Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 March 1912 — Sidelight on Lloyd-George. [ARTICLE]

Sidelight on Lloyd-George.

On the day Lloyd-George became chancellor of the exchequer he left the house with a friend of his boyhood (and his love of old friends is not the least attractive phase of his character). As they talked of his advancement he said: “In all my career I do not remember a hand being held out to-me from above and. and a voice raying “Dring i fynoy yma’ (climb thou up here). But don’t! misunderstand me,” he went on,, “there have been thousands of hands which have pushed me up from be? hind.” He doer not forget these hands. He doe* not forget from “Whence oomes his authority and Ms commission. There have been times when one has feared —times when his light anchorage seemed in danger of yielding Jo the impact of opportunism. But tliat memory of his own people, that loyalty to the Inspiration of-the mountains and the' simple tJfarditions of his fathers baa saved him and will save him. —London Daily Newa :-7T -t