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GENERAL ELECTION, 1910.

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GENERAL ELECTION, 1910. To the Electors OF THE Western Division of the County of Carmarthen. GENTLEMEN, Having represented you in the Home of Commons for o\er twenty years, I have the honour once more to seek re-election at your hands. The Members of the House of Lords, after destroying the Education, Licensing, and other important Liberal measures, have now refuse! to pass the Budget, and have ohus forced a General Election, and disorganised the inarces of the Country You have, therefore, to de! io one dominating issue, namely, Whether.foll wish to be governed by your own freely-chosen Re- presentatives, or by the aristocratic and irre- sponsible flotlo of Peers, who derive their authority by descent, and not by coamissi-n from the People. The Peers, ty their refusal to grant the supplies for tarrying on the Govern- ment. have brought about a contest which must once and for all determine their constitutional position. I art fully in agreement with the Prime Minister's declaration that legislation should at once be passed to prevent the House of Lords from ever ag-tin interfering with finance, and that their absolute veto on legislation must go for ever. I regard the Budget as a just measure, and for this reason I supported it in the House of Com mons It aims at putting the chief burden oe taxation upon those who are best able to bear it. While I regard the land taxes as fair, I wish to point out that these taxes do not relate to agricultural land, and that they impose no burden cn Farmers. They will, on the contrary, be found to lighten their burdens I am and always have been a Free Trader, and I am opposed to all protection taxes. The House- of Lords have succeeded in defeat ing the efforts made by the Government to secure Religious Equality, and in voting in my favour you will he furthering one of the causes which you and I have always had at heart namely, the Disestablishment and Disendowlltellt of the Church of England in Wales. The House of Lords is the only obstacle to the success of this just measure I am opposed to Religious Teaching in Puhhc Elementary Schools, and I regard the secular solution as the right settlement of the Education controversy I believe that the Agricultural Holding-, Act, the Development and Roads Act, as well as other Acts passed by the Government, will be found to be beneficial to Farmers, and I shall conti mo to support measures which will in my judgment prove helpful to the Agricultural Classes. As I have expressed my views on these an;1 many other quastions from time to time during the long period of my representation, it is I think unnecessary for me to dwell upon them now at any length. I will. therefore, only add that if I have the honour of again serving you in Parlin- ment, I shall do everything in my power to fur- ther the best interests of the Constituency in which I was born and have lived all the years of my life j I have the honour to be, Gentlemen, I Your faithful Servant, JOHN LLOYD MORGAN. C4811

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