Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-07-19
EUROPEAN WAR BRINGS oPPOR
TUNITY TO WILLIAM MORRIS
HUGHES.
BUsHaANeER BECOMES
POLITICAL LEADER
Never in History Of England Has Any
Politician Almost Unknown to Gen.
eraI Public, Made so Swift Con-
quest Of the Enthusiasm Of the
Masses-Puts Ginger in England.

London, July 12.-Seldom in the re-
cent history Of Englishspeaking peo-
pies, and perhaps never IN the memory
of Britain, has any politician almost
unknown to the general public made
SO swift a conquest Of the imagination
and the enthusiasm of the masses as
| William Morris Hughes, the prime
minister of Australia. Only the sud
den achievement of William J. Bryan
| after his Grown Of Thorns, and Cross
of Cold speech before the Chicago
! convention, twenty years ago, gives
| parallel in America.
| Last year Hughes was known to the
United Kingdom as a colonial premier
| one of list of overseas statesmen
or politicians. with Borden, Fisher.
Laurier and Ward, men whose names
are familiar to Englishmen. whose per-
sonalities are merely vague shadows IN
the public mind. These colonial lead
ers always were treated with formal
respect when they visited the mother
country. \ few public dinners and re-
ceptions. perhaps a knighthood, dec
Grafton and university degree were
given them. But outside the official
world a general who had conducted
one OF England's little wars" or an
explorer who had written some new
names across the map, was more of
parsonage.
Oratorical Output Remarkable.
The oratorical output of the Aus
tralian prime minister has compared
farcrably with the efforts of an Ameri-
can presidential candidate of the most
heroic stuff The number of addresses.
large and small. which the newspapers
have reported stretch we'll over a hun
dred. At Liverpool, Manchester, Edin-
burgh and other great provincial cities,
such crowds have welcomed his arrival
AS few public men in civil life have
seen since the famous electioneering
tours of GLADSTONE during his most
popular years. lie has made speeches
U.lOre every" type OF puDlic anu PA
vate organization from munIcI pal
bodies thru the various strata OF schol-
astic and charitapi. societies. In the
same week he has responded TO the be-
stowal OF the freedom Of d conserva-
i've municipality (handed TO him in a
gold ,ashett, Greeted societies OF Welsh
men, received degree from univer-
SHY. stirred to enthusiasm meeting
OF dock laDorers on the Thames, and
gained KID gioved applause from
committee OF peeresSeS engaged in war
work
The Hughes platform, roughly put,
has been tilts '"N ar 20 the hIlt against
the Germans, both on the battlefield,
and in the held OF trade. Commercial
UNION within the British empire. and
closer union, with a share for the
colonies in making decisions on i'm
perial questions that concern them.
Put Ginger" in England.
Mr.. Hughes came TO England by in
vitation OF the government 10 confer
on war matters. Australia and Canada
have furnished nghting forces so large
and SO good that the cabinet felt that
they should have a larger voice in the
direction of affairs than the old ma
chinery gave them. Hughes. did not
regard himself as in any way visitor
nor an outsider, or colonial In
his first speech he took the position Of
member of the family.
This is the British empire; my
people are a part of it. l am of you
with all the rights and privileges Of
| member of the firm This was the
| lOIe VI HIS IIlSl SpssSll, anu tIt SdllS
| tone has permeated all of them. He
advocated policies, and he denounced
| policies. He scattered admonition and
advice with liberal hand. While he
did not directly attack the government
he was soon acclaimed as the chief
| '.Gingerer." He asserted that he had
| driven German trade from Australia,
and he proposed plan for keeping the
| key industry of smelling; which is of
| equal importance to Australian mining
| industry and the British consumer, in
| the hands of British companies.
Naturally the people who think as
Nj. Hughes thinks crowded around
about him. The newspapers which
| are for ginger and the protectionist
| journals, took him up and played him
| for all he was worth. When the COM
mercial conference of the entente pow
ers, held in Paris. was being arranged.
| the Hughes press insisted that the
| Australian should go as British dele
gate, and he was sent. Now that he il
| about to return home enthusiasts de-
clare that the government should ask
him to remain in England as a sort Of
| free-lance adviser. The departure Of
| Of Mr.. Hughes will be celebrated with
some signs Of relief. His campaign
has not proceeded without exciting cri-
ticism and antagonism, altho uttered
| in very considerate accents. This has
come from two sources, those who dis
| sent from the measures which Hughes
| proclaimed, and certain few irritateS
that colonial statesman should offer
advice so freely to the mother country.
| One Indictment was for approaching
| great and complex questions loosely
and grandiloquently." Hints have been
| dropped that he was neglecting his
own work in Australia.
The Australian Abraham Lincoln.
The Australian Abraham Lincoln"
as Hughes has been called, whose life
spans only So years, and who has risen
| in thirty-two years from the status of
an humble emigrant to sit around the
| council table as priyy councillor. is
anything but strong man physically.
He Is thin, and pale, with face resem-
bling Robert Louis Stevenson's, but
with the fire and energy that often
glow in frail body. His career has
| been a hard working one.
His first noteworthy political enter
prise was the organization Of the un-
| skilled workers on the sydney docks.
| He advocated compulsory military SER
vice as early as 1901. and made. it
plank of the labor party platform. As
| the head Of the great state which has
! :.c$. nes-iss. approached socialism, mis-
views ION that system are interesting.
His belief is that the growth Of pri7.
fvate monopoiies narrows the issue to
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