Evening journal., 1918-02-26

And Of the governing classes"
And, as my Honorable and Gallant
Friend says. Of the governing classes, 30
continued Major Davies.
Following him there came a perfect
torrent Of speech from a seat beneath
the balcony where ] sat couldn't
see the speaker, but the evening papers
noto the fact that Mr.. stanton member
for Mefthyr, broke all speed records.
speaking 3.tO0 words in the course of
fifteen minutes 70 must have been
stanton What ho wanted the Prime
Minister TO do, ne said. was "to get
more Of the young men who are shirk-
Ing around the mines or In other indus
tries, into the army" His peroration
was:
I'VE have these acroplanes coming
from America and l am hoping the
Government have a little surprise IN
store for us and that one morning we
shall wake up and read that 800 or 200
aeroplanes have flown 90 Germany and
bombed them 10 the devil. men, women
and children, The same as they have
done our people
Almost missed this fno finish for i'm
the midst Of it / spied the boyish out
line OF the Prime Nnister-he's really
not much bigger than Secretary OF War
Baker-as he came through the door
way back of the Speakers dias. no
ceremony attended his entry. He slip
ped In quietly and wedgod himself be
tween Sir Eric Geddes and Bonar Law
on the front bench, where members Of
the Government sit.
stanton sat down and the Prime
Minister stood up. lie placed a bundle
Of papers on the big desk that extended
from the Speakers chair In front OF and
about half the length of the Govern
ment bench. As he spoke he referred TO
his notes, for the speech contained
many figures. said 10 be "a weakness OF
the Prime Minister. While In appear
ance he was as much the evangelist as
ever--the Gypsy Smith type not the
Ny Sunday--he did not use his evan
gilist voice today. The pulpit-likc ef-
feet. however, was emphasized In other
ways: by the involuntary trick for in
stance. Of resting his hands ON the desk
at a height slightly below his shoul-
dcrs, and sway ing slowly backward and
forward
This Government bench is just a
bench, with a back. and nothing more.
Lloyd George talked for almost an hour
and a half Before he concluded Bon3r
Law who had been slipping by imper-
ceptible degrees, was siiiing on the
small Of his back or close thereto. When
the Prime Minister sat down, sir Eric
Geddes ayailed himself of tho chance,
which be must have been waiting for
earnestly, TO brace himself by putting
one foot on the side of the big table.
OF course. IL was the foot OF Tho
Lord OF the Admiralty, but the spot
where it rested was not more than ten
inches from the head or the great gold
mace, symbol OF sovereignty lying
across the front Of the desk.
Many speakers followed. Mr. As
quiih's speech, Ike the Prime Minis
iers, has been fully reported. Mr. Ad-
amson. chairman Of the Labor Party
members. addressing the Prime Minis
ter directly said:
II you imagine that you arc going 90
go on making call after call for men
without some definite and distinct ar
rangemeni as TO the conscription of
wealth, then YOU will find you are up
against very diflcult proposition"
Later when another member took IS
sue with his statement that members
OF the upper classes ar not found I'm
the food queues. Adams0n rctorted:
Il do not think you viii ind any
large proportion Of duchesscs i'm these
queues"
It was soon after this that Lloyd