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admitted the people to a share in the

business ceased to take his meals in
the Kitchen with his employees.
Bonar Law is none ofsthese things.
His father was an Ulster clergyman,
who aemigrated Ito Canada. and he
himself spent all his life until he be-
came politician in the prosaic sur
roundings of the metal market in
Glasgow. He never went to univer-
sity, he never was in society until
within the last few years.
Law Looks Like Middle classman.
And just as Balfour looks every
inch the aristocrat. Bonar Law looks
every inch a member of the Scotch
middle classes. The face is long, the
cheek bones are high, the cheek sone-
what sunken. If he were not known
and people guessed what was his &C.
cupation, they would one and all de-
clare that his name must be James
Baird, and that he was by occupation
a professional Scotch golfer. His hab-
it's and tastes are simple. He dresses
like man of the middle classes, he
drives to the railway station, not in a
taxicab which he picks up in the
streets, sometimes, even, he is sup
posed to be satisfied with the UNDER
ground railway. a very unusual means
Of locomotion with the wealthy and
high-bo in London. 1t is generally
known that there remain some groups
of elderly country gentlemen Of long
descent who don't quite relish the
leadership of one SO entirely outside
their class.
But for the moment Bonar Law is
a success with his party and mainly
because of his intellectual weaknesses.
Narrow, shallow, without any serious
training in the learning of the schools,
and very excitable underneath all his
superficial Scotch canniness, he makes
just the violent irresponsible fighting
speeches which suit the tory party In
it's present condition of terror and ex-
asperation. This is the reason why he
has committed himself to such ex-
IRENE measures as the provocation of
Ulster to civil war, and why he actu-
ally gave the word to his followers,
for which they had been painting for
&n,,1
der in the house of commons.
Leaders, Character Laid Bare.
1t was when this disorder broke out
that one saw that revelation OF man
in his nudity to which have alluded.
All that has been printed about the
scene does not approach its sordid
realities. I have alluded to Sir Regi-
nald Pole Carey. 1t is scarcely cred
ible, but it is true that this gentleman,
with his aristocratic face, his opulent
clothes and his exterior of quiet and
reserved English gentleman, stood on
the benches of the house of commons
and kept yelling for several minutes
at the prime minister and other min
listers Swine! Swine!" Others inn
proved on the nice exclamation and
added the adjective which interlards
so frequently the conversation or the
navy and the sailor. Young sprigs of
nobility grew pale with passion and
uttered some other cries equally often
sive,
Towards the end it looked very
much as il the scene must end in
physical violence, and as is known,
Ronald McNeill, the stalwart Irish
Orangcmen, threw a book at Winston
Churchill and hit him In the face.
Churchill has very ardent and even
violent temper when he is attacked.
There is none OF the meek and lowly
Christian in his spirit and when he is
angry the big folds that surmount
looks a very ugly customer to face in
spite Of his frail frame and his rather
pallid cheeks. II it had not been that
he was taken hold OF by John Burns,
he would have rushed across and had
it out with his assailant even though
it was five foot six against six foot
three.
Assault on Asquith Feared.
Things looked SO ugly at one time
that a number Of liberals gathered
around Mr.. Asquith to protect him
from assault. The order papers on
which the agenda Of the day are
printed were rolled up and thrown at
Asquith and at the other ministers,
and If Englishmen were in the habit
which fortunately they are not, of
carrying revolvers, there might have
been some shooting. Such, then, is
the tory squire when he reveals his
real self, 1t Is an unlovely picture.
What is the explanation? It Is largely