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

I expression for a native massacre in were no tremendous foreign policy problems demanded attention. for | DIsraeli had established the priu- ciple for British statesmen in for i eign affairs that all they had to do vast to maintain the balance of pow CT. When this or that power threat ened to weight down the scales, Brit tania quite gracefully grabbed the scales with her trident, and main- tained the status quo. It was ex- ceedingly simple and quite adequate to the genius of Downing Street.
 Lloyd George possesses as Gael, being a Welshman, much more in tuition than his Saxon brethren in the Cabinet When it fell to his | lot to establish radical changes in the methods of taxation they allow ed his imagination ample range. | When it fell also to his part to en- deavor to bring about condition of things between Labor and Capital in Great Britain which would pacify kLabor without injuring Capital, George was the man to devise cer- tain remedies which while they reused considerable Tory opposition really were most effective in bring i,fg about a maximum of satisfaction at minimum of cost.
 Thereupon George was hailed as the workers savior, just as Gompers has after due form canonized Wilson as labor saint, and particularly a patron of the American Federation Of Labor.
 George probably in those days might have compared himself to Fox or to Golden, for he most certainly was not in the category of Pitts.
 But then came the war George did not like it. He had no particu- lar enmity to Germany. As long as British merchant made profit sell ing goods made in Germany, he did not see any particularly serious hostility in the rise of German com merce. He had no visions of Ger man colonial greatness and that too usurping the fields which had hither- to been the preserves of the young CT sons" who had to get cut of a land where primogeniture is still the law of the land.
 It takes Kipling to idolize as well as idealize the remittance man, but George was much more practical and he is too much of a modernist to be a snob. He is the representa- tive of modern English commercial ism.
 But political loyalty demanded service from Lloyd George and his imagination soon left his colleagues far behind, with the possible excep- ton of Kitchener, whose arrogance and domination and great organiza- I tion skill he certainly feared and de- tested It was stroke of fate that Kitchener himself should have re- commended George as Minister of Munitions, where the former patron saint of labor soon began to make a name for himself by the adoption of methods which have made the American employer typical and fam ous. Speeding-up, efficiency, em- ployment of women, standardization. all those new fangled notions which the British employers rather dis liked because they were innovations. were the apple of his eye to this am bilious man.
 His success was little short of wonderful, as success will attend any man who brings order out of chaos and efficiency out of slovenly methods, in the matter. of organiza- :, tion He became on this account the very man upon whose shoulders the entire hopes of the nation for ultimate success were placed.
 ! He thus naturally became the central figure of the war cabinet, and in turn he became more war like than the soldiers themselves. and more militarist than the jingo- ists themselves. He, in turn also, began to regard himself As the hub of the wheels of the Martial Chariot that was to lead Britain to victory, and when there was any peace talk l ha hitterIv nnnosed if. He who had