The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-07-06
SECRETARY McKENNA,
 51 TO-DAY; HOLDS
 MOST DIFFICULT JOB

Home Secretary sounds like a nices soft, domestic sort of job. By asso- citation of i'd eas, one's mental picture Of a Home Secretary is of an easy-go- ing. plump, pater-fanni1ias person. As q matter of fact, the Right Hon. Reg inaId McKenna, Home Secretary in the British cabinet, holds what is perhaps the most difficult job in the world. The Rt- Hon. Reginald will pass his dfty-frst birthday to-day but he wears the worn and haggard look of sone twice his years. And small wonder, for his principal duty is to attempt to placate the sufra- gettes. Compared with such a job as that a hon-tamer has a sofe snap and doubtless if any trainer of fero- cious wild beasts wants to trade jobs with the Rt- Hon Reginald, he will find that gentleman not only willing but eager to make the change. Prob ably the Home Secretary often longs for a return of those peaceful, quiet days when he was First Lord of the Admiralty.
 If the Home Secretary, in his deal ings with the wild women,'s has ever succeeded in pleasing anybody, that satisfied person has remained very quiet about it. Press, pulpit and
 public have stormed and ratled at McL Kenna's policies, but, strange to say, none of his critics have manifested any strong desire to undertake the job at which, all are agreed MT. McKen- ma has miserabIy failed. If the Home Secretary brings stern, repres- sfve measures to bear on the suffra- gettes. England sends up a wall of horror at his cruelty Shall English men witness such atrocious treatment of their women? Nos a thousand d times. mol On the other hand, the
 Home Secretary is too mild and con sfderate in his treatment of the milf tants. He should permit them to starve, he should send soldiers to shoot them down, he should let them see that there is a man on the Job-
 The Home Secretary entertained the fond hope that his policy of mild repression under the Cat and Mouse act would prove effective. For a time it did seem to have a slightly deter rent effect on the turbulent spirits of t'the causesp but 1t was but a brief period On the very day, few weeks ago. when the Hon Reginald was as- suring the House of Commons that
 the Cat and Mouse act, to be entirely
 successful, required only a little pa
 tience, the wild women invaded West
 minister Abbey and exploded bomb under the historic coronation chair | And so it goes Life for the Rt.
 Hon Reginald is just one thing, and sometimes twos after another. When the Premier recently received a dele. | gallon of .sunraEettes, he assured 1 Cneu1---NV ndl that I1S WOAi0 sDH1AAE ! their requests to the attention of the Rf- Hon. Reginald McKenn&! There l must turk in MT. McKenna's mind g
 suspicion that his official title should
 be, not Home Secretary. but The Goat
 MT. McKenna was born in London I on July G. 1863 At Cambridge hs I won honors in mathematics, and al I twenty three he began the practice ol the legal profession. In his frs I contest for a seat in the House o1 I Commons he was defeated but 1T
 1895 he was elected for North Mon l rnouthshire. In 1905 he was hnan ciaI secretary of the treasury, and il
 1908 he became First Lord of the Ad l rr1fraIty- His conduct of naval affairs
 succeeded by Winston Churchill ant
 given the Home Secretary poBtfo1io
 At Cambridge he was a famous oars