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Show A CONSPICUOUS ENGLISHMAN In the political arena, Ireland and Scotland long ago achieved formost places. It has been reserved for our time to see a Welshman win his way to the front rank. Mr. David Lloyd-George Lloyd-George is the man. He is not yet-prime yet-prime minister. He may never become be-come prime minister; but he is chancellor chan-cellor of the exchequer, and if anything any-thing happened to Mr. Asquith, he would run Sir Edward Grey a hard race for the premiership. No two men are more unlike. Eir Edward Grey is an aristocrat from Northumberland, cool, dispassionate, in temperament a whig, by conviction a radical, and much more of a country gentleman that either. He is above all things a man apart, reserved; free both from the defects and from the qualities of ordinary humanity. Lloyd-George Lloyd-George is just the opposite. He is a democrat, of the democracy born and bred, intensely human, full of kindly humor and glowing enthusiasm, hail- J fellow-well-met with every one. He lives, breathes, and has his being in politics. As a platform speaker he is unsurpassed. In him, to a degree not common com-mon among men, the magnetic quality of enthusiasm is coupled with irrepressible irre-pressible humor. Nor is it on the platform only that he is supreme. As a debater in the house of commons his only equal in a finished speech is Mr. Asquith; and in the quick give and take of discussion in committee, he leaves even Mr. Asquith far behind. He and Mr. Winston Churchill are regarded as the Castor and Pollux of British democracy. What Cobden and Bright were at one time, and Chamberlain Chamber-lain and Dilke in later years, Llloyd-George and Winston Churchill are today. Youth's Companion. l I |