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THE POLITICIAN'S LIFE.

MR LLOYD GEORGES · RECTORIAL ADDRESS.

Mr. Lloyd George, in his capacity as Lord Rector of Edinburgh University, delivered his rectorial address as the Mekwan Hall, on March 1st, taking as his subject "The Difficulties of Politicians."

THE PLATFORM AND THE PRESS, The politician ought also to have the gift of speech. One often hoard that "politicians are all talk, talk, talk, and nothing done." They would generally find that

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emphatically, objected to talk was the man himself talked everybody else down by by his strident garrulity-the type of man who, as George Menslith said, telling a story of a noisy man he once met in Cumberland, talks down the tunnels

from the apecimens ho had great Joers are also great talkers. Sowe of the greatest business men he had ever talked like the Gulf Stream. You could

not always tell where their same it swept you along its resistless the strong, silent man,"

may have roaned the speaker adder,

in prehistoric days but I have never met him, nor have I heard of any one else who has, and I feel sure he must now be as extinct as the mastodon. But with politicians speaking is an essential

of their business, part

t politicians have to depend It is true that] the

upon speech as their most accustomed and means etymologically, as well as in reality. weapon. Parliamentary government government by talk. In a free government ik your way good government -for there are so many, to persuade In

to teach, to persuade, convince, civilisation has in the main two words, reading and listening. You may means-writing and speaking, or, in other

or add another which has of late been B means of in- rapidly developed struction, and that is seeing. An iden rea- che hundred brains through talk for overy one it finds through reading. Apart from the fact that there are

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Abuse of politicians as a tribe, Mr. Lloyd George said, was one of the com

met monplaces of all smoking rooms. Ong of the charges freely brought against them was that they wrangle worthless trivialities.

embroil the Twer diedura and Tweedledee, ur, as Dean Swift, put it, "about whether you should break the No at the $55

been times of which this doubt there hai or the little and could be said with the most complete truth One could read of periods in the political history of the country when it would

distinguish have been very difficult to

principles for which the Whigs contending and the Tories fought with savage ferocity, sometimes Kaked Politicians 122 foreign countries to explain to him

han you the difference between the various groups

to be divided. in thosa lands,

to him quite the

inexplicable. often appeared He had no doubt, if a similar question had been addressed to him at certain periods in the history of our political conflicts, foreigners would have been equally puzzled to appreciate the lines of divergence and demarcation between the wrestling teams here.

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That was no condemnation of politicians It was more often a reflection of the political, social, or economic conditions of the

They were only keeping in training on that ia absent from the merely writ for the hour when the real fight caune. So

ten word In the conflict between the is politics, whe

when grent issues had a body of men trained to instruct, to written and the spoken world the latter has hitherto been the more powerful, remem. appeal, to organise, and to carry through a

haber Mr. Gladstone at a dinner party at which I was privileged, as a young member, to be present, telling us that in every condict between the platform and the Press the platform invariably won

may presume to vary an expression used by so great an authority-the better platform invariably beats the stronger Fruss.

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great purpose or a great cause to It was often the only defence put forward introducing party politics into municipal contests; and there had been times when there could be no doubt as to the gravity and moment of the issues in challange between the parties.

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They could find no better illustration of The level of speaking in the House of Com the value of the political training for mons was high. Whether it was as high as which our partisan wariare is responsible the average pulpit oratory he preferred not than the use to which politicians were put to express an opinion. In the old days contined to a Tery small during the Great War. It would give them speaking was

ins grave proportion of the members of the House. an idea of the importanical training Most people conducted their business on the

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national emergency of which the institutions of it, Britain affuru. solid earth, and the House of Commons on the When men had to be raised for our Armies whole was a business assembly. Good speak by ing the campaign was conducted

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BUCCUSS. when political

had been many There our great political organisation ly money had to be raised to pay the expenses cases of bad speakers who had attained a of the war the politician, with his gifts of

Parliamentary and political very creditable

pon the An eminent statesan of to the masses, was invaluable when position. appeal to tio

| arranged, with the Initials as well as the Sur zeal of the nation flagged owing to mid-1

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chief Changchun Hankow Manchouli Tientsin era said that the

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Minister hope the politician, que

for qualification lasses and

Newchwang Uramtohi was the ability Dairen

Tokobama any name can be found instantly. with his trained gift

tirei zeal to inspire confidence and not dazzling for rousing and rekindling exhausted emotions was in-speech, And a good thing for the country, ble when employers had to b as well as for the Ministers themselves,

should be the to convert their factories into that that

What was the test of succusa in arsenals and workmen had to be persuaded

politics to work overtime, the politician had to be Office, position, or decorations? No. The only test of high success in a political life was service. He was the last man to despise or to minimise exalted office in this wonderful

with ita vast influence. on country He had held some of the greatest offices in for good or for evil upon the human race. the kingdom for seventeen years, and was proud of it. But office, rightly regarded, we only good deal for the old rivalry between at Withes geninine servies the memory of wider opportunity for service. diers and politicians. But, taking all this into account, the facts themselves drove us those who held the most glittering offices the conclusion that there was much to soon perished It was he who served be said for the criticism put forward by the that endured. Service alone, embalmed the Some of the great German military leaders, that the commemory of departed life.

best pleteness of their dissater was due largely to the political history of this country were

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and most honoured names in the fact that the German politician did not those of men who either never held office AUTHORISED CAPTIZAL do bia duty in organising and keeping up the spirit of the nation behind the lines. Con- at all or in whose life office was but a SUBSCRIBED AND PAID Ur ... scripts were mobilised, but not consciences, transient, trivial, and often distracting REALEVE FUND In these days the former are of no nae Bright, and them

incident. Burke,

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It was interesting from this point of view alone, to read the remarkable books written by the Germans to explain their defeat. One must make an allowance for for the natural disposition of one class of men to lay the blame for disaster upon the shoulders of another. We must discount a

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What qualities did they require to achieve success in politics? At least every quality of capacity and character - which is necessary to command success in any other walk of life. They needed the very bext ahoe leather to enable them to reach the of the journey along the flinty roads of politica; otherwise one got footsoro and the pabllo would use it," said the secre- tary of the National Baby Week Council, amo, and soon fell out on the waisies Dr. C. W. Hutt, discussing with a report

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intelligence, insight, imagination, or an article on the use of the Schick concentration, industry, uprightness in life test in the United States.

Dr. Hutt, who is medical, officer of and conduct. But if he were to choose the gifte which were specially needed in politics health for Holbobra, continued:Science more than other pursuit or pro has halved the death-rate from diphth- Lession

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What happend to the politician who blua- treated with toxin-anti-toxin. My own children Enve all been submitted"to_the dered in act or speech? Ha woke up one morning and found from his newspaper that teat, and all the Holborn health visitors his error was blazoned forth to the world, have been tested and found immune." and he was principally conscious of the In the United States the Schick test has fact that at that moment, there were mill-boen in uso for some years, and it haa ions of his fellow-countrymen either abus bean found that among 100,000 children ing him, cuming him, oc, what was still who were treated; diphtheria was only worse, laughing at him. There was no one-fourth as prevalent as among 100,000 profession carried on under such exacting, children who refused the test and im- Inquiries are welcome. irritating, and mortifying conditions.

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of CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE. politics acquired, aslded Mr. were an acquired taste, and one must

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