The Mt. Sterling advocate., 1922-10-24


Lloyd George was officially announc-
ed in London last week.
When Mr.. Lloyd George rendered
his resignation to the king. he advis-
ed His Majesty to summon Andrew
Bonar Law. the Conservative leader,
to form a new cabinet
The resignation of Prime Minister
Lloyd George carried with 1t that Of
his entire cabinet.
Andrew Bonar Law has consented
to form a ministry in succession to
the ministry Of Lloyd George, it has
also been announced. in compliance
to the kings request
Lloyd George outlasted all the
statesmen who guided the great ma
tons through the world war In the
turmoil of readjustment, he kept his
seat at the steering wheel when those
all around him were losing theirs.
The men with whom he sat in Pa
ris and the Big Four of the peace
conference, have been toppled over.
The cabinet of Orlando, the Italian
premier, resigned in June, 1919. The
following January Clemenceau. the
French Tiger, was cast aside. Two
months later the United States sem
ate refused to ratify Woodrow VIII
sons peace treaty. Not long after
wards his party was beaten at the
polls.
After the other three had been over
thrown in their countries. Lloyd
George became probably the most
outstanding figure in public affairs.
His position, constantly in danger
from a possible adjustment of one
of the groups forming the coalition
on which his government rested, was
strengthened, so far as history is
concerned, after all the other war
statesmen had gone, because it was
he who acted as Great Britain's
spokesman in the Irish parleys last
winter which led to the Free State
and peace after 700 years of strife
between England and Erin.
Lloyd George was born in Manches-
ter. England, January II, 1863. His
father, a Unitarian school master,
died when David was an infant. The
child was adopted by an uncle, Rich
ard Llyod, a Welsh shoemaker, and
lay preacher With only limited
education David went into law Of
fee in the little town in North Wales
where he lived. Then he married and
soon dived into politics.
For is years he was liberal men,
ber of parliament, representing Car
narvon. Then came a rapid rise to
fame. His ascent to a place among
the mighty began in 1908, when AS
quith became prime minister. He en-
tered the cabinet as chancellor of the
exchequer. The next year in the
great budget battle he routed the
once powerful house of lords. With
the coming of the war Lloyd George
convulsed the country by introducing
drastic reforms in taxation which put
new burdens On the wealthy classes
and confiscated part of the unearned
increment of land.
In 1916 when England was threat
ened with strikes at time when
Germany was scoring heavy sue
cesses on the western front, Lloyd
George left the chaneellorship of the
exchequer to become minister of mu-
nitions.
In this tremendous task he sue
ceeded and when Kitchener of Khar-
toum was lost at sea at Welshman
took his place as secretary of state
| for war.
Then on December 6. 1916. he was
called to the premiership.
In the appraisal Of admirers, Lloyd
George was frequently credited with
having always given to the poor and
oppressed the first place in his
heart"
II was frequently said of him that
no statement ever changed his mind
on important questions as many
times. BY some he was regarded as
an opportunist who switched his po'
sition with great speed and dexterity
whenever the band wagon seemed to
turn in unexpected direction. Nobody
could ever tell what he was going Ia
do next
Andrew Bonar Law win put on the
prime minister's mantle for a shor,
term OF Office. The hing summoned
him to Buckingham Palace and inyit
ed him TO form a new government
which Mr.. Bonar Law will undertake
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