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Box 210 Nome, Alaska. Phone, Black 184.
Nome, Alaska, December 8, 1910.
LLOYD GEORGE.
The great trouble with a country
which has a history is that states
men from time to time appear who
affect to follow in the steps of some
other man whom they would have
regarded as their archetype.
Especially is this the case in Eng
land. Numberless instances could be
mentioned where prominent men
modelled their lives after some
“great" predecessor, whose great
ness they would reflect In their own
lives. And especially is this the
case in England because of the fact
that this has become a cult by rea
son of the innumerable followers ol
Thomas Carlyle who was the high
priest if not the evangelist who
made that cult part of the social re
ligion. Carlyle chose for his admir
ing pen the men whom he regarded
as the strong men: the men who did
things, and that quite regardless.
Men like Cromwell, like Napoleon,
like Frederick the Great were -his
ideals, and he allowed his pen to
descant upon the attributes of these
men with unalloyed eulogium.
The consequence has been that
every pea-brained author aspects to
he a second Shakespeare, every
numbskull politician a second Solon,
and every poetaster a Dante. So the
methods followed by those in tem
porary cli.rg-- of things won . ape
the autocra., of a Cromwell, the
energy of a Frederick or the domi
nating methods of a Napoleon, quite
regardless of the fact that not one
of these have anything in common
with the great men whose lives thej
copy, and whose career and the de
termining social forces which made
it. they do not really understand.
It is altogether probable that the
little Welsh cabinet minister, Lloyd
George, v.ito is a profound admirer
of William Pitt the younger, would
. ir.o let.ve behind a record similar to
that statesman in whose hands wore
the imp' rial destinies of Great
Britain when Great Britain
was f :hting the wars of Na
poleon. Time without number,
George has hinted at Pitt’s inexor
able pros ution of tin- war as the
example which rtus 1’"' -vefl,
and in quite a r<. •« I .- i U a .t lie
said that just as Pitt maintained
with no sort of very great success in
the beginning, the war against Na
poleon. the British must press this
war at all costs against Germany.
And the strong conservative papers
have with clever flattery been feed
ing the flames of personal ambition
which burned within llie breast ot
Lloyd George, for they have been
in the most subtle manner contrast
ing him with the rest of the cabinet
to the disadvantage cf the latter
end equally subtly insinuating that
be was a giant among pigmies, “a
Pitt among a lot of village politi
eians”. This sort of thing has been
going on and on, until finally the in
evitable has happened, and George
begins to think that he is really a
very superior sort of person, which
is the English equivalent of saying
ihat he has the swelled head.
What has as a matter of fact hap
pened could have been foreseen.
George is considerably more ener
getic than his fellows who are of
that happy go-lucky class of British
aristocrats wild have found things
rather easy to control when subordi
nates one never heard x»t
were themselves efficient at
their work. The intricacies
of state craft found their most
difficult realization in Ireland where
landlordism presehted problems
which taxed even the philosophic in
tellect of a Balfour or the literary
graces of a Birrell. As far as the
far flung imperial battle line was
concerned, the British Investor and
his tools . In foreign or colonial
climes could be relied upon to see
that trade followed the flag, and the
flag followed the trade, even by a
little war which was the euphonleus
expression for a native massacre in
some section of the globe. There
were no tremendous foreign policy
problems demanded attention, foi
D israeli had established the prin
ciple for British statesmen in for
eign affairs that all they had to do
wast to maintain the balance of pow
er. When this or that power threat
ened to weight down the scales, Brit
tania quite gracefully grabbed the
scales with her trident, and main
tained the status quo. It was ex
ceedingly simple and quite adequate
to the genius of Downing Street.
Lloyd George possesses as a Gael,
being a Welshman, much more in
tuition than his Saxon brethren in
the Cabinet. When it fell to his
lot to establish radical changes in
the methods of taxation they allow
ed his imagination ample range.
When it fell also to his part to en
deavor to bring about a condition
of things between Labor and Capital
in Great Britain which would pacify
(Labor without injuring Capital,
George was the man to devise cer
tain remedies which while they
roused considerable Tory opposition
really were most effective in bring
ing about a maximum of satisfaction
at a minimum of cost.
Thereupon George was hailed as
the workers’ savior, just as Gompers
lias after due form canonized Wilson
as a labor saint, and particularly a
patron of the American Federation
Of Labor.
George probably in those days
might have compared himself to Fox
or to Cobden, for he most certainly
was not in the category of Pitts.
But then came the war. George
did not like it. He had no particu
lar enmity to Germany. As long as
a British merchant made profit sell
ing goods “made in Germany”, he
did not see any particularly serious
hostility in the rise of German com
merce. He had no visions of Ger
man colonial greatness and that too
usurping the fields which had hither^
to been the preserves of the “young
er sons" who had to get out of a
land where primogeniture is still
the law of the land.
It takes a Kipling to idolize as
well as idealize the remittance man,
but George was much more practical
and lie is too much of a modernist
to lie a snob. He is the representa
tive of modern English commercial
ism.
But political loyalty demanded
service from Lloyd George and his
imagination soon left his colleagues
, far behind, with the possible excep
| tion of Kitchener, whose arrogance
and domination and great organiza
tion skill he certainly feared and de
tested. It was a stroke of fate that
i Kitchener himself should have re
commended George as Minister ot
Munitions, where the former patron
saint of labor soon began to make
a name for himself by the adoption
| of methods which have made the
American employer typical and fam
ous. Speeding-up, efficiency, em
ployment of women, standardization,
| all those new fangled notions which
I the British employers rather dis
liked because they were innovations.
j Mtious man.
i His success war. little short o.t
! wonderful, as success will attend
I any man who brings order out ot
! chaos and efficiency out of slovenly
; methods, in the matter^ of organiza
tion. He became on this account
the very man upon whose shoulders
the entire hopes of the nation for
1 ultimate success were placed.
He thus naturally became the
i central figure of the war cabinet,
1 and iiv turn he became more war
like than the soldiers themselves,
' and more militarist than the jingo
lets themselves. He, in turn also,
| began to regard himself As the hub
of the wheels of the Martial Chariot
that was to lead Britain to victory,
and when there wa* any peace talk
he bitterly opposed it. He who had
carefully refrained at first from
lending any favor to the attacks
upon the Germans now began to
speak of Huns and the necessity for
wiping them out of existence. How
ever even while he condemned the
methods which he declared threaten
ed the world: the Prusslanism or
militarism of the junker class, he
did precisely what the junker clas9
in every nation a1 war or not did
while denouncing Prussia, copied
them as well as he could, and
adopted them as well as he was able
in Great Britain.
Because he made munition factor
ies grow overnight, and because he
proved that as an organizer he wa9
the equal of Kitchener, and because
his speeches breathed the very in
spiring principle of "No Surrender"
the conservative papers which had
placed him formerly in their black
list where the patron saints of labor
usually are categoried, began one by
one to praise him. Then praise ran
to flattery, and the Northcliffe' pa
pers literally slathered him with the
most fulsome admiration. He was
likened to Beaconsfleld, and they
honored him at Primrose celebrations
in honor Of the former Tory leader,
but soon they ransacked history to
find a greater than D'lsraeli, and
discovered him in the person of Pitt;
so they said he was a second Pitt.
George who had been raised in that
atmosphere of hero worship when
the heroes are the strong men ot
history, and which Carlyle made so
powerful and so popular, soon saw
many things in common between
himself and Pitt. So he is now anx
ious to completely dominate the si
tuation in Great Britain so that he
may bring about another Waterloo
where the enemies of Great Britain
may be laid low.
He is about the mcst reactionary
of all British ministers today. He
is now an arch-militarist and a
leader of those imperialists who
thirst for the Teuton extinction. A
more impossible man from the paci
ficist point of view it would be im
possible to imagine. Yet his arrival
at the place where he now stands is
logical and inevitable. He was al
ways a typical British bourgeois. He
was always the incarnation of that
imperial commercialism which at the
bottom rushed Great Britain into
the war. He can utter the same
lucid cant that is historically con
nected with British industrial and
commercial operations, and1 which
has provided workhouses for the
out-of-works and popularized pau
perism as a stable condition of
things. The energy displayed is not
the sparkling energy of a Pitt, but
the equally ruthless energy of the
shopkeeper who fears that the mar
auders may despoil his cash box. He
will rule or ruin, aiid he will present
to the enemy that implacable deter
mination to fight to the bitter end
which characterizes commercialism
always when great gains or losses
are at stake. His arrival at the
premiership, if it shoujd be an ac
complished fact, postpones peace in
definitely. It is a bad open.
It is possible that he may not get
control because of the trouble he
may have in selecting a cabinet.
George is one of the few British
statesmen who burn their bridges
behind them. He lets the dead past
bury its dead and he watches un
moved the interment of his reputa
tion as the patron saint of labor. He
will proceed to any lengths, hopeful
that he may get back a little ways
unseen after things settle down and
victory is achieved. He will not be
deterred by any Anglo-Saxon tradi
tions. He is not an Anglo-Saxon. He
is Welsh and since the Tudors
there has been a relapse into reli
ance on ultra traditionism in Great
Britain. George will stop at nothing
to win. Humanist scruples, finan
cial considerations, industrial emer
gencies, labor opposition, unionist
resistance: none of these things
would stand in his way. That is why
Kitchener before he was lost, feared
him. George is the, embodiment
however not of a Pitt nor a Cromwell,
but of the British commercialism
whicl^ sees itself in the same dire
straits which it faced when
it seemed not unlikely Napoleon
would conquer the world. He is the
personal embodiment of commerce
struggling for supremacy.
PROFESSIONAL CARD.
Dr. A. F. Heimlich
PHYSICIAN & SURGEON.
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