MR WINSTON CHURCHILL.

Bruce Herald, Volume XXXXIV, Issue 58, 25 June 1908, Page 1

MR WINSTON CHURCHILL.

i YOUNGEST CABINET MINISTER. . "Lord Randolph Churchill was a Cabinet Minister at 86; his sou is only 83, and the wonder is that Mr Win- ; ston Churchill was not sooner within . the oirole that meets at Downing street i and governs the Empire," writes ''A. : M." in the 'British Weekly.' J "Some years ago he was found standing in front of a portrait of William i Pitt. 'Have you ever wondered,' he 1 said to friend, 'how Pitt managed to : beeome I>rime Minister at 24f' Perhaps he Was trying to ascertain how his own career had been so blow. v ltt spite, however,'of ambition he has been} patient and almost long-suffering as an Under-Secretary. Efforts have been made by eminent leaders of the Opposition to excite jealousy of Lord Ran- ; dolph's son in the mind of Mr Lloyd- : George; but these two have worked to-. | gether in harmony. There is room for both. The new Chancellor of the Ex-' chequer encouraged' Mr Churchill to cross the floor, and if they are rivala in seryiee to the State their rivalry is frank and friendly."

HE TAKES HIMSELF GRANDLY. Mr Churehill, He adds, " takes himtf self very seriously, almost grandly.' See him in the lobby as he passes with long, steady strides ;* he' has the statesman's stoop of the shoulders, and he glances sideways at the lounger as if hisses', like Mrs Jelly by'b, could see nothing nearer than Africa, although nothing! really ewafjesthea,* In debate 1 also hie ■ is majestic, while he poors forth his Macauky-like sentences, Bwaying his body, clasping and unclasping his fingers, and touching the plain gold signet ring whioh he wears, and which his father wore. One has almost forgotten the nasal defect in Mr Churchill's oratory, or the hesitation which sometimes marred his utterance. It was after much practice that he became a ready speaker. Now he is one of the most impressive speakers in the House of Commons or on the public platform. If he is not eloquent, he is at any rate magnetic. He can seize an audience and fire it with his own vehement spirit.

"What is the secret of Mr Churchill's success? "Why did Sir Edward Grey say of him three years ago: 'lt iB pr(K bable he will be one day Prime Minister.' And why do others repeat this prophecy? He has inherited his father's political instinct—the fabulty of interpreting the popular will, but he possesses to a greater degree than Lord Randolph the art of leading and governing men. He will grow, with life and health, to a greater size than his father, for he has in him the material 6f which the biggest statesmen are made. Freetrade has in Mr Churchill one of its bravest, most resolute champions. IN AN AUTOGRAPH ALBUM. "In an autograph album at Haddo House a few years ago he wrote the following sonorous and characteristic extract from one of his own speeches t "Everything changes under the sun; men ohange, parties change, Governments change, Prime Ministers change —even Colonial Secretaries change; sometimes they change their offices; sometimes they change their opinions. But principles do not change. Whatever was economically true or < scientific cally true in the economical propositions which were established 40 or 60 years ago in the debates of a far great' er generation than our own is }UBt ai true in 1904 as it was in 1846, Mid ft will still be true as long as man c<m* tinues a trading animal on the surface of a habitable gicbe.' "