Hopkinsville Kentuckian

THREE KINDS OF PUBLIC MEN

David Lloyd-George Classifies Leaders
of Opinion in Military Terms—
Quick-Firer Leads.

There are three kinds of men in
public life. I will tell you what they
are, and in military terms. The first
is the heavy gun. It fires slowly,
ponderously, with much effort, but if
the shells contain a good quantity of
high explosives, the havoc wrought
amongst the enemy is terrible. But
if they don't-and very often they
don't-they drop heavily into the
clay, get thoroughly embedded there,
out of sight, and are absolutely for-
gotten until in a future generation
some excavator picks them up as a
curiosity to point out the sort of
weapon that was used in past dark
ages. That is the heavy gun.

There is another-the idealist, the
howitzer with a high trajectory,
pointing to the heavens, but firing
a missile which comes down with
crushing effect on the intrenchments
of the enemy on the earth.

There is a third-the quick-firing
gun, aiming straight at the ranks of
the enemy, firing unceasingly de-
structive shot and shell, breaking
through the ranks and dispersing
them.—David Lloyd-George.