The New York herald., 1921-10-02
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Great men he has learned to know through
all his public life.
And only the other day the London illus
trated papers printed picture of him.
ing on white moor pony, while the Duke
Of Atholl plodded on foot, holding his bride
rein! Even Napoleon never aspired to a
Duke at his bride rein.
And through all these infinitely varying
contacts he has learned in the hurly-burly
Of modern politics, where all men meet as
potential equals, the secret of getting on
the inside of all mems thoughts, of match
ing the thoughts of his own opponents
and of opponents of factions between whom
he is protesting to arbitrate. He has
learned to strip from differences of opinion
all accidents of prejudice and passion. So
stripped, he has learned to show where
essential differences lie and how they
may be bridged. In that art which might
be said to be the supreme art of modern
politics. he is the supreme master.
In that sense he is the politician, not
the statesman, if we define statesmen to
mean some carven thing of rigid beauty
adhering to principles and caring little
for results.
Perhaps he is beginning to see now that
he has, in very fact, by the sheer force of
his efforts created a newly privileged
class-the class that is demanding in Eng
land to-day that the State give them work
or pay them the equivalent of a full wage,
and feeling that under such conditions
work is not as important as the wage It
was the appeal for the preservation of the
State that he used so softly with them DUR
ing the war. And perhaps he is quailing
before attacking this new privileged class,
.ormerly his comrades.
Tolerance for Under Dog
Reflected in His Policies
But his liberalism, his innate sympathy
.or the under dog, still shows in his Irish
policy, in his tolerance of the Dominion
claims, in his desire for a universal dis
armament and peace arrangement; and he
does earnestly desire that that may come
from the Washington conference 1t is
into those channels that his old liberalism
Is now directing itself when domestic
power sobers his efforts here and makes
him more of a judge between all classes
than the partisan of any one.
And how has he succeeded all along this
long road he has travelled?
III Lloyd George Is to be Judged merely
by results, there are few who can con-
denim him. He may get into mess now
and then, but he gets out. In some re-
spects he is like Roosevelt He moves so
fast from one thing to another that people
get only the flashes of high lights and
by the time they are picking flaws in the
shadows he is Off making new high lights
tc dazzle them. And who yet can say that
the winning of the war, the attainment OF
all he did attain for England in the peace.
the settlement OF Ireland and the putting
of England's foot into new social. economic
and industrial pathways are evil results?
Those who say he is without character
and without principle are for the most part
either those hdebound political dogmatists
like the wee frees or the Tories, or those
whom he has bested in some battle. About
him are a host of men who give him un-
sparingly of their service and devotion.
Some people call him a liar, and sometimes
he Ss In certain sense of the term. But
mostly those who condemn him are those
who are furthest from him. Personal
charm aside, 1t is pretty good test of the
mans personal character when those clos
est to him like him and admire him. There
has been but one real detection, a minor
one, from the Lloyd George Cabinet
He has job of huge proportions Few
Prime Ministers of England have sue