The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-01-17
LLoYD-GEORGE, so TO-DAY,
HAILED AS ENGIAND'S
GREATEST STATESMAN

! Hailed as England's greatest states
man, as the deliverer of the disin-
herited. by millions of his fellow citt-
zens, David Lloyd-George will ceIe-
brate his fftieth birthday to-day
Paeans of praise and objurgations Of
| biterest hatred will greet the ears of
the British Chancellor of the Exche-
Quer to-day as he rounds out a half
century of existence. THE herald OF
the DAWN 1.-THE savior of England
and ttthe symbol of the new age are
some of the titles bestowed by his ad-
rnirers on the author of the old age
pennion act the national insurance
bill, and other measures for the anne
Iteration of the condition of the poor
The miIdest of the Characterization
applied to him by his political enc
mics and by wealthy landlords will not
bear repetition in Journal for the
whole family. Lloyd George is no
namby-pamby statesman, striving to
please everybody. The love of his
friends is only exceeded by the hatred
of his foes.
Lloyd-George is Welshman in ev-
cry inch of his brief body. but he was
not born in Wales It was in Man
chester, the great English Industrial
center, that he came into the world
on Jan. IT, 1863. His father, Will
liam George, was a school teacher in
that city. His mother, Elizabeth
A1OS O01OT0 nST marriage TO the ped
agogue, was the daughter of a Baptist
clergyman. Both parents were of
sturdy Welsh peasant ntock
The injustice of the absentee land
lord system was early impressed on
the mind of yound David, and his
against what seemed to him a heart
less. cruel tyranny. His father died
when he was three, leaving a destitute
family to the tender mercies of a dis
tant landlord, who sold the widows
scant belongings to satisfy a debt.
for the mother to care for all, and
David was given to the care of an I'M
Gle, who was a cobbIer six days
week and a CampbeIlite Baptist min
lister on the seventh day. The uncle
poor as he was, managed to educate
David for the law, and at twenty-one
the future chancellor was qualified as
a solicitor.
The chance1lor's father was a Uni
tartan, his mother a Baptist Lloyd
George has chung to the faith of the
latter. The boy lawyer fought and
won his first important case as the
champion of the Nonconforrnists in an
action brought against them by the
rector of an Established Church He
was made counsel for an organization
which opposed the enforced payment
of tithes to the Established Church. AT
Lament. There he headed a new
party of Welsh Nationalist, as an in
surgent opposed some of the projects
of his own party, and was denounced
as a traitor because of his opposition
to the Boer war, which he called "a
crime against civilization" His his
tory since then has been one fight
after another, and at fifty he finds
himself the dominant figure in British
politics.
Joseph MauH Carey. Governor of
Wyoming, will celebrate his sixty
eighth birthday to-day. He is ma
tive of Delaware, an alumnus of the
University of Pennsylvania, and for
time practiced law IN PHILADELPHIA |
Following Horace Gree1ey's advice he |
went West and settled in Cheyenne, |
then a frontier cattle town, where ne
accumulated a fortune as a ranchnnan |
and in real estate. He has served |
his adopted state as judge, district at
torney, congressman, United States |