Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-05-05
s)OTCAMAN TO
REBUILD ARMY.
Richard Burden Haldane' New
Liberal Secretary the
Man In Mind.
FRIENDS AND FOES APPROVE.
prodieious Worker With u Great
CAPACITY for Mastering Facts
An Explosive Expert.
FRIENDS AND FOES APPROVE.
s,,ciol correspondence.

spscial Correspondence.
ONION, April 25.--England has
at last found the right man to
reorganize her army. That Is
~ what nearly everybody Is saying
:, Richard Burden Haldane. the new
liberal secretary of state for war.
rhsre could be no more striking EVIL
asnce of his extraordinary capacity to
bupress others with confidence In his
shillty 10 perform the herculean task
no has undertaken than the chorus OF
anprovas from political friends and
,oes alike which greeted his speech IN
,he house of commons introducing the
army estimates And yet. though rep
,ssenting an administration pledged to
,strenchment and reform, he has re-
aueed the Empires Army bill only by
beggarly $4,000 and demands slAs,-
$4,000 to keep IL going another year.
In almost any other man that would
have been regarded as a confession Of
failure. But with Mr. Haldane II is
different IL am convinced that If
do ANYTHING IN a hurry" he frankly
told the house, II shall do 1t badly
The nation has had enough of army
reforms In hurry. After listening TO
MIR, Haldane's statement of the prin-
ciples that will guide him In remodel
ling the army, by an overwhelming
parliamentary majority he has re-
oeived a mandate to go ahead with his
scheme. After all. II Is not the big
bill which the country pays for It's
army that causes so much dissatisfac-
ton as the knowledge that 1t fails 30
lamentaby in getting an army that
comes within measurable distance OF
being worth what II costs. What
Jackie" Fisher has done In the adj
mhalty, Il Is believed that Mr., Hal
dane will do IN the war office. Any
how, the country is Wiling TO wait and
give him fair chance to make good"
WHEN lie ARRIVED"
Not many people in America, prob
ably, had ever heard Of Mr.. Haldane
before ne was made secretary of state
for war. but he arrived" here several
years ago. Like most OF the members
OF the cabinet. he is by birth Scotch
man. He was first elected to parlia-
ment IN 1855, and had long been
marked out for high Office by those in
the inner secrets of the Liberal party,
Physcallv he is a man OF considerable
substance; Intellectually he is one of
the giants OF politics. BY profession
he is lawyer, and one of the ablest at
the bar,
Also DIM ncnrDtItrn
Like Balfour he finds recreation in
phllosophy--he has translated Schop-
enhauer, and published Studies in
Philosophic Criticism''-but In almost
every other respect physically and
mentally. he IS the antithesis of the
ex-prlme minister, He is a man of
strong convictions with a rift of clear
statement. Nobody ever has to ask
twice what he means. Sauare of
shoulder ana comfortably rotund,
there is little Of the student and
nplnlng or the ascetc in his
anoearance. And yet the broad.
nlasterrul clean. shaven face, with
Tvs nigh. full forehead. over
"hicn there curves little hook OF a
curl--the miniature of that which
eaorhed the brow Of the greatest of all
mlItarists-tells Of great mental force.
lie IS a prodiglous worker with a great
capacity Tor mastering facts, and a
memory That retains them without the
ava OF notes. As a lawyer, he was once
Involved N famous trial concerning
oorulte. lie emerged from that with
such q thorough knowledge of cxplo-
ewes 'hat he was given seat on the