The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1910-01-14
Philosopher Nike Connolly.

speetor, who has been in the city fol
some time, that the political struggl.
going on in England was depicted forty
one years by Victor Hugo. the greai
dramatic noyelists Ia this famous book
lie Homme qui Rire' The Man Who
Laughs '-he depicts definitely the strug-
gle now going on He has shown him.
self 70 be the Daniel among the literary
prophets. In that book, finished IN
BRUSSELS Aug. 20, 1868, as in many
Others. he has shown himself to be truly
a prophet Of the future and preacher
of the past
Lord CIancharlie, apeero the realm,
was exiled by order Of the King be-
cause Of his Republican convictions.
He went to Switzerland, married and
had one son. He died when the child
was under ten years and in order to
crush the head Of the serpent breed, the
child was to have been destroyed by
order OF the King. The ruffians to
whom the child was given left him al
most naked GA snow-coyered coast,
where after vicissitudes he fell into the
hands of the Comprachios, or child
buyers, who were numerous in those
days, and who prepared dwaris, hunch-
backs, cripples and deformities for the
market
BY cutting certain muscles in the
child's face they put upon him hor-
rife and perpetual grin, which fright
ened children and amused grown folks.
When he grew to manhood he turned
his deformity to advantage by becoming
a mountebank and was thus thrown
among the people Of Vagabondia, among
the number Ursus the Philosopher and
his pet wolf. Fate finally restored him
to his rights and he was acknowledged
peer OF the realm.
"0n the night Of his FIRST and last APP
pearance in the House Of Lords vote
was taken on motion or bill to APP
propriate f100, 600 or some other large
sum OF money to the King FOR some
imaginary service. One after another, as
the names OF the peers were called, they
arose and said Content which meant a
vote in the affirmative. When the new
Lord Clancharlie, who had been known
all his wandering life as Gwynpaine, was
reached he arose in the shadow OF a
pillar and Not content, and
to give his reasons. The King
was already receiving vast sums for
various purposes, which was spent in USE
less expenditure, while thu ships rotted |
in the offing for want Of cargoes, factories
we're closed down, poorhouses were filled
with paupers, pesthouses were crowded
with people driven to crime by hunger.
and starvation stalked abroad
While mothers dug holes in the ground |
n which they covered up their infants at
It night to keep them warm, reversing
he order Of Nature and making the little
mes begin life in the grave instead Of
nding it there. And while the night
vas loquacious with the swinging chains
i gibbets, the privileged classes idled
nd rioted, squandering what should n
AVE gone to the poor in sensual gratifi-
alton. He declared that he was OF the
'eople and was voice sent by them toll
Tarn the privileged few Of their peril.
was aterrific arraignment Of privilege
nd the noble lords were panic-stricken
ntil the speaker, in his awful earnest
ess, came out from the concealing
hadow and Swallowed his deformity.
When his noble auditors saw his grimace
ley recovered themselves, burst into
lughter, berated and abused the speak
+ and adjourned in confusion.
Lloyd George is not deformed. He
not of the peers. But his voice reaches
lem when raised in the Commons, in
rint or on the musings. He is voice
ON the people. He is telling the
ords to beware. His. words have not
re wild vehemenee, the tempestuous h
of the words put into the II
souths Of the ex-mounSebank by the II
reat dramatic novelist, but they are II
leaningful and ominous. They also
@ terrible arraignment Of privilege.
Lloyd-George speaks with ancient !!
He is a sturdy Welchman .
id the WEIGH are pure Celts- more
elite than the Irish, the Scotch, the
falcons Of Belgium, the Manxman or
~ other people. They have all the
nance, the poetry, the fire and fight
& qualities of the Celt. When the
yaders came the aborigines were killed
t or driven into the mountains Of
aies and in these Businesses they were