This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 edition. Excerpt: ... APPENDIX THE WAR AGAINST POVERTY Being a review of the Speech of David Lloyd George in presenting and explaining the Budget of 1909. (Delivered April 29th, 1909.) Bead as a paper be- fore the Fortnightly Club of Bochester, N. Y., March 15th, 1910, by Algernon Sidney Crapsey. THE CLOSING SENTIMENT OP ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 edition. Excerpt: ... APPENDIX THE WAR AGAINST POVERTY Being a review of the Speech of David Lloyd George in presenting and explaining the Budget of 1909. (Delivered April 29th, 1909.) Bead as a paper be- fore the Fortnightly Club of Bochester, N. Y., March 15th, 1910, by Algernon Sidney Crapsey. THE CLOSING SENTIMENT OP THE SPEECH ON THE BUDGET. In closing his speech presenting and explaining his Budget to the House of Commons on the 29th of April 1909, David Lloyd George, Chancellor of the Exchequer, gave voice to the following significant and fateful sentiment. Addressing the Chairman of the Committee of the Whole House, having the Bill under consideration, he said: "This, Mr. Emmott, is a War Budget. It is for raising money to wage implacable warfare against poverty and squalidness. I cannot help hoping and believing that before this generation has passed away we shall have advanced a great step toward that good time when poverty and the wretchedness and human degradation which always follow in its camp will be as remote to the people of this country as the wolves which once infested its forests.' THE CAUSE OF THE DEFICIT. When Lloyd George came to make up his Budget he found himself in the presence of a deficit ox sixteen million pounds. This deficit was occasioned by the extraordinary demands on the Exchequer by the Naval and Home Departments. The Naval demands were created by the fear of aggression from without; the Home Department was obliged to incur increased expenses because of alarming degeneration within. The Navy called for Dreadnoughts and the Home Department for OldAge Pensions. England can cry to-day as Paul did of old: "Without are fightings and within are fears." POVERTY MORE THREATENING THAN WAR. In the mind of the present Chancellor the...
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