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Show From the first he got down close to the peo- pie. He said he was neither a socialist nor anti-socialist anti-socialist but that he was a humanist. He coined the word but it covered the case. He almost transferred the ancient government to a gover-' gover-' ment. of the people; he brought a dozen utilities into government ownership, he caused hundreds of worklngmen's cottages to be built, he estab. lished old age pensions, and when he died he was nursing a gigantic scheme of national annuities, He fought off two partial paraletic strokes, he improved his style of speaking and writing, his career during the past twenty years was the most wonderful, almost, in history. He ruled as a despot, but so soft was the glove he wore that his people never dreamed of the iron hand within with-in It and he is more prominently mourned in the south lands than any other man that ever trod their soil. |