New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-12-07

many upon the Western Front. As
chief of Britain's war supplies he
turned the land into a vast munition
factory.
Teachers Son a Ruler
II has now remained for the son Of a
Welsh schoolmsster 20 become the head
Of one Of the most caste-ridden govern
nents on earth. A commoner, a demo-
,rat. n man OF humble birth and OBJ
scure upbringing, he succeeds without
A title 20 the high seat which peers
have held before him.
Forty years ago the puny son Of
schoolmaster's widow sat Of Sunday
in her little cottage in Car
navon Burgs, Wales, indulging in the
most delicious treat of the whole week.
On the table before him was one fresh
egg, and he and his brother were 70
share it as their Sabbath breakfast
Fresh meat was an undreamed of lux
ury. This one egg was the event Of
seven days of poverty. The lad glost-
ing over the thought Of this c1trava-
CANT fare was Lloyd George
Revolts Against Narrowne5s
Thirty years ago body Of Welsh
surged into the grave
yard of a chapel Of the Established
Church in Carnavon Burgs and dug
from the Suicide corner" where the
minister had ordered il buried, the
body of quarryman. A law had been
passed. shortly before, permitting the
burial of Nonconformists in Church of
cemeteries. The dying quarry
man had asked TO be buried beside his
daughter in this pleasant English
graveyard. The minister, smarting un-
der the indignity offered the Church,
had him buried in the corner reserved
for those who had taken their own lives.
A thin little lawyer superintended
the mob that laid the man to rest be-
side his daughters body. 1t was he
who faced the trespsss proceedings
brought by the enrsged vicar, and car
ried his appeal from court to court
until the highest In the realm reversed
the decision against him. Carnavon
Burgs sent Lloyd George to Parlia-
ment, at the age of twenty-seven, for
this fight
Opposed Boer War
Seventeen years ago member OF
Parliament was speaking in Birming-
ham against England's continuance Of
the Boer war. He was mobbed by a
crowd TINT would have torn him TO
pieces had they caught him. He fed
from Birmingham disguised in a po-
liceman's uniform. The man who near
ly forfeited his life for speaking against
an English war then is now the virtual
head of an empire plunged in the great
est conflict of all times.
He is small and wiry. His face is
still pale. His lips are sensitive be
meath his little bushy mustache. His
eyes are as eloquent as his voice. his
manner frank and democratic. Demo
cratic to the core OF him, Lloyd George
is one of the most approachable men
who ever held public Office in Eng
land.
He is a fighter from his tiny feet to
his sparse sleek hair. He has always
been fighting, clear-eyed. cool-headed,
bitter. His battle for the Christian
burial Of an humble quarryman was
only a preliminary skirmish in a life
that has been one long strife.
A Trial TO His Foes
For years after his election 10 Par
Lament he was one of the chief trials
of the respectable and Conservative
gentlemen there seated. Within few
months after the beginning of his term
of service the mention Of his name was
enough to turn a supporter Of the party
in power purple.
Daring. caustic, eloquent, he was soon
known to English politics ms the most
persistent and :nvinciblc guerilla in
the House. His genius FOR throwing
distractions into the path of Conserva-
tive plans was unlimited. In 1905, when
the ministry was overthrow and Sir
X. pbell-Bannerman was chosen TO
head the Liberal regime, Lloyd George
received his victor's reward in the
shape OF the presidency OF the Board
OF Trade.
He did not rest. There was an OPP
for another bitter fight ahead
and he threw himself into the conflict
A railway strike threatened 10 paralyze
the entire kingdom. Lloyd George lit
orally beat the magnates into submits
sion and forced arbitration.
Makes Wealth Pay the Bill
Again came advancement. and again
he found opportunity for more
strenuous battle. In 1908 Asquith be-
,ame Premier and Lloyd George was
appointed Chancellor Of the Exchequer.
In 1909 he shook the aristocracy of
England with the most terrific blow
that had been aimed against them in
and opened a new era in the
fiscal history of Great Britain.
The government faced q deficit Of
s75, 100000 in the budget, and Lloyd
George advanced the unheard-of propo-
sition that this should be raised by
further taxation OF the property Of the
wealthy. His bill was directed espe-
,ially against the lords OF vast domains.
who had rejoiced, until then, in the
lnearned increment OF land.
The privileged classes opposed him
bitterly from the first The combat led
10 a great constitutional fight between
the Houses of Commons and Lords, and