It is not unreasonable to detect {in this contrast between the attitude of the Church of England in those days and Cardinal Manning the weaknesses which have so played a part in under: influence -of the Church over the working classes. The present, Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Cosmo Long, is by no means of the Temple school. But he is the inheritor of an unfortunate tradition which has laid the Church open to the reproach of being too rigidly on the side of the persons sein authority when it should have adopted an attitude of greater in-triumphantly declare that th was inevitable of the Church's connection the State, Dat the present Archbishop's policy Proves that the argument is not as substantial as its champions appear to think.
Mr. Tillett's view on the politic-wns with whom he came in are interesting because he ix not ttlonly a shrewd observer but he has he' gift-of putting his obser in simple and graphic terms. cussing Prime Ministers, he places Mr. Bpldwin as the most humane Jand practical of those whom he has met:
He is not, the leverest, fa ie. admits that. bimse!
Sed Solanced" of statesmen the mest English statesmen of atr This is Mr. Lloyd George:
As © politician Mr. thas all the wiles of a fo: fears the same whatever Srmpathie? were. One eft any con Eerence over which he bad presided Sith the "feeling dha: "there was nothing doing and something Proaching a conviction of insincerity on his part Haldane, stood ie Government Botbing other toan © nation Tillett into failure to recognise] femvc" time. 'Tainour asvaulied hi the iron qualities behind the an-Sih a"biudgeon' His owe' patce th parent femininity of his personal-Seed the assassin knife, 'Yet throughout the vicissitudes of "asees a Re pears in the public career he was, se" at Commons. with him "ing, the sanest and most stable esse hiv great bat mind in' the political Nfe- of the Despite his detachment, country. When the war had de"
losophic™Snaiference, 1 felt that clmated' our ranks, Lord Milner wa Sng man. vitally interested falled upon to" advise. the substitae Social "movements, and concerned te nef coloured labour for transport Sefend "the "existing structure this couutrs, that our Seeley, was capable of ach spccehes Zockers "and Inbourers "in generat he's frequently delivered in the might be" sent to the Front. Even when Labour men joined in that call, Bonar Law was the greatest Lord. Milner stood out against It, and backed me up in the resistance: gentleman Mr. Tillett ever met in T'made to, the proposal. T shall Parliament or out: ever grateful to his meniory for that ssecaih Rept Ate amy man that support.
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the soft answer that turneth It is pleasant to think that this radical politician is able to look at Srath, "No "Labour man' ever. ques: Uoned his veracity, or his honesty. the present with a great degree of satisfaction in the development of The present Prime Minister, be-ideals of citizenship and, therefore, ing as it were an old comrade, does [consideration for the worker. not come in for direct appreciation, is to be done, and Mr.
1d) but this oblique tribute, concerned not diffident ili indicating that he in the main with Lord Rosebery, may be taken as a guide: believes the world still requires the reproduction of that scene in the Lord Rosebery was the ority Temple at Jerus Prime Minister, except Ramsay Mace money-changers were driven out. It is a homely summing up of the certainly, studied poverty, present economic crisis, he tame into' personal contact As for the authors own summing ith the. worst" and most. offensive Side' of "slumdom! the "fetid. atmos.
My fifty yours hat been spent in Phere, the tuberculosisluden ale of maelstrom of industrial change, Wretched hovels into which the. poor a World of toil, and. the seit!" of were crushed a2 in a lethal chamber.
He brought to the chairmanship of rear events, The Tapidy of an ever: the London County "Council an' {nereasing volume "of courage an enthusiasm have been xweoping away demeanour. He" raised the old! inndmarks. "and. racing' the the, Chale foods towards renter "waters, At any rate, T have lived, 1 can say in Walter Savage Landor's lines find it stands a a model have warmed both hands before Feally made' London government a ing thing. That he should concern hire of Hire? an to ar question: This may be Stl put side by side ible crowded properties, the ingurura-Yon of Kingsway, improvement of the. with the concluding passage of Sie Embankment, the deepening of the Percival Starling' book "reviewed ganisation of last week, "Two men" of widely Gounty" Counclte "beanoer all thi ifterent' "interests and" careers was for a man of his social position, strongly contrasted. in. the "op: Tmmense " wealth, "and. intellectual portunities ven and taken, both sarus & very considerable achieve come almost tothe same cone rent. clusion. The reason, perhaps, ther Bri statesman, Lord that they are both essentially dane, is admired as an in-British, and so long as the nation tellectual giant equipped with o Jean turn out Marlings and Tilletts, painfully inadequate little voice. A able to fight for their own beliefs safe lawyer, an astute chess-player and at the same time spare nothing a worker are the attributes polites, good trencherman and for the good of the causes which they hold dear, there is still an marshalled to delineate tht charac-opportunity for' progress to assert ter of the greatest Army administrator Great Britain has yet prodaced.
Lord Milner was respected by
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