Daily British Whig (1850), 31 Aug 1914, p. 12

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i | IS ENDED i y 1% EDWARD GREY WILL AGAIN RULE ENGLAND. i Niko -------- His Diplomatic Trinmph -- Despises | Popularity = Grey's . Industrial Policy--A Lover of Solitude. . There is a concensus that #reat man in Esgland in the past month, the big man Ii: Eurgpe, has been Sir Edward Grey: - Now that the war has begun he steps aside, and Kitchener manages the nation. Grey will come to the front again . when the time comes to discuss terms of peace, and no voice in Eu- pe will be so decisive as his, Pro- t Grey knows already what he will ny. He does not speak on the #pur of the moment. No man-in (he Wbeitish cabinet has had the respect and admiration of bis political op- 'pupents to such an extent as Sir Kd- ward Grey, and one reason is that hie bas shown himself less a partis an than any of his colleagues. It is true that upon occasion he has proved that he can use the cudgel of partisanship as effectively as the ra - pler of diplomacy, but it has been plain enough that he prefers to re Juan aloof from the ordinary squab- les of government. Another reg son for the re t of the Unionists is the firm attitude of Grey in hand ling foreign afairs! As regards Ger many especially, his attitude has been courteous, but unbending. I was Grey who made the kaiser with draw from the position he had taken at Agadir. Grey, too, has always been more than friendly to Russia and under his auspices the relations between Britain and France have be- come what they are to-day. In fact, be has done what the Union iste would have done in foreign af- fairs had there béen a unionist gov- ernment in office. A Diplomatic Triumph. Writing from London to the Bos ton Transcript, J. P. Collins speaks of receiving a letter from the "lea- der 'writer of the wost conservative and imperial of our leading mornigg papers", in whieh he says; "1 malt nothing any longer to say again the men who are in power, They are doing splendidly." Whatever may be the outcome of the war, it is impossible to deny that the diploma- tic triumph of Sir Edward Grey i: #lready complete. It is chiefly due tc Grey that Britons can boast thai they have gone into this war to safe guard the futegrity of their smaller neighbors, and to fulfill , a pledge which they were urged to break, Sir * Bdward Grey has been able to show the world that the present war is due to the ruthlessness of the emper- or of Germany, The recent "white paper" issued by the British govern- ment ix perhaps the greatest docu entary testimonial to a foreign mi ter that was ever issued. He Despises Popularity. "It may be that one of the reascns AO IBANY ARID PI he ve © onrect 5 Shr Edward Grey 1s because he does not care for them. He is never to be found in gatherings where his party is celebrating a victory. He avoids the crowds, and cheers and eulogy make him uncomfortable. This qual- ity of modesty and reticence is ob servable In his speeches. He never made an oration or a peroration in his life. He says what he has to say in the fewest possible words, and then sits down, The speech he de- livered in the house of commons the day that Britain declared war on Germany wae almost as free from emotion as the report of a commer cial traveler, but yet it rang with what Matthew Aruold called "high and ent seriousness." Another #peech that shows Grey at his best was delivered four years ago to workingmen at Darlington on the problems and trials of industrialisni. In it he said: "Disorderly methods are fatal to 'progress. Nothing provokes men more than the belief that their point of view is not understood. So long as they think thui™ no argument af fects them, and they are not open 10 Teason. Couvince them they are understood and then they are ready 10 Understand. This, I believe, is what happens when employers and TWELVE the | { employed meet round a table. Mate trial understanding of each other's | difficulties leads to compromise and {a reasonable settlement. The diffi- 'eulty is to make the settlement seem | reasonable to thosé in trade who {have not been through the process {of mutual discussion and wunder- i standing, to convince men that their | delegates or shareholders have come {out of a conference not weaker, but | wiser than when they went in. | Grey's Industrial Philosophy. "There, I believe, we come to one of the great difficulties of modern industrial life--- the awful separa- tion there is between the sharehol- der paying for his share and ex- pecting his dividend and the work- men employed by the limited liabil- ity company and upon whose work that dividend and profit must de- pénd. ow far it is pessible io bridge Over that gulf I cannot say, but I am sure it is both for the em- ployerfs and employed to do all that they can in their respective organi- zations to make the touch of human nature felt between those who re- ceive the dividends and those whose work is essential to the earning of the profits. That is one reason why I believe that the best and most in- telligent firms of employers have welcomed having to deal with trade unions, because by that means, thro' the representatives of the men, they get into touch with the whole body of men, understand their thoughts and difficulties, and so forth. But to maintain that, it is essential that the men themselves should stand by their unions and their organizations. We talk of public spirit as if it only meant the sparing of some effort, the rich from their leisure and the poor from their work, tg give some service to the state, It. means that but it also means doing our own or dinary work well, building up an in dustry, not only to get a livelihood, but also to enrich. the state. The greatness and strength of this coun- try depend upon the prosperity of our industries. Without that it can- not have the resources to be either great or strong. Everyone "whe works in an industry is engaged is public services as well as earning'his own livelihood. He must 'make and maintain a home, that being the first duty of citizenship." A Lover Of Solitude. Gladstone is reported to have said of Grey that he might do anything, but that he chose to go fishing Though this is too witty for Glad- Stone to have said, it illustrates the man's character. He courts solitude and more so than ever since wife's tragic death. He has no chil- dren, and his spare time he spends fishing or wandering through re- mote country places, On one oec- casion he spent a whole night with Roosevelt in the New Forest iden- tifying the various singing birds. No doubt he enjoyed himself more than if he were being cheéred through the streets of London. That he can be premier if he likes is an open secret. It is doubtful if he will accept the honor. It is the work, not the re- d, that attracts him, WOMEN IN HUNGARY. Look After the . Finances of the Household Which They Rule. In war time the agitation for wo- man suffrage goes into a natural state of coma. Then the women are apt to assume an equal position without argument, and the question of their place in the state needs no discussion. But in no country, ap- parently, is women in a better posi- tion to share equally with man the home and state rights than in Hun- gary... Madame Ilona, Timko, a Hungarian in this country, who, in connection with the YW.C.A.,, has done much ior Hungarian immi- grant girls, when interviewed by a representative of the New York Ev- ening Post, paid the following tri bute to her countrywomen and to the men who are not too jealous to give them the respect and admira- tion that they earn: From the highest class to the poor est peasant, the position held by ihe Hungarian woman is one of res- pect and equality. She ig the head of the household, and all the money which the man earns is turned over to his wife, who has full financial control. It isn't at all strange in a hie | Hungarian peasant family to hea the husband ask the wife for a fey cents with which to buy tobacco. The women are consulted on al subjects. In the upper classes Tis man makes a business move or a po | litical move without discussing th. mater with bis wife. Her iudgmen Important to him. And the wo men themselves are bright, clever and keen, interested in all that con cerns their family and their coun try. If the woman is brighter tha: her husband, he acknowledges and lets her go ahead and things. The women of my country ari brave and fearless They will figh again just as they did in the reve lution of 1864, when they went g officers and common soldiers an stood shoulder to shoulder with thei brothers and husbands. One of the favorite stories whicl Hungarian women tell again anc again to their children is the on of the capture of Fort Egri (Egn var bevetele) and how Dobo Katica, the wife of the chief whose territory was being besieged by the Turks, led the women against the invaders. She rode out into the centre I the town and called the women together, ask ing them in the name of their country to arm themselves and fol- low her. They disappeared, and she was afraid for a while that they were not brave or patrietic enough to fight; but snon they returned, ar- med with pit:aforks and stones, and followed her {o where the Turks | were climbing up a rope ladder to is manag ; fro * peaches you - in a sanitary and perfect condition. » / BRIGHT is the only chewi ped in separate IS THE TOBACCO = YOU CHEW CLEAN? | PACIFIC CHEWING ng tobacco wrap- plugs untouched m the time it is manufactured until it AND THE PLUG IS AS " DELICIOUSLY GOOD » AS IT iS CLEAN. Each wrapped plug contains a beautiful satin insert so- much sought after for window displays around town. * | fashionable: * [EARL ROBERTS" RECORD RECALLED BY APPOINTMENT AS COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF Of Overseas. Forces--Won Victoria Cross--Was Decorated by Kaiser as Greatest General of His Time. As all the world knows, Earl Ro- berts, who bas - just been appointed comumander-in-chief of the overseas forces of the empire, is an Irishman, He was born in Lawnpore, the son of General Sir Abrabam Roberts and tsabella, the daughter of Major Dun- bury, of the 62nd Foot. Whether his mihtary genius was inherited i, there- lore, a nice question. He was edu- cated at Eton, and later on went to steadily, showi der to shouldér.--Timely cartoons he fort, which $tood on a cliff They heated tar in earthen pitch rs and as the Turks climbed up poured the hoiling stuff down or hem, and when the leader of the memy advanced up the ladder, Dos yo Katica herself cimed down tt reel Him gud took wae red fag fron haad. "No won garians when their men fight together for their said the vanquished Turk urned his forces and fled 118 or God is with the Hun apd womer tountry.' bs he inion X A Thorough Inspection. Valcartier, Que., Aug. 20. --A thou- sand men came up for medical ex amination yesterday, and about ten per cent. have been rejected. The men were those of the first and second battalions. There are now of the ex amining staff twenty-two physicians and a staff of forty-four clerks. Kf forts are being made to secure addi tional physicians. A call for electrical men in the first lieid battalion was answered hy hf teen men of No. 4 field company, Ca nadian Englaeers, Montreal. Before Seaving, Lieut. Dmwe addressed the men, saving that the company held the world's record for laving a field telegraph wipe, and he felt 'sure these men would excel that. & HA -------- ------ Summer Colony Seevetly Sindying. Who is the speller . the y oF xh by James Frise. AP A ct A A A AP Pr PRICE LEATHER GOES UP. Effect All Grades of Leather. result Advance Will of the war in the advance .in the rice of "spring shoes from 20 to 25 Leather has advanced, sole Ze, a pound higher factories have enor- supplies on hand now, but af r the fall demand is supplied, the tock will have replenished at he advanced price. The larger ma- 1ufacturers have kept*™he price for he fall styles down because of their arge stocks and this has forced the maller men their styles to the retail men at a small margin of profit. The advance will effect all grades of | the present $5 advancing to at least $5.50 n the of cases to $6 a An indirect Europe will be per cent eather bei 1 to be to sell eather, juality and pair The ome most repairing prices advanced ago to $1.15 for a nailed pair of and heels. The old this was price was 9 The cause of the advance in price made by ~ the wholesale merchants and they were the ones to reap the benefit The tanneries issucd a notice that they would no lor r sign contracts for and the wholesale sent the price time higher, Legend Of A Lion. IT 8s Maga Guerassim, when he was a her- mit in the wilderness, met a lion cry- ing out with pain and holding up its Paw to have a thorn pulled out. The to have made many ap- peals of this kind to the early Christians, and Guerassim was not less backward than the other heroes. He bound up the poor paw and led it to the monastery, where for five years it gratefully served the old man, even doing domestic labor for him. The "other brothers of the monastery also made use of the lion's service, and even set him to watch the monastery lions seem beast's ass while it was grazing. One day the lion returned to the monastery without the ass, and Guerassinm, thinking that the natural leonine appetite had accounted for the beast of labor, said to the lion: "Hence- forth you shall be the monastery ass'; panniers were put on th grain and their pitchers, and = he brought water from Jordan. The lion, who seems to have been more saintly even than Guerassim aimself, served meekly, and in these lays when the pilgrims came down to Jordan he not only brought up water. but chased the peasants from he sacred river to the monastery, where they paid the brothers good money to pray for the health of their bodies and the peace of sold of their fathers and grandfathers. At last, coming back one day, the tion found that Guerassim was dead. From that hour he had no more joy in life. When the saint was buried the monks snowed the lion the tomb and* there he stretched himself out and expired. Held A Meeting. Th was a meeting of the City asetail league utive in the was shown and the ac. . Other 'per Androcles and | king of beasts, and be carried their the military school at Sandhurst, Ap- terwards he was gazetted to the Ben- gal artillery as second lieutenant. As 8 = mere stripling he saw service throughout the Indian mutiny, taking his part at the siege of Delhi and at the relief of both Lucknow and Cawn. pore. Un one occasion he had a horse shot under him, an experience that was (wice repeated in later years, and on several occaslons he was mentioned in despatches, r At the close of the war, though still a youngster, he was made a major. In the Abysginian campaign, which close. ly followed, he won, the rank of lieu- tenant-colonel, and in the Lushasi ex- pedition he woo his colomeley, In 1878 his Christmas present from the war oflice was the rank of major-general, Winning the Victoria Cross Before these honors came to him, however, Roberts, then a lieutenant, had received the greasest distinction that ' can fall to a British soldier. While he was on his wedding tour he was commanded to attend the king and queen at Balmoral cast] and there was given the V.(C. The exploit in which this coveted decoration way won occurred in the Indian mutiny, in the course of the pursuit of 'a number of rebels, who faced suddenly round, and firing on their pursiiers, at bay, In his book, '"Forty- Years in India," Lord Roberts us a matter-of-fact count of the deed which is worth re peating : "I saw Younghusband fall,'"" he re- coeds, "but I could mot go to gssistance as," at that moment, one of his in dire peril from a who was attacking him with his fixed bayonet, and had I not helped the fellow and disposed of his opponent he must have been killed, An instant later I descried in the distance two Nepoys making' off with a standard, which I deter mined must be recaptured; sa I rode after the rebels and overtook them, and while wrenching the staff out of the hands of whom I cut down, the other put his musket close to my and fired Fortunately the piece niissed fire I carried the standard." stood Une has given ace his sowars was Sepoy, one, hody for, me off His Famous Murch. In 1879 Roberts made the march from Kabul to Kandahar that will be foréver associated with his name, merely as military feat, but because of the lasting peace with Afghanistan that Has followed. in the course of the Afghan campaign Roberts was méntioned in despatches fewer® than twenty-three an honor almost without parallel in moderna British military history. The Burma campaign and the South Af war added to his laurels as a and it has been said by hos critics that he was one of the handful of British ' generals who came out of South Africa with a bet ter military reputation than he e1 tered it Since his reputation at the* beginning of the was was the highest in the empire, the force of this praise will be appreciated little red-faced man,' Kipling calls him, has been publicly pro claimed by the kaiser, himself mean judge, as the '"'ablest of his time," From William II. he received the decoration of the Red Eagle, being the first non-German to be thus honored, and in explaining hig action the kaiser compared him with the ablest military. geniuses of the past, and declared him to be, the to-day's generals. not a not rican soldier tile as greatest of COULD NOT GET ASSURANCES That His Family Would Be Properly Looked After. Although anxious to go to the front and fight for his country a member of the 14th regiment who enlisted for overseas service and intended tg leave on Friday decided to remain at home until he was assured that his wife and two™ children would be properly cared for while he was at the front. The man, it appears, has seen ser vice on three or four occasions and was ready to leave when he was in- formed that, up until the present time, no arrangements had been made for the wives of the men who had gone to the front. On Thursday his wife signed the certificate allowing him fo go on conditions that she was to be looked after, but unfor- tunately the voluntesr was unable to get any person who would assure him that the lamily would not want. It was a very sad sight to see the family, at the armouries on Friday afternoon, waiting for the com- manding officer to arrive on the scene 50 that the matter could be arranged. 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