Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 184, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 August 1915 — WHERE THE INCHES COUNTED [ARTICLE]

WHERE THE INCHES COUNTED

British Statesman’s Remarkably Neat Retort to Chairman’s Shaft of “WIL”

Lloyd-George’s wit on the platform is well known, bat here is one of the neatest retorts he ever made. He was addressing a meeting in South Wales, according to Pearson’s Weekly, when the chairman, thinking to be witty at the chancellor’s expense, remarked to the audience that he was a little disappointed in Lloyd-George’s appearance. “I had heard so much about Mr. he said, “that I naturally expected to meet a big man in every sense; but, as you can see for yourselves, he is very small in stature.” Many an orator would have been grievously upset by such an unfortunate beginning to the proceedings, but not so Lloyd-George. “I am grieved to find,” he said, with mock seriousness, "that your chairman is disappointed in my size, but this is owing to the way you have here of measuring a man. In North Wales we measure a man from his chin up, but you evidently measure him from his chin down!” After that the chairman made no more personal remarks.