Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-01-19
sWAR SHOWS WILSON AS
GREATEST STATESMAN
To Him Has Fallen the Task of Vocng the Ideals That
Lay Behind Task Of Ending Military
Autocracy.
Autocracy.

fifteen years service he first took
Office" in the British sense, as presi-
| dent Of the board of trade in 1905. In
/ 1908 he became Chancellor Of the I1x-
| cheaper, or Minister of Finance. lie
! speedily employed his powers Of direct.
ing taxation for tho advancement OF
schemes of social Justice" especially
along the limos of Industrial compen-
sation and insurance, and reaching
| unearned increment" OF land values.
Those were the days when he was
denounced as "a radical whose utopian
schemes could not work" rle was still
Chancellor of the Exchequer when the
war began, and brought in tho first
great war taxation bill. But the early
days OF the war showed deficiencies in
supply OF munitions to the British ar
| mics. Lloyd Georges tireless energy
and proved ability to get things done"
marked him az the man to organize
nationalize and speed up" munition
making, and in 1915 he passed to the
headship Of tho new ministry OF muni-
tons.
When the epitaph Of too late" had
been written for 1915 except in Lloyd
Georges department of tho battle be-
hind the battle lines. and it was agreed
that party politics of the old type
must be adjourned until the war should
be won. Premier AsQuth was felt not
fully TO cmbody the British peoples
iron resolution that nothing but the
peace of complete victory could be even
thought OF, and Lloyd George became
Primo Minister and First Lord of the
Treasury, and rs such led tho British
empire to the winning of the war.
CLEMENCEAU KNOWN AS
DESTROYER OF MINISTRIES
The man who>is primarily 4 publicist
and man of letters yet becomes tho re-
sponsiblc head Of government is not a
familiar figure in the English Spea King
world. Yet that has been the vocation
OF Georges Clemenccau, Prime Minister
~.
seventy-seyenth year. but best known
in his own country as "the destroyer
OF ministries"
When tho war began he entered the
long His patriotism has never been
doubted, but even in the midst OF war
he ne never heSitate sl,, TO criticize and
essary Wien his ee paper e" Was iGe
pressed he changed the name from
Lie iomme Libre Uhe Free Mani to
and hammered on. lie was most viru-
lent in his ccnsurcs OF tho manage
ment OF the allied offensive OF 1916.
and his And the, Russians Are. SIN
ministry rs incessantly as did Catos
Carthage Must BE Destroyed" did
those OF the Roman Senate.
When tho exposure OF Bolo Pashas
intrigues and the apparent completely
| III them OF certain Of it's members
overthrow tho Painlcve Cabinet it was
Tiger" was Frances strongest man,
and his return to the premiership was
not opposed even by the radical So
cialists. That was just one year ago,
| on November Is, 1917.
SENT BOLO PASHA
BEFORE FIRING SQUAD
| How swiftly he dealt with the de
| fcatist" intriguers, sending Rolo Pasha
/ before firing squad. and various ac-
co.nplices to prison. including the for
mer Premier. Joseph Cnillaux, is recent
| history. His relentless energy and
! tireleSs activity are standing rcfuta-
tons OF certain theories attributed 10
! DR.. Oslcr, for in September last Georges
! Clemenccau celebrated his seventy
seventh birthday. 80
Victor EmTanue. Orlando. Italian
Premier at the wars end was pi-ic-
| tically unhcard of outside his own
country until. az Minister OF tho In
! terror, he refused the Italian Socialist
! passports 10 the Stockholm confer
ence. which he, correctly characterized
as "a maneuver Of the central powers
! He is, however. Il legal educator and
! writer of distinction and was pro
fessor of law at Modcna in his TWEEN
! ty-hfth year, and later held the same
! chair In the university of his native
| Palermo for ten years. lie is tho
author of the standard Italian work
on principles OF constitutional law.
Elected 10 tho Chamber OF Deputies