| Show I G Of THE L LADDER Sir Henry just Did His Best at Every Job He Had AND NEVER BECAME WORRIED fly 11 DOJ Pertinacity Stick Sticking Ins ing to io His III Outstripped lI Correspondence T OI ON Jan Jun 3 I never neel had hilll nn any desire for the position I was wn called L I upon to occupy said Sir Henry Cani once when talking with a n friend about his selection tion as n leader of the opposition tint bitt bittI I was va put there thero by force of ot circum I Ido s I God Oot I 1 will do to my best test There you OU have hn ye the tho to the tho character ot of tho the man who la le now prime crime minister and lint by tho th grace mca and favor tavor of uC King lInA Edward tho the first dritt corn com Boner holding that position to take WV M Mt W Ws t t rt r f t ti k 1 i I 4 I I X 1 i f X t L O s SIR HENRY HENBY Latent Late t Photograph of J New Now Minister precedence ot of all nil barons earls rl II mar marquises qute dukes ranking next to the Archbishop of ot Canterbury Ily ny taking my rny ny Job that thai turned up and simply Jo do doIt It his ht level best beNt lio 14 ie has outstripped all alt his bis hi competitors Iti III lt the Liberal ranks Wd sd reached the tho topmost round of oC the political ladder mST BEST MAN NOT BRILLIANT But the tho best heft mun man in lt never neer brilliant lie owes ove his ht present position not to Rifts not nol to dialectical skill Ml Mt tu to transcendent powers in thu the high highest I fat est t regions ot of statesmanship hilt but to tho thu tenacity with which CM hIlS ha always stuck to his opinions anil the unyielding courage with which ho he h W led I d his hll party In the Ibo dark days of oC un tin Ills genial Rood humor ity it and have kept l oPt Ira to the tho front rank while men of oC mater grate ability hut iut less lees resolute j 1 temporarily nero thu the stage cot of o public tile life i In lLono ono one ot of Sir John cartoons carl ons In iii Sir Henry was wa depicted depleted us su a tut bUller cr It t did not require much uri curl to make him look luok like one lie He JIM lat hilt tho th kindly and a It w the same lame lime ul taco face of ot tho well trained man luau servant of oC tim the old SIT lie carri ii 11 Iii i im Ait lt It I 14 one OliO Of oC tho the in the house of oC common a lit liton tie to ta on j side eide nod aim looks us a it U no he meal k RC lt deal that would be in tir if ii only he were minded to tell ft It IL ji II I C tk I 1 i I tur A A Mi ir Nothing over ever rumes him an once n e said oi oj o tai II neither tr Mm him nor or provoke him nor for Mid Ura 1 aim oit Ills ili most InOt n ui L a I met Iet et is 13 shrewd common senst sens lie Is h but eafe lie Is i of i I letch In slow Iloilo los of or argument not nimble I the t 1 ut It ant and thrust of oC debate like ht h hl ha lain for tor Instance but when i I lune to tD t consider he ho Is iM effective I nr r f r hi h has bas taken lateen position up lip n ti po he Ito 10 o 0 It In 11 spite of at whatever anil atul poses Ho He has hilI never been lieen oen to ta i d Ot or u tin nil axe of dl t hili hIi own 11 ri II l his hl ot 01 Integrity and 1 t i tOh omit otty I purrO Ijo o has ha ner been culled q in to inv v coun counts for Cor or much In hI air Ir I lake oake Up P lie Ilu Iu Is 1 the son of oC D v I Jim draper and d of or It i Ya WI r j 1 ie lien Hell nd III to Ie I u sero row folY i V n In lImpers drapers a t hop In Glas Olus tory row II In i those r IttU of or the hl t toa Lell LellI I t I tej m Jn hii not nol d s the one ona price 8 eye Ba U te t I 1 come Into vogue ollIe An nr ur ht was Lit at live life I I he II p purchased P for lor byM tour four IJ Iy II ft U t e who wa wn not t he be I v ti 11 t e of oC the tha i ein IU It y lalus Umers that the famous Ut D i t r to In b n a series of at lec r Illness men In on he In i the course or of rn IU the tha nl The lectures made madu R a s They on the C amp I I ur urged ed u i DUt t a notice their I leu In i the tho window No second fl in th ed an and 1 make t I luch DOII They hy ll that I 8 11 sYstem not only I but oo SUCCESS RO I I was seep tIc a about t honesty proving tho Iho best policy polley he ho said at last hut yielding to their Importunities If IC you Oll wish Ish to tl t start u II place on such lines linea I will vilt lend you 1600 tOO OO to make muke the tho trial They accepted the Iho otTer and opened a shop shoJI of oC their own It was a It tho the beginning Square dealing paid aid beyond b rond their most sanguine tx ex Imitations 1 It was not long before thu the young men mell were running u n much big bigger bl get gel establishment than their former founer employer Tho Tue business busIne thus founded has now grown Into enormous proportions centered In III two gigantic hoUses In hI Glasgow with a it hel es ej establishment In tn Leeds and tinI with a II huga huge trade both hoth at nt borne and abroad James Jilin Campbell tho the father r of ot the future primo minister became Lord Provost of ol tim tho city of oC anti and afterward James Campbell The Iho two brothers brother were sere ard nt politicians but belonged ted to opposite parties It U Is II a somewhat sin am coincidence that air Wr Henrys brother Dr A Campbell who has luls represented University tn In Parliament since 1880 is numbered among his political opponents being u II Conservative C lint Hut hi ho has mtv nev tr U cut ut much m ch of ot a figure In the house ho se and auth seldom makes u a speech there which In is rather fortunate for Cor Henry FATHER LIFT LEFT LARGE FORTUNE From his father Mt h Henry Inherited a n large lIue fortune to which was VOM added another bequeathed to him by his hili ma maternal uncle unde It was conditional on his hii linking the surname tolls to his own wn patronymic of oC Campbell Ho lie submitted to the hyphen for forthe nako ak of oC tha tho cash which swelled his hlll income to oOoo a year Hence the tue double namo tiamo which he wears It makes a I rather big mouthful and to save tho tim time lime that it takes to get et it out political friends anti and foes loes alike IOn gen generally refer to him as us CU CB mel Inci Incidentally dentally tho Jho abbreviation Uon Is la u a tribute to hIi geniality and popularity No ono one would ever havo have dreamed of ot a n similar liberty with Sir Michael for Cor Instance who Is sometimes with the fashionable blo hyphen h phen Because of ot his hili peppery temper manner he ho was tong long ago OKO given the sobriquet of or Black Michael MichaelA Ucha l lA lA A nimble witted wilted Conservative once ob observed served HIYI Caiti like down But It has not lot prevented CH CIL from climbing t tho top about as liS early ho le now CD as It 11 used to be bethought thought respectful re for one olle to become prime minister Tho rho mime ot or Banner Bannerman I man Is III ti popularly supposed ell to bo be e of ot Teutonic origin but in lit Sir Henrys Henns case cne cn e eIt It is derived iota u Li long line lino of or ances ancestors tore tors who vre hereditary lr ers eni to tile the kings kingi of Scotland IN PARLIAMENT IET AT Ar 32 Sir tIr Henry was vai educated at lit Cam Cambridge bridge e and an 1 entered parliament Pal In meat When 31 32 3 years old as us memo mem member ber her for fur Stirling and lint has hils sat Fill continuously for that constituency for Cor 37 31 years ear n proof that his hla personality and political views are nc tic to the tho Scottish h From I the tho beginning of or Mt his hI career he ha was out nut for advancement but noun of hj hit warmest 1 friends would then have i I to to predict that tha t he h would be bej j com prime minister or ovon leader Iader of oC the house houpo of oC commons lIe He seemed de tle rather rither to figure n among the I highly hi este but Inti distinctly lie t th second rate rille politicians whoso hOC claims to cab cah cabinet inet loot rank ronk are aJO recognized on condition that when the time routes romes I for younger Ill to pres press forward they will vill retire cither with or without a n peerage IA FINANCE Fl NC SECRETARY sm m ritY Hp Ite hid hlll been be only three years In tho tIm thoI I house leue when Mr Ir Gladstone who ho had ball noted hU hi capacity for Cor business am 1 I the ease pise with which he dr details made marle him financial secre secretary tory tary tr to the war hail Had It then her b H of him that he would on fl day dav 1111 at the th mantle of oC the great ireat Liberal he would have treated the prediction with scornful laughter He Hew WM w wont ont to say My ay that even up to the tho theIn la In i RO JOO o was the person f r Ir rr r ne that hn ho h never rel e Into the ence of 01 l his ts great without feeling schoolboy oy In the tite pre Prence of oI Ills Itis mas mils masler master ler ter Oret m n generally like lI e to h b treated with Sir tir Ir Henrys at II t towards his chief i d hili HW I chiefs ches chlo good opinion of him lie lift was rr rn dp th financial secretary t tn a th tt war nm again In ISS and stuck tuk there for Cor two years vearn Then followed another two as secretary to the admiralty the officIal task as ow It Clime canto In I dul in no JI day 1 dreams e political catle building and just mak making I lag ing In thi th boat bot b 1 if of things thing Sir Henry came cameto to he tie d as the best general utility man nt at the disposal of oC oftie he tie I PROVED HIS IUS lETAI I Th Then n came clImen n a Job which proved that Sir Henry was W I something more than thana a good emergency man In tn tho the Irish I which followed the fall of ofIr Mr lr Ir Forrester Forast r and tho the Phoenix Park murders Sir Henry was made chief secretary for Cor Ireland nt Sir George had entered upon that with a n splendid shock hock ot of black LInck hair and had returned In iii a short time bent be lit I and IIII with his hits raven locks locka grizzled Sir Henrys of the showed showell lint bat he ha was wa not ft atrid f raid ld U W td risk hIs Ills life Ufa and 1111 his a Ii i year out of ot which he be got ot n a vast amount of enjoyment As AsT AsT T 1 P I 1 OConnor has acknowledged the tho Irish h Nationalists expected to in nd him himan himan an cn easy y mark and sot set to work to make things AS ns hot for Cor him as 18 they knew how They soon bestowed be towed upon him what was after ill alt n a title of honor hanor that I of f the Scotch Sandbag for with an angry angry gry surprise they found that on this his wll Scot with it thoroughly tI sense lenee of ot humor could coull mike make m ke no na n naim Impression im whatsoever r While they theyra ra rn rad d ng him he ho cracked 1 Jokes Joked no always nl IlYS particularly good ones eith either er or and simply went wept Oil on doing doln his but best And that best beet WAS wun n a good deal better belter than any of or hit his predecessor had done ilone That was I tacama his hi common ns saved him from frum tanking tile the mistake ml of ot attempting too much and atil turning things thing upside down He lie held helel the of ot office fice for or one year eJr and when M h return returned ed from Crom Ireland he ho was a II chubby rubi rubicund rubicund cund and nd beamingly b ns liS ever re rosily dy to tackle the next Job that turned up UI And the w warmhearted but Impetuous Irish folk who had bad tried their Jest best to hate him had vown eto to like him hint It was Will natural that when Mr Bail stone formed Cormell his hi third cabinet In III he hI should reward hh his hl loyal and capa capi capable ble follower Colloer with the Important olilee of secretary of oC war ivar the same nine office front from 1893 to the last year ear un under dor der administration It was due to the reluctance of Mr Ir Glad Bad stones and Lord Loril govern governments ments to expend money on the army estimates that Sir Henrys department wa 3 caught ht slum on Ill cordite and anil the exposure of or the deficient de supply of that tha t explosive lend lead to 10 the overthrow of or the tho government III As war Will minister his hU chief achieve i m wOre were the tho Introduction of or the thee e day In army supply factories and getting Tilt rid of or that royal old fogy the Duke e of oC Cambridge as a commander It Is iii curious to recall thAt thai on the very ery afternoon on which Sir Henry Henr Informed th lit house of oC commons cornmon that the luke duke 1111 0 hind hall been bounced he ho himself was WilS dl mh liy by h that nil lit or of cordite It worry worn him n a bit hI He lie cracked a It Joke JOk e over nier the lie humorous Ir Iron irot ot on of III the coincidence and lightheart light heart idly lI resigned to whatever aught turn up Every Ivery hotly body knows knova that he espousal the unpopular side In the he Hair flor no r war That made him Intensely unpopular with lIh the majority hut but having uk taken n his iti line ho stuck to tn It The h stubborn res resolution re with which he hI stood his ground ha has won him a n large larg lar measure at tho and which ho ha en enJoys enjoys Joys jos today While others took a n mill mid middle lie die course and sought tho the of oC oCI opponents ts Sir I lr Henry was vu content to I I Continued on POi It H CLIMBING Of T t POLITICAL l LADDER Continued loam page 13 HU HUh be h the ll ii of ot tho the unpopular fame Calico e and to IQ take the And nd Ihl his 1115 time I I nile has Ii a a come has hns a in veth In III I a full tull ii g it iid anti ho hI on the crest creat of ot the Ihl CAm CAMI his hia come to him unsought Ii H ban ha been upon him He Ito IH In probably the only Instance In lit of ot a IL who baa lias reach reached ed cut Il th Ihl position Io of ot prime minister with without out the tho driving of nr personal am billon bin noO o a 1 cir In I largely for tint lock lack of or the thi quality lIt which H In I deemed moil luau l to 10 In tim Ih political arena rU ms shero Fortune often t ent her be boat t on tho e who dont tare cure a n bong for foi them At tt t one linC time Sir Ill Henrys Henry t III In lIO Place overlook klUK I hock I ii I watt OliO ona of ot the mont moat t fa ta political hal I I icel unions anions III lu hondon 1 and a nil Ito HID t dinners ill g there tb e no were we re on Inn lell for tor lIu U In one of or the Iho tw that thit C 6 D n taken Hut of hate lato yours yearn yo r the of ot I C lady Iud y I flit and there U In no iiii more inure devoted thull the Ihl Premier prevented him from rom rain entertaining on II u great greit I scale At AI He lid mobil lila lils In which wh eh commands lovely views of ot thu Milley of lit fik and blip aup frequently frequent ell II silL Mt U V y with wi Lb him ii and a iiI they thay II i id him ono one of ot the most t delight delightful ful iii of vf hosts foi tOl lie Jie 10 In II II u thorough man nian manof of the 1110 world war II suit ami lib hili U Ii I said lo to U he bl much better worth tc hut hili p Like c hl hi hla whAt Anc tle friend Morley Irle he helinda linda III hl l chief relaxation In Trunch KILSEN |
