The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-08-25
.L[OYD-GEORGE IS
FACING BIC FIGHT
Majority Appears Against
English Chancellor
LABORITES' DEMANDS
Joseph Chamberlain Is Writing His
tory of His Life and Men He
knew-Financier Prisoner
Plays Organ
by PAUL LAMBETH

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London. August a. Especial david
Lloyd-George is preparing for the fight
of his political life, with two-thrds of
the cabinet arrayed against him. the open
hostility of the labor party, the anger Of
the London bankers, and the undisguised
hate of such unionists as A. Bonar Law
and Sir Edward Carson all conspiring to
throw the chancellor to the wolves" The
pluelxy welshman meets his foes with
that indomitabe good nature which has
been his greatest asset all through his
long climb upwards to paramount power.
For 1t must recognized that this has been
an administration dominated more by the
lean Cassius from Wales than by any
body else. or. in fact, all the others in
the cabinet First, 1t was Redmond and
home rule then. came the overshadowing
issues of the labor questions and the leg
islation. Now, il is the financial basis of
the empire itself.
The chancellor seems to believe that
governments, like thrifty individuals,
should do business on a "spot-cashn basis,
That is the secret of the depression of
consols. The treasury wants its stock
cheap, and with the sinking fund for the
payment of the national debt amounting
to about s3O,o00000 for the year, credit to
| depositors in the postoffice growing by
about S30000,000 year, and the insur-
ance stamps bringing in about s1,o00,000
| per week, the chancellor has been in a
position to play very pretty game. Ills
| purpose, his friends say, is to buy in
the nations stocks first and reform them
afterwards. The bankers were alarmed
at the continual writing off of deprecia-
ton and talked panic and proximity Of
failures; Premier Asquith inclined his ear
and L1oyd-George's enemies in the cabi-
net have made all possible capital out
of the governmental concentration of
capital. To please the navy people, the
chancellor has been forced to part with
some of his millions, but he is said to
have no intention of abandoning the gen
eral course of his policy-which is to run
the British empire as a ready-money prop
osition and obliterate absolutely the ma
tional debt, which, since and before the
Napoleonic wars, has been eXtolled as the
very fundamental of British resource and
British Notwithstanding the empires
sturdy credit both at home and abroad
The Independent labor party demands
the whole of next session of parliament
for the consideration of a programme of
socialist-labor doctrines from the mini
mum of child nurture, prevention of UNI
employment and the provision of healthy
homes for ALI at the cost of the state
The campaign will be opened by a ma
tional conference of socialists trade
unionists and members of adult schools,
to be held in the Memorial hall, London
on October II. This will be followed by a
series of conferences in the provinces.
THESE win be held in the principal indus
trial towns In Yorkshire Lancastershire
Nar tb,t,, 1,or ba Mfd1andS
and Wales After the preliminary confer
ences there will be mass meeting in the
Albert hall.
Joseph Chamberlain is spending his last
days penning with a hand enfeebed by
age, partial paralysis and the strain UNI
sparing exertion during his days of po-
lftical leadership, recollectons of the men
and events among whom he lowered dur
ing the Jast decades of the 18th century.
These recolections will not be published
until after the statesman's death. He has
not recovered his power of speech. nor Is
he able to move from the chair In which
he does his work without the help of at
tendants He still loves the long black
cigars which he affected In the days when
his monoce and orchid were familiar
parts of the life at Westminster. His
American wife assists him in his literary
work, arranges his reference papers for
him, sorts the manuscript and refreshes
his memory when the famous fiscal re-
former finds himself at fault. His men-
tai faculties are still wonderfully clear
and bright, despite his incurabIe illuess.
physical degenerates should not be
allowed to take any part in adding to
the race" observed Sir James Barr, the
new president of the British Medical as
ISOLATION, In a remarkably plain-spoken
address at Liverpool on the falling birth
rate. Il know" he said. that in the
expression of these views / am coming
into direct contact with at least some of
the churches. of which there are almost as
many varieties as there are of human
beings The majority preach in favor of
quantity rather than quality. They adj
vocate a high birth-rate regardless of
the consequences, and boldly tell you that
1t is better to be born an mbecile than
not to be born at all. They forget the
oo..;,,- - Iact,c Of Nazaratt1 that unttld