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MAN OF NO FAMILY
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his legal associates put it at $4,000
year; others at 100000 Probably it
is somewhere between the two figures.
Law in England as in the United
States, often leads to politics. F. e.
Smith made up his mind to enter
parliament and he fixed on T. P.
O'Connor's Scotland" division of Liv-
erpool as the constituency he would
like to represent He "nursed' it for
a year or two, but never fought an
election in it, for he was offered the
chance to contest the neighboring Wal.
ton division in 1906, and he won.
He found himself in a parliament
where his party didn't count for much.
The tories had been hopelessly beaten
and were not only few in numbers,
but discouraged and disguised. Even
Balfour had been beaten at the polls
and was looking for another seat. "F.
E. watched things for a week or two
and then made his maiden speech. 1t
and most of the members were in the
smoking room. They are not over
polite to new members or bores in
the house of commons. When the new
man had been speaking for five min
utes the news reached the smoking
room that something was happening.
and members came trooping i'm. "F
E. finished to a crowded house The
listless tories chortled in their joy
Here was a man who evidently was =
match and more for the Winston.
Churchils and Lloyd Georges and
other able young men on the liberal
side. Even the liberals couldn't hem
cheering him.
Perhaps because he is a man of no
particular family f. e. Smith doesn't
trouble much about the traditional
house Of commons tone" He is a
master of invective and he never hest
tates to hit brutally if he thinks the
brutal blow good ring tactics In spite
of that he is popular with his oppon-
ents, who forgive his most singing
attacks because they are clever. One
night he was speaking on the protec.
tive tariff program, when a liberal
member called out: What about our
food?"
Don't you worry, my friend" said
f. E. Smith Your food will be all
right, Neither Mr. Chamberlain nor
myself ever proposed to put tax on
thistles."
His friends wonder how Smith keeps
going, and how long he will be able
TO keep going Every morning when
the courts are sitting he is in court
before II O'Clock and often remains
there till p. m. Then he goes down
to the house of commons as fresh as
a daisy and often stays there till mid
: night or even later. When he gets
home he must spend some time study.
ing his cases for the next day and his
speeches for the house of commons.
as you never find him unprepared in
debate, His method shows that he
must have gone over the subject care
fully in advance. He has a wonderful
system Of classified. pockets for refer
ence clippings. He quotes from an op-
ponents speech for instance. Il never
said that shouts the man on the
gridiron. oh, yes you did on Febru.
airy 2, 1905 says F. E. Smith, and his
hand goes unerringly to the right
pocket and hauls out the clipping,
which he reads.
Perhaps one secret of Smiths ply
steal fitness is his devotion to fox
hunting. He keeps a big stable of
hunters and every week end finds lin
in the saddle, He is also a lieutenant
! in the OXfordshire Imperial Yoemanry
of which Winston Churchill, the rising
| young man of the liberal party, is ma
| jor The two men, by the way, are
! inseparable friends in private life, al
| though in parliament each is the
others bitterest opponent. Often after
night spent in "slanging" each Other
across the green benches, they may
be seen leaving Westminster arm II
! arm to sup together.
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At first glance you would set Smith
down for one of the gilded youth.
> who loll along the sunny side of Picca
dilly during the London season. Will
another look, however you note the
g firm jaw, the long pale face betoken
ing years of study and the clear intel
5 ligent eye The carefully brushed ant
. pOmaded hair, the immaculate collar
and fashionably cut clothes, all ar,
typical in their way of the mans or
derby mind, He hates personal no less
Ifbarn OF