The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-12-08
LLOYD GEORGE.

The great trouble with country which has a history is that states men from time to time appear who affect to follow in the steps of some other man whom they would have regarded as their archetype.
 Especially is this the case ill Eng land Numberless instances could be mentioned where prominent men modelled their lives after some great predecessor, whose great ness they would reflect in their own lives. And especially is this the ease in England because of the fact that this has become cult by req son of the innumerable followers oi Thomas Carlyle who was the high nriest if not the evangelist who made that cult part of the social re- lfgion. Carlyle chose for his admir- ing pen the men whom he regarded as the strong men: the men who did things, and that quite regardless, Men like Cromwell, like Napoleon, like Frederick the Great were his ideals. and he allowed his pen to descant upon the attributes of these men with unalloyed eulogium.
 The consequence has been that every pea-brained author expects to be a second Shakespeare, every numbskull politician a second Solon, and every poetaster a Dante. So the methods followed by those in tenn porary charge of things would ape the autocracy of @ Cromwell, the energy of a Frederick or the domi- mating methods of Napoleon, quite regardless of the fact that not one of these have anything in common with tho great men whose lives they copy. and whose career and the de termiuing social forces which made it, they do not really understand.
 It is altogether probable that the little Welsh cabinet minister, Lloyd George, who is 8 profound admirer of William Pitt the younger, would also leave behind a record similar to that statesman in whose hands were the imperial destinies of Great Britain when Great Britain was fighting the wars of Ma poleon. Time without number, George has hinted at Pitts inexor able prosecution Of the war as the example which must Ho followed, and in quite a recent statement he said that just as Pitt maintained with no sort of very great success in the beginning, the war against Ma noleon, the British must press this war at all costs against Germany And the strong conservative papers have with clever flattery been feed ing the flames of personal ambition which burned within the breast ct Lloyd George, for they have been in the most subtle manner contrast ing him with the rest of the cabinet to the disadvantage of the latter and equally subtly insinuating that he was 8 giant among pigmies, "a Pitt among a lot of village politf cians''. This sort of thing has been going on and on, until finally the in- evitable has happened, and George begins to think that he is really a very superior sort of person, which is the English equivalent of saying that he has the swelled head.
 What has as a matter of fact hap pened could have been foreseen. George is considerably more ener- getic than his fellows who are oi that happy go-lucky class of British aristocrats who have found things rather easy to control when subordi- mates one never heard of were themselves efficient at their work. The intricacies of state craft found their most difficult realization in Ireland where landlordism presented problems which taxed even the philosophfc in tellect of Balfour or the literary graces of a Birrell. AS far as the far flung imperial battle line was concerned. the British investor and his tools in foreign or colonial climes could be relied upon to see that trade followed the flag. and the flag followed the trade. even by q little war which was the enphonious