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Foreign News
November 1, 1919
The Colorado Statesman
Denver, Denver County, Colorado
What is this article about?
British Premier Lloyd George delivers a message urging the building of a new world post-war, where labor is rewarded and indolence suffers, honoring the sacrifices of millions who fought and died to end the old world of poverty and waste.
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"When Labor Shall Have Just Reward and Indolence Alone Shall Want"
By Premier LLOYD GEORGE, Message to Great Britain
Millions of gallant young men have fought for the new world. Hundreds of thousands died to establish it.
If we fail to honor the promise given them we dishonor ourselves.
What does the new world mean? What was the old world like? It was a world where toil for myriads of honest workers, men and women, purchased nothing better than squalor, penury, anxiety, wretchedness; a world scarred by slums, disgraced by sweating, where unemployment, through the vicissitudes of industry, brought despair to multitudes of humble homes; a world where, side by side with want, there was waste of the inexhaustible riches of the earth, partly through ignorance and want of forethought, partly through entrenched selfishness.
If we renew the lease of that world, we shall betray the heroic dead.
We shall be guilty of the basest perfidy that ever blackened a people's fame. Nay! We shall store up retribution for ourselves and our children.
The old world must and will come to an end. No effort can shore it up much longer. If there be any who feel inclined to maintain it, let them beware lest it fall upon them and overwhelm them and their households in ruin.
It should be the sublime duty of all, without thought of partisanship, to help in the building up of the new world, where labor shall have its just reward and indolence alone shall suffer want.
By Premier LLOYD GEORGE, Message to Great Britain
Millions of gallant young men have fought for the new world. Hundreds of thousands died to establish it.
If we fail to honor the promise given them we dishonor ourselves.
What does the new world mean? What was the old world like? It was a world where toil for myriads of honest workers, men and women, purchased nothing better than squalor, penury, anxiety, wretchedness; a world scarred by slums, disgraced by sweating, where unemployment, through the vicissitudes of industry, brought despair to multitudes of humble homes; a world where, side by side with want, there was waste of the inexhaustible riches of the earth, partly through ignorance and want of forethought, partly through entrenched selfishness.
If we renew the lease of that world, we shall betray the heroic dead.
We shall be guilty of the basest perfidy that ever blackened a people's fame. Nay! We shall store up retribution for ourselves and our children.
The old world must and will come to an end. No effort can shore it up much longer. If there be any who feel inclined to maintain it, let them beware lest it fall upon them and overwhelm them and their households in ruin.
It should be the sublime duty of all, without thought of partisanship, to help in the building up of the new world, where labor shall have its just reward and indolence alone shall suffer want.
What sub-type of article is it?
Political
War Report
What keywords are associated?
Lloyd George
New World
Old World
Labor Reward
War Dead
Post War Reconstruction
What entities or persons were involved?
Premier Lloyd George
Where did it happen?
Great Britain
Foreign News Details
Primary Location
Great Britain
Key Persons
Premier Lloyd George
Outcome
hundreds of thousands died to establish the new world
Event Details
Premier Lloyd George messages Great Britain on honoring war dead by ending the old world of worker squalor, unemployment, and waste, and building a new world where labor receives just reward and indolence suffers want, warning against maintaining the old system.