This amazing passage led up to a peroration in which
Mr. Lloyd George spoke of the "many subtle, far-reaching ways" in which Providence redressed the seeming partiality with which it dispensed its favours, and appealed to all those who thought themselves unfairly taxed under his Budget to be thankful that Providence had, at any rate, blessed them with the good things which bad enabled them to lift the poor out of the mire. The ways of Providence as interpreted by Mr. Lloyd George are indeed subtle. Never throughout the course of his campaign for the promotion of class hatred has he appealed more directly to the most degraded form of discon- tent than in this naked advocacy of the Gospel of Bad Luck. Under his beneficent regime poverty and disease are to be swept into the sea only to be replaced by State-subsidized indolence, incompetence, and even vice masquerading as ill. fortune.
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