San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-08-15

people like ourselves. British enter.
empire industrial development thus
passes from a thing naturally desir
able 10. thing compulsory. We are
holding an imperial conference this
autumn. 1t will consider not only the
strategic safety of the British nations
but the industrial and commercial.
NECESSITIES of their existence.
"Some parts of our commonwealth
have too many people. other parts too
few. There is not enough room in the
m0therland, there is room TO spare IN
the dominions. Obviously then we have
a population proSlem-thc problem of
such a distribution of our manpowcr
and womanpower as will promote our
stability and security from every point
of view. This problem like the others
that confront us is difficult. but 1t
exists. and we must face il. We have
not enough houses in the British Isles
And we have serious unemployment
To force house building too much
means scarcity of skilled labor, hign
prices and added burdens of taxation
Not in Despair.
'1f l appear TO speak despairingly
l am by no means in despair. Despair
is the very last emotion we should en-
terrain now. In true sense we are
still in the war-still battling with
the catastrophe that cost us and
France and others the flower of our
youth and mortgaged our resources foi
years to come. As we did not weaken
in the long period of the military
struggle. so we shall not weaken now
Our peoples are bearing their mis-
fortunes magnificently-evep those
who walk the streets in vain in search
of work. BY these we shall stand fast
We no more should think of abandon
ing them than we should think of de-
serting comrades in the face of the
enemy
Fatigued by great speeches outside
and inside the House of Commons and
by prolonged cabinet meetings. Mr.
Baldwin had dismissed his last official
caller for the morning and was on the
point of leaving for weekend in the
country.
Loyal disciple OF Bonar Law, Mr.
Baldwin strikes one as a fresher and
stronger reproduction of that states
man-sane. steady and friendly. like
Bonar Law. but keener. more direct,
more practical. more modern. quicker
TO pass from thought to action. This
new British premier. it should be re-
membered. is unique figure in the
political life of his country-a simple
minded business man suddenly elevat-
ed and elevated with national approval,
to the first position in the politics of
the British commonwealth. He. to-
gether with Bonar Law and Lord
Younger, organizer of the Unionist
party. compassed the downfall of the
coalition of Lloyd-George and oustcd
from power some of the most famous
and strongest men in British history
men like Balfour. Birkenhead. Austen
Chamberlain and Winston Churchill.
1t has been said of Mr.. Baldwin
that he saved the British Conservative
party body and soul. His work has
been described as n sort Of constitu-
tional fascism--an orderly revolt
against irresolution ard dialectics and
futility in high positions of state. Par
lament with the overwhelming ma
jority of the Lloyd-George premiership
became little less than a registering
device for the executive. Parliament
under the Baldwin premiership has
been revitalized. 1t feels its power.
Its initiative has returned. Mr.. Bald