The Morning examiner. [volume] (Ogden, Utah) 1904-1910, 1910-07-24

| JONlJON.' july - ne 10, o"iN
a great British Journalist, OF David
Lloyd-George, "the symbol OF a new
age: the herald of a new time; the
outward and visible sign that the
common people are coming into their
own. 1t is difficult TO place Lloyd
! George. We have bad nothing like
him In British politics before. Fer
haps he comes nearest TO Abraham
Lincoln of any OF the latter-day lead
ers OF the democracy
Unlike Jefferson, unlike Gladstone,
| Lloyd George is ike Lincoln In that
he is democrat through and
through, Being of the plain people,
: he knows the plain people, he loves
the plain people, and he always is
the champion of the plain people.
believing with the great emancipation
| that God must have loved the plain
| people for he made so many of them
| Like Lincoln, he is abhorred of the
classes and adored OF the masses.
| There has been nothing like him in
all the history of British politics. He
is the head and front OF the revolu-
ton in Britain, and as such he is the
most hated and the most loved man
in all the realm of George V.
That such man holds the high
Office of Chancellor Of the EXchequer,
that such man is the leader OF
the party in power In Great Britain,
that such man seems destined 10
rule over the British Empire as the
Prime Minister OF the crown, that
such a man has power TO sway Brit
lsh Cabinet and command British
Parliament, Is, in the estimation of
the ruling classes who have governed
England for thousand years, an out
rage and desecration.
That such a man has been able to
reach this high position and to WELD
this great power, is, to the struggling
and starving masses OF average men
and plain people, the promise OF the
dawning of a new and n better day
day In which the man who works
shall be equal before the law and In
political power with the man who
shirks.
The story OF Lloyd.George is a story
that might seem commonplace In
American political annals, but 1t is
unique and unprecedented among the
tales of British political successes.
David Lloyd-George, although
Welshman OF Welsbmen, was not born
In Wales He came into the world
at Manchester. on January II, 1863.
and Is therefore not yet forty-eight
years old. His father. William
George, came of Welsh yeoman stock
but had engaged in the business of
teaching school and as such was liy-
ing in England. The mother of the
Chancellor OF the EXcheQuer was Eliz-
abeth Lloyd, daughter of the Rev
David Lloyd. Baptist minister.
Soon after young David was born
his father and mother returned to
Wales, and before the boy was three
was broken up. and the first thing
David Lloyd-George can remember is
the sale OF his widowed mothers fur
niture to satisfy a debt owed to an
absent and impersonal landlord The
widow could not take care of all the
children, and David was given to her
brother, Richard Lloyd. Richard
Lloyd was shoemaker in the village
OF LlaDysbndwy for six days in the
week. and on the other he was pastor
OF an impoverished congregation of
Campbellite Baptists Lloyds cobbler
shop was the village forum, and In
it every day gathered the village
worthless to discuss politics and relig-
Ion. and TO hear from the lips of the
educated Richard Lloyd translations
OF the news from the Liverpool and
London papers. for IN this village
most of the people spoke only Welsh,
The shoemaker was also a sort of
poor mans lawyer, who gave advice
without charge to the tenants and la.
bcrers OF the community.
In this shoemakers shop the young
David's heart was set on fire with
zeal for the cause of his people. Tales
OF landlords expressions, stories of
starvation. living witnesses of the
hopelessness of a peasants life. came
into his consciousness along with the |
eDlcs of his own Welsh nation. His |
uncle sacrificed the mcager savings OF |
his lifetime to give the boy the best |
available education to fit him for the |
life of lawyer. At the age OF four
teen he had passed the law prelimin-
ary examination, and at sixteen he |
was articled to a firm of solicitors.