Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-07-30

whole subject would require lot more
explanation than we can give it just
now. We are referring to the matter
at all only in order to introduce some
comments by Mr.. Poe as one of the
prominent Americans in London who
heard Mr.. Georges speech. Our friend
Mr.. Poe. was asked to give the Daily
Chronicle his impressions of 1t. and
here is what Mr. Poe had to say:
1T seems 10 me that the keynote of
the meeting, and the keynote of Mr..
Lloyd Georges policies, was struck by
DR.. Mcnamara in remark he made
in introducing the chancellor: THE
Liberal leaders, before starting the in
surance act, took stock Of the condi-
tion Of the people"
1t was Carlyle, l believe, who want
ed a Condition Of the People party
and 1t seems to me that Mr.. Lloyd
George and his fellows nave brought
about realization Of Carlyle's dream
One finds In their speeches little at
tention to mere party catchwords, little
concern for mere formula or theories
little worship, indeed, Of the time hon.
ored generalities which our American
politicians are too much accustomed to
make fetishes Of. Politics to these
English leaders apparently is not a
mere game, but an agency to better
the condition Of the people"
In America we have long known of
Mr.. Lloyd George, and II was a pleas
ure for me to hear him In a set speech.
1t SENS to me that there Is no mis-
taking his sincerity. His enemies may
call him a Zealot, but they cannot call
him a demagogue-at least, not in the
sense we commonly use the term in
America to describe a man who pro-
fesses a love for the people simply in
order to gain their support. One feels
on hearing him that his own early
Ing passionate sympathy for all the
poor and the suffering an dit Is no
wonder that they rally to his standard
not only because he seems brother to
them, but because he Is an incarnate
demonstration Of the possibilities
wrapped up in the humblest child to
whom, in any manner, there comes a
chance to break his births invidious
bar"
At the same time, I discovered in Mr..
Lloyd George no trace of bitterness to-
wards the rich. He believes. no doubt,
that the laws heretofore have unjustly
favoured the strong at the expense of
the weak, the rich at the expense Of the
poor, but he impresses one as desirous
of reform for the future rather than re-
prisal for the past, policy Of justice
rather than a policy Of vengeance.
I think England Is to be congratu-
lated that today, as in the past, she
seems to be working out purer de-
mocracy and larger opportunity for
the common man, not through cata-
clysmic and ruinous process Of occa-
sional revolutions, but by the steady
advance of progressive legislation.
believe this will save her from falling
a prey to the radical socialism which
seems to threaten many Continental
countries.
Through an open skylight on Satur-
day could see, all the while the chan
celor was speaking, the old flag Of Eng
land waving in the breeze. 1t brought
to my mind the fact that not many days
ago / made a pilgrimage to Runny-
mede, where the first great foundation
of English liberty was laid.
! was glad to think that the flag rep
resents a nation which through all the
centuries since has advanced steadily
towards a purer democracy and more
beneficent state of society. and we OF
English blood in America are the In
heritors of it's ancient history and
proud of the progress our brothers In
the Fatherland are yet making.