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LLOYD GEORGE 4% 
 M* PUNCH) Witt an Introduction 
 
 by W. ALGERNON LOCKER # & «# 
 
 “TWELFTH NIGHT’”’ (Jan. 6). 
 
 My. Lloyd George (as Malvolio), ‘‘ Fool, there was never man so notoriously 
 abused.’’—Act IV, Scene 2. 
 
 (Jan. 7, 1984.) 
 
 NEW YORK 
 FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY 
 
 PUBLISHERS 
 1922 
 
LLOYD GEORGE Jy M* PUNCH 
 
 INTRODUCTION 
 
 N2! everyone, happily, accepts the 
 cynical aphorism “‘ Call no man happy 
 until he is dead”; but “‘ Call no man 
 famous until he has figured in a Punch 
 cartoon ’”’ is a statement to which most 
 of us would be prepared to subscribe. 
 During the past eighty-one years all the 
 prominent figures of British political life 
 have been the subject of Mr. Punch’s 
 usually genial but always satirical pencil. 
 Most of them enjoyed the joke; the late 
 Lord Goschen once congratulated himself 
 in a public speech on having “ attained 
 to the highest ambition which a states- 
 man can reach—namely to have a cartoon 
 The first drawing of Mr, Lloyd George in ‘‘ Punch.” in Punch all to himself.” The only not- 
 (Dec, 12, 1900.1 able exception was Lord Brougham, who 
 complained that Punch’s portraits of him did not do him justice. He received 
 appropriate punishment, for when ‘“‘ Dicky ” Doyle designed the famous cover, 
 still in use, he gave the mask which is dragged in the mire in front of Mr. 
 Punch the features of Brougham, and so made him a permanent laughing- 
 stock. 
 
 I do not pretend to know the Prime Minister’s private opinion, but, as 
 no one has ever accused him of lacking a sense of humour, I imagine that 
 he rather likes being caricatured, and that it was a proud day for him when 
 his portrait first appeared in Punch. That was on December 12th, 1900, 
 in the little picture reproduced above, which was prompted by his vigorous 
 attacks upon Mr. Joseph Chamberlain in connexion with the South African 
 War. He did not attain the Goschen standard and have a full page all to 
 himself until nearly six years later, when he had already been nearly sixteen 
 years in the House of Commons. 
 
 The reason for this comparatively late arrival into the centre of the political 
 stage of a man who has since occupied it almost exclusively is perhaps to be 
 found in the circumstances of his birth and upbringing. David Lloyd George 
 
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 was born in Manchester, on January 17th, 1863. His father was William 
 George, a National school-teacher, who a year or two later, for reasons of 
 health, resigned his post, and took a small farm at Haverfordwest, in his 
 native South Wales. The young parents had a hard struggle for a few months, 
 and then William George died of pneumonia. Mrs. George was obliged to 
 give up the farm and sell off her furniture in order to pay the debts. Then 
 she wrote to her brother, Richard Lloyd, who was the village cobbler at 
 Llanystumdwy, near Criccieth, in North Wales. 
 
 Richard Lloyd was a hero. He invited his sister and her two little boys 
 to share his tiny cottage, and thenceforward devoted his life to their welfare. 
 David speedily showed the stuff that was in him. Full of mischief, and not 
 particularly industrious, he nevertheless, as one of his biographers puts it, 
 “just soaked up knowledge as a sponge soaks up water,” and was always 
 at the top of his class in the village school. The story of how he headed a 
 revolt of his schoolfellows against the established practice of going to church 
 on Ash Wednesday to recite the Catechism has often been told. The obliga- 
 tion to “‘ order myself lowly and reverently before my betters”’ can never 
 have made much appeal to him. 
 
 Had he been born twenty years later, so clever and enterprising a boy 
 would, aided by scholarships, have proceeded via the secondary school to a 
 University, and thence to a post in the Civil Service, or would have carved 
 out a career for himself at the Bar, or in journalism. Someone has said of 
 him that he would have made “a splendid leader-writer.”’ But there were 
 few scholarships for elementary schoolboys in those days, and none of the 
 local magnates had the foresight to provide for his higher education, and 
 thereby, perhaps, to change the current of his thoughts and save the landed 
 interest from its bitterest foe. 
 
 It was left to the Radical Nonconformist cobbler to provide for his promis- 
 ing nephew’s future. He determined that David should become a solicitor. 
 From his scanty savings he furnished the fees for the necessary examinations, 
 and—a still more remarkable proof of devotion—set himself to acquire the 
 elements of French and Latin in order to help his protégé to pass them. 
 
 At fourteen the lad passed the preliminary examination of the Incorporated 
 Law Society (in whose hall his portrait now hangs) ; two years later he was 
 articled ; and at twenty-one he was admitted to the roll. The resources of 
 the family had been so exhausted that the newly-fledged solicitor had to go 
 into an office and earn the three guineas necessary for his official robe. 
 
 He took a little office at the neighbouring town of Criccieth, and soon 
 attracted clients. His powers of speech, developed in the village smithy at 
 Llanystumdwy and in the debating-society at Portmadoc, were already known 
 throughout the country-side. Persons charged with petty offences at the 
 police-courts found that Lawyer George, whatever the merits of the case, 
 could always be relied upon to put up a good fight, and that he was not to 
 be overawed by any browbeating on the part of the Bench. In one much- 
 quoted instance, when defending four men charged with poaching, he objected 
 so strongly to their being tried by local landowners that he drove them, 
 
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 Chairman and all, from the Bench. In another, dealing with the right of 
 Nonconformists to burial in a Church of England graveyard, he challenged 
 the ruling of the County Court judge, and appealed to a divisional court in 
 London, where Lord Chief Justice Coleridge and another judge decided in 
 his favour. He was then twenty-five. 
 
 This triumph made him famous throughout the length and breadth of 
 Wales. It was felt that his fighting qualities demanded a wider sphere of 
 action. First he was co-opted as an Alderman of the newly-elected Carnarvon- 
 shire County Council ; next he was selected as prospective Liberal candidate 
 for the Carnarvon Boroughs, then held by a Conservative. 
 
 But the most important event of this annus mirabilis (1888) was his 
 marriage to Miss Margaret Owen, the pretty daughter of a local farmer. 
 It was a union of minds as well as hearts. Matrimony, which so often 
 stifles ambition, in this case only served to strengthen it. As one of his 
 biographers puts it, “his vision began to spread over the general field of 
 politics instead of remaining exclusively, as hitherto, fixed upon projects 
 of special interest to Wales.’’ For the time being, however, his political 
 activity was chiefly devoted to the campaign for Welsh Disestablishment. 
 The principal defender of the Church in Wales was the Bishop of St. Asaph 
 (now Archbishop of Wales). <A good story is told of how Mr. Lloyd George, 
 who had been brought down to speak in a certain district where Dr. Edwards 
 was thought to wield too much influence, was introduced by the Chairman 
 of the meeting in the following words :—‘‘ The Bishop of St. Asaph has been 
 speaking against us, and we all know that he is a very great liar. Thank 
 God we have a match for him here to-night in Mr. Lloyd George.” 
 
 In the spring of 1890 an unexpected vacancy occurred in the Carnarvon 
 Boroughs, and in the ensuing by-election Mr. Lloyd George, although opposed 
 by the local squire, was successful. His majority was only 18, but narrow 
 though it was, like Mercutio’s wound, it served. The new member took his 
 seat in the House of Commons on April 17th, 1890. JI wonder whether as 
 he took the oath he remembered the entry that he had made in his diary 
 ten years before while on a visit to London :—‘‘ Went to Houses of Parlia- 
 ment. Very much disappointed with them . . . I will not say I eyed the 
 assembly in the spirit in which William the Conqueror eyed England on his 
 visit to Edward the Confessor—as the region of his future domain. O vanity!” 
 At any rate, he was wisely in no great hurry to begin his conquest, and it was 
 nearly two months before he made his maiden speech. It was pronounced a 
 success by his friends in the House, but attracted little attention outside. 
 
 During the remaining two years of the Salisbury Parliament Mr. Lloyd 
 George was content, for the most part, with watching his fellow-members 
 and learning the manners and customs of the House. Some of his impressions 
 were recorded in the Parliamentary letters which he contributed to one of 
 the Welsh newspapers, but neither at this nor any other time did he show much 
 taste for writing. His preference was always for the spoken rather than 
 the written word. At the General Election of 1892 he was again returned 
 by the Carnarvon Boroughs, with the increased majority of 196. 
 
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 Mr. Gladstone had returned to office, but hardly to power, for his majority 
 was only 40, and was composed of such heterogeneous elements as Irish 
 Nationalists (mainly Roman Catholics) and Welsh Disestablishers (mainly 
 extreme Protestants). The young Member for Carnarvon was a supporter 
 of Home Rule for Ireland on the general principle of justice to small nation- 
 alities, but his first love was Disestablishment. He saw no reason why it 
 should be thrust into the background, and did not scruple to tackle the Grand 
 Old Man himself—though fifty years his senior in age and Parliamentary 
 experience—for what he considered his dilatoriness in this matter. 
 
 His real chance came after the General Election of 1895. Nearly a hun- 
 dred Liberal seats were lost, but he held his own in Carnarvon Boroughs, 
 again with a slightly increased majority. His vigorous attacks on the policy 
 of the new Unionist Government soon brought him into notice. At the 
 end of 1896 Sir Henry Lucy wrote in his “‘ Diary of the Salisbury Parlia- 
 ment ”’ :—‘‘ The nearest approach to the establishment of a new reputation 
 is found in the case of Mr. Lloyd George. Early in his career he suffered 
 from the indiscretion of an enthusiastic countryman who hailed him as *‘ the 
 Welsh Parnell.’ In endeavouring to live up to this mark Mr. Lloyd George 
 succeeded in obscuring what the House has this Session recognized as sterling 
 qualities in debate.”’ In fact he was developing from a “ parochial”’ into 
 an “‘ Imperial” politician. Visits which he made during this Parliament 
 to South America and Canada probably helped to hasten the process, for, 
 as Kipling says, “‘ What do they know of England who only England know ?” 
 With the instinct of the born fighter Mr. Lloyd George chose the strongest 
 man in the Government as the main object of his attacks. Mr. Joseph 
 Chamberlain, the Colonial Secretary, was then at the zenith of his powers, 
 and did not spare those who opposed his South African policy. But 
 the young Welsh champion, though often “‘ downed,” was never “ knocked 
 out.” 
 
 When the Boer War broke out he was in Canada. He hastened home, 
 and was shocked to find that the war appeared to be popular, and that all 
 the recognized leaders of the Liberal Party were either approving or in- 
 different. Having convinced himself that the Boers were a small nation 
 rightly struggling to be free, and that this was in his own phrase “a war 
 of plunder,” he set himself to convince the rest of his countrymen. At a 
 series of meetings throughout the kingdom he denounced the war as an 
 infamy. With courage almost suicidal he proposed to hold a meeting in Mr. 
 Chamberlain’s own bailiwick, and was compelled to flee for his life (disguised 
 as a policeman) from the attentions of the Brummagem “toughs.” His 
 agitation resulted in his becoming for the time being the most unpopular 
 man in England, but also one of the best-known. 
 
 The first drawing of him in Punch, as has already been noted, dates from 
 this period. His next appearance was in January, 1902, when in “ Parlia- 
 mentary Indians” (a drawing which for technical reasons has not been re- 
 produced) he was represented as a young “ brave”’ adorning an old Chief 
 (Sir H. Campbell-Bannerman) with “ stop-the-war paint.” On July 2gth, 
 
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 1903, he appeared for the first time in a cartoon. It represented Parliament 
 as the “ Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe” lamenting over the number 
 of “ groups ”’ into which the historic parties had been split. On this occasion 
 Mr. Punch, though doubtless accurate in depicting the actual state of affairs, 
 cannot be said to have shown his usual “ intelligent anticipation of events 
 before they occur,’’ for Mr. Lloyd George is shown waving an anti-Imperialist 
 banner. 
 
 From this time forward the fissures in the Unionist Party consequent 
 upon the Tariff Reform campaign began to widen, and to encourage the 
 Liberals’ hopes of a return to office. A cartoon on January 25th, 1905, 
 represented Mr. Balfour as weary of the burdens of the Premiership, and 
 Messrs. Lloyd George and Winston Churchill as ‘‘ Ready to Oblige”’ by taking 
 them over. But the demise of the Balfour Administration was delayed, 
 and in April we see the Member for Carnarvon as one of a group of expectant 
 “Mourners Out of Employment.” 
 
 At last, however, the end came. In December, 1905, Mr. Balfour resigned, 
 and Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman was invited to form an Administration. 
 Like Mr. Chamberlain in 1880, Mr. Lloyd George had made himself too pro- 
 minent to be overlooked, and by an interesting coincidence he was given 
 the same office, the Presidency of the Board of Trade. Mr. Punch seized 
 the opportunity (January 3rd, 1906) to depict him in levée-dress. 
 
 There was some shaking of heads among old-fashioned Liberals at the 
 promotion of one whom they regarded as a firebrand. But their fears were 
 quickly dissipated. The new Minister, who had been so fiery in Opposition, 
 was suave and courteous on the Treasury Bench. With characteristic energy 
 he set himself to master the machinery of his Department, and soon showed 
 by his answers to “supplementary ”’ questions—the great test of callow 
 Ministers—that he had succeeded in his task. Out of office he had expressed 
 strong views regarding what he considered the undue influence exercised 
 by permanent officials on Governmental policy; but he got on very well 
 with his own staff, despite his rather unconventional methods of adminis- 
 tration. For example, when there was a railway accident at Shrewsbury 
 in which twenty people were killed, he insisted on accompanying the Board 
 of Trade Inspector to the scene of the accident, and himself took an active 
 part in the official inquiry that followed. Among the measures that he 
 passed was the Patents and Designs Act, which provided inter alia, rather 
 to the consternation of the rigid Free-Traders, that a foreigner must, as 
 a condition of holding a British patent, manufacture his goods in this 
 country. As its author said, in reply to his Cobdenite critics, “ Free 
 Trade may be the alpha, but it is not the omega, of Liberal policy.” The 
 Merchant Shipping Act gave British sailors better food and healthier con- 
 ditions than they had formerly enjoyed, and insisted that foreign ships using 
 British ports should maintain the same standards. Equally important, 
 from the historical point of view, was his successful intervention in a railway 
 dispute which threatened to end in a universal strike. It was his initial 
 effort in the 7éle of conciliator, and it brought him for the first time in his 
 
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 life the praise of his political opponents (see Cartoon, “‘ The Lubricator,” 
 November 13th, 1907). 
 
 The only people, indeed, who looked a little askance at him were the 
 militant Nonconformists of Wales. In his early days in Parliament he had 
 been so enthusiastic in the cause of Welsh nationalism, and particularly of 
 the disestablishment and disendowment of the Church in Wales, that they 
 had apparently expected his inclusion in the Ministry to be immediately 
 followed by the realization of their hopes. But to their disgust they found 
 that Disestablishment had been relegated to an unknown future, and that 
 they were still called upon to pay rates for the maintenance of schools in 
 which the hated Catechism was taught. The only boon their trusted champion 
 had been able to secure for them was the establishment of a special Welsh 
 branch in the Education Department. Mr. Punch evidently thought this 
 a remarkable exploit, and on the strength of it paid Mr. Lloyd George the 
 compliment, for the first time, of a cartoon all to himself (see ‘“‘ Carnarvon,” 
 July 25th, 1906). But the Welsh extremists were not placated, and a year 
 later we see them (under the guise of a goat) trying to prod their now 
 rather reluctant knight into greater activity against the Church dragon. 
 
 In the spring of 1908 Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, smitten with a 
 mortal illness, resigned the Premiership, and was succeeded by Mr. Asquith, 
 the Chancellor of the Exchequer. As he had done very well at the Exchequer 
 on the traditional lines of British finance, and had materially reduced the 
 heavy debt left by the South African War, there were many who hoped that he 
 would follow the example set by Gladstone on more than one occasion, and 
 combine the Chancellorship with the Premiership. Mr. Lloyd George’s claims 
 to promotion were, however, very strong, for besides doing his departmental 
 work very well he had been the principal mainstay of the Government’s 
 defence in the House of Commons. Not without some misgivings, we may 
 imagine—they would have been greater if Mr. Asquith had foreseen the 
 future—the Prime Minister offered him the Chancellorship. At the same time 
 Messrs. Churchill, McKenna, and Runciman were admitted to the inner circle 
 of the Government (see “‘ Cabinet Cherubs,”’ April 22nd, 1908). 
 
 Mr. Lloyd George’s qualifications as a financier were at that time an 
 unknown quantity, and perhaps wisely Mr. Asquith decided to introduce 
 the Budget which he had already prepared. For the most part it was of the 
 same steady-going character as its predecessors, but it contained one startling 
 novelty—the announcement of a scheme of Old Age Pensions for the aged poor. 
 This was a boon which had long been talked about by both parties—Mr 
 Chamberlain was one of its principal supporters—but had hitherto been 
 deemed impracticable owing to financial stringency. As the scheme was not 
 to come into operation until January, 1909, not much money was required 
 for it in the current financial year, but it involved a heavy contingent liability 
 for future years, for which Mr. Asquith left his successor to find the money. 
 Mr. Punch hit off the situation in a cartoon, “‘ The Millstone,” on May 27th, 
 1908, the day before Mr. Lloyd George introduced the Old Age Pensions Bill. 
 He returned to the subject on August 5th, by which time the Chancellor 
 
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 had made it clear that he meant to find the necessary money by 
 taxing the richer classes, in a cartoon depicting Mr. Lloyd George as 
 “The Philanthropic Highwayman.”’ Another, on September 23rd, showing 
 British trade complaining that she was ‘‘ Not the bird she was,” illustrated 
 the growing anxiety of the commercial community regarding the fiscal 
 policy of the Chancellor. 
 
 Without attempting to anticipate the verdict of history I think it may 
 safely be said that Mr. Lloyd George was a social reformer first and a financier 
 afterwards. The policy of all his predecessors without exception had been 
 to act as guardians of the national purse, to resist to the uttermost all new 
 demands upon it, to maintain the supervision of the Treasury over the spend- 
 ing departments, and to live up to Mr. Gladstone’s principle of leaving as 
 much money as possible to fructify in the pockets of the taxpayer. That, 
 as Mr. Weedon Grossmith used to say in “‘ The Pantomime Rehearsal,” 
 was not Mr. Lloyd George’s “‘ conception of the part.’’ From his earliest 
 years he had chafed at the gross inequalities of fortune between the classes 
 and the masses. He knew that many of the poor—his own uncle, for 
 example—did not deserve their poverty. He strongly suspected that a good 
 many of the opulent did not deserve their riches. ‘‘ Most of the wealth 
 of this country,” he said on one occasion, “is accumulated a good deal 
 by luck.” Now that he was in control of the nation’s finances he deter- 
 mined to start redressing the balance. The ordinary Chancellor, faced 
 with the necessity of finding ten or twelve millions for Old Age Pensions, 
 would have contented himself with imposing taxation to that extent. 
 Mr. Lloyd George determined while he was about it to raise a good deal 
 more, and to employ the balance in initiating other schemes of national 
 benefit. 
 
 Another motive influenced his choice of methods. The House of Lords 
 had long been a stumbling-block in the path of Liberal legislation. Already 
 in the three years of the present Parliament the Peers had rejected two 
 measures of the first importance—the Education Bill of 1906, and the Licens- 
 ing Bill of 1908 (for Lord Lansdowne’s attitude see cartoon “ The Handy 
 Custodian,’ October 14th, 1908). The House of Lords must be punished, 
 and, as it was almost a house of landlords, the simplest and to Mr. Lloyd 
 George (whose early experiences had made him an out-and-out land reformer) 
 the most attractive way was to tax their acres. Either they would yield, 
 and so contribute heavily to the nation’s needs, or they would resist, and 
 give the Liberals an opportunity of fighting them on ground much more 
 favourable than either Education or Liquor. 
 
 The Chancellor made no secret of his general intentions. “I have got 
 to rob somebody’s hen-roost next year,” he had said in a much-quoted phrase. 
 The tax-paying classes were naturally alarmed at the prospect before them. 
 Mr. Punch had more than one pictorial reference to their anxieties. In the 
 frontispiece to his first half-yearly volume for 1909 John Bull was represented 
 as a camel, weighed down with burdens, and turning a plaintive gaze upon 
 his remorseless driver, Mr. Lloyd George; and in a cartoon that appeared 
 
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 on April 28th, 1909, the eve of the Budget, the Chancellor was depicted as 
 a hungry ogre, the Giant Gorgibuster. 
 
 There was a great scene in the House of Commons on the following 
 day, when Mr. Lloyd George rose to expound his first Budget. Members 
 crowded the floor and the side galleries, and even overflowed into the 
 Strangers’ Gallery, from which the public, owing to the tactics of the militant 
 suffragettes, had been temporarily excluded. The Chancellor looked rather 
 nervous, as well he might, but there was no tremor in his musical voice as 
 he began his examination of the national finance. For a long time it revealed 
 nothing more sensational than that, owing to the demands of the Navy 
 (due to the great expansion of the German fleet) and of Old Age Pensions, 
 there would on the existing basis of taxation be a deficit of sixteen millions. 
 
 The sensations began when he passed on to consider the new schemes of 
 national benefit which the Government had in mind—the insurance of work- 
 men against unemployment, the improvement of the countryside by new 
 methods of agricultural instruction, the development of afforestation, the 
 provision of light railways, and the reclamation of land. One topic after 
 another was described with a wealth of illustration in the orator’s fascinating 
 style, and the cheers that followed were not confined to one side of the 
 House. But after speaking for about two hours the orator began to falter. 
 He had planned his speech on a scale that made too great a demand upon his 
 physical resources, and seemed on the point of breaking down. Mr. Balfour, 
 who was leading the Opposition, came to the rescue with a suggestion that 
 the debate should be adjourned for half an hour, and this was gratefully 
 accepted. During the interval members discussed the speech. A great 
 scheme—but how was he going to pay for it? They soon found out when 
 the Chancellor returned like a giant refreshed. The income-tax was raised 
 from Is. to 1s. 2d., and in addition a super-tax of 6d. in the pound was 
 imposed on all incomes of over £5,000 a year. These figures seem delight- 
 fully small in these days, but to the minds of the prospective victims they 
 appeared terrific thirteen years ago. So with the increase in the death 
 duties—when Mr. Lloyd George announced that on estates of over a million 
 the rate would be 15 per cent. one very wealthy member could bear the 
 strain no longer, but rose and left the House amid the ironical laughter of 
 his neighbours. And that did not end the tale. The tax on motor-cars 
 was sharply raised, so that even on a comparatively small car, as Mr. Punch 
 noted in a small picture, it amounted to £8 8s. So were the customs and 
 excise duties, and the cost of liquor licences. This last impost was a direct 
 retort to the Peers’ rejection of the Licensing Bill the year before. 
 
 Startling as they were in amount, there was nothing particularly novel 
 in these changes: they were simply an extension on the lines laid down by 
 previous Chancellors. The really original feature of the Budget was an 
 elaborate system of land duties, devised to secure for the public the benefit 
 of that hitherto elusive entity “ unearned increment.’ To enable it to be 
 collected there was to be a complete valuation of all the land in the country, 
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 it might be made. From this source the Chancellor hoped to receive a steadily 
 growing revenue with which to finance his social reforms. “‘ This,” he said 
 —happily unknowing what the term was to mean in a few years—‘is a 
 war Budget. It is for raising money to wage implacable warfare against 
 poverty and squalidness. I cannot help hoping and believing that before 
 this generation has passed away we shall have advanced a great step to- 
 ward that good time when poverty and wretchedness, and the human degra- 
 dation which always follows in its camp, will be as remote from the people 
 of this country as the wolves which once infested its forests.” 
 
 The Budget was hailed with enthusiasm in the Liberal and Labour Press, 
 and for a day or two the grandiosity of its conception seemed almost to have 
 stifled criticism. But in a very short time the critics found their breath, 
 and began to assail its proposals, particularly the land taxes, with unex- 
 ampled vigour and ferocity. Its author was denounced as a “ Robber” 
 and his schemes were described at once as predatory and impracticable. 
 There was, perhaps, some ground for the latter epithet. I was told not long 
 ago by a high official of the Treasury that if the land duties had been allowed 
 to go through as they were originally introduced they would have proved 
 unworkable; it was only the prolonged hammering that they received 
 in Committee on the Finance Bill that welded them into some sort of 
 coherence. Even so, they never produced enough revenue to meet the 
 cost of valuation, and ten years after their introduction were withdrawn as. 
 useless. | 
 
 The opposition to the Finance Bill was by no means confined to the classes 
 directly affected by the new duties. It was reinforced by the opinion of the 
 “ City,” which Punch reflected in a cartoon of the Chancellor of the Ex- 
 chequer as Canute retreating from a wave of “ Financial Common Sense,’’. 
 and received a good deal of support from the general public. As Mr. Lloyd 
 George himself once said, “ The last thing in the world John Bull wants is 
 to be mollycoddled,”’ and many people were more concerned with the imme- 
 diate burden of the new imposts than with the future benefits held out to 
 them. The Chancellor had possibly not realized, moreover, how large was 
 the number of people interested in the ownership of land—smallholders, 
 members of building societies, speculative builders, and their employés— 
 who were ready to resist what they regarded as an attack upon their property 
 or their means of livelihood. Together they contributed a formidable force, 
 whose objections had to be taken into account. 
 
 A few of them were met in the Finance Bill, but on the whole the differ- 
 ences between the Budget and the Bill were small and unimportant, as 
 Mr. Punch noted in “‘ The Transformation Trick”’ shortly after its intro- 
 duction. The agitation against the proposed new taxes became stronger 
 and more vituperative as time went on. But Mr. Lloyd George belongs 
 to that species of which the French savant observed that “ when attacked 
 it defends itself.’ On July 30th he went down to Limehouse, and 
 there delivered a reply in which he declared, among other things, that his 
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 ferocity which will not even allow a comma to escape with its life.” Well, 
 he certainly gave them as good as he got. Dispensing with the polite peri- 
 phrases usually employed in political controversy he employed all the re- 
 sources of a singularly pungent vocabulary in denunciation of the “ Dukes ” 
 and the ‘‘idle rich.” For some time after this outburst there was a serious 
 danger that a new verb, “‘ To Limehouse,’ would be permanently added to 
 the language. 
 
 The agitation throughout the country continued, and to counteract it 
 the Liberals started a Budget League which sent speakers into the rural 
 districts. As the Chancellor of the Exchequer was too busy piloting the 
 Finance Bill through the House of Commons to take much part in the extra- 
 Parliamentary campaign gramophone records of his speeches were used to 
 stir up enthusiasm in the villages. Mr. Punch duly noticed this develop- 
 ment in one of many cartoons dealing with the agitation. In another it was 
 hinted that Mr. Asquith, the Prime Minister, was a little perturbed at the 
 licence which his lheutenants, Mr. Lloyd George and Mr. Churchill, were per- 
 mitting themselves. Apparently the Peers were under the impression that 
 the Budget was unpopular, for when the Finance Bill reached the Upper 
 House, “‘ Decked for the Sacrifice’? (October 27th), they refused to pass it 
 without an appeal to the country. 
 
 The challenge was promptly taken up. Parliament was immediately 
 dissolved, and in the interval before the General Election a terrific campaign 
 was launched against the House of Lords. Needless to say, Mr. Lloyd George 
 was its fugleman. In a speech delivered shortly after the rejection of the 
 Bill he said, ‘‘ We have got to arrest the criminal. We have to see he per- 
 petrates no further crime. A new chapter is now being written for the sinister 
 assembly which is more responsible than any other power for wrecking popular 
 hopes, but which, in my judgment, has perpetrated its last act of destructive 
 fury.” 
 
 At the General Election of January, 1910, Mr. Lloyd George was again 
 returned for Carnarvon Boroughs, but many Liberal candidates were defeated, 
 and Mr. Asquith found himself dependent for a working majority on the 
 support of the Irish Nationalist and Labour groups. The Ministry was re- 
 constituted, and Mr. Churchill, who had ably seconded Mr. Lloyd George 
 in the campaign, was admitted to the Cabinet as Home Secretary. The Budget 
 was reintroduced, and this time was meekly passed by the House of Lords, 
 which was now chiefly concerned with the threatened attack upon its privi- 
 leges. The House of Commons passed a series of resolutions demanding the 
 absolute exclusion of the Upper House from the domain of finance, the limita- 
 tion of its power of veto over measures passed by the Commons, and its recon- 
 stitution as an elective instead of an hereditary chamber. The first two of 
 these were embodied in the Parliament Bill. It was obvious that the Lords 
 would not pass such a measure except under duress, and towards the end of 
 the year it became known that the Government were prepared, if necessary, 
 to recommend King George (who had succeeded his father in the spring of 
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 Opposition in the Upper House (see Cartoon, “‘ The Chance of a Lifetime,’ 
 December 28th). 
 
 Another General Election held to ascertain the opinion of the country 
 upon these proposals made no appreciable change in the balance of parties. 
 A large part of the Session of the following year was devoted to the Parliament 
 Bill. In the Lords a strong party was in favour of resisting it at all costs, 
 but the majority, afraid of being swamped by the threatened new creations, 
 gave it a reluctant assent. 
 
 Mr. Lloyd George’s activities were not confined to the constitutional 
 struggle. During a visit to Germany which he made in 1908 he was much 
 struck with the care that the German Empire took of the health of its citizens, 
 and determined to see whether, with due regard to British idiosyncrasies, 
 something of the same kind could not be done in this country. The result 
 was the National Insurance Bill which he introduced on May 4th, rg1r. His 
 persuasive eloquence at first secured a welcome for the Bill, but very soon the 
 voice of criticism was heard. It came chiefly from the medical profession, 
 which feared that the State fees would not compensate for the loss of private 
 practice; from domestic servants—a notoriously conservative class—who 
 did not like the enforced deductions from their wages; and from their 
 mistresses, who objected to the “ stamp-licking ”’ involved. 
 
 Historically, the most striking event in Mr. Lloyd George’s career during 
 IgII was the speech that he made on July 21st at the Mansion House. Hitherto 
 he had been regarded as a “ Little Englander,” entirely immersed in domestic 
 affairs. Now for the first time he appeared as an Imperial statesman. Ger- 
 many had been for some time shaking the “ mailed fist’? at France over 
 Morocco, and had crowned her provocations by sending a warship to the 
 Moorish port of Agadir. Apparently she was under the impression that 
 the Entente was as flimsy as her own “ scraps of paper,’ and that Britain 
 would give her friends in France no practical assistance. The Chancellor 
 of the Exchequer was selected, probably because of his known reputation 
 as a peace-lover, to dissipate this illusion. He reminded the Germans that 
 Britain had more than once redeemed continental nations—Germany herself 
 included—from overwhelming disaster and international extinction. “ If,” 
 he proceeded, ‘‘a situation were to be forced upon us in which peace could 
 only be preserved by the surrender of the great and beneficent position 
 which Britain has won by centuries of heroism and achievement, by allowing 
 Britain to be treated when her interests are vitally affected as if she were of 
 no account in the Cabinet of Nations, then I say emphatically that peace 
 at that price would be a humiliation intolerable for a great country like ours 
 to endure.”’ 
 
 The speech created a great sensation, and for the time being caused Ger- 
 many to draw in her horns. Lord Fisher in his ‘“‘ Memories” says: ‘ Those 
 choice words of Lloyd George upset the German apple-cart in a way it was 
 never upset before.” It may seem strange that it received no direct 
 notice in Punch. That was simply due to the fact that it was delivered on 
 a Friday, and that the Punch dinner at which the cartoons for the following 
 
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 week are settled is held on a Wednesday. Statesmen and others desirous of 
 immortalization should bear this in mind, and be careful to deliver their 
 epoch-making speeches, execute their heroic deeds, or launch their startling 
 “stunts”? not later than Wednesday afternoon. Although Mr. Punch 
 neglected Mr. Lloyd George’s speech, he illustrated its effect in a cartoon 
 representing a German militarist stubbing his toe on a rock marked ‘“‘ Entente 
 Cordiale,” and ejaculating ‘‘ Donnerwetter! I thought it was going to be 
 aper.”’ 
 
 i ae the end of this year, rather to the surprise of the Liberal Party, the 
 Lords, chastened by their past experience, passed the Insurance Bill without 
 serious alteration. But Mr. Lloyd George had a good deal of difficulty with 
 doctors and others in getting the Act into operation. Several cartoons in 
 rg12 dealt with this subject. Eventually he effected a settlement by agreeing 
 to pay an increased fee of 8s. 6d. for each patient on the panel. He had a 
 good many other trials this year. The Cabinet was divided on “ Votes for 
 Women,” and though Mr. Lloyd George was himself favourable, that did 
 not spare him from the hostile attentions of the militant suffragettes. Trade 
 was not too good. Consols continued to sag, and though the Budget showed 
 a good surplus much of it was swallowed up by the increasing demands of 
 the Navy. The enthusiasm for social reform began to die down. To add 
 to the Chancellor’s anxieties heavy rains injured the harvest. Nevertheless, 
 though the land taxes did not evoke much popularity, he continued to press 
 on with the machinery for their collection, and was accused in the Oppo- 
 sition Press of having inspired with that object a secret land inquiry. 
 
 In 1913 Mr. Lloyd George was more engaged in completing old plans 
 than in developing new ones. But by this time he was a standing dish in 
 Punch, which during the year added nearly a score of pictures of him to its 
 gallery. Two or three were devoted to an unfortunate incident which did 
 some temporary injury to his reputation. With Sir Rufus Isaacs and the 
 Master of Elibank he purchased some shares in the American Marconi Company, 
 at a time when the parent institution was in negotiation with the Govern- 
 ment. It was a thoughtless act which a man of the world would have 
 avoided ; but its heinousness was exaggerated by party spleen. A Committee 
 of the House of Commons found that the culprits had been guilty of nothing 
 worse than folly, and Punch endorsed its verdict with a cartoon, entitled 
 ‘“ Blameless Telegraphy.”’ Several cartoons deal with the development of 
 the land campaign, and with the amendment of the Insurance Act. One 
 deserves a word of special notice. In ‘‘ The German Lloyd,” the Kaiser 
 and the British Chancellor of the Exchequer are represented as conducting 
 an amicable conversation over the telephone on the subject of taxing capital. 
 This was the first time that Punch brought into pictorial juxtaposition the 
 two men who were to be the protagonists of the Great War. 
 
 The fateful year 1914 opened with few forebodings. Our relations with 
 Germany had improved since the Agadir zmbroglio. So little did Mr. Lloyd 
 George himself foresee the coming thunderstorm that in a New Year’s message 
 to a newspaper he said: “‘I think this is the most favourable moment that 
 
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 has presented itself within the last twenty years to overhaul our expenditure 
 on armaments.’’ After all he was no worse a prophet than the late Lord 
 Granville, who, on becoming Foreign Secretary, in July, 1870, stated on the 
 authority of the Permanent Under-Secretary that there was hardly a cloud 
 on the Continental horizon—and this just ten days before the outbreak of 
 the Franco-Prussian War. 
 
 Punch reflected the general optimism. It had many pictures chaffing the 
 Chancellor of the Exchequer, chiefly in regard to his land campaign (e.g. as 
 “ The Monarch of the Glen—A New Land-seer).” By arather strange coinci- 
 dence the last of these appeared on July 23rd, less than a fortnight before 
 the outbreak of the war, and it represented Mr. Lloyd George as a German ! 
 
 Perhaps it helped to create the impression that the Chancellor of the 
 Exchequer was opposed to Britain’s entry into the war. He was undoubtedly 
 reluctant, nor was that remarkable in a man of his upbringing and anti- 
 militarist opinions. But he did not take long to make up his mind. The 
 invasion of Belgium decided him. It brought into play the same feeling 
 that had caused his hostility to the Boer War—the desire to hasten to the © 
 aid of a small nation oppressed by a great one. From that moment the war 
 had no more fervent supporter, and Germany no more dangerous enemy. 
 His first business was to ensure our financial stability. One of the stock 
 prophecies had been that war would mean a panic in the City, banks stopping 
 payment, commerce paralysed. Thanks to the moratorium, and other 
 measures promptly taken after consultation with the financial experts, the 
 panic, such as it was, lasted only a day, the Bank-rate fell more quickly than 
 it had risen, and in a very short time “‘ Business as usual’ was the slogan 
 of the day. In addition to these special duties the Chancellor of the Exchequer 
 took a part second to none in arousing the enthusiasm of the country in a 
 series of speeches. Here is a passage from one of them, which apart from its 
 intrinsic beauty is a striking example of the kind of oratory in which he has 
 no living compeer :— 
 
 “We have been living in a sheltered valley for generations. We have 
 been too comfortable and too self-indulgent, many perhaps too selfish ; 
 and the stern hand of fate has scourged us to an elevation where we 
 can see the everlasting things that matter—the great peaks we had for- 
 gotten, of Duty, Honour, Patriotism, and, clad in glittering white, the 
 towering pinnacle of Sacrifice, pointing like a rugged finger to Heaven.”’ 
 
 From this time forward, for obvious reasons, there were comparatively 
 few pictures of him in Punch. It had no desire to satirize statesmen helping 
 to win the war, and had abundant subjects for ridicule in the Kaiser and the 
 other potentates, diplomats, and soldiers arrayed against us. In one of his 
 speeches, d@ propos of the issue of the first War Loan, the Chancellor of the 
 Exchequer described himself as ‘“‘ simply a coal-heaver, filling the bunkers 
 of the battleships,’ and Punch illustrated this phrase in the only picture of 
 him that appeared during the war period of 1914. 
 
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 The key-word of 1915 was “‘ munitions.’’ Very early in the year it became 
 evident to the Cabinet, and to the Chancellor of the Exchequer in particular, 
 that far greater supplies of arms and ammunition of every kind would be re- 
 quired than the country was at that time organized to produce. As he said 
 in February, “‘ This is an engineer’s war. We stand more in need of equipment 
 than we do of men.” In the following month the Government introduced a 
 Bill giving them control of all works capable of being used for the production 
 of war material. In commending the measure to the House of Commons 
 the Chancellor said that at the head of the new organization they wanted 
 “a good strong business man with some ‘ go’ in him who would be able to 
 push the thing through.” Eventually “the man of push and go” was dis- 
 covered in Mr. Lloyd George himself, and in April he became Chairman of 
 the Cabinet Committee on Munitions. Punch evidently had confidence that 
 the right man had been found, for on April 21st it had a spirited cartoon 
 representing him as the driver of an ammunition wagon “ Delivering the 
 Goods.” | 
 
 Shortly after this Mr. Asquith reconstructed the Government as a Coalition, 
 with the full approval of the Chancellor of the Exchequer ; and in the new 
 Administration Mr. Lloyd George became Minister of Munitions. His appoint- 
 ment was noted in a little picture representing him with Lord Kitchener, 
 “The Soldier and the Munition-maker—Both needed to serve the guns.” 
 He threw himself into his new work with characteristic energy. Difficulties 
 were many—notably a serious dispute with the South Wales miners, which 
 he succeeded in settling (‘‘ Another Leek in his Cap,” July 28th). But by 
 the end of the year he was able to report that there was now no shortage of 
 shells, high-explosive or other, and that very soon we should be able to supply 
 those of our Allies who were in need of them. “ Just in Time—Mr. Lloyd 
 George catches the Victoria ’Bus,’” was the way Punch pictured it. 
 
 Nevertheless things did not go too well for our arms in 1916. Reverses 
 abroad were followed by the Easter Monday rebellion in Dublin. Mr. Asquith 
 decided to send the Minister of Munitions to Ireland to see if his well-known 
 powers of conciliation would succeed in evolving a settlement between North 
 and South. At one moment he seemed to have succeeded, but the agree- 
 ment broke down when it had to be translated into fact. In the meantime 
 he had become Secretary of State for War, owing to the tragic death of Lord 
 Kitchener. After the heavy losses in the Somme battles the need of more 
 men for the Army had become urgent, and during the autumn session the 
 War Minister announced that it would be necessary to enlist men up to the 
 age of forty-one. Throughout the year he had been growing more and 
 more dissatisfied with the conduct of the war by the Government. Mr. 
 Asquith had many excellent qualities, but the power of rapid decision, so 
 essential in war where opportunities disappear almost before they have arisen, 
 was not:one of them. Mr. Lloyd George pleaded for a smaller War Council ; 
 with the Prime Minister as its nominal chairman, but himself as its active 
 head. Mr. Asquith seemed favourable to the idea, but procrastinated so long 
 that, after much futile negotiation, Mr. Lloyd George resigned. 
 
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 Then Mr. Asquith, feeling his position untenable, also resigned. Mr. 
 Bonar Law, the leader of the Unionist Party, was invited to form a Govern- 
 ment, but failed owing to the refusal of Mr. Asquith to serve under him; 
 and eventually Mr. Lloyd George was sent for by the King. In a few days 
 he succeeded in forming an Administration, composed of members of the 
 Liberal, Unionist, and Labour Parties. His advancement to the highest 
 office in the State was generally popular, for it was clear that he possessed 
 the driving-power essential in this crisis of the national fortunes. Punch 
 welcomed it with two pictures—‘‘ The Man with a Punch,” December 13th, 
 and “‘ The New Conductor,’ December 2oth. 
 
 The principal innovation made by Mr. Lloyd George on becoming Prime 
 Minister was the establishment of a War Cabinet of three men—himself as Chair- 
 man (with Mr. Bonar Law, Leader of the House of Commons, as “ alternate ”’), 
 Lord Curzon, and Lord Milner. The choice of Lord Milner—the principal 
 opponent of his famous Budget who had advised the Lords to ‘‘ damn the 
 consequences ”’ and reject it—was typical of his methods. Past controversies 
 and personal antipathies were all swallowed up in his single-minded determina- 
 tion to win the war, and to secure the best instruments for the purpose wherever 
 he could find them. Many of the new ministers came from the world of 
 business, and had little experience of politics. Unlike the old War Council, 
 whose sittings were at irregular intervals, the new War Cabinet met every 
 day, and its proceedings were carefully minuted. An army of private secre- 
 taries was appointed to keep the Prime Minister in touch with every Depart- 
 ment, and to provide the Press (whose importance Mr. Lloyd George had 
 recognized throughout his career) with such information as it was thought 
 desirable for the public to know. In every direction his energies were un- 
 sparing, but for the most part his work was done behind the scenes. Hence 
 it furnished comparatively little opportunity for Punch pictures of him this 
 year. The publication of the Mesopotamia Report, the appointment of 
 Lord Rhondda as Food Controller, the rationing of coal, and the ever recurrent 
 difficulties in Ireland were some of the topics illustrated. From the Londoner’s 
 point of view the most telling cartoon was probably “ The Letter and the 
 Spirit,” October roth, arising out of a report that the Prime Minister, on 
 visiting a South London district which had been badly bombed by the German 
 aeroplanes, had remarked ‘‘ We'll give them hell!’ Though officially re- 
 pudiated the expression was generally believed to represent his feelings with 
 sufficient accuracy. 
 
 The great events of 1918—-the German “ push” in March, the turning 
 of the tide in June, and the rapid retirement of the German Armies before 
 the Anglo-French advance, culminating in the Armistice on November 11th 
 —furnished Punch with such a wealth of subjects for illustration that there 
 was little occasion for introducing the Prime Minister. In the spring he 
 attempted once more to induce Nationalist Ireland to take her part in the 
 war by the promise of Home Rule, but again without success. With the Allied 
 victories in the autumn came talk of a General Election, and in December it 
 was duly held. It was something of a leap in the dark, for under an Act 
 
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 passed by the Lloyd George Administration the franchise had been extended 
 to women, and the electorate increased by many millions. But the new 
 voters justified the Prime Minister’s “ Great Expectations”’ by giving the 
 Coalition an enormous majority. 
 
 With the removal of the nightmare that had afflicted it for four years 
 the public mind showed extraordinary resiliency. The most extravagant 
 hopes (as we now know) were indulged regarding a rapid return of prosperity, 
 to be secured by immense payments from Germany. Mr. Lloyd George, 
 whose temperament makes him very susceptible to public opinion, shared 
 these hopes, and, on the strength of the coming indemnity, formulated great 
 schemes of national reconstruction for making Britain a land for heroes to 
 live in. At the beginning of the New Year Punch warned him to “ look out 
 for bumps.” His first duty was to represent Britain at the Peace Conference, 
 but his attention was frequently diverted by the alarming growth of Labour 
 unrest. Nevertheless steady progress was made in Paris, and by April the 
 first draft of the Peace terms was completed. The Prime Minister, though 
 a comparative novice in international affairs, showed his customary facility 
 for picking up the important points, and very soon dominated the Conference 
 by his personality. This is what Mr. J. M. Keynes, not a friendly critic, 
 says about him in “‘ The Economic Consequences of the Peace ”’ : 
 
 ‘““ What chance could such a man [Pres. Wilson] have against Mr. Lloyd 
 George’s unerring, almost medium-like sensibility to everyone imme- ° 
 diately round him? To see the British Prime Minister watching the 
 company, with six or seven senses not available to ordinary men, judging 
 character, motive and sub-conscious impulse, foreseeing what each was 
 thinking, and even what each was going to say next, and compounding 
 with telepathic instinct the argument or appeal best suited to the vanity, 
 weakness, or self-interest of his immediate auditor, was to realize that 
 the poor President would be playing blind-man’s-buff in that party.” 
 
 Nevertheless his action aroused a good deal of Press criticism, much 
 of it coming from Lord Northcliffe’s newspapers, which had formerly 
 been among his strongest supporters. His absence from the House of 
 Commons also excited remark; the need of greater economy in the public 
 services was rapidly becoming urgent; and towards the end of the year 
 the perennial Irish problem again came to the fore. A new Home Rule Bill 
 was foreshadowed. The proposal to set up two parliaments in Ireland was 
 not welcomed by the Nationalists, but it satisfied the susceptibilities of Ulster 
 and secured the assent of the Unionist Party. 
 
 In 1920 the inevitable reaction after the hectic prosperity of the previous 
 year began to set in. The Labour Party was encouraged by one or two by- 
 elections to cherish hopes of power, and those whose wish was father to their 
 thought prophesied the downfall of the Coalition. The Irish Republicans 
 refused to accept in satisfaction of their demands a Bill which gave a separate 
 Parliament to Ulster. The international situation was far from satisfactory, 
 
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 for President Wilson had failed to induce his countrymen to back his project 
 of the League of Nations. It was hoped that the return of Mr. Asquith to 
 Parliament for Paisley would pull the Opposition together and indirectly 
 cause the two branches of the Coalition to maintain a closer union. But 
 the ex-Premier, ‘ The Reluctant Thruster,” as Mr. Punch called him, 
 did his spiriting so gently that little was accomplished in either direction. 
 The “homes for heroes’? made rather slow progress, partly owing to 
 financial stringency, and partly to Labour difficulties. In spite of all these 
 distractions, however, Mr. Lloyd George was able to continue the process 
 of peace-making, and to make tentative efforts for the re-establishment of 
 trade with Russia. Though much criticized by the Press, he continued to 
 preserve his usual cheerfulness, and even permitted the Colonial Secretary 
 and other members of the Cabinet to join in the journalistic fray. German 
 recalcitrancy and Polish ambition were among his numerous distractions, 
 but he managed to take a short holiday in Switzerland, from which he re- 
 turned with renewed vigour and a St. Bernard pup to face the many difficulties 
 still awaiting him. Of these the chief was Ireland, where the ‘“ gunmen ”’ 
 of the I.R.A. had established a reign of terror; but hardly second was the 
 public outcry against Government extravagance. The Prime Minister might 
 well have lost heart at the gloomy outlook. 
 
 The New Year of 1g21r did not bring much enlightenment. Already 
 there were signs of a cleavage of view between the British and French Govern- 
 ments over the question of German reparations. A by-election in Cardigan- 
 shire nearly resulted in the defeat of the Premier’s candidate ; and was followed 
 by the usual rumours of a Dissolution. The trade arrangement with Russia 
 brought very little business, owing to the continued anarchy in that country. 
 Worst of all, Mr. Bonar Law was ordered by his doctors to give up political 
 work, and the Prime Minister was thus deprived at a critical moment of his 
 most valued coadjutor. Mr. Law’s place as Leader of the House was taken 
 by Mr. Chamberlain, but it was freely prophesied that there would be greater 
 difficulties with the Unionist wing of the Coalition in future. Immediately 
 afterwards began the great coal stoppage, which paralysed trade for three 
 months, and with this and the still unsettled problems of Germany and Ireland 
 the Prime Minister had his hands full. Mr. Punch seized the opportunity 
 to illustrate the courage with which he faced his tasks by representing him 
 as ‘‘ The Chef,” after Sir William Orpen’s famous picture. The necessity 
 of retrenching the public services became more urgent, and eventually Mr. 
 Lloyd George was obliged to part with Dr. Addison, who, after serving with 
 him in various capacities, had recently become Minister Without Portfolio. 
 
 Some improvement set in after the turn of the year. After causing an 
 immense amount of expenditure and loss the coal dispute was at last settled ; 
 preliminaries were arranged for the Disarmament Conference at Washington, 
 at which it was hoped (but not by the Northcliffe Press) that Mr. Lloyd 
 George would attend; and relations with France temporarily improved. 
 But even on a brief holiday in the Highlands the Prime Minister was pursued 
 by the spectre of Unemployment, and it became necessary to hold a short 
 
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 Session in the autumn to pass a number of emergency measures to relieve 
 distress. 
 
 For the second time within recent history ‘‘ the one bright spot” was 
 Ireland. Ever since June, when the King opened the first Parliament of 
 Northern Ireland with a most conciliatory speech, the Government had been 
 making efforts to get into touch with the Sinn Fein leaders. As early as 
 August the Prime Minister laid down in admirably precise terms the conditions 
 on which the Cabinet were prepared to set up Dominion Government 
 in Southern Ireland. But Mr. de Valera, the ‘‘ President’? of the Irish 
 “Republic,” proved to be a very sticky and somewhat tricky negotiator. 
 Difficulties also occurred with Northern Ireland. The Irish Conference 
 dragged on so long that Mr. Lloyd George was compelled to forgo his promised 
 visit to Washington. But thanks to the patience and good sense of both the 
 British and Irish delegates, clinched at the critical moment by the firmness 
 of the Prime Minister, an agreement, differing little in essentials from the 
 terms originally laid down in August, was eventually reached, with the 
 approval of the majority of both Liberals and Unionists, and amid the plaudits 
 of the civilized world. Mr. Punch greeted the achievement with a cartoon 
 in which the Prime Minister was represented as the successor of St. Patrick, _ 
 ridding Ireland of its last reptile, the serpent of ‘‘ Distrust.” 
 
 It was a happy ending to a year full of trouble and distress, and it forms 
 an appropriate crown to the strange eventful history of Mr. Lloyd George 
 as so far set forward in the pages of Punch. As a member of a small nation 
 he has throughout his career had a special tenderness for small nations; as 
 one who suffered, or saw others suffering, from oppression in his youth 
 he has ever had a passion for freedom. It is meet that Wales should have 
 furnished the statesman to compose as it furnished the soldier who started the 
 secular quarrel between Britain and Ireland. Historians may differ regarding 
 the merits of Mr. Lloyd George’s policy. They must be at one in their appre- 
 ciation of his astonishing career. I can think of no other case in this country 
 of a lad born in poverty, equipped with a far from perfect education, and un- 
 provided with any influence, rising by sheer force of personality and natural 
 gifts to the very highest place in the realm—and, what is perhaps more re- 
 markable, staying there. Lincoln, whom in many respects Mr. Lloyd George 
 resembles, furnishes perhaps the nearest parallel. But Lincoln was born in 
 a young democratic country, where it is probably easier for a genius to “ come 
 through his horses,’’ and unhappily he was cut off by death before he was able 
 to show that, like Washington, he could be “ first in peace”’ as well as “ first 
 in war.’ Mr. Lloyd George has passed both tests. He has now been a Minister 
 of the Crown continuously for sixteen years—a record unapproached by any 
 other democratic statesman. He has steered his country successfully through 
 the greatest war in its history, and has so far survived the almost deadlier 
 perils that beset a statesman in peace. Without pretending to be a prophet 
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 62 
 
THE PITILESS PHILANTHROPIST. 
 
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 will do you, whether you like it or not.” 
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 Grandmother (Insurance Bill). ‘‘ No—never even touched me.” 
 
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 up on.” 
 
 [December 20, rgrt.] 
 
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 Domestic servants were rather doubtful as to the advantages of the Insurance Bill to their particular class. 
 
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 “I say, this looks pretty hopeless. 
 
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 election Candidate. 
 
 Liberal By 
 
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 Liberal By-election Candidate. 
 
 Myr. Lloyd George. 
 
 “Yes; but I’ve got to go out now.” 
 
 [March 13, 1912. 
 
 A by-election in South Manchester resulted in the defeat of the Government candidate. 
 
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 [May 15, 1912.) 
 
 The National Insurance Bill was jeopardized by the opposition of the medical profession. 
 
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 Winston. 
 
 estimated surplus. 
 
 It was feared that the necessity of strengthening the Navy to cope with the German menace would absorb most of Mr. Lloyd George's 
 
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 Active Training for the Passive Resistance Event. 
 
 [July 3, 1912] 
 
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 Our St. Sebastian. ‘‘ And now, ladies and gentlemen, after these refreshing preliminaries, 
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 The National Insurance Act came into force on July 15th, 1912. 
 
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 Chancellor of the Exchequer. ‘‘ Well, you can have it. Give me the land! °’ 
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 (September 18, 1912.} 
 
 In the Presidential address at the British Association Prof. Schafer had suggested that life might be created by chemical action. 
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 Mr. Lloyd George. 
 
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 [Mr. Asquith has promised a Bill to amend the Insurance Act.] [June 4, 1913-] 
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 Scout George. ‘‘ The enemy is on our side, sir.” 
 Scoutmaster Asquith. 
 
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 [March 3, 1920.] 
 
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 Welsh Wizard. 
 
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 —at least let’s hope so; I’ve never done this trick before.” 
 
 [March 10, 1920.] 
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 Mr. Bonar Law (Manager). ‘‘Or some other time.” [December 29, 1920.] 
 
 Mr. Bonar Law, Mr. Lloyd George, Mr. Shortt, Mr. Chamberlain, Mr. Neal, Sir Eric Geddes, Sir Robert Horne, Mr. Churchill. 
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 [June 2, 1920.] | 
 
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THE EXPERTS, 
 
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 Morley. “‘ What you want is a more powerful sanity! ” 
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 [December 15, 1920.] 
 
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 Mr. B. L. ‘‘ What do we want with a General Election ? ” 
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 {March 23, 1921. 
 
 The trade-agreement with Russia made slow progress owing to the anarchy in that country. 
 
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 Mr. Bonar Law. “ Oh, you'll find stroke an easy man to follow.” 
 Mr. Lloyd George. ‘‘ So long as the bow side don’t try to pull me round!” 
 
 [March 30, 1921.] 
 
 Mr. Chamberlain had just succeeded Mr. Law as Leader of the House. 
 
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 [May 4, 1921.] 
 
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 plank. As an act of clemency I leave the selection to yourselves.” 
 
 Captain Lloyd George. 
 
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