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Opposes Own Party.
During the short career of the last
Gladstone government, Lloyd-George
did not hesitate TO oppose the policy
of his own party in power. and he oc-
cupied position in that body, judged
by comments of the contemporary press,
almost exactly the same as that held
by the insurgents Norris and Murdoch
in the last session of the American
house of representatives
Then followed the long and uninter-
rupted rule Of the Tories, during which
Lloyd George always was the head and
front of the active OPPOSITION. He was
the principal protagonist of the pro-
Boer faction during the South African
war. He maintained that the war was
crime against liberty and civilization,
and not all Of the harsh criticism of
the patriots" nor even the fury Of
mob which attempted to do him per-
sonal violence, could dissuade him from
his purpose of announcing the govern
ment and unfolding the cause of the
Beers That was only a decade ago,
and at that time had anyone predicted
that Lloyd-George. the traitor" cow
ard and little Highlander" would one
day be chancellor OF the exchequer and
actual leader of the dominant political
party, he would have been set down as
crazy. But that was before the revolu-
tion OF the British democracy had set
in.
Democrat or DemagOg.
IL is impossible to avoid recognition
OF the fact that David Lloyd George is
the central figure in the present crisis
In Britain. Mr.. Asquith may take the
lead IN directing the campaign for the
abolition of the veto of the lords: Win
ston Churchill and John Burns may deal
with the details of progressive social
legislation and administration: Mr.. Bal
TOUR may captain the legions of Tory
ism; lord LansdOwne and his ancient
enemy lord Roseberry may stand to-
gether as the cOnserves and protectors
OF our old nobility" Mr.. Chamberlain
from his invalid's chair may marshal the
1orces of the tariff reformers; but ii
was Lloyd-George and his budget
Lioyd-George and his land taxes LIoyd-
George and his high headed and stiff
kneed democracy that started the trou-
Die, stirred up the quarrel and precipf-
tated the crisis.
This Welshman is revolutionist, and
thus far a successful one He is in
open rebellion against the existing or
der, and he holds in contempt the most
sacred traditions of political Britain
Ii he shall succeed in his present cam
palSn there viii be a new nation in
the right. little, tight little island"
The question is, then, is Lloyd-George
democrat, as his idchzing followers do
affirm, or is he a demagog as his
aDomInating enemies do swear? Eng
hShmen of the one class admire AS
quith. chuckle over Churchill. and love
Lloyd-George, while those of the other
Grass deplore Asquith, despise Churchill
and hate Lloyd-GeOrge with fanatic
and Jealous hatred. The late duke of
Rutland once burst into song, giving
utterance TO the remarkable couplet-
Let wealth and commerce, laws and
learning die,
But leave US still our old nobility"
Others OF the aristOcratic class have
, been less frank. perhaps, but they are
none the less earnest and sincere in
UNFOLDING the peculiar privileges of the
srlstOcracy, which they believe TO be
thd most beneficient of all British insti-
| tutlons
Upholds Common People.
Mr. LloydGsorge has been quite as
! fl rank as VAS the duke of Rutland in
UNFOLDING his own class-the common
people But what was an amusing in
discretion on the part of the noble duke
becomes hypocritical dema gogism in
the Welsh solicitor. Therefore when
the chancellor of the exchequer. break
ing all laws of political etiquet said:
A fully equipped duke costs as much
TO keep up as two DreadnOughts: they
! are just as great a terror, and they
last longer, he was denounced through
out the length and breadth of the. king
dom as a rude boor who ought TO be
| barred from all decent society.
Joseph Chamberlain, 80 years ago
when he was something of a radical
| himself, said that the members of the
house. of lords were legislators simply
because of the accident of birth. Shock
ing as that statement may have been
1t was couched in decorous language
and while the sentiment was depIored.
Its author remained respectable Mr.
Lloyd-George expressed the same idea
when he said that the qualifications of a
| member OF the upper chamber of the
British legislature consisted simply in
| being "the first of the litter" For
| that he was damned as a degenerate
defamer Of the virtue of British women.
an indecent and unspeakable social out.
cast
Plain Speaking Parsonage
The speech and manners of Abraham
Lincoln were plain and homely, to say
the least, and some of his most telling
political sayings were unfit for ears DO
lite and yet history has attested the
force and strength OF Lincoln's democ-
racy. while those who called him dema-
| Cog and who said his manners were
crude and his speech obscene, are lost
in oblivion. Mr. Lloyd-George may not
call spade a spade, but when he does
otherwise he refers to it not as AN i'm
plement for excavation" but as a
| damned shovel
In both what he says and his man
ner of saying it, Lloyd-George is Of
fensive to the gentle and upper classes
of British society. But 1T is not on rec
ord that he cares II is his purpose to
appeas to the masses, and he is not
afraid of stirring up class prejudice nor
| of engendering class hatred He knows
| that his opponents always have ap-
pealed to class prejudice, and he is quite
willing to go as far in one direction as
the late 1amented duke Of Rutland went
in the other.
After ali, it depends entirely upon
whether ones sympathies are demo-
| cratic or aristocratic as to whether or
not this Welsh revolutionist is a demo
crat or demagog. 1t is significant
! however. that to the privileged all rev.
olutiOnists not reactionary, are dema-
gogs- 1t is only after they are dead
and the success of their revolutions is