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¡r- ftobltc ffioixtzs. TREGARON UNION. CONTRACTS FOR PROVISIONS, &c. ALL Persons desirous of Contracting with the Guardians of this UNION for supplying the WORKHOUSE, from the 25th day of March to the 29th day of September next, with Drapery GooJ, Ready Made Clothing, Printing, Shoes and Repairing, Coffins, Coals, Meat, Flour, Oatmeal, Peas, Rice, Butter, Tea, Sugar, Salt, Milk, Vinegar, IPepper, Mu'Dougal's Soup, and other Provisions and Groceries, to be delivered at the Work house in the said Union, in such quantities, and at such times as the Guardians shall appoint, are re- quested to deliver Sealed Tenders (with Samples of such Articles as can be given) to me, at my Office, on or before 11 o'clock, on the morning of the 22nd day of March next. Security to be given (if required) for the due performance of the Contracts. It is ompetent for any Person to Tender for any of the Articles separately. The Guardians do not bind themselves to accept the lowest or any tender. Forms of Tenders may be had of me on Application, or at the Workhouse. EDWIN 0 JONES, Clerk to the Board cf Guardians of the said Union. Tregaron, March. 1st, 1892. m54 gktstttess JUbressts. THE LORD BISHOP OF BANGOR Speaking recently at his native place, said that among the many notabilities who had been born in that locality, ought to be mentioned the author of Lewis' Rheumatic Essence The well-known Remedy for RHEUMATISM, GOUT, SCIATICA and LUMBAGO. N,B.-Our Nation is now convinced that External Applications (such as "Oils," Lina- ments," Embrocation," < £ c.,) are useless, as it is impossible for such to strike at the root 01 the evil, and that "LEWIS' RHEUMATIC ESSENCE" is the only reliable Remedy yet discovered. IsgrA CHANCE FOR £ 100^3 £ 100 will be given to any person who can prove a case that Lewis' Essence will not cure or alleviate, even in the worst possible cases, after a reasonable trial. An early application for above sum will oblige. Caution-BEWARE OF IMITATIONS. Nov, are Genuine without the name "LEWIS T Y DD Y N D U' -en.graved npon the Government Stamp. Ov all Chemists and Medicine Vendors throughout the World at 2s 9d. per Bottle. Sole Proprietor and Originator :— JOHN LLOYD LEWI, Manufacturing Chemist ABERAYRON, S.W. SERENDIB (TEA REGISTERED). THESE lovely TEAS are carefully selected from the best gardens, and are packed in lib., fc., ilb.. air tight LEAD PACKETS, which preserve their delicious flavour and strength. Prices Is. 8d 2s., 2s. 6d., and 3s. per lb. s HOULD BE USED BY ALL. JjWERYBODY PRAISES IT. RICR IN FLAVOUR. JgXTRAORDINARY STRENGTH. N OTHING BETTER. OES NOT IMPAIR THE DIGESTION IS GUARANTEED PURE. gEST OF ALL TEA t Owing to the great demand for this tea it can now e had in lib., 21b., and 4lb. Tins, same price as packets, and may be obtained from SOLE AGENTS FOR ABERYSTWYTH HOPKINS & CO., TEA COFFEE MERCHANTS GREAT DARKGATE STREET, ABERYSTWYTH LOCAL AGENTS:- Cardiff D. Jones, & Co., Limited Aberayron. W Morris Jones. Dolgelley R. G. WilliamF, New Shop Abergele W. Williams and Co. Rhyl W Williams and Co. Colwyn W. Williams and Co. Colwyn Bay W. Williams and Co. Llandudno W. Williams and Co Llanrwst W. Williams and Co Conway W. Williams and Co. Denbigh W. Williams and Co. Ruthin W. Williams and Co. Oswestry Daviesan Edwardi Wrexham J. Brunt. Bangor R. JoneS, Bradford House Carnarvon H. J. Foulkes, Pool-street Llandudno J. Littler. Penmaenraawr H. Roberts. Holyhead Robt. Jones, Railway. Builth W. Price and Co. Barmouth Messrs Morris and Son. It is only a very few years ago the discovery was made that the Island of Ceylon possessed peculiar advantages for growing Tea the soil producing kinds superior in most respects to.either China or Indian Teas. EVERYBODY SHOULD GIVE IT A TRIAL. GUARANTEED PURE SERENDIB SHOULD BE TRIED BY ALL LOVERS OF GOOD TEA BOOKBINDING, RULING, PERFORATING, PAGING, > 1 AT THE | CAMBRIAN NEWS OFFICE J J
THE WELSH INSTITUTIONS BILL.
THE WELSH INSTITUTIONS BILL. MR ALFRED THOMAS'S Bill for enabling a Tory Secretary of State for Wales to sup- ptess the Welsh language in all courts of justice in the Principality needs only to be understood in order to be rejected with scorn and ridicule. We have tried on several occasions to show what a jumble of confusion this Bill is. With the Bill is issued an explanatory memorandum and in this memoranducQ are the following words "The Secretary is to provide for conduct of legal proceedings in Welsh where he deems such provision desirable." This power is given by clause nine, which says that the Secretary for Wales, who will be a Tory whenever the Government of the day is Tory, "shall have power to order that I" the proceedings in her MAJESTY'S courts of justice in Wales shall be wholly or partially conducted in the Welsh language 0 whenever such a course shall appear to him desirable and expedient from local circumstances and in the interests of justice, and subject to such condition* and restrictions as he shall from time to time direct, and he shall have power to modify and rescind such orders." We do not care what the ten members may say who have adopted this proposal by backing the Bill, but we are sure if Wales once realizes the nature of the power it is proposed to hand ove- to some high and dry Tory, namely, the power to suppress the Welsh language in courts of justice, not only will the Bill become impossible, but those who have supported it will become impossible too. The price of the Bill is twopence, and the incredible proposal we have quoted is contained in clause nine. Let our readers send for the Bill to Messrs. EYRE & SPOTTISWOODE, the Queen's printers, and read it for themselves. We have more than once quoted this start- ling provision quite accurately, and it is so simple that no knowledge or skill is re- quired to understand it. The Secretary of State for Wales is to be a member of the Government, and is to be appointed like other Secretaries whenever a new Govern- ment is formed. Undpr LORD SALISBURY he would be a Tory, and under Mr. GLAD- STONE he would be a Liberal. Whether Tory or Liberal, he has power to order that all the proceedings in Welsh Courts of Justice shall be conducted in the English language. This is the proposal which Mr ALFRED THOMAS has the impertinence to ask the Welsh nation to support, and this is the proposal that nine other Welsh Members of Parliament have approved of, and amongst them Mr T. E. ELLIS and Mr BOWEN ROWLANDS. It is no use saying that we are opposed to this and to that. We ask the Welsh Members in plain terms whether they dare go into their constituencies and defend this startling and extraordinary proposal to place in the hands of an Englishman the power to suppress the Welsh language in every court of justice in Wales. We may be told that the Secretary of State for Wales would not be an Englishman. Well, Mr ALFRED THOMAS'S precious Confusion Bill does not provide that he shall be a Welshman. All the Bill says on this sub- ject is in clause two, which is as follows "It shall be lawful for her MAJESTY to "appoint a Secretary for Wales (herinafter called the Secretary) who shall appear to "her MAJESTY to be acquainted with "the national wants and administrative requirements of Wales, and who shall hold "office during her MAJESTY'S pleasure." We ishall not be surprised or annoyed if our readers fail to believe that ten Welsh Liberal Members have actually been found stupid enough to embody a ridiculous pro- position of this sort in a measure and seriously bring it into the House of Commons. This, however, is the case. We appeal to the people of Wales, to say whether this power to suppress the Welsh language should be placed in the hands of a Tory Secretary for Wales who may not even be a Welshman 1 Why do not the Welsh Members of Parliament who have backed this monstrous abortion frankly admit I that they had nothing whatever to do with its production and are not prepared to support the clauses which we have quoted in this and former articles. If the ten Members whose names are on the Bill had retired from their false position last October very little would have been heard of the mistake they had made. This wretched creation cannot be smuggled through Parlia- ment, nor can Wales he kept ignorant of its provisions when Parliament is dissolved, if before. The Welsh Members who have adopted this measure providing for the suppression of the Welsh language, will have to explain and defend their action. We are not likely to allow this subject to drop, and we have the means to ensure that the full significance of clauses two and nine, amongst others, shall be fully under- stood. It is incredible that any Welshman should be willing to place it in the power of an Englishman, Scotchman, or Irishman to suppress the use of the Welsh language in every court of justice in Wales. This is what Mr ALFRED THOMAS'S Bil proposes, and if this proposal is retained in the Bill it shall only be retained with the full knowledge and deliberate assent of the people of the Principality.
--TH E CHuRCH AND GAMBLING.
TH E CHuRCH AND GAMBLING. IN the Upper House of Convocation of the Northern Province, last week, the subject of gambling was discussed on a report from the Lower House on this subject. The report recommended that a Royal Commis- sion on gambling should be applied for, but this recommendation was not adopted by the Upper House, partly on the ground that public opinion was not sufficiently advanced for further legislation, and partly on the ground that existing laws for the suppression of gambling are not put in I force. The Christian Church has not taken that stand in relation to gambling which would justify action. Indeed, the churches are so pressed for money that they them- selves are little able to be particular how they obtain funds. Money for religious purposes is too often taken almost from any source, and it is notorious that churches will accept nionpy for the service of GOD' which no decent individual would dare to take for his -own use. This is a terrible and scandalous thing. The churches dare not refuse money, however obtained, lest religion should become bankrupt The first step -,he churches must take towards purifying ioclety is to purify themselves, and before I hey can attack gambling and other dis-j lonest and shabby ways of making money, hey themselves must have clean hands, i The morality of betting, staking money on 1 games of chance, and all forms of gambling has been discussed in great detail, and the I conclusion is that, like many other human acts, the right or wrong does not lie in the acts themselves, but in the existence or absence of certain .relations between the actors. The question in horse racing is which horse, out of perhaps a hundred entered, will first pass the winning post. Only six or seven of the horses may come to the starting place, and much money is often won and lost before the race comes off. There seems to be no reason why the Archbishop of YORK should not write to the Archbishop of CANTERBURY and agree that if the horse Blue Cap wins he of York will pay him of Canterbury five pounds, while if Yellow Jacket wins he of Canterbury shall pay him of York five pounds. The two archbishops would have a much greater interest in the race on which they had made this bet than in other races on which they did not stand to win or lose, and it is difficult to say where the wrong, if any, comes in. There! 0 are many games and many events which are uninteresting until some personal conse- quence is attached to them. Whether SMITH or BROWN can row a mile in the shorter time is not of much interest, but if the I.winner is to have Y,20, and their friends back them for different sums, the match becomes of great interest. The little boy or girl in the Sunday School who is awarded a book because he or she has gathered more money for the missionaries than any other scholar, has won in a sort of com- petition that differs in none of its essentials from other competitions which the churches frown on. The church or chapel lottery and lucky bag are neither better nor worse than other lotteries and lucky bags. As the Bishop of DURHAM said, it appears that we are so constituted as almost to require some excitement-the influence of the surptise of some element of chance. It was a clergyman who, after a very cele- brated prize fight, went into a newspaper office and asked if they would tell him which of those wretched men had won." The ippd for interest—excitement—is great and widespread, and speculating and gambling in all their forms provide this excitement in every degree of intensity. When to the feverish pleasure of excitement the induce- ment of quickly-gained money is added, there is no difficulty in seeing where the danger and wrong of gambling come in. There are very few people who would not much rather find a shilling than earn a sovereign. The desire to get something for nothing is almost universal, and has much to do with the gambler's career. It is fat easier to say who should not bet or gamble in any way than to prove that gambling is wrong. The idle classes, from the Prince of WALES downwards, gamble. They try to stimulate their jaded lives with risks of different kinds. The whole life of the idle classes is wrong in iLS utter absence of healthy object and its morbid seeking for excitement. The masses of the people are in no danger of becoming gamblers. The excite- ment of finding daily food and of meeting the anxieties and sorrow of life is enough for them. Lads in shops and offices may try their luck at betting with stolen money, but only those who are successful are in danger of ruin, and successful amateur j gamblers are few, for the gambling swindler n t5 is always on the watch for them, and he has no mercy. Gambling can no more be suppressed than drinking, or prostitution, or sporting-killing things. What is wanted is a manly facing of the actual facts of life by churches. It is worse than useless to ignore the most persistent and aggressive features of human natuie. Gambling permeates society, and is as active in the heart of the man who digs a mine as in the heart of the man who stakes his last shilling on the Derby favourite. What we want in the churches is the frank admission that mere acts are neither right nor wrong in them- selves, but that right and wrong depend on human relations and conditions. The churches are enervated by a false delicacy and a mock modesty. Men and women are human beings, and they cannot become anything else. As the Bishop of DURHAM says: "Before they could extinguish gambling, he "thought they must supply something which might take the place of it. It would be well if they could take counsel with those who were most widely experienced in the "habits and feelings of the people, in order to ascertain where they might seek the I "legitmate satisfaction of that, he believed, "perfectly innocent and perfectly refreshing "feeling." In private conversation we have no doubt his lordship would go much further than this. Is it not time that the churches should cast aside their pretence and disguises and boldy admit that it iR the evil of the world and "ot human nature that has to be got rid of
THE DECLINE OF ABERYSTWYTH.
THE DECLINE OF ABER- YSTWYTH. AT the next meeting of the Aberystwyth Town Council the question whether a new market is needed will be discussed. The report of the Market Conmittee is to be placed in the hands of each member of the Council, but whether the figures in that report are worth anything is very doubtful. The unfortunate feature about those figures is that they are absolutely worthless. In some cases even rough estimates have not been obtained, and in others the information has been obtained verbally and cannot be depended on. While the members of the Council are dallying with this important question the prosperity of the tewn is slowly but steadily declining. The causes of this decline lie far back, and nothing the Town Council could do would have removed them. The representatives of the town are to blame for not acting in ways that would have given rise to fresh causes of prosperity. To say nothing of the miserable little spirit of personal jealousy and spite that from time ncnifests itself, there is an incom- petence Lu with public questions which is well illustrated in the protracted and feeble course pursued in reference to the whole market question. It is not only in reference to the proposed new market that this important question is in a muddle. There is the meat market, the market for corn, the monthly cattle fairs, the half- yearly horse fairs, the proposed wool fairs, and other markets and fairs. The whole subject is pregnant with important con- siderations for the inhabitants, not only of the town but of the district, and yet the representatives of the ratepayers have pottered about from year to year, and are still pottering about, in a way that would be ludicrous if the prosperity of the town were not at stake. That good markets greatly increase the prosperity of the towns where they are held is admitted, but there is not a single member of the Aberyst- wyth Town Council who has either a market policy or a policy of any other sort that goes beyond gathering for himself any tiny scraps of honour or reputation that he can find. Mr DAVID ROBERTS, Mr GEORGE GREEN, Mr ROBERT DOUGHTON, and others, actually believe that the town does not require a new market. For any- thing we know to the contrary there may also be ratepayers who agree with them Other members of the Council are o opinion that it would be well to have new market, but have no idea how to se about getting one, and are also afraid tha it would cost something, as it certainly would. We do not write in the hope of obtaining any satisfactory action from the Town Council. That would, indeed, be a forlorn hope. What we are trusting to is that shopkeepers and others interested in the prosperity of the town will take action; that, will bring this market question to a point. It is a pity the Town Council, almost entirely composed of Liberals, has no power of initiative. It drifts from meeting to meeting and in the meantime the town declines in population and pro- sperity. When tolls were levied at the monthly fairs it was understood that some- thing would be done towards developing those fairs, but nothing has been done. A market promotion committee of some sort was formed, partly of Town Councillors and partly of farmers, bat it died before it accomplished anything. This is not exaggeration, but actual fact. We trust that at the next meeting of the Council the subject of markets will be dealt with in a way that will enable the inhabitants to know what is goiug to be done. We do not expect the subject to be finally settled, but it is high time that a decision should be reached on the simple issue whether a new market is desirable or not. We anticipate an interesting discussion and wish our readers to be prepared for what they are about to receive.
----- - LOCAL AND GENERAL…
LOCAL AND GENERAL NOTES. We find from the report of the proceedings of the last Town Council meeting at Aberystwyth that some of the ratepayers of the town are actually in favour of building an obstruction on the Promenade Pier. The pier at the present time looks like a disused clothes-drying ground. <* At Cleckheaton a large chimney has fallen and caused the death of more than a dozen persons who were working in a mill that the chimney fell across. This will be set down as an accident, but it is not an easy matter to say how these events are accidents. All over the country there are dangerous structures which have not yet fallen and any suggestion that they are dangerous is received with incredulous laughter. At last the predicted event happens and the jury brings in a verdict of acci- dental death. Juries are very accommodating in this way. ♦ There is a straighttie-is about the Roman Catholic I' Church in respect to money matters that is very commendable. In Glasgow recently tno women died and left JE600 for the henetit of the Catholic Church in that city. Archbishop EYRE, when the tequest was made known to him, took steps to have the money placed to the credit of the Church, but it was brought to his knowledge that the women had been receiving reiief from the Parochial Board, and thus saving money for their Church. The ARCHBISHOP refunded the mimey. This is not the way Nonconformist and Conformist Churches in Wales deal with money. Mr HERBERT GARDNER, after six attempts in the present Parliament, has succeeded in carrying his resolution to make State-aided schoolrooms available for public meetings. The Government would not have given way now if they had not been assured of defeat. Schoolrooms, especially in rural districts, might be made pleasant centres for the people, but as long as the idea prevails that the children ef the poor should be subjected to five or six hours, tuition a day, teachers will not be able to do the great work they might do in the schools at night. The people will in the end take up the work of their own re- demption from gloom and misery and then changes will be made in many directions. At the London Welsh National Banquet on Saturday night one of the speeches was delivered by Dr JOHN WILLIAMS in excellent Welsh. It is time to cry out Wales for the Welsh when a Welshman can be sincerely complimented for being able to speak his own language. We understand that it is the intention of the Welsh Utilization Society, as soon as Welsh County Court Judges are appointed, to teet their knowledge of the old language by getting up cases in the Courts aud having them argued and tried throughout in WQlsh. We believe there is a good deal of fagging Welsh going on just now amongst the natives of the Principality who consider themselves to be eligible for County Court Judgeships. Directors of companies are having a bad time. The law is making them responsible for the shares they hold and in a short time it will be difficult to find directors for companies which are not honestly floated. An action to recover calls from Dr JAGIELSKI, a shareholder in the Aaron's Reef Gold Mining Company, was tried last week. The DE- FENDANT resisted the claim on the ground of falee statements in the prospectus; but the JUDGE held that these had not been proved, and gave judg- ment for the Plaintiffs, remarking that he was sorry for the DEFENDANT. Until recently the directors of companies evaded all responsibility, and the shareholders had frequently to pay for shares in ventures which had no existence outside the pro spectuaes in which they were described. • The people are staiving in Vienna, and in Berlin they have broken out into open rioting. Poverty that slays like a plague ought not to perplex Governments as they pretend to be perplexed. In this country we spend more than thirty millions a year on armaments and we get that thirty millions from the drink revenues. What is true of England is true of France, Germary, Austria, Russia and other countries. More money is sptut on armaments than would solve every industrial question but the people are helpless. They starve until they are reckles-, and then they are cut down by the soldiery. We lock forward to the time when the connection between national waste and national poverty will be seen. At present national wallte is accepted as a means of maintaining national greatness Mr STANSFELD says that he knows of no differ- ence of opinion among advocates of woman suffrage on the question of what should be their qualifica- tions." They should be precisely the same qualifica- tions as those which now entitle men to be placed upon the Parliamentary Register. The point on which there is a difference of opinion is whether a married woman should be admitted to the vote at all; and he sees no reason for her exclusion. If marriage is to be a disqualification for political privileges, it must be a disqualification in the case of men as well as of woraei. Husbands and wives should be considered to be partners, and should possess equal privileges and responsibilities. There is DO haltiug place in reference to women until perfect legal equality is reached. That some women should be in favour of the non-enfranchisement of married women shows how much more enslaved women are than they know. There arc still religious bigots at Oxford. A pro- posal to erect a memorial to Cardinal NEWMAN in a certain place in that city was opposed violently by the Protestint ecclesiastics, and the MAYOR of Ox- ford has received a letter from the DUKE of Nor folk intimating that the NEWMAN Memorial Com- mittee felt it would not he respectful to the memory of the iate CARDINAL to prrsi?t in their proposal to place his statue in the position originally chosen, having regard to the violent opposition fomented, much to their surprise, by eminent members of the University. They now asked to be allowed to place the statue elsewhere. Fame seenrs to be almost always associated with some form of infamy. Cardinal NEWMAN'S memory does not require a statue. Why should these Oxford naws have been afforded an opportui ity to peck at one greater than themselves. IBsE" says the strongest man upon "earth is he who stands most alone." Cardinal NEWMAN was s'.rong enough to stsnd very much alone. Miss CLOUGH, Principal of Newnham College, Cambridge, is dead. Miss CLOCGH is described as most remarkable person, one of the ablest of her time. Simple and unpretending in manner, sbe possessed an almost unique gift of extracting otber people's opinions without expressing her own. the head of & ladies' college in the middle of great Unirersity for men. her position singularly difficult and delicate. She filled it absolutely perfect tact and tkill. Many countneS have been governed with lees talent and diplomacy' less strength of mind and character, than M*8" CLOUGH brought to the management of Newnhafll. Thi, and more than this, was true of Miss CLOUGJJ, but she was not as fit as the most ignorant, bauched corner-man to vote for a member of Parlis. ment, because she was a woman Queer thing, IS it not, that sex-mere tex-should make a scalov and brute of a man more fit th&n a saint and Sen^* of a women to exercise political power If yoU not believe that this is so, ask Mr LABOUCIIEBE. We hiil with delight almost the first sifi of the revolution which railway companies are surely bringing about. It ia said that i"1 members of Parliament representing ports • interested in shipping, are about to make a against the increasing disposition of railway 00(11 panics to acquire a monopoly of tha transport tradC T eo of ports by acquiring docks and harbours. I-N b the Bill of the London and South-western P-milOo" Company to acquire Southampton Docks cornea 1Jp in the House of Commons next week it will pro bsbly, in pursuance of this movement, be proPOsed that this and other Bills seeking similar powers be referred to a hybrid committee. Once railv(AY companies have aroused the people to a. cornplete realization of what is gcing on, the monopoly ,11\ bullying system will have short shrift. The aatioJJ. maLagement of railways would hive its drawbac J but it would then be possible to travel from pl to place, and one section of a railway would not conducted on the principle of making it impost for passengers to travel on another section 0 railway. the The BISHOP of Chester has utterred himself Oil t, half-holiday question in a letter to the shop asSle the ants of that city who have been celebrating, JI weekly half-holiday. His LORDSHIP said J should be remembered that if we rejected or loolt! rskaiicn at the reasonable and temperate re1liert "of any section of cur toil-worn brothers and sis' ft. "we must expect the reappearance of these s. "quests in the more formidable shape of cIlLitos. "He hoped we had not yet reached the full sure of relief. The late hours of business Saturday evening in our great towns fell II: to "short of a public scsndal, and it was impcsslbl ø "believe that there was no escape from a custO of "which for myriads devotsd the evening hour, je Saturday to a debauch of drudgery, and '011' Suiday a day, not of rest, but of exhaiisti^. How often the worst offenders in late hours on S#" H i. day nights are godly people who expect their assis*' to attend early Sunday morning prayer meetings. y f those who have worked seventy and eighty week know what is meant by Sunday exhaust1 The BISHOP of Chester might do something to*" making Sunday a brighter day f-r those who ( do ;med to a life of toil. To have to work jjji slaves all the week and then to bs charged offending GOD on Sundays by not attending drCtbe places of worship leaves little for hell to add 10 way of hopeless misery. f tl>e The hopeless condition of the members oi Aberystwyth Town Council may be inferred froo the continued ragged state of the Marine parte the The resolution in reference to the boats on # Parade is daily ignored, and the resolution awning irons has never been fully carried out. street corners are still rendered impassable by grollge of young men who smoke and spit and use lang11 y lees choice than strong. The town authorities tl is not be awars of it, but in Penglaise-road there 6 an awkfrar i obstruction caused by a wall which fallen. In several parti of the town the flag9 { the footpaths have sunk where taps have been down iu order to shut off the water. The water still runs into the sea at the northern e° the Parade, creating an impression that it is a »e age outfall. We mention these things bec JJ Aberystwyth is not supposed to be an nntidy village, but a first-class watering place. We b* called attention to many of these things over over again, but we do not intend to cease c» attention to them until there is an end of The Corporation officials have converted the sPj ground iu Queen's Road and on the Marine pat'1I ill into slone yards. Nothing has been gaiue4 or appearances by this step either in Queen's Roaoøe on the Parade. Nothing whatever has been X; about the slippery cellar coverings in Great ^b' gate Street, and the itme people are allowed to a. etruct the street with trucks and boxes as of 01 » f he' Mrs A. C. SCATCIIERD has the courage convictions in respect to women's suffrage. j), great meeting hekl last week at Prince's pll to Piccadilly, London, to further the movement do obtain the Parliamentary franchise for womeP to the same conditions as it is or may be granted tioJl men, the following carefuily worded resoi was moved. That in the opinion of this T°e t" the Parlitmentdry franchise should be graote be women on the same terms as it is or maY bllt gtanted to men. And, further, ci>'»sidering this question has been agitited in the counff in Parliament for 25 years, and that during B this tim^ women in ever increasing mimbers shown their desire for enfranchisement as itS their fitnesi for it, this meeting declares o ObO opinion that a measure embodying the biØg principle should now be parsed into law." T;Otl gl.s was said about married women and therefore j. SCATCHBRD wished to move the following 0, ;pllt ment which was ruled to be ont of order.. g to anv Bill extending tit", Parliamentary frauchlS IIls(1 spinsters and widows, which does not tjj' "include du-y-qualified mirrisd women (', iC sanctioning a disability for women not exi0*$0 the cist; of men) i directly subversive V". tie purpo»e for which the Women's Suffrage B°° were orit^inally founded, namely, to secure women the electr)ral franchise upon the ilrl terms as it is or may be granted to men. f pof SCATCHBRD made a good speech in support 0 £ }0a')t views which there can be no shadow ot ( will one day be adopted by the legislature. f brf* One of the great hindrances in the way 01 ing certain truths to the minds of the peop'e ^\i<! charge of irreverence brought against flC teacher?. Death, for instance, is supposed to of act of GOD and any talk about the natural c'aU^ death jars on the ears of those who do not death, like life, is governed by laws which beings within certain liinits can control. Here j illustration of what we mean. Professor been lecturing on the death rate of large C ¡!JÝ o London, which is generally considered a city, was routfh'y divided by the lecturer out1 ying population, numhering over > Q<c( in^ibifiurs a c -ntral population, numberio 1,200,000 inhabitants and a population 1,300 000 inhabitants occupying a middle pw6 for between the two extremes, The death ra {tV 11) these thrre divisions in 1890-91, 1)roccedirig S, :1, to, the outskirts towards the centre, rise from ,Vef 25.5 and it Wis noteworthy that this ratIO. t",)95. varied materially. During the fog of last J.e which eaused 1,442 extra deaths, the deat^ .»j one fortnight was 29 for the outlying di9!Z for the middle districts, and 3S^ f°r > £ >ald districts. If the conditions of existence ifl made as favourable to life in central l-HllC iie outlying London only eighteen people while twenty-five die now. What is r" is true of evprv district in tho conn r If fib trade and profession has it own "ea- ;sprv 0t simple lesfcon could be learnt, mm- jS j suffering and death would he live irreverent to ascertain under what la to obey them.
GOD AND THE EMPERORS.
GOD AND THE EMPERORS. THE tyranny and oppression of Kings and Emperors have owed no small degree of their severity to the carefully-nursed and loudly- asserted belief in the sanction of GOD to this tyranny and oppression. We do not believe that GOD is on the side of the Emperors of RUSSIA and GERMANY, and we ask our readers to protest with all their might against the blasphemy which takes the form of making the ALMIGHTY a sharer of royal iniquity and the hater of the common people. Last week the GERMAN EMPEROR attended a banquet, and this is what he said in a boastful speach that it is difficult to believe he uttered whilst he was sober: Our people are putting their trust in GOD and in the loyal and solicitous efforts of their hereditary ruler. The firm confidence in the sympathies accorded to your work and to mine in- spires me continually with fresh strength to continue in my task and to advance in the path which Heaven has pointed out to me. I am also impressed by the feeling that what has occurred in the past is due to the hand of our I SUPREME LORD on High, and I am "firmly convinced that He who was our ally at Rozzbach and Dennervazz will not now leave me in the lurch. He has so constantly aided the cause of Brandenburg and my house that we can- not believe that He has done all this for no purpose." Do our readers believe that GOD has special care for the blood- spilling, bragging, bullying Brandenburg family 1 Do they believe that GOD was the ally of the Germans at the battles of Rozzbach and Donnervazzl Is it likely that the SUPREME LORD on HIGU will either help this royal prig to smash to pieces those who bar his way, or leave him in the lurch1? Let our readers think what is meant by this impudent claim to special guidance by GOD who is made an ally of j the German forces and the special pro- tector and patron of the Brandenburg family. On the very day this shameful speech was uttered the streets of Berlin were full of starving crowds who clamoured for bread and looted shops. Neither GOD nor the j EMPEROR fed the hungry people, who are ground down by militarism and protective duties. Our readers do not believe that the ALMIGHMY is starving the German poor to death while he is pampering the head of the House of Brandenburg. Here is another royal < claimant for partnership with GOD.. The Em-1 peror of RUSSIA, after reviewing some soldiers last week, said: We are in the hands of GOD, but I hope in case of emergency I f. shall find my troops as smart as to-day." The same paragraph that announced this pious utterance also stated that the Emperor of RUSSIA has now three hundred thousand Cossacks and other mounted troops centred in Poland along the German and Austrian frontiers. There are not fewer than twenty millions of soldiers ready for battle in Europe and fewer than a dozen rulers, each of whom claims GOD as his ally, are responsible for this condition of things. In Russia, Austria, and Germany the people are starving, while immense armies are maintained ready for the inevitable shock of war. Our readers may, perhaps, imagine that Eng1'\nd is less at fault than other nations in th,8 matter of armaments. If so, they are wrong. England spends more than thirty millions a year on armaments and has closely identi- fied war with religion by means of the Established Church, Ships are "Christened." Battered colours from battle fields are hung in churches. GOD is thanked for victories and --is implored to avert defeat. The criminal waste by this country on armagaent8 does not interest, anybody, and instead of .the misery of Europe being put down to the hundreds of millions annually wasfcetf on war forces, it is attributed to the absence of allotments and small holdings and the lack of power to enfranchise leaseholds The people literally rot in the slums of cities while Kings and Emperors pile up munitions of war and rival each other in claiming GOD as their ally. In England there is a Peace Society which gathers subscriptions and provides comfort- able situations for numerous officials. This society ought to know that Europe is trembling on the brink of war and that no plan is even mooted for averting the calamity. The Peace Society has only arbitration to urge, and arbitration cannot be used entih there is a dispute. There is no dispute-in Europe, but the people are dying of starvation in order that more millions may be devoted to the fighting forces. We wish it were possible to make the people realize the horrors of the preparations for war as keenly as they will realize the horrors of war itself. We sorrowfully admit that under the present conditions of European existence war is inevitable, but there is no reason whatever why those conditions should continue to exist. There should be power, and there easily could be power, to keep autocrats like the Emperor of 1 RUSSIA and the GERMAN EMPEROR qujet. Unfortunately, even i lour own country, the crime of war is not recognized. Tht$re is no real protest against it In a fewi^ weeks from the present time thirty millions of money will be voted by the House .of Commons for the fighting forces almost without protest. The country is really governed by the army. Debt for old wars, and preparations for new ones absorb more than fifty millions of the national revenue.. When men like the Emperors of RUSSIA and GERMANY have under their control millions of fighting men it is not strange that they should think GOD ALMIGHTY is their ally. What is strange is the fact that our discussion of the subject will probably raise feelings of greater opposition towards us than of indignation againse the war system and its royal upholders.