Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-01-07
LLOYD GEORGE
MAN Of HOUR IN
ENGLISH CRISIS
United Praise for Chancellor
Who Succeeded in Averting
Financial Crash When War
Broke Out
CT T.. O'Connor IN Minneapolis
Journal)

CT T.. O'Connor I'm Minneapolis
JournaL)
London Dec Pal remember
hearing a good old American Journal
list who had lived through the eivil
war making the observation, then
new TO me. that war reversing SO
many values Of ordinary times re-
vcrsed mostly IN the cases of poll
ticians.
II would not have been surprising
t some of the men who have been
most prominent and trusted in the
conflicts of civil life were found TO
be quite worthless when it came to
sterner work of war time.
Several times already i'm the his
tory OF England, as of many other
countries a war has sent ministers to
the scrap heap. In EnRland's last great
war the ineptitude Of Arthur j. Bal
four and his associates was RESPONSE
Bile for the biggest defeat political
party ever encountered In British his
tory In the Crimean war everybody
got left except Niscount palmerston.
In France war overthrow a dynns-
"
However, the Incredible has hap
pened The present mlnistrN after a
stormy ana checkcred career for eight
years, has since tho war had some
thing like a new birth II is stronger
today than at any other epoch in its
existence
Public Men Show Metal.
This extraordinary state of things
is due largely to the fact that 1t has
within its ranks several men who
have the temperament not only for
the fierce conflicts Of peace, but the
hercer conflicts of war.
First among these men stands
David Lloyd George. chancellor of
the eXchequer | always suspected that
modern conditions and his training
as a solicitor made him an ideal lead
err in big and daring democratic
changes though no man knows in
stinctively better all the arts of po-
litical and parliamentary life. Lloyd
George was at the bottom Of his heart
revolutionary.
| have formed this impression from
casual observations of his thrown of
in private conversational dinner
table, on the golf Authorizations
unguarded, frank. spontaneous, which
gave gIimpses into a mans innermost
soul more than studied public utter
ances.
| | have often, for instance heard
| him declare his regret that he had
not lived in the days of the French
revolution,
you would have been sullouned,
| objected.
Probably" was his reply; "but !
would have had three years Of such
glorious living that II would have been
worth the guillotine.
Language like this from many men
would be mere brageadocio, but any
body who has ever studied the eyes of
Lloyd George. with their distracting
brilliancy ana strange penetrating
look. would know that within this
short and rather fragile frame there
Is no such feeling ms fear-certainly
not in an emergency.
InScnsible TO Fear.
Throughout his whole career he
has shown this strange insensibility to
risk He quarreled with his leaders
over petty Welsh questions when he
was ail poor and obscure and de-
pendent upon their favor for any
chance Of future promotion. He did
so during the Boer war, when again
and again he went TO meetings where
Thousands thirsted for his blood and
did everything to have it.
He did the same thing, of course,
when he brought in that historic
budget which shook all England to
its foundation and has transformed
all the future of British politics by
destroying the veto of the house OF
lords
This war produced just the atmos-
phere which suited such tempera-
ment. / believe he was, as matter
of fact. one of the last members of
the cabinet to agree TO the war, but
when il came. he at once arose freely
to the empyrean created by all the
risks, passions and gigantic adven-
lures Of q war.
Recently walking with him along
st. James park back to his house IN
Downing street, watched him as we
passed the tents in which at this mo-
ment there are recruits and recruiting
sergeauts and all the other things as
ISOLATED with the creation of Lord
Kitchener's new army ! saw the
eyes at once flash as he strobe along
with that feyerishly quick walk of his,
and. first remarking that this war
had universal popularity that did
not exist during the Roer war he
went on to say what splendid
chance it gave to young men.
YES" / said. hut then there Isl
much hardship; there Is fair chance
of death"
"What does II natter" replied