Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-10-20
Lloyd George Regime Caught
in Collapse of Coalition in
Britain; a Memorial Career
Little Welshman Rose From Small Law Office to
Biggest Job in England; Held Office
for Six Years.

DlSSCSl JOO AlA Lily
for Six
London, Oct. 1900 p. m.-The
resignation of Prime Minister Lloyd
George vas officially announced Tues
day evening.
The resignation Of Prime Minister
Lloyd George carried swith it that of
his entire cabinet.
When Mr.. Lloyd George rendered
his resignation to the king this even
ing he advised his majesty to summon
Andrew Bonar Law, the conservative
leader, to form a new cabinet, Up until
9 o'clock Thursday evening Mr.. Bonar
Law had not been to Buckingham
palace.
Lloyd George outlasted all the
statesmen who guided the great nations
through the world war. In the turmoil
of readjustment that followed that con-
flct, he kept his seat at the steering
wheel when all around him were losing
theirs.
The men with whom he sat at Paris
as the big four" Of the peace con-
ference long ago were toppled over.
Premier Orlando of Italy was the first
to go. His cabinet resigned in June,
1919. The following January Clemen-
ceau, the French Tiger" was cast
aside.
Two months later the senate of the
United Stataes refused for a second
time to ratify the peace treaty Wood
row Wilson had brought home from
Versailles and not long afterwards his
party was beaten at the polls.
Became Outstanding Figure
After all the other three had been
put aside in their countries Lloyd
George became probably the most out
standing figure among all the men of
the world who were engaged in public
affairs. His position constantly in
danger from a possible dropping away
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 1t
was he who acted as Great Britain's
spokesman in the parleys last winter
with the rebellious Irish leaders
parIeys which led to the creation of
the free state and peace after 100
years of strife between England and
Erin.
The rise of Lloyd George was an
adventure in politics filled with as
much romance as the lives of famous
Americans who came up from log
cabins to the White House.
He was born in Manchester, Eng
land, January IL, 1863. His father, a
Unitarian schoolmaster, died when
David was an infant, and the child
was adopted by an uncle, Richard
Lloyd, a Scotch Welsh shoemaker and
lay preacher.
With only a limited education David
went into a law office in a little town
in north Wales, where be lived with
his uncle. Then he married and soon
delved into politics.
Routed House of Lords
For is years he was a liberal mem
Der of parliament, representing Car
naryon. Then came a rapid rise to
fame. His ascent to a place among
the mighty began in 1908, when
Asquith became prime minister. The
little Welshman with the sparkling
eyes entered the cabinet as chancellor
of the exchequer.
The next year in the great budget
battle he routed the once powerful
house of lords. His achievements in
this fight was called 1.-The first VIC
tory against the privileged citadel of
wealth in the modern world"
With the coming on 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 I'M
earned increment of land.
In 1916 when England was threat
ened with strike at a time when Ger
many was scoring heavy successes on
the western front, Lloyd George left
the chancellorship of the exchequer
TO become minister of munitions, and
with no other equipment than a pri-
vate secretary and and office table
staked his reputation and his future
on mobilizing the industrial resources
of the nation before it was too late"
In his tremendous task he succeed
ed so well that when Lord Kitchener
was lost at sea the Welshman took
his place as secretary of state for
war. With Sir Eric Geddes he pushed
into the work of recognizing the
railway system supporting the Bri-
fish armies in France. Then on De-
cember 6, 1916, he was called to the
premiership,
Almost Immediately he substituted
a small compact war cabinet for the
larger and more unwieldly ministry
that had gone.
During the war he turned the In
dustries Of Great Britain into vast
munition factories, raised an army of
100000 men and organized 100000
war workers"
Helped u. s. In War
He, provided for construction of f.
00O, 600 tons of shipping, transferred
the big estates into truck gardens and
hospitals for recuperation and enfor-
ced CONSUMPTION on a proud and free
people. He followed up the collapse
of Russia and the Italian debacle at
Caperetto by rushing British troops
it possible for the United States to