spate,
Being one of the new volers, so ardently wooed by every party, my, rooms are a dumping round for such literature anys n woman writer in the Morning Post.
On the Liberal food has come a "An attack has been made upon leaflet, from which I learn that me by an eminent aristocratic Con-saferuarding has "raised the cost servative, Lord "Melchett, formerly of living." I was deeply interest- known as Sir Alfred 'Mond," "heed, though I disliked the "get-up" Anic.
"All I can say about it is of the leadet, illustrating six that in his personal attack he ex-greyish looking articles on a back- celled at least in vulgarity.". ground of, cerise. At the same
Mr. Lloyd George was' proceed-time I was puzzled, ns the prices) ing, when a voice interrupted, Kiven were far higher under safe- "Why did you quarrel with him?" guarding than before its operation.
Shop Prices
The Liberal leader retorted, "He quarrelled with me, and I ask The articles Illustrated were myself, 'Why did he quarrel with fabric gloves, a cup and saucer, an me?" I was the first man to give enamelled saucepan, a jug, scis- him office. He had been in the nors, and an Italian ularm clock. House of Commons under thrée ad- The supposed prices of each werg ministrations, but not one of them given before and after safeguard- offered him the post even of a dooring. keeper. I can assure iny friend
I set out on a shopping tour with from my knowledge of Sir Alfred Intent to "Buy British," as I don't Mond that it was not for any luckenre for Hallan alarm clocks or of push on his part. (Laughter German gloves. I went to a big and cheers.) promoted him to working-class neighbourhood. My high office, and I was the first to observations convinced me that the do so. So, I ask, why did he retail prices of the foreign goods quarrel with me?"
had not risen either in gloves, alarm clocks, scissors or enamelled pans.
Lord Melchett's "Promotion." Mr. Lloyd George added that he promoted Lord Melchett in spite of very serious protests from his own supporters..
1 secured a pair of excellent "Duplex" fabrle gloves, English- made, for 2., against the Liberal leaflet price of 18. 11d. before, and 29. 111⁄2d, after safeguarding. "Quite frankly, he was loathed My second purchase was a British- by: the Conservatives, and Liberals, mude "Stanley Ware" fireproof knowing him better, liked him even enamelled saucepan at 1s. 6d. The less. Laughter and cheurs).
leaflet prices for this were Is. 10d. received serious protest against before and 2a. 3d. after safeguard-
ing. that appointment, but 1 promoted him to even higher office, and when
I
In a big shop I secured the
he was out of Parliament I took jolliest little English china jug for special steps in helping to find him4d, against the leaflet price of a seat; in fact I pulled him by the 9 and 18. 3d., and a best quality tail, in spite of the heavy weight English translucent china cup and of prejudice against him, from one saucer for 9d.-a half-penny under office to
the other until the tail the after-safeguarding price of the came off in my hand. (Laughter.) caflet with a cheaper one in
English pottery for 44d.. "I am answering the question put by my friend; but in case you should be unhappy about it, let me tell you that the Conservatives clapped another tail on. It was not the one he expected, but it was a glittering one.
British Goods not Pushed.
I could not trace that Lulian akurm clock "of a kind never made at alt in Great Britain." I tried at many big firms, but all told me they had never had anything so cheap "This year
the Conservatives 18. 11d. (now 29. 1148. on account of the Lax). I did learni Government carried through A great. fnancial
that the safeguarding duties bad proposal which. while it has left shopkeepers, lady not increased the retail prices of ing-house keepers, and cottagers, foreign alarm clocks. In fact I without anything. lina Riven ascertained, that the cheapest elock £600,000 a year to the concerns French make--had come down that Lord Melchett is presiding from 2s. 11d, to 28, 6d, and that the
over.
"No wonder he got up in the House of Lords, and said it was the most statesmanlike proposal that had ever been submitted. There was really no reason why he should have quarrelled with me; there is no reason now, because the schemes he is proposing are included in the very recommendations we are mak- ing. The only difference is that we made them months before he proposed them."
Important Proposals. Mr. Lloyd George entered into a detailed comparison of the Melchett Turner report and the Liberal Party's proposal.
German "globe" clock is as cheap now at 3s. 6d. as ever it has been since the war. The same thing ap plies to the scissors at Is, a pair, They are not made in Englumi, and there hus, been do ríse in rice on account of the duties.
One discouraging fact 1 did find concerning gloves am! stockings- that the large retail stores have enormous quantities of chcup fabric gloves and lisic stockings of foreign manufacture, and; their assistants seem to have no knowledge of the British articles which are now so largely being made to compete with them.
that charity begins at home. "In the Melchett-Turner report," (Cheers.).
he said, "Lord Melchett proposca Suggest Something Beller. export credit and trade facilities. Those two not merely did I propose "Let me say to Lord Melchett in 1921, but I carried them and his friends that they ought to on Wheir through. He proposes that the ex-judge these schemes
were
port trade and facilities plan which merits. If there are difficulties let I initiated should be extended. So them point them out. But they do I. His next proposal is a great have the bigger daty not merely development fund to develop the re- of criticising, but of suggesting sources of this country. I set that something better. I have seen noth- up in 1909, and it wis opposed bying of the kind up to the present. Lord Melchett's present friends, "If you drowned me to-morrow who
then his foes. in one of Lord Melchett's chemical (Laughter.) He proposes that the vats unemployment would still re- Development Find should be main. The duty of suggesting a larger. S do I. He then pro-remedy would still be there." poses that the recommendations of Mr. Lloyd George repeated his the Geneva Conference in 1922 pledge, and declared that he stood should be carried out. I was the by every word of . Unemploy principal British delegate at that ment, he said, must be dealt with fearlessly, tand conference. I do not think it is courageously,
At the next election too great a, boast on my part to promptly. say that
I do rist believe there there would be three choices. One would have been a Geneva Con- was "Leave it alone; let it rot ference had it not been that I had and canker." That was the Tory urged and pressed for it.
remedy. Beyond that the country after the event would have to choose between the wild and -digested proposals Lord Melchett said: 'Why were
were put forward by: not those admirable recommenda- which tions carried out? Here is a Socialism and the well-thought-out solution submitted by the Liberal
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"Our opponents have met that Melchett proposes great construc-solution with jeers and gibes, and, tional schemes, roads, and drainage. I am sorry to say, with torrents of Those are all schemes included in this plan which he abuses me for abuse. I do not mind abuse.
so accustomed to it that I would putting forward.
really rather miss it. I can take in "Lord Melchett says, 'You are controversy and give in controversy. taking money away from the No one appropiates a really good market. I know what that incans, and effective score, at his own ex- but in his recommendations he pro- pense more than I do on fte merits." poses a loan for settling people What he did despise, he added, fcross the acus and helping to was silly abuse, unadorned and un develop the Dominions. He would redeemed by one sparkle of wit. borrow to develon the Dominions, Mr. Lloyd George said that of thỏ) bat will not borrow to develon the experts who took part in the com- resources of his own country. pllation of the Liberal Party's pro That is the only difference between posals three were men whom the him and me, as far as I can see. prosent Government had not merely I propose that upon the basis of the consulted on financial and economic Road Fund you should. rafae con- subjects, but had chosen to dis dimcult financial and siderable sume of money for recan-charge structing the whole of the road feconomic, missions with which the system of the country. I believe Government was confronted.
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