The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-09-03
LLOYD GEORGE IS
FUTURE PREMIER
Chancellor Is Regarded as the
Strongest Man in Empire
of Great Britain.
ALONE AvERTED STRIKE
Home Rule for Ireland Again
Holds Public Attention Dur
ing Parliamentary Recess.
BY PAUL LAMBETH,
c 10 The Tribune.

| BY PAUL LAMBETH.
! Special Gable 10 The Tribune.
| LONDON. Sept. 2.-"The little Welsh
attorney" David Lloyd George. is today
the strongest man in Great Britain. That
! he will succeed Mr.. Asduith as the titular
leader Of the Liberal party. as he already
is in actual fact the head OF the party
seems 10 be certain
That 1t was due to the personality of
the chancellor of the exchequer. TO the
confidence OF the great muss of worlSmen
in his absolute fairness and honesty that
the great strike which might have ended
lin actual civil war; was ayerted there
can be no doubt. The labor leaders. In
| fact, made il plain that they would enter
| into no parley unless II was under the
direction of Mr.. yd-Georse.
This man, who is regarded by many as
! the greatest statesman OF modern times,
| is a curious admiXture OF the idealist
and practical man OF affairs such as can
| he rarely found outside the Celtic race
1t Is the rare combination which can
dream great dreams and then can go TO
work carefully and methodically to make
! them come true
Witness the famous budget which for
the first time in the history OF a great
nation has begun TO put Into practice the
theory of that other great dreamer, the
Welsh American. Henry George. that the
| uncarDed Increase OF land belongs to
the community which created It; the in
surance bill now before parliament which
will do much to Tighten the burdens of
the very poor, the old age pension bill
which has taken from the poor much of
the terror OF non productive old age, and
similar measures.
Mr. Lloyd George Is an intense lover
lof humanity and q devout Christian He
can and does on occasion preach IL pow
erful sermon
His sympathics are all with that class
of the community with whom life is
constant struggle for existence, and natu-
rally. for 1t is from that class that he
springs.
The future ruler of the British en-
pire, and no one doubts that he will be
prime minister if he lives. owes his sue
cess cess to his own tremendous ability
Pun or influence has not helped hi, him
II all he is modest, genial gentleman
with a personal charm which makes
friends with all with whom he comes in
contact. There is no man in the cabi
net for whom King George has a higher
personal regard than this man. who as
n boy assisted his shoemaker uncle and
who was as poor as poverty itself.
Askwith Is Peacemaker.
Another man who has figured in the
settlement OF the great strike is G. r,
! AskWith. whose great services In the
settlement OF labor disputes have earned
for him the name of the industrial
Peacemaker;" Among the trlumphs, OF
! Mr. ASkWlth's career as arbitrator,
which has covered nearly n hundred dis
putes. must be counted the settlement
OF the cotton dispute In the autumn OF
last year, OF tho strike I'm Belfast when
the troops were compelled TO fire on
the crowds, and OF the great dispute
between the railway companies and their
employees which nearly led to a general
strike. 4 particularly difficult task was
the settlement of the music hall strike,
and when the bootmakers of the Rounds
office 1t was Mr.. Askwith who was Sc
lected by tho army council to deal with
them. AS result of his decision, he
was made permanent arbitrator Of the
district boot trade.
Home Rule the Issue.
Home rule will monopolize public at
tenton during the eight weeks of the
approaching parliamentary recess. to the
exclusion of all other domestic qucs
tlons. save, possibly, the demands OF la
Dor.
In view of the winter campaign on
the irish Issue, John Redmond and his
neutenants count heavily upon the Sep
tember visit to Ireland OF the rcpresen
tatiye party arranged for by the Eighty
club to study the problem on the spot.
After gaining first hand information
and opinions by. careful Investigation
OF all sections Of tho island. the Eighty
club will undertake propaganda In
Great Britain. Three weeks at the
shortest will be devoted TO the inquiry.
which Will be conducted without respect
to party, religion or social distinction.
Particular care will taken to learn the
Iacts as TO Connemara Kerry and other
| counties where congestion and poverty
are most troublesome. But Dublin Cork
Belfast. Galway. Waterford and Limerick
VIII be gone over with fne-tooth
comb.
Harold Spender. Hamar Greenwood, Sir
Godfrey Barring and other aggressive Lib
erals of the club are behind the nnder-
taking Originally the delegation was to
be. limited to thirty but so many APP
plications TO GO wero filed that this
number has been doubled.
What the club wishes To ascertain is
the measure of truth In William O'Brlen's
contention that ireland is likely 10 be
plunged into half n generation OF un-
certainty and anxiety by such "A home
rule measure John Redmond Is
wrlnging from the necessities OF the Eng
llsh parties
Edward Carson,s prediction that The
Unionlsts of Ireland are not going to ac-
cept home rule from this parliament
and force Will be resisted by force"
Britain Advances in Egypt.
Great Britain. having left to Berlin
Wilhelmstrasse and to Paris the solution
OF the Gabun- Cameroons problem pro-
ceeds TO get square by long stride
In Egypt.
Instructions TO Lord Kitchener. now
at Cairo. contemplate the conversion of
the land OF the pyramids into a military
base of the first magnitude.
| in five years Kitchener will have done
| Whatever may be necessary In east Africa
to checkmste Germanys possible absorp
ton of tho whole coast of West Africa
! from Nigeria to Cape Colony.
81, Ives, Cornwall. duly observed an
ancient custom. known as the knlll cere-
mony. fulfilling the conditions OF which
arc necessary to the preservation of
charitable trust. Ten little girls dressed
In white recited The Old ITundreth' be-
fore tho mayor. Vicar and collector Of
customs. Then a procession was formed.
| and, headed by q fiddler and n leader
| OF psalmody. marched to the monument
erected by John KnilI. Here the girs
| danced To the tune OF The Fairy Dance
and THE Girl I Left Behind Me- the
| leader OF psalDony tripping Il with
widow. of 10. After. the dance the trus-