The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-11-09
SIR JOHN SIMON IS
IN THE L|MELICHT
New Attorney General Of
England Rivals Churchill in
Brilliant Career.
MAY SUCCEED ASOUITR
Is Orator, Able Lawyer and
Fearless Champion of the
Views He Espouses.
MAY SUCCEED ASQUITR

LONDON Nov. s-The voung
bloods of the cabinet, Messrs. Winstor
Churchill and Lloyd George, will have
TO look to their lanrels now that Sir
John Simon has reached cabinet rank
as attorney general.
Sir John is one year older than Win
ston Churchill, who is now thirty.nin
but is much younger in appearance and
spirits, and there is no man in the coun-
try who is looked to TO go further than
he is. He has one advantage over most
OF his fellow members of the cabinet
i'll that he IS popular both on his own
side OF tho house and among his op
pouents, and never has a promotion
his. In fact, Sir John had the distiuc-
tion, which has seldom fallen to Lib
eral minister since home rule was first
taken up by the party, Of being ap-
proved by an Ulster newspaper.
Profits by Experience.
The new attorney general has had
an astonishingly brilliant and rapid ca,
reer of success and he is often spoken
| Of as q possible successor to Mr.. AS
quith as leader Of the Liberal party. He
IS eLdunCu Idulcdl, puL MS
doctrines in way which, while effee-
| tive, does not offend his opponents. At
Oxford, where ne was q brilliant mem
| Der Of the union, his chief opponent
| was L. e. Smith, the equally brilliant
u1ionist lawyer, and in the house of
commons they are always pitted against
each other. Unlike most great lawyers,
he is as effective on the platform as
at the bar, and, besides, has accomp-
| Ok, .hot nf <har, hor- fa,1 1.l
to do-attaincd the "house of com
mons Manner quiet conversational
way Of speaking which holds the au-
dience without any attempts at flights
of oratory.
Ready for Conflict.
Sir John is as fearless as he is bril-
liant After having fought three elec
tions in one year in Walthamstow aud
making the seat safe one for himself
he has quietly announced his intcn-
tion of resigning ut the next general
election to fight Northwest Manchester
one OF the most uncertain constituen
cies in the country. 1t was Northwest
Manchester thnt rejected Mr.. Balfour
in 1906; chose Winston Churchill later
on in the same year, only to reject
him two years later; reverted to Libcr-
alism in 1910, when Bonar Law sought
the suffrage OF Lne constituency ana,
at a by-election last year elected Sir
John Randles, unionist. However, Sir
John Simon is O Manchester man, and
besides he is the chief apostle of free
trade. For the government nothing is
more important than to keep the manu-
featuring centers in the free trade fold.
Handicap Evident.
The boot and shoe makers Of Eng
land, who have organized campaign
to capture some of the trade Of Ameri-
ca, now that the duty has been abol-
ished on their goods, realize that in
one way they are handicapped. This
is In respect to cheap leather. Until
America took off the duty on hides, En-
gland was the one free market for this
raw material Of the boot and shoe
maker. From all parts Of the world
hides were shipped to England, and
when such countries as Australia, the
Argentine and America had surplus
stocks they found their way to this
country. Now America is expected to
be q competitor for these hides and the
English manufacturer viii havo to pay
higher prices for them, unless of COURSE
there are more than the two countries
can consume.
1t is surprising the quantity Of hides
England receives from such countries
as India and other eastern and near
eastern lands, but these are Of cheaper
varieties and do not count much in the
war for trade in high-class goods that
the English boot maker is preparing to
wage with his American competitor.