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MR. SNOWDEN'S FUTURE.
"AN IMPARTIAL PORTRAIT.”.
"Philip Snowden," by "Ephe. sian". (Mr. C. E. Bechhofer Ro- berts) (Cassell and Co., 78, "Gd. net), casts no force light upon the Chancellor of the Exchequer, dut contrives to portray him with a fair measure of Impartiality.
It has a picturesque story to tell. The triumph of a man. ‘over the harsh conditione of his boyhood; his rise in the nascent Labour political movement; the imposition of his personality upón friend and foe alike, are matters for an at- tractive: biógraphy, and there la the added fact of how in a high and responsible office of State he! has just won applause hath at home and abroad,
Early Days.
Mr. Snowden was born on July 18, 1884, at Cowling, near Keigh-| ley, In the West Riding of York shire. A strenuous youth, somje years of it spent in the Excise, and much of it in journalism, received a shock through a serious cycling accident which made retirement from the Civil Service nécessary, His energies were. thrown into local politics, and his candida- ture for, the Keighley Division was cut short through fallure to false the sum required to go to the poll. His name in 'politics was made, however, and although he was de fonted at Blackburn in 1900 and again later at Wakefield, he won the former seat in 1906. His political way was now clear.
In the "motorwhile he had, már- ried Miss Ethel Annakin, of Har- rogate, and it was noticed that a clash of views between the two shortly before occurred in the "Labour Leader" over the Temper- ance question. On this subject his opinions have hardened, and whereas Mr. Snowden had advocat- ed the public- ownership and con- trol of the drink traße, he has later supported Lpeal Option, Sun- day closing, and various other minor forms of partial interefer- ence with the private sale of iquor..
"Ephesian" sketches very care- fully the Chancellor's career in Parliament and Labour politics, with many citations to show the] Yorkshire tenacity with which he has stuck to his principles, and his independence of view even against; his own party,
"Mistaken" "War Views.
It may not be known that at the qutbreak of War Mr. Snowden was at Vancouver and boarding a aleamer for New Zealand. Dur-
ing this pasange of the Pheifje his vessel was in imminent danger of attack by German cruisers, and had continually to change course to avoid them.
"Ephesian," it is to be noted, pronounces that Mr. Snowden's view of the War was mistaken.
He "attached a false importance to the influence of the pacifle section of the German Socialists,, and, on these mistaken premises his logi- cal mind built up a platform of argument, which, of necessity, be came more and more remote from reality every time he spoke."
The concluding chapter gives a concise and reasoned statement of Mr. Snowden's case at the Hague: Conference last August, to the future, "Ephesian" is evidently doubtful whether the present moderation of the Labour political leaders, among whom the Chan- cellor is one, will be able to con- trol the passions it has unchained: The opportunity of the Labour leaders, he thinks, is to balance: the probable defection of its.ex- treme wing by attracting the moderate Liberals. Nathlonalisa- tion and opposition to it will be the two standards round which the battle of the future will be fought. And of the man with "the bitterest tongue and the sweetest smile" in the House, he predicts that he will yet be Prime Minister."
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