for individuals, and still more for the
families as a whole, and a greater output of all kinds of products, not
only manufactured articles, but also food products from the land.
Accompanying all this will be higher profits for employers.

That this revolution can be accomplished in a day or even in a year is
not to be expected. That it is the direction in which British social
life is bound to trend cannot be doubted. I see Lloyd George as the
engineer-in-chief of the whole operation. In conjunction with the new
national land scheme the industrial reformation will provide a policy
with a far-reaching scope and a practicability which will appeal to his
long-sighted vision, his active mind, his scorn of past usages which
litter the road of progress. That he will attempt to recreate the new
social system on the wreckage of that which has been destroyed by the
war I think is beyond all question.

But Lloyd George's future destiny is not confined to his work for his
own race and nation. The war has lifted him to international
prominence. He is now and will be henceforth the most-talked-of
British statesman in all other civilized countries. He will still have
enemies who will detest him, but no one in the future will attempt to
deny his effectiveness. Respect will be accorded him by the statesmen
of other nations and the democracy of other nations, the latter of whom
will remember his lifelong fight for the poor. Such a man may well be
of influence in determining not only the fate of his own people, but
also the fate of the civilized community at large. I see approaching
him, when this war is over, an opportunity far greater than anything
fate has yet placed in his way. The world will be shuddering at the
ghastliness of its recent experiences and asking if there is no way of
guarding against the possibility of such a catastrophe in the years
ahead. Among all the nations lately at war there will be but one
desire--namely, the insuring of the enjoyment of peace for the
generations to come. If that mood comes to exist, as it surely will,
among all the nations when this present conflict is over, there are two
men who, working together, may write their names indelibly on the
history of the world. President Wilson's uplifting vision of an
enduring peace by a mutually protective combination of nations is
regarded by many as impracticable even as an illusion. I do not
believe Lloyd George will regard it either as impra