The South Wales Star

A JUST LAND LAW. LJ '1. _1 .1.. I [BY ARTIICR J. WILLIAMS, l\T.P, J CHAPTER IV.—CONCLUSION. FOR SHOPKEEPERS AND WORKING- MEX IS TOWNS. The hardship and injustice of our Land Law are quite as great in our tOW:L3 as they are in the country. and the mischief they do is, in some ways, even greater. Here are a few cases which will make this plain. CA:BS OF INJUSTICE. A young man wishes to set up as a grccer or draper. He takes a house at £. 50 a year rent on a lease for 1 or 14 years. He spends £ 100 or so in fitting up a shop, and by his steadiness, energy and attention, makes a good business. Time goes on and his lease runs out. As his business increased he has been obliged to enlarge the premises. All these improvements, which ho has made with his own money, become the property of his landlord, though the landlord has not spent a penny on them. Worse still, he is entirely at the mercy of his landlord. The business, and the business con- nection he has made, have largely increased the letting value of the house. They are entirely due to his own exertions, but the landlord gets the benefit. If he docs not agree to pay the increased rent he must turn out. and begin again elsewhere. That is if he c.i/.i. for it often happens that he can find no suitable business premises. So he must submit. Take another case. A successful tradestaan wishes to build a house for himself near the town in which he carric-s on his business. The owners of the land in and near the town. however, will not sell any of it. They will only let it. The land on which he wished to build is worth only £3 an acre as agricultural laud. The owner demands at the rate of t50. or often even J6100 a year an acre, for the bit on which the tradesman wishes to build. The owner has in most cases done nothing to create this in- creased value. It is due to the natural growth of the adjoining town, and to the ent&rprise, indus- try, and spirit of the workers in it—the merchants. tradesmen and working men who have made it thrive prosper and increase. But at present the law allows him to ask any ground rent he likes, and. what is more, he gets every penny of it. This increased value has been created by the busy, industrious workers in the adjoining towns. Yet they get no share of it. And he can not only ask what rent he likes. He can make what terms he likes. So this is what he usually says, You must spend, say :1,500, in building-a house on the quarter of an acre of land, and pay me £15 a year, and then you and those who ?ame after you may occupy the house for 60 years But you must keep it in good repair, and at the end of 60 years those who come after me are to become absolute owners of house with all its belongings And then a lease is drawn up with a lot of covenants which bind the wretched man to submit to all kinds of haras- sing and worrying restriction and conditions. THE WORKING- MAN'S HARD CASE. But the fate of the working man is even worse. Working men cannot, as a rule, lease or build houses. They must take what they can get. What they can get are houses generally built on ground leases by men who put as little into the house, and get as much out of the tenant as they can. They are weekly or monthly tenants; so that they can be turned with with a week or month's notice. Of course with such a holding it cannot be expected that the tenant will take any trouble to improve it. If he began improving it, even if his wife keeps it neat and trim and clean, his rent would in most cases be raised. And so they have to pay exorbitant rents for houses or tenements ill-built, ill- drained, and with none of the comforts or con- veniences of living. LEASEHOLD ENFRANCHISEMENT WOX'T DO. The Leasehold Enfranchisement Society has for years being1 trying to get the law altered, so that those who have built houses on leases may be able to buy out the landlord, and become themselves the real owners of the property. This, however, will not get rid of the mischief. It would do little if anything for the great working class. The mischief will only be got rid of by one great but .simple change in our law; a change which would apply equally to town and country, to farmer, shopkeeper, and workman. There should be one great rule of law, that where the owner of land, whether it is a farm or has houses on it, or is building land. does not occupy it himself, and lets it to another, he shall not have the right to turn him out unless the occupier fails to pay him the fair rent agreed on or settled, or unless the occupier damages or mismanages the holding. Of course it would be said that such a rule of law would be unfair. You give the occupiers of a farm or a house the right to occupy it as long as it suits him. He may throw it up at a year's notice, or. in the case of working man, at a month's notice. Buc the owner can. never put an end to the holding. It is heads I win, tails you lose' with a vengeance." But when we come to think it out, this objection fades into nothing. If we turned a. man out of a farm or out of a house which he owns, and put someone else in, he would have good cause to complain, even if we gave him a fair price for it. But we do nothing of the sort. We say to the man who does not occupy the farm or house which he owns. 11 You don't want to occupy this farm or house. Very well. You may sell it if you like or you may keep your money in it and get fair interest it, with the full security of a first charge, in the shape of a rent- charge paid by the occupiers. As long as he occu- pies we will make every reasonable provision for seeing that you get your interest. But it is not for the common good that he should be disturbed as long as he pays his rcntcharge and dealg pro- perly with his holding. Whether it is a farm, or a villa, or a shop. or a cottage, it is all the same. There shall be no more of this vast hydra headed Land Monopoly," with its arbitrary and unreasonable con- ditions and restrictions. They are a curse alike to town and country, the cause of bad husbandry, of jerry building, of disease and drink, of death and despair, in our great towns. They are unjust to the industrious of all classes. THE REAL REMEDY. In every town and district well paid and trust- worthy men, acting under the control of our County Councils, 8h7,11 settle these matters. It will be the duty of the public officials thus ap- pointed to inquire without fea or payment into any complaint. They will see that every occupier when he gives up his holding, whether it is land or a house gets the fair value of all improvements made by him. When they find that some part of the increased letting value is owing to the growth of the district, they will naturally order it to be applied for the benefit of the district. Wherever land is let or wanted for building they will see that a fair ground rent is charged, and that a fair share of that ground rent shall be paid to the local authority, and applied for the common good." Of course the owner of the rent charge would have the right to apply to the authority if he found that the occupier wan not doing his duty by the holding, whether tana or houses. Whore the occupier is thus made secure in his holding it will be only reasonable that he should be strictly compelled to do this. But if this security is given, if the occupier knows that every penny he spends will still be his instead oi being confiscated by somebody else. there will seldom be any need for inter- ference either in town or country, whether the holding is a farm, a villa, a shop, or a cettage. CONCLUSION. What blessings such a law would bring with it! There would be an end of the frightful monopoly which exists in so many large towns, where the land is owned by one or a few great landlords. It would at once disappear. And with it would dis- appear the evil influence which such great mono- polies. even in the hands of the best intentioned, must always have upon the enterprise and inde- pendence of those who live under it. With it also would disappear that basest of all kinds of gambling—the gambling of the speculating land jobbers and speculating builders who fill our growing towns with jerry-built houses. There must, however, be no misunderstanding. I know that this simple change is considered too sweeping by many good Liberals. But it is a significant fact that since I first put it forward in the Fortnightly Review in 1887, more than one land- reformer has, to some extent, adopted the great principle on which it is founded. And I have little doubt that ere the question is dealt with in Ireland, it will be found that it is the only practi- cable solution of this great problem.

COMMUNICATION ALONG THE BARRY COAST. A local reporter recently had an interview with Captain R. Davies. the Barry dockmaster, in order to gain information into the subject of telegraphic communication between the light-houses and light- ships around our coasts. Captain Davies said the Nash was really the most dangerous point on our coast, and his opinion was that we should have telegraphic communication between the Sashlig-ht and Barry and Penarth. on the one hand, and as far as Portthcawl on the other hand. There should be a coastguard station at Breaksea Point, one by Barry old church, and one at Nell Point, on Barry Island. There then being communication direct from the Nash to Porthcawl and Barry and Pen- arth, in case of a wreck the men at the light-house, seeing signals of distress, could telegraph through to any one of those places for assistance. An im- mense amount of time in getting away with the lifeboat would be saved. Then there ought to be coastguard stations on all the headlands right down to Worm's Head, and Porthcawl should be made a centre of communication. Then. the life- boat we are to have here would not go below Porthcawl. and the lifeboat at Porthcawl could work down towards Swansea. In his opinion, it was a disgrace to the Bristol Channel that Lundy Island was not connected with Cardiff direct, and he instanced the recent occurrence in connection with a French steamer when the crew were landed on the Island, and suggested that a cable should be carried from the Island to Hartland Point. The coast was pretty well provided in the matter of lifeboats, but he was very much in favour of all lifeboats and life saving apparatus being taken over by the Government as the nation should be responsible for their maintenance. The present method of reporting wrecks or disasters on our coast is quite haphazard. If the coastguard see occurrences of the kind they report them, but there being no means of sending information ex- cept by a messenger vessels may be broken up before the lifeboat reaches them. Asked if the coast was sufficiently protected as regards lights and buoying, Captain Davies said there was a very dangerous spot round Tuskar Rock, and on the west end of the Xash Sands there should be a powerful bell hung to indicate to ships when they were getting near it. No doubt a light would be the proper thing there. The lifeboat stations and the coastguard should be as close to one another as possible. When the deep-sea entrance is made at Barry they would be able to at all states of the tide to get out their own boat. and that would be a decided advantage. At the conclusion of the interview Captain Davies pointed out to the re- porter the point on the. pier head where it was in contemplation to erect the new lifeboat house and keep the boat stationed. The idea is to erect a powerful crane by which the boat can be lowered into the lock at any state of the tide. This will also enable the crew to take their places and get everything in readiness in still water.

JOTTINGS FROM rrONYPANDY AND DISTRICT. [BY SILVERPEN.] Next Tuesday is looked forward to by the good folks of Tonypandy as a day '• big with fate," and I have not the slightest doubt but that if Mark Anthony was only living here at the present time, he would predict the state of affairs during the next few days in similar terms to those which he predicted the future of Rome at the death scene of Julius C'.csar—"Domestic fury and fierce civil strife shall cumber all the parts of Tony- pandy." One regrettable fact in connection with the present contest is that some people even go so far as to indulge in betting on the issue of the fight. I am not a betting man myself, bu' I would not mind laying a •' ha'penny bun" that Councillor Williams will come off victorious ultimately, on condition that I should get the bigger half in case I should lose. Councillor Williams and Mr. T. P. Jenkins have been casting their nets in the troubled waters of public opinion throughout the week, and both are apparently highly satisfied with the results. The former gentleman, however, has not thrown himself into the work with that zeal and earnest- ness which have characterised the doings of the latter gentleman. But his friends and supporters find a soothing- consolation in the fact (and well they may) that he has a. sturdy and honest lieu- tenant in the Rav E. Richards Mr. Richards is working might and main in this campaign. ?.nd is always in the thick of the fight, and evidently proves himself to be a very pernicious thorn in the flesh of his opponents. "Well done, thou good and faithful servant, enter thou into the Council for another three years," are probably the words which represent the feeling of tho Llwynvpia constituency towards Councillor Richard Lewis for his services on the Council during the past three years. Encouraged, therefore, by such a manifestation of approval, I have no doubt but that Councillor Lewis will again, during the next three years, prove himself worthy of such approbation. It's more than probable that Mr. Morgan Wil- liams will have an easy victory over his opponent in the Penygraig Division. Mr. Williams, who seeks election as a Labour and Liberal candidate, will oppose Mr. Thomas Jones, who, during the past three years, has been sitting in the Conservative interests. Mr. Williams is exceedingly popular in this ward. and the Labour element are" going for him en Mop. A close contest is anticipated in the Dinas and Cymmer Division between Mr. Morris Moses (Labour and Liberal) and Mr. Idris Williams (Liberal). Judging by the feeling in the district, I think Mr. Moses will be returned. Mr. Idris Williams is a good man. and would make an excel- lent member, but I am afraid he has left it rather late in convening; public meeting?, or, as a Welsh- man would say, Mae wedi chwech."

NEWS AND NOTES FROM GARW VALLEY. [BY RAMBLER. ] TO THE POLL TO THE POLL Next, week will be a great week with us here—a week in which important issues will be decided. The work done on the School Board during the next three years will depend upon the fidelity of the Garwites next week. I trust that principles will have the first consideration, and then I shall have no doubt a* to the result. Nonconformists. be true to your men, and return them honourably at the poll. THE RESULT. I have my anticipations, and I believe that the majority of the old members will be returned. Their work in the past, as I have elsewhere shown, entitles them fairly to this. If our poetical effu- sions sung along our streets will prove true, there will be delightful times at Pontycymmer. But beware, kind friends, Tynewydd may yet prove too much for us. Rambler goes in for the three best men—two from Pontycymmer and one from Blaengarw. COUNTY COUNCIL. Matters are assuming an earnest appearance with regard to the County Council. Both sides are working assiduously, and are vieing one with another in their zealan.d enthusiasm for their candidates. At Pontycymmer there is every de. monstration in favour of the tradesman, whilst I told that at Blaengarw the miners' agent is the favourite. It is a thousand pities that the so- called friends of Mr. Lewis should have behaved themselves so rudely and illegally at the meeting on Friday night. Surely this will not enhance his interests, but will rather tend to further the chances of Mr. Thomas. Let every man enjoy his opinion without fear or favour. Why suppress and squash by howling of furious partisans ? Give the same fair-play to all, and learn to obey the chair. THE RESULT. Without a doicbt there is a great deal of un- certainty as to this, opinions differing to-day will be brought to accord the real election on Tuesday. Both parties are equally sanguine as to the result. but it remains to be c-sen what the ballot box will bring forth. Let us trust that both candidates with their friends will preserve the old friendly feeling one for another, and when the result is de- clared. bury the hatchet without delay.

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PENCOED NOTES. LBY ROVER. THE PREVAILING ILLNESS. There is hardly a house in Pencoed and the dis- trict exempt from illness of some kind or other, and in many families the sufferers include most of the members of the household. Adults and juveniles suffer alike, and the outlook is really becoming serious. In many cases operations are suspended, and the Board Schools have been closed for a fortnight, and at present the date of their re-opening is uncertain. Among the best known of our local men who are sufferers are Mr. Isaiah John, and the genial bard, Brynygarn. but both these gentlemen are, I am happy to state, satis- factorily recovering at the time of. writing. Un- fortunately disease and disorders of some kind generally hang about Pencoed, and some attribute this unhappy fact to the large tracts of boggy, and undrained lands which lie in the immediate vicinity. A LOCAL STRIKE. Trade disputes are happily of rare occurrence in this neighbourhood, but at the time of writing a dispute pends between the workmen employed at the CnuOwr Main Colliery and the management. It appears that two shifts of colliers—day and night—have been employed at this colliery for some short time. The men claim some allowance per yard, while this system of two shifts prevails. and maintain that the allowance is customary. On the other hand the management refuse to grant the allowance, and there things rest at present. I am no authority upon such questions, but all will join me in the hope that some means of settlement may be found, and that without loss of time. A DISAPPOINTMENT. On Saturday night week a literary entertain- ment was to have come off at a village about five miles from Pencoed. The reader will remember that there was a heavy fall of snow on the ground at the time. and to make matters worse rain was descending in torrents. Two of our young men had, however, set their hearts upon attending the literary meeting, and by hook or by crook they re- solved to carry out their resolution. They once agreed to tramp it on Shank's ponies, but better counsels prevailed, and they listened to the advice of a friend who told them that should a constable of the peace come across them walking on such a night he would at once take them for two lunatics who had just escaped from Parcgwyllt, and of course immediately nab them. They, therefore, agreed to hire a conveyance. With one party they had a noble looking charge, at least 17 hands high. Of course it was an old screw," but was. as I have said, noble looking nevertheless. Weil, they had a horse, but then what about a trap ? They searched for one here, there, and everywhere, but all in vain, and in their dilemma they had to fall back upon a small donkey-cart which aome extra kind neighbour had placed at their disposal. It was a sight, gentle reader, to see those young men driving forth in all their glory through Pencoed. Talk of the Flying Dutchman, indeed! Why, its speed was as that of a snail compared with that of the young man's charger. Of course, some foolish fellows said that the donkey cart looked like a wheel- barrow behind Lion but that is neither here nor there, for foolish fellows can only say foolish things. Enough is it for me to know that they reached Myaydd y Rhuthyn in safety. There. I am sorry to add, a serious mishap occurred. The donkey cart, by some means, got detached from Lion, and it and its occupants were ruthlessly pitched into an abandoned quarry, where they were forced to remain over night. When they were able to crawl out next morning, they learnt that the literary meeting had been postponed, and on arriving at home they learnt, to their joy, that Lion had been there since eight the previous evening. WALLOPPED WITH A CAULIFLOWER. A young couple here had arranged to visit Car- diff together one Saturday recently. The young Venus, knowing full well that time, tide, and train wait for nobody, was in the station punctually. She looked anxiously and long for her gallant Adonis, but, alas there comes the snorting engine, and still no Adonis came. She hoped against hope, and bye-and-bye was requested to take her seat. The train moved out without Adonis, and then the fair one knew that she had been dodged. She felt fit for crying, but did a great deal better—she re- solved there and then to buy a cauliflower at Cardiff for the express purpose of wallopping her wayward one. Better still, she stuck to her reso- lution. At Cardiff she bought the most solid cauli- flower she could come across, and on arriving at home slie went straight for the object of her wrath, and wallopped him well and long. Poor fellow his affliction sore long he bore but at last he cried loudly for mercy, and unto him mercy was then given, on the one condition that he was never more to dodge his fair one. All's well that ends well. AFFAIRS AT COITY. Your Bridgend Police Court report, given in another column, will give your readers a very clear insight into rhe present condition of School Board affairs at Coity. It will be seen that the School Board employed a solicitor and a barrister to get up and plead their case, another proof of the truth of the adage that Hael yw Hywel ar bwrs y wlad. It it a new thing under the sun for a School Board to employ solicitors and barristers in such cases, but then weak cases require strong props, and desperate diseases call for desperate remedies. The opponents of the School Board, or, in other words, the people of Coity, are content to leave their case in the hands of Mr. T. J. Hughes. In this they have, without doubt, acted very wise- ly, for that gentleman is, as some of his clients in this case remarked to me to day, competent to meet 100 barristers. Meanwhile thousands of people outside Coity are watching the progress of events. The country expects the supporters of Mr. Peters to do their duty. and its expectation shall be ful- filled. The Cawcies think that a base attempt has been made to rum an innocent man they have sworn that the attempt shall fall, and they are not the men to look back once they've set their hands on the plough, till it safely arrives at the head- land. Bdewrion .y Coity byddwch ffyddlou byu y aiwedd WHISPERINGS. That a Womea's Liberal Association is about to be organised at Pencoed. Men of Pencoed, look out for Women's Rights then.—That a poll" for a young woman was decided by a toss the other the other night.—That some parties went home from Bridgend on Saturday quaking in their shoes.—That somebody ate two dinners provided for another at the R .—That a Llanharran man failed to finish a dog, though he had sixpence for doing it.—That the donkeys of Pencoed are to be done away with.—That a reward of 10s. is offered for the discovery of a local hona-fide Con- servative working man.

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BEDSTEADS AND BEDS, TABLES AND STANDS. SOFAS AND CHAIRS, KETTLES AND PANS, Easy Hire Purchase. CORN SEEDS AND HAY, OATS AND MIXED CORN FOR HORSES, POULTRY MIXTURE, GARDEN SEEDS, &c., &c. ——— [683 BUILDING MATERIALS, COAL AND IRON. ALWAYS GO TO JfOLYNEUX & Co., gOOT MANUFACTURERS. HOLTON ROAD POST OFFICE, BARRY DOCK, For the Latest Designs and the best value in the trade. [613 1 McCA-N, GREAT CLEARANCE SALE OF v M. <U JL g Outfitting & Drapery NOW ON. SPECIAL VALUE IX ALL DEPARTMENTS M' ('ANN'S. 2 & 3, HOLTON-ROAD, BARRY DOCK. [630 JM PORTA NT NOT I C i- II R I S T 21 AS g H O OF JjlANCY GOODS. JJ O WELL AXD QOMPAXY'S GREAT snew OF FANCY GOODS J S O W PROCEEDING. jQOLLS, TOYS, BOOKS, CABINETS, WA etc., etc., AT LESS THAN WHOLESALE PRICES. JJOWELL and COMPANY are also SELLING several CLEARING LINES at less than Manu- facturers' Prices. 2,000 PAIRS BLANKETS, SHEETINGS, QUILTS, COUNTERPANES, FLANNELS, REAL SOUTH WALES FLANNELS, PRINTS CALICOES, &c. g EVERAL VERY CHEAP LINES IN FURS. MANTLES, JACKETS, FUR-LINED CLOAKS, MACKINTOSH CLOAKS, SHAWLS, &c., AT WHOLESALE PRICES. m A-NY VERY GOOD AND CHEAP LINES IN DRESS GOODS. J^ADIES' READY MADE DEPARTMENT CONTAINS 297 CHILDREN'S AND MAIDS' READY-MADE DRESSES AT NEARLY HALF THE ORIGINAL PRICES CLOTIIIXG CLUBS AND CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS WILL FIND, AS USUAL, AN IMMENSE' ASSORTMENT OF GOODS SUITABLE: TO THEIR WANTS. JJOWELL AND Co., jLl r CARDIFF J^RAPERS. CARDIFF. CASTLE ARCADE. T. B. SUMMERS, TEA MERCHANT, 13, Castle Arcade, Cardiff. TEAS sold at this Establishment are the FINEST1 in the WORLD. By Selling for Cash Only I am enabled to supply the BEST TEAS at LOWEST PRICES. NOTE PRICES :— CHOICE INDIAN AND CHINA BLENDS, Is., Is. 2d.. Is. <;d.. Is. 8d.. Is. 10d.. ?s 2s. 2d.. 2s. 4d., 2s. Sd. CHOICE CEYLON BLENDS, Is. Gel.. Is. 8cL, Is. lGd., 2s. 2d., 2s. [792 NAISH B O CABINET MAKERS, COMPLETE HOUSE FUR. NISHEES, & BEDDING MANUFACTURERS. tINSPECTION INVITED. 72 QUEEN ST' riROCKKERBTow:N* Terms—Cash. ^AP„.OlFF E. SAY, GROCER, TEA DEALER, FLOUR AND PROVISION FACTOR HAIXDY HOUSE, VERS STREET, CADOXTON. PCTIE IIOMEOr.VDF BREAO. [628 USE ONLY [39-629 FOIEEEe-IIPS TOBACCO AND SIS-ARS. J. f: n \oj VI 4, STUART HALL, HAYES, CARDIFF. RUPTURES. — HOW CURED. £." J: '¡'" PEARCE & Co., 51, QUEES STEEET, CARDIFF lis3AS^!H STOCKINGS,1 &cS1 P0L,T&5 BELTS, ELASTIC STOCKIXGS. &c. 713] Only Address: 61, Queen- STREET. CARDIFF. RUPTURES LLKB.NIA. How can it be cured Ti r PEARCB- Pri^te rooms, 13 li.J, lAiiADE, CARDlFj. Home 10 to 4. -=

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