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From Boundary-Rider to Prime Minister: Hughes of Australia, the Man of the Hour (1916)
by Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen

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FROM
BOUNDARY-RIDER
TO
PRIME MINISTER

(THE RT. HON.
W. M. HUGHES, K. C.)

“His speeches have been ringing through Europe, and have been a source of inspiration to the forces of the Allies,” said Mr. Lloyd George at Conway on May 6th.

FROM BOUNDARY-RIDER

TO

PRIME MINISTER

Hughes of Australia

THE MAN OF THE HOUR

By

DOUGLAS SLADEN

First Lecturer on Modern History in the University of Sydney, N.S.W.

WITH CONTRIBUTIONS BY
THE RT. HON. W. M. HUGHES ON “COMPULSORY MILITARY TRAINING,”
“SOCIALISM " AND “LABOUR IN POWER:” AND AN INTRODUCTION
BY THE RIGHT HON. ANDREW FISHER.
HIGH COMMISSIONER AND THRICE
PREMIER OF AUSTRALIA.

LONDON:

HUTCHINSON & CO., PATERNOSTER ROW

1916

AUTHOR’S NOTE

I am under a deep debt to the High Commissioner of Australia (the Right Hon. Andrew Fisher) for his courtesy in writing his eloquent, pithy and wholly charming introduction, which no one else could have written with equal weight. For Mr. Hughes was his Attorney-General in all the Governments which he formed in the Federal Parliament of Australia, and succeeded him as Prime Minister.

The contribution on Compulsory Military Training was delivered by Mr. Hughes as an address to the National Service League at the Caxton Hall in 1907, with Lord Roberts in the chair. The essay on “Socialism” was written by him in his brilliant volume, “The Case for Labour.” They are given here with his permission. The monograph entitled, “Labour in Power,” was written for The Daily Chronicle, and is reproduced here with his permission and that of the editor of The Daily Chronicle.

I also give a number of brilliant extracts from Mr. Hughes’s speeches and writings to show his policy, opinions and sympathies. The table of dates in Mr. Hughes’s career was corrected by himself.

“The Knights of the New Crusade,” by a “Wounded New Zealander,” is quoted by permission of The Times, and Mr. Murdoch’s fine study of Mr. Hughes with the permission of the British Australasian.

I wish to express the great obligation under which I rest, for help in preparing this book, to Mr. Keith Murdoch, one of the Australian Press representatives in London, to Mr. M. Shepherd, the Prime Minister’s private secretary, and to Mr. E. A. Box, the High Commissioner’s private secretary.

Douglas Sladen

The Avenue House,

Richmond, Surrey, May, 1916.

Contents

page
Introduction by the Right Hon. Andrew Fisher, High Commissioner and three times Prime Minister of Australia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .		vi
chap.
I.	Advance Australia! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	1
II.	Mr. Hughes’s Policy for the Paris Conference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	11
III.	What Australia thinks of Mr. Hughes in Jest and Earnest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	15
IV.	Mr. Hughes’s Life in England: What Took Him to Australia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	25
V.	His Career in Australia: How he became Deaf . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	31
VI.	An Australian Abraham Lincoln . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	46
VII.	Mr. Hughes as a Writer: “The Case for Labour”; “Socialism” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	64
VIII.	Mr. Hughes as a Patriotic Speaker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	87
IX.	Mr. Hughes’s Great Sayings in his Speeches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	122
X.	Dates of Mr. Hughes’s Career . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	137
XI.	Compulsory Military Training, by the Right Hon. W. M. Hughes, K.C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	142
XII.	Labour in Power, by the Right Hon. W. M. Hughes, K.C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	157
XIII.	Anzac Day, 1916. The Service at Westminster Abbey: the Celebration at His Majesty’s Theatre: Mr. Hughes’s Speech on the Heroes of Anzac . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	193

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