Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1902 — ENGLAND’S GREAT MAN. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

ENGLAND’S GREAT MAN.

Lord Kitchener Looked Upon aa a Modern Ulysses. Lord Herbert Kitchener, the man who was at the head of the British army when the Boer war cainc to an end, is regarded by many as the strongest man in England.. Kitchener comes back to London with the British public still feeling that it is in his debt. There has been Considerable dissatisfaction over the fact that instead of a half-million being voted to him by Parliament lie received but half that sum, and that instead of an jarldom, such as was bestowed upon Lord Roberts, he was given a beggarly viseountey and a raise in rank from that of lieutenant general to that of. general. The last-named is a big advancement as far ns material benefit is concerned, the difference in pay being (lie raise from $27 to $39 a day. However, Kitchener has looked the matter in the face with great equanimity, knowing that with the public dissatisfied with his reward delay would only make it greater. Herbert Kitchener is a man who has

risen in the army faster than any other man ever did except Wellington. Within six years, be lias come up. almost "by main strength." from a list of officers, most of whom seemed to stand no better chance than himself, to be the general commanding the army. The fact that he has advanced so rapidly is taken to mean that here at last is the man of all others to reform tho war office, which lias been a job too much for either Wolseley or Roberts. Kitchener is absolutely impervious to criticism—at least, apparently so—and lie is also completely regardless of the feelings of anybody, high or low, as long ns it seems to him that anything needs to be done. Neither Roberts nor Wolseley. lias made progress in tho war office, and the public fully expects Kitchener to make the feathers fiy. He will do it, too, if, in his judgment, such a thing will help matters.

LORD KITCHENER.