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EDITORIAL 'NOTES.
The Rut.i•ne are coming back.
Do your Chri.tasas shopping early—
and don't forget the ',lye in the
trenches.
Uoyd George Kitchener McNeil is
the name of a two -weeks old Why et
Oweo Sound.
It would he interesting to hear
what Kitchener has to say to the Kiug
of the Greeks when they meet.
THE SIGNAL t 30DKRIOR ONTARIO
1 sanest be. The day Hat Nelms
was violated. It 1 bad been yetegist eneast
enough 1 would davit gut s
•slieud Timm ars people hold's, ep
their heeds hypoorlti•a7 and sayiapt
'stop the n' I hope belied it will
Dever atop sat l it le settlid to the last
ditch. It mesas to ase that a peace
this side d the.itablehmesel f jambes
would be a worse crime them war 1t -
alt
If King Constantine loses bis throne.
and User Ferdinand his head, as •
result of Weir treachery. Retributive
Justice will have scored another bril-
liant victory.
There is .omething queer in tbat
.sorry cf the food riots in Germany. It
is said that the women threw stones
and potatoes. Starving people don't
throw potatoes away.
If you are at • loss to understand
why Uncle Stun is always represented
in • swallow -tale coat, says Beck's
Weekly. oheervu bow readily be ac-
cepts German excuses.
Jtdeing from soma articles 1s The
Exeter Advocate, the Hydro people
ere trying t0 load up Exeter with &a
e.p.omive system of street Beetles. It
is said tbe presets' street ltgbtiag ela-
tion
ye-tem emote the ams about SLOE •
year and the proposed new system will
cost of er $2 ,600. The mow system, of
course. will be an improvement over
the old ; but of what beset is
the Hydro unless It spa give better
Habana for the flame mosey, or as
good lighting for leu mtaq f 1t ap-
pears to be the settled policy of the
Hydro management to Inman to each
place it reaches en expensive system
of street lighting and thus ..cure •
good large revenge, and then make
greet splutter twee the lower cost lin
some cases) of private lights. Here in
Ooderich the eh isms are paying beav-
i1y for Hydro 000nectioo, but as the
oust is mixed up with the general
taxer they do net reel Id it.
Hearing for lbw 'stealth time the
report of the death of the Genas
Crown Prince, the Saliford 8.g. says
be koew • cat bad nine live*. but he
couldn't understand why there should
be so much trouble abseil d.sshieg a
nut. —
The Geekwar of Bared' bas gives
five lakes of, rupees to equip aero-
plane for the British army. The lack
of rupees tbat is trout tiog most of us
would not go much further than the
flying of • .bite on the :loth of the
month.
A Sarnia dispatch says :
Lake freighters passing down the
St. Clair River are in many cases so
deeply loaded that the propellers
churn up the rend and mud. In one
or two cases the cargoes were so'erge
that the hswae pipes were down to the
water level. High ni ices for grain -
can ying and Iatene.a of the season
are given as the reawns for the deep
loading
This eort of thing should be stopped
-with a jerk. The lemon of the greet
storm of two veers ago is already he -
Tae WAR. 1
LLOYD 0110140111 AND THs WAIL
anyone who woad have p'.._&.d
in the early yeses of title eenter7 Hai
b•foe• • decade and a ban W gone
by Mr. Uoyd George would be mit
mady a member of ibe Goverme set
end Cbaneellor of the Exchequer. hut
the mirror of the fighting soul of tis•
natloo 1n • etap.idoua Europese web
would bays be.. written down a lura.
tic. No Dun in my Unto, unless it
were Mr. Blades a at the bright of
the Home Role crisis of I$Sg, has ever
been more lnteasely bated toes was
Mr. Lloyd George between ISM and
19.111, the yells of the Boer war. The
overwhelming majority of Wlsbaa,
Winston Spencer Cburcbill. former-
ly Fleet Lord of the Admiralty. sifter
occupying for some month. • minor
position in the British Cabinet has
resigned and will join his regiment in
Fiance for active service. A mac of
tremendous talent and of • very lively
temperament, he doubtless chafed
under the restraint imposed upon him
in the coalition Ministry, and bis
decision to abandon tete political field
in favor of the soldier'. life will not at
all detract from his popularity with
the British people. Churchill is a
descendant of the great Marlborough
of Queen Anne's reign, the hero of
Blenheim and Ramillies and Helpla-
gnet, and his father, Lord Randolph
Churchill. was • great figure in British
politics about forty years ago. Com-
mencing politiesl life as a Conserva-
tive, Winston Churchill came over to
the Liberals when free trade was as-
sailed be Chamberlain in 1t$E$ and hs
has since been ao •Lie, valiant and
successful lighter for .the cause of
social reform and progress in Britain.
As First Lord of the Admiralty be bad
the navy in a splendid Kate of pre-
paredness wben the war broke out., so
that from the very first British sea
power counted heavily against (Ger-
many. He wets blamed for the unsuc-
cessful expedition for the teiiet of
Antwerp sad for the attempt to force
the Dardanelles without laud forces,
but in • °andii speeek In the House of
gnmmurtsteMomjaybe was able to
show that responsibility for tailor
in these etIterprisse did not rept upon
his .boulders, and that they were
undertaken after mature consideration
and co.sultatioa with his colleagues.
Churchill has a good title to the con-
fidence and affection of the people of
Britain and after the war may swats
take a leading place in political life.
Although he is still in his early forties
and baa been in politic for twelve
years. be b•s to his credit • military
career of several campaigns in various
parts of the world, including the Boer
war in South Africa. Some people
still confound Winston Spencer
Churchill with Winston Churchill, the
American author. The similarity of
names is • mere accident. The British
Churchill has done some writing, but
he is above all • man of action, •
fighter.
ing forgotten.
Booker T. Washington. who died id
Tu.kegee, Alabama. on Sunday, wee
the most tofluential man of the negro
race America ha. known, in this gener-
ation at least. His lifework was the
education and uplift of his fellow-
negroea, and in this work he wen the
respect and admiration of his country-
men both Clack and white, although
he was not to overeorue the pre-
judices held many white men
•gainer the alecks When Mr. Roose-
velt, .t that time i'resident of the 1'n•
i;ed flute., it v t'd Mr. Washington to
dieter at the White House, there was
a rhorur of savage protests against
the i'residert's setion.
Item. Dr. Charles A. Raton, of New
'York. he • number tat years ago was
an outstanding figure among the pul-
pit -men of Toronto. preached itt the
latter city lest Sunday and gave •
.ttik.ng delivtrence on the subject
Of the ofilei&I United Mtates atti-
tude towards the war. After some
word. of prsi.e for what Canada has
Men doing he said
"Think of one hundred million
people, rich with all the gifts and dedi-
• cations of race and industry, develop-
ment and culture, and that she i. get-
ting nothing out of the war except
"gooey and doing nothing except writ•
fag a few note. and slapping the
Kaiser on the wrote ceras Dually. 1
may he a f•natie. lint 1 believe .f the
Any Helglna was nvisbed the United
fytaree beet protested and begun to
sobclise her men, even if she had peen
drawn into the war end rrt.rif.d as
She rest of the nations are being erud-
flled, she would have leen infin-
itely Muer sad ester. more Ube Un-
like sad more s..w.-tike than .he le
11 m set a meteal fled
geeding biles with pinpricks of see-
saws
arsaes and level ve. h. the efa1 a
peddle II —tic House Of Lori was
deemed hen. (he =mom Ms. 1.107.1
fleeeni d.mes*sd • drool brealf.st
with tem footrace b.&ri.g eh Orae.'s
egg—iad oe a popular *Monis Maty
them le pantos to be alleged. matt -
MON Mel
large
humor a bt
wweemleil
k draw. 1 �tflei
hie one td the
melt rMt�rt�lag. dramatic mid seesaw
bei weaken 1 have liets.od to re dimer
.Ye et the atlamtic . a. le fa eat sr.l
eysepatY) Ma the Wad old outlook
mad .e.tfmseia of • crowd, and knows
by leanest jest how to take them.
whet ocelots they will rehab std what
eleste will stay is their geegeeries
sed to produce Leese effect' be will
oboe descend to their l.tellestual level
and bens ringer as Cleo. himself; Put
bile le smother atmosphere sad he le
&nether lean Tett eves la the House
of tlommona where fseUmg •ad rhea,
twist as. voted out of piece and rather
bad florin. Mr. Loyd George does sot
hesitate at Wass to sweep the shoed
of tbs deeper .motions. sod I bays
known him bold that somewhat
worldly and cyslcal assembly spell-
bound by s powerful and patbstic
sketch .1 sochal poissry. Few sten are
aeon Mealy essaltive to the poverty
sod Wrot-Ysdaese mad gloom in whl
the le•esss of the people dwelt, sad
few ars more apt or more skilled to
tets•ke the Boom uncomfortable by
reminding it of their existence.
It took bet $ little while for Mr.
Uoyd George to impsww himself upon
Use House of Oommoss as a skilful
models. and • daring. radiantt, biting
swashbuckler of debate, the only man,
indeed, oa the Liberal aide wbo could
stand up to Mr. Ohamb.riaio and
return him blow for blow undismayed.
He had from the deet the three i.dls-
peowbls qualifications for political
success--0onrang the incommunicable
sift of *delft Ma occasion and Attract-
ing notice, and, lastly, an unwearying
assiduity. He rose in the national
legtatatws just se he rose outside it,
by his own unaided merit In many
ways 1 do not know a mac, ezcept Mr.
John Burns, who i• more typical of
the wholesome revolution t� even
before the war was passing over Eng-
lish life and politics and after the war
will ba immeasurably extended—the
revolution that was gradually throw-
ing open careers to talent and causing
then to be judged by what they were
and did rather than by the non essen-
tials of birth or position or wealth.
But democracy is the "cote` of Mr.
Lloyd George's personality as well .s
of his career. He is one of the eh/em-
it.'
heerit.' and most approachable of men.
Merely to catch • glimpse of him as be
enters a room or walks rapidly through
the lobbies, with life and vivacity in
every iuovemeot—$ nun,' well -keit
man, with grey-white hair brushed
back in wave. from • broad and
powerful forehead, features in whicl,
strength and sensitiveness, good
humor and resolution, are blended in
an almost poetic pallor, large fleshing
eyes that talk eyed wb.n the lips
move not, and an ever -ready smile of
extraordinary sweetness—Is to know
him for the b*rty, genuine, genial
good fellow he !�i Frankness and •
captivating camaraderie flame from
lite the overwhelming majority of
Englishmen sod Sootchmes, believed
the Boer war to be both just and
oecemary. Mr. Lloyd George did Dot ;
and the bre, the ferocity almost,
of hie opposition made him •
target of national obloquy. Thom
were certainly passionate days.
No quarter was asked or giver
and I would not have valued
his lite at five minute.' purchase If he
had chanced to 1.11 into the bands of •
jiogo mob. But the public s000 came
to forget the part he had played, and
to remember only that he had the
supreme political courage to stake bis
career on his conscience. It was the
old tale retold once more, the old tale
that there is no opinion su outrageous
and unpopular that democracy will
n ot (ureic• if only it is held with sin-
cerity and advocated witbout a thoaght
of self.
Mr. Lloyd George hid been nearly
three years in Parliament before the
Boer war made him a national figure.
Up till then be was known in the
House es a delightful companion, an
adroit parliatneutary straegiat, and a
clever&lid sparkling speaker; and 'bat
was as far as his reputan stretched.
Tbough of yeoman tol k. Mr. Lloyd
George's tatherwas for most of his
life a schoolmaster. and only reverted
to the soil 'then his health demanded
an out-of-door existence.. Dyiog while
still a young roan, be left his widow
and two children almost wholly un-
provided for ; and Mr. Lloyd George's
earliest recollection is of his home and
furniture being sold up. •'l was
brought up," be told the Trade Union
Congress. "in • workman's home.
There is nothing you could tell me
about the anxieties and worrier of
labor that I did not know for the first
twenty years 0l my life.' An uncle
who was the shoemaker and unsalaried
Baptist preacher in a village in North
Wales took charge of the temily, and
it was there, in a district saturated
with the history and romance of the
country, that Lloyd George grew up,
a uiek•witted, bigh.pirit.ed 1•d. dis-
ciplined by severely straitened circum-
stances, speaking both the Welsh and
Eoglisb languages, and an sager lis-
tener
ittener at the informal parliament of
w eigbbore and peasants that foregath-
ered in the cobblers workshop, there
to discuss thsolety and politica---they
go togelbet in W rtes—the ioiqultiee
of lasdlordiem, and the oppeswivs-
nese of • eoci.l system that seemed to
care so little for human life and hap-
piness and so .much for property and
Issue. Those early days have left an
ineffaceable marc on Mr. Lloyd
George. It was then that be Imbibed
• spirit of passionate sod poetic ptt-
rioti.m for Wales. IL was Shen that
there was implanted in Lim a elegy and
abiding settee of compassion for the
poor, the disinherited, the "under
dog," the millions who toil and inef-
fectively murmur. The iroo of pover-
ty entered into his soul, not to corrode
it with unavailing bitterness, but to
sting it to indignation rod revolt He
was • born rebel. He is a rebel still.
There is perhaps no man in the British
Islee to whom the smugness and con-
ventions, the appalling contrasts anti
inequalities, the buttressed arrange-
ments and plau.ihilitlee of life in Greet
Britain were more absolutely repute,.
nand. There is assuredly no mac in
whom the religion of humanity is
more incarnate.
That admirable guardian, the shoe-
maker -uncle, set aside the scant sav-
ings of • lifetime to peeper* his
nephew for the law, and together they
quarried out of old dictionaries and
gr'arumsrs and textbooks the koowl-
edge that enabled him to pass the
necessary examinations. At sixteen
be was duly •steeled to a flt%t of so-
licitors ; at twenty-one be had queli•
Ord ea • solicitor himself ; and it •
few years he had built up a consider-
able practice. The law. -however, never
engrossed him. He joined debating
societies : he plunged into the move-
ment ;against the payment of tithes ;
be stumped the countryside onhehalf
of laud reform and temper•oce; and
when the county councils came into
being he roused the peasantry to
shake off "the old feudal yoke of the
squirearrhy" and was himself elected to
the council of Car'narvonsblra. A new
Wales was torn in the street of that
campaign. The spirit of Welsh na-
tionality and Weise democracy awoke
once more and it was s. • fervid cham-
pion of Weleb patriotism and the
common Welsh people, peasants and
miners and workingmen, that Mr.
Uoyd (recite in hilt) was elected to
the House of Comnioos. 1t would be
perhaps too much to say that be has
made • nation. But it is not too much
to say that he made that nation for
the first time politically operative and
politically conscious of itself. iet time
be pa.seil user from the tributary of
Welsh nationalism to the broader
stream of British Redieallem, without,
however, parting with one jot ot bis
localised patriotism caw prest.Re.
What has enormously added to the
completeness of Mr Lloyd Geordie as
Ian embodiment of Wale., is than be-
sides awing a Welshman. a Rsdjc.l.
sod ea instinctively in revolt against
the Bold formalism of the Anglican
creed and the dominance elf the Fatah -
Imbed ('bureb as the most dissentient
Of hie dl.eenil.t countrymen. he is
alai a vividly effective orator. His
language I. not always measured : be
Iota hard always, bitterly often. reck-
lessly snmetimee: ►M quick -moving
mind flsshea out in pungent. ne(or•
gettable phrases, few of which are
without • Min At covering an op-
ponent
p r _
asp eb t lke h melte downing pillorying
hien No emi look his to °Aloe. best of ymow-
an time
The L dive Thanks.
All the cheerful little leave.
Were lying mate and aisle.
Ther tender summer tare.
fi2 Moretti with air and pale.
Through the inreab.r, forest
$trods the wind Lod rel..
1 wept bemuse the -ky moa. gray.
Bream. Use leves were mrd.
6eoaees the whiter cowl • ta.1.
A.d.ummw . .wed wen .ed.
Auld boas,^ 1110 wan oartai—
.All IILrh i, gree•. 1 mid.
Bet end). 1 wsa leme.ting
The woods began to stns.
1'h. rete. of all deed Mates came up
A. whoa they .&ag In riving: -
' ProLre God.' they ear. ' for rattler
And stormy hai.r.tta.:
"Proles O.d. wbo .t r. r I! thirsts
To +erne Uwi new thin., Deed
A.d tare • a Into ter. h agate
That meat year •. root. may teed;
Roots but tot ea and our d est
%%Maid shrivel 1e the mrd.
To the thou -and. thonaind enamor.
Our mummer nm bees thrush
met theorem 4 teen nestle
Atoms w riga Lad root.
W 4.w.. Ile ame..b bwerh.re.
With the laesoaad osmmers' dust'
—emends Wed P•asbat■
WHAT OTHERS BAY.
•smsmb.r Belgium .
Tero.ta "tar.
The etatemeet that the Coiled Slates
"unb..ltaciest, aiwuenee the task of
chaupioalag the int.gu it7 of .antral
nations" might have meant .oswthing
at one time.
Notes.
Jabs 8mftn i. t#itr.1, P.rpre..
Great Britain has our note. Now
for Gnat Britain's auto in neepnn.w to
our note and then our note in response
to Great Beitaln'e nee. In reopen** to
nue note sad Great Britain • note in
response to our sole In response to
Great Flail/do's note la reeponae to our
sat. and -ass, what's the use of pro-
Iostgtsg tee messy1
offices tee last to which the •�e
iles5s
agiisbw e.peci.d to held lir.
Uoyd George emulated was the Pres-
idency of the Bused of Trade. The
thought of able impetuous Wlebuw.
this fiery ewoedsm•u of dehsrs._h�im¢
nth
Iatnted with e Dare el HrriittliscaY
ladeatry and commerce made =my
*se gasp with apprehends.. wad
Many more with astoa .bmeat. sat
Were twisty moatbs had goes by
Here was embody 1. Great Belisle, to
whatever part beb.ged, who did
set roc aias la the •ppni.met
t..m.
of the k$ppi.rs asst mast sae.mdd
tb•t avey Governs's/ had ever
made. Nt. Lloyd Oosome posted a
mom vitality lain W adios and raised
it to the franc reek of public bless e
each Men same to think Asia to
speak of him as "the busies.. mc' aof
tb tOabinet. Hs peered many dories
measures amipd saihreees.l &ppiaws. He
dinentaag
sasson 64s fouled insd.bie..N 660..
that
.11, he greatly advi aesd ble peu osiat
authority and prestige by averting •
terrible railway- strike. Hie happy
knack of rudlatiug good btimor and
sympathy, bpi opeomindedoess sod
almost ioat.at...ous perception of
what is sesmitlal as well as et what le
poaeible, the red= action of We eau -
did .old winning personality upon the
men with whom be le dealing. made
elm and still snake him an ideal man
to a,mpoes • dlepute.
him. I era
able of colds,
of coodeeosn
"manner; "dee
re no man lees cap -
Use English habit
or of working up a
ting to be bred
From the Presidency of the Board
of 'rade be passed to the Chancellor-.
ship of the Bzsbequer. His very first
budget grappled resolutely aid Dome
pr.beoaivsl with Use wbole proble
of British Im
Inane*. It Lazed the rich
stun more severely than be bad ever
been taxed before ; it increased with
no sparing bind the duties ou spirits
aid tobacco ; it exacted from the
sal000keeper add the brewer and dis-
tiller
ietiller a license -duty that at legit ac-
curst to ib. Kate somethingapproach-
ing • fair equivalent for the monopo-
ly is Ma granted to the sellers of
urink ; more important still, it differ-
entiated for purpbres ot national taxa-
tion between various kinds of prop-
erty : it laid down the principle that
cbe owner of land was 001 in the same
fiscal position as the owner of otter
commodities, and th.t he alight tastily
Ise required to surrender to the state
a part at any rate ufproe unearned le -
clement he enjoyed from the appreci-
ation of his property, not through any
ell arts of his own but by the growth
of the community. Thi. was the bud-
get which the House of Lords rejected.
and by rejecting precipitated the eon
stitutiorat upheaval which had only
begun to subside when the war broke
oat. His budget reached the statute
hook at Lest ; the attack on the Lords
which he animated and led from the
first likewise succeeded ; and earl in
1913 he c-Iebrated his fiftieth birthday,
characteristically enough, by arousing
speech in defence of the Insurance
Act. He had some tight to be jubilant;
he had fought and won the toughest
Parliamentary bat le of modern times.
The Insurance Act Mae probably the
most daring and complicated scheme
of national betterment ever proposed
and canted in a single Parliament- Its
passage was in many, but not in all,
ways an extraordinary personal tri-
umph for Mr. Uoyd George. The Bell
was his soat'eption, aid oq his shoul-
ders felt most of the betide° of ex-
pbe
wlaining but eingltd� defending t ) It on
the innumerable and well-nigh inter-
minable negoti•tiooa with the various
interests affected ; and though he
must bear the blame foe( having intro-
duced the measure without sufficient
pr ion. 6e is •leo entitled to the
rt. of having stuck to it in the facie
of great initial unpopularity, some
severs electoral defeats, and an oi-
eeeaing and none too scrupulous op-
po, i tion.
or overweiabti by the responsibifl-
1.. of tss.. An ezhil•rettsg -and
infectious unaffectedness drives him
merrily Into the fray. And like all
good.Rgbtere there Is nothing petty or
malicious about biro.
A mixture of Lord Haldane and Mr.
Lloyd George would produce the
ideal statesman. As it is, two
MOD more separated in personality. in
method, in training. In their instinc-
tive ways of looking at thing., and
still more of doing them. probaley
never sat amid winked together in V
emus Cabinet. They are both strong
men, Lord H•Idaoe by virtue of his
intellectsnd his power of application,
Mr. Uoyd George by virtue of the
keenness of his perceptions and sym-
pathies, Me ewol hold intensity, and
the touch of electioneering genius that
enters Into pretty nearly everything
he says and does. The etre both
ardent democrats, Lord They
as m
,naffs • t principle and reasoned pref-
erence, dr. Lloyd George as a matter
of sentiment and humanity. Otherwise
t hey ore far as the poise apart. Lord
Haldane spent a yaw or more in bard
thiuking before he produced the
scheme that 'rave us the Regular Army
and the Territorials we possessed aear
ego. He looked all round the subject,
he probed. questioned. examined and
cruse -examined, and satin ruminating
*Ocoee on tb• material he had col-
lect.d. Then be laid his plan on the
table, an extremely comprehensive.
originiel and cobes.ve plan, thought
nut in advance to its minutest detail.
That, est we all remember, was not the
way Mr Lloyd George tackled the
problem of National Insurance. It is
not the way be would tackle anything.
His mind works in Rashes *long the
aurfa.e of things. He sees an idea.
catches at it, appraises its political
value by instinct., and leaves it to
others to work it out for him. His
own appetite for drudgery and minu-
tiae is easily oath fi d. HI big concep-
tloos are the fruit almo.t of intuition,
while Lord Haldane's are the fruit of
severe intellectual effort and sum -by -
step inquiry. The tone 1s all brain. the
other all instinct and spirit.
it was, es 1 Imre mid. the Boer war
that first brought Mr. Lloyd George
into national prominence. After that
fortune played freely into his hustle.
Th. Education Bei of 11102 bitterly
offended bis both as a Welchman and
• Nonconformist, and aper a campaign
of astonishing vigor that thrilled his
countrymen with something of the
fervor of s religIaast revival be organ-
ised the whole of dissenting Wale.
into • waive revolt against Its provi-
sions. The agitation left him the
unquestioned leader of the W.leb
people and the Welsh party, and. as
such, • power mol to ile {plead In the
ranks of Reit kb Liberalism. When
Mr. Chamberlain in 1981 launched his
program of protection. Mr. Lloyd
George foetid another opportunity to
band He gathered together all his
powers of raillery and denuneiation
and all hie sympathies with the "run.
merged tenth" to comhat the new
doctrine* ie and out of the Hoses :
and It was dee to bine snore than to
anyone that at the elee'tien of HES
Wale's rettsewsd b Parliansent not •
single remember who moa. not • Liberal
and a free trader.
During the Horse Rulecontroyenisi
of 1913 sed the first half of last year,
Mr. Lloyd George played behind the
scenes the part of moderator and cos-
eiliator. Much of the prejudice be
bad excited had died away wben the
national thoughts were absorbed by
the incidents of the Irish struggle.
But there were still many wbo re-
garded him as an agitator only half
reclaimed ; who found him unstable,
restless, flighty and in an office be-
yonl his deserts ; who distrusted his
sense of political proportion and who
thought him lacking in that Imperial
consciousness which • Chancellor of
the Excbequer should have and a
Prime Minister must have. But no
one would repeat such criticisms to-
day. The war has revealed a Lloyd
George to whom every man and wo-
man ie theme Islands fcele unreserved-
ly grateful. He rose to the crisis in
his lest manner—&len, clearheaded,
unprejudiced, coneulting freely and in-
defatigably with everybody who could
claim to represent British collmere.*
and finance, and .sting with all his
usual boldness and somewhat more
than his uncal circumspection. If
London emerges from the war with
its position as the centre of the world's
finance still moderately intact, it will
he to Mr. Uoyd George more than to
anyone else that the credit of that
achievement is due.
But it is less for what he has done
than for the spirit be has shown in
doing it that the country is now
ranged behind him as one man. He
has shown the warrior. soul. More
time any of our public men be seems
to have realized the fell magnitude 01
tee struggle and of the enure depend-
ent from it. Mr. Uoyd George has
displayed • real and cotsoistent Insight
into the temper and emotions of our
people. The courage to tell the truth,
whether for the purpose of stimulue or
reproof, is one of which he possesses
today. at leant among Ministers, • vir-
tual
intoal mrrenpoly.Il He has made 6le
strata sed bis failures. Met they have
all been nn the right side. They hare
all proceeded from too much audoeity
rather than too littb, (roes a confi-
dence. whi'h 61. colleagues did .est
share and were able to thwart, in the
berme potentialities of the British
people. and from • passionate desire to
pi
evoke a srit of ..lf-eateriflce sad de-
termtnatme deserving of victory. He
took very early in the .truggl. • last
estimate of the revere and spirit that
°veniasy weakl Iliag him it. H. bee
lout no eoratenance to the i.s.e.ate
prattle about • slum war et an easy
war or of victory Ming ble es
tiny terms eseept a em. te tress -
formation In oar way of f. and oar
habits of mini. Mr. Lloyd tleoewe is
today lacoap&rahly the most persist
psesin•Hty in the eowetry. The morel
leadership of the degeneracy has
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