The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-03
GEORGE IS 7 NOW ALL P0WERFUL Sure to Be England's Next
 Prime Minister BOUNDLESS ENERGY Little Welshman Began Life As Poor Cobbler-Looked Upon AS
 Great Statesman of Mod ern Times
BOUNDLEss ENERGY
Rx PAUL LAMBETH

Eeorge, is today the strohSes' ii0" ,Ss;reat Britain That he will succeed MT Asquith as the titular leader of the iipr eral party he already is in actual iact the head of the party seems to as certain as anything save death and taxes.
 That it was due to the personality or the chancellor of the exchequer to tae confidence of the great mass of workmen ,p his absolute fairness and honesty that inc great strike which might have ended in actual war was averted there can be no doubt The labor leaders, in fact. made 1t plain that they would enter into no barley, unless it was under the direction of MT. LloydGeorge.
 This man, who is regarded by many as the greatest statesman of m9dern times is a curious admixture of the idealst and practical man of affairs, such as can be rarely found outside the Celtic race. It is the rare combination which can dream great dreams and then can go to worS carefully and methodically to make them come true.
 Witness the famous budget which for the first time in the history of great nation has begun to put into practice the theory of that other great dreamer, the Welsh-American. Henry George, that the t.'unearned increase'' Of land Belongs to the community which creates it; the in- surance bill now before parliament, which Twill do much to Tighten the burdens of 'he very poor, the old age pension bill which has taken from the poor much of the ter TOT of non-productive old age and similar measures st
 MT. Lloyd-George is an intense lover of humanity, and a devout Christian. lie can and does on occasion preach pow erful sermon.
 His sympathes are all with that class Of the community with whom life is a con- stant struggle for existence, and natural ly. for it is from that class that he springs.
 The future ruler~of the British empire, no one doubts that he will be prime min ister if he lives, owes his success to fis own tremendous ability. Pull or infiu- ence has not helped him particle. He has had neither. With it all he is mod est, genial gentleman, with personal charm which makes friends with all whom he comes in contact There is no man in the cabinet for whom King George has a higher personal regard than this man, who as boy assisted his shoemaker uncle and who was as poor as poverty itself.
 Another mau who has figured in the set clement of the great strike is MT. q. R. Askwith, whose great services in -he set tlement of labor disputes have earned for him the name of the industrial Peace maker, Among triumphs of MT. Ask with's career as arbitrator, which have covered nearly hundred disputes, must be counted the settlement of the cotton dispute in the autumn of last year, of the strike in Belfast when the troops were compelled to fire on the crowds, and of the great dispute between the railway companies and their employees which near ly led to a general strike. A particularly difficult task was the settlement of the music hall strike and when the boot makers of the Rounds made their his toric march upon the war office it vas MT. Askwith who was selected by the army council to deal with them. As a re- suit of his decision he was made perma- nent arbitrator of the district boot trade.
 Home rule will monopoze public e.tten- ton during the eight weeks of the ap- preaching parliamentary recess to the ex- clusion of all other domestic questions, save, possibly, the demands of labor.
 Ir view of the winter campaign on the Irish issue, John Redmond and his lieu tenants count heavily upon the Septem- Der visit to Ireland of the representative party arranged for by the Eighty club, to study the problem on the spot.
 After gaining first hand information ard opinions by careful investigation of all sections of the island, the Eighty club will undertake a propaganda in Great Britain. Three weeks at the shortest will bo devoted to the inquiry, which will be conducted without respect to party, re- Mgion or social distinction.
 Particular care will be taken to learn the facts as to Gonnemara, Kerry and other counties where congestion and rov- orty are most troublesome. But Dublin, Cork. Belfast, Galway. Waterford and Limerick will be gone over with a fine tooth comb.'
 A Harold Spender, Hamar Greenwood, Sir 4aodfrey Barring and other aggressive lib- E erals of the club, are behind the u1der- taking Originally the delegation was to be limited to 30, but so many applications to gc were filed that this number has been doubled.
 What the club wishes to ascertain is the measure of truth in William O'Brien's contention that Ireland is likely to be plunged into half a generation of ,incer- tainty and anxiety by such home rule measure as John Redmond lis wringng from the necessities of the English par ties"
 Also what foundation there is for Sir Edward Carson's prediction that "the 1in- ionists of Ireland are not going to accept home rule from this parliament, and foI ce will be resisted by force.'
 Great Britain, having left to Berlin Will helmstrasse and to Paris the solution of the Gabun-C -Cameroons problem, proceeds 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 military base oe the first magnitude.
 In five years Kitchener will have done whatever may be necessary in East Afri- ca to checkmate Germany's possible ab- eorption of the whole coast of West Ar rica from Nigeria to Cape Colony
 St. Ives, Cornwall, duly observed an ancient custom known as the Knll cer- emony, fulfilling the conditions of which are necessary C0 the preservation of & charitable trust. Ten little girls dressed ir white recited the Old Hundredth be- fore the mayor, vicar and collector of customs. Then procession was formed, and headed by fiddler and a leader of nsalmody, marched to the monument erected by John Knill. Here the girls danced to the tune of ''The Fairy Dance' and 1.-The Girl Left Behind Me-" the leader of psalmody tripping 1t with a widow of "a. After the dance the trustees distributed various doles
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