The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-12-07

the body from the suicide plot and placed it, as they wished, beside the grave of the quarryman's daughter. The enraged vicar instituted trespass l proceedings i:, which !ae was sustained by court after court to which Lloyd George carried an appeal, until the
 court of last resort upheld Lloyd i George and the non-Conformists.
 This fight against clerical arrogance, and especially the vigorous way in ] which the young lawyer carried it on, made Lloyd George famous through out Wales, and at the next bye-election in the district of Carnc -on Burgs, he
 was elected to Parliament-in his 27th year. It was this district which re- turned him regularly to Parliament at every election thereafter.
 In the House of Commons the young Welshman soon became one of the most prominent guerilla fighters, con- spicuous for his audacity and pun gency of utterance, and his capacity for obstruction while the Conserva- lives were in office. With the over
 throw of the Conservatives, and the
 beginning of the Liberal regime under Sir H. Campbell-Bannerman in 1905, Lloyd George entered the cabinet at a bound He was made President of the Board of Trade, where he justified his appointment by the successful hand ling of threatened railway strike which would have para1yzed the whole Kingdom. Lloyd George exercised such vigorous tactics that he forced the railway magnates into arbitration.
 When MT. Asquith became premier in 1908, he appointed Lloyd George to the Chancellorship of the Excheuuer, which was applauded generally in f. nancial circles. However, when the time came for the presentation of the budget in 1909-10. when the govern ment faced a deficit of some 75,0O0,- 900 Lloyd George convulsed the country by introducing drastic reforms in taxation which put new burdens on the moneyed classes. He called it a war budget" against poverty, which, he hoped, would become as remote to the people of the country as the wolves which once invested the forest" It was this remarkable Finance Bill with its heavy super-taxes and with it's cap- ture of part of the unearned increment of land that precipitated the war on the veto power of the House of Lords -an institution which Lloyd George declared should be thrown ''in the scrap heap"
 Among other battles which make Lloyd George stand out as a supreme advocate of the people, was his strug- gle for the establishment of state in- surance and old age pensions, modelled after the German systems. These great social benefits called forth much hos tile criticism. and predictions that they would prove failure. The or ganization of the insurance scheme had barely been perfected when the unusual conditions brought about by the European war caused a partial breakdown of the system and critics then again came to the, fore with the assertion that it would never work sat isfactorily. However, it stood as the chief item in the program of the Lib eral Asquith ministry, and was dis tinctly a Lloyd George cause.
 The force of Lloyd Georges person ality is particularly remarkable be- cause he is a little man, not only short but slim, with small mustache and white face, though his eyes were as eloquent as his voice. His manner is cheerful, frank and democratic and he is one of the most approachable men who ever held public office in England Although little in favor among the aristocracy. it was said he is one of King Georges favorites, liked by the sovereign more than any other minister,