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'Qr;lJe FRIDAY, JANUARY 28, 1910 NOTES ON MEN & THINGS! Mr. Abei Thomas, M.P., anticipates an- other election in twelve months' time. Thanks to the FLshgunrd ror.te, Irish beet" is now being brought to London in cr inpetit-ion with Scotch meat. Ro-fmi's "Stabat ?datsr" will be perform- ed twice in the Il,aw'y district next month by differcnt choirs. -*>- -+■—«—»- I/anelK' school howlier :-Edw-,ird tII. would have been King of France if his n>oth,aT had been a man | The highest pri.« for best Welsh ctecm coal Ijbsi yeax wa» ISs. 3d. and the lowest 13.s. 6d. Bunkers ranged from 8s. 6d. to 12s. a ton. -4- It w i-,g fitting that the i-natig-urai sermon at the new Mount Calvary English Baptis'. Cliapel, Manaeiiton, should be preached by Rev. Grey Griffiths. n. D., a Cwmbwrla boy, as he delivered his first English sermon at the old Mount Calvary building. I Weiish tinplate strikers who were impris- oned in the United States bad a pleasant time in gaol. Friends visited them and ar- ranged impromptu concerts, whilst others brvight a number of Welsh books. Fancy try lag this on at Oystermouth-roaid.. I Father Harrington, the Swansea Catholic c,t \110 is touring the States to collect iv.ac'i iX-r St. Josepli's Schools, did not. it is an open sec-rot, ¡.t all car? for the ta.sk.. but undertook it in a spirit of courageous self-efiacemcnt which fe\ï people are in a position to gange. the full ,"or h oi". !>lward Gibbon, grandfather of Giohon. the hietorian of the Roman Empire, was one of the earliest copper pjoneers in the Swan- sea district. A.iother liU'r^rv riame can- nrvted with South VVRles 16 Henty. nt, f,p.. i -r of G. A. Hentv, the well-known au- th-" own irci;^ -lis ir. the Glvr.-Neath Vii'Sey. and resided there with his family for many 3peax- Owing to depression the works diu not pay. &'■•> the famiiy lett the riisuiicc. The iiame 1 -iirltc-ti Ferry" is a modern one, the Welsh name Llansawel being seldom he,-i,i. There was once a ferry at this place the River .\ei:th but whether it v a <cr. aption of Bntioo's Ferry, the nam", of lbs probable originator, cmnot be stated. The ferry was a link with Swanvstxt by way of Crumlyn Burrows, and was used for a long period. An old poet, writing of Briton Ferry, declared, "Nothing ca.n surpass the beauty of the sequ-'etered spot, embosomed in hiEs of pkrtnpesque and jromanxic appear- azu- skirted by shady woods, fertile vales, and linxuriou-s meadows the scenery is ist-rik- ing!v beautiful and richly diversified. I Sir S. T. Evans, K.C., hap gone through raanv exciting incidents during his Parka- Tpents-rv life, but possibly none were more interesting than that he experienced at Glyn- coriwg last week. GiyncCTrwg is a little, oolllerv village in Avon Valky, completely i isoiafeed from the outer worid as far as rail- way passenger service is conmrn ad, for aJ- though there is a mineral train from Cymm^r there arc no passecger trains, and the Soii- citor-Ger.eraJ had to be driven in a small trap from Cymmer. Thjrrng this journey- of two and a half miles he received the worst shaking he ever bad in his life. I Mr. Howel Watkius hail, for a long while before his sudden, decease, given up liewly the whole of bis connection with the printing business. Only a week before he had given up one portion of it. 'That/' he told his j son, Walter, "L my last link with the busi- ness." So also on the Sunday he handed in a list of preacheis up till the time when the new pastor would assume duties. Every- thing in regard to his bra«i>estf and chuTch pelatk«8 were thws ^xanplete. Had he lived longer no doabt other duties woirfd have been taken up and carried through with equal thorough; but, in fact, wlv_n his cail to the her life came there were no outstanding deta-iia ot any matter in which he h,d interested himself to be dealt Looking back in the annals of moet of! the Welsh imltwfcriaJ districts, it is wonder- fad how much Wales owes to London, !.at only few capital requirements, but also for men to groiie the various ind usfcdes to I, sncoess. Obauncev Towneecd, one of the pioneers of the Swansea coal trade, was eji alderman of the City of London, and a mart of abSity and means. Gn^wshay caine into contact with Wales ortiy after he had lived for some time iu the great Metropolis. Thompson, wlto had grea<t interests in the Rhorxidia, was another London alderman while Foa-CTnan, one of the oid ironmasters, was an official of the Tower of London. The great banker Baring onoe carried on rie copper works at Briton Ferry, while yet another Londoner, Mr. S--v-ill, was one of I the founders of the copper industry at llianeUy, There are twelve musicaS societies at Swan- sea. I 'Princesses" left- Swanse-i—the docks—on Monday. -+- The most pleased man in Swansea on Thursday was the Squire of Penllergaer. Sir S. T. Evans r-L'ferred the other night to "several" constituen-cies which had failed the Liberals. The snow of Tuesday was once again a painful reminder to the Liberals as to how things are going in the country. From 1835 to 1859 Wales sent a majority of Conservatives Parliament. During tiirte AdaaLiL-trations there were 21 Welsh members who were Conservatives. The ballot papers at one South Wales polling station this week were observed to; be missing. A cynic observes that this is t ertamiy one way of keeping down the majority. Ferns grow to profusion m Wales. There are 45 British species, of which, however, 25 a-.e very rare. Of tiie otiier twe«ity species no tess than twelve are to be found in a small near LlaneIly. There is probably no great vocalist who hai, been so kind and so ready to encourage young singers as Mr. Ban Da.vi-e.s, the fam- ous Weish tenor, whose reputation as an artiste is established all the world over. One Liberal candidate was assisted in his canvass by a boribboned goat. No doubt he thought the promise of a iree loaf would go down better when ."cccin- pained by the display ot a good butter. Evidently the figure 2 has much signifi- canoe in Radnorshire, for it figured laageiy in the election result. Mr. Venabies [ Llewelyn's total oo^iaisted of four 2'6, and e won; Sir Flank Edwards only got two 2 c m his total and he lost. 0 Mr. William Evans, Twllach, Llaneliy, makes a hobby or weather and earthquake forecasting. Writing on January 22nd, Evans savs: "A eh;mg2 to bard we*- tber is coming—cold, frost and snow, and a chattcc for skating." Mr. Mofiatt, the president at the Swan- sea Chamber of Commerce banquet, created a titter when, in alluding to his visit to the Antipodes, he spoke of a. ball in Syd- nov given in the delegates' honour, and saul there 3.600 spectators "on ih-e 1 floor" to see them. There were poet-, in Wales (sa.ys Mr. hor;. Bowen) just a-s theie had been religious peo- pie in Wales before England had a liter- ature or religion of her own, and Wales J to-day is proud of tliose "old men elo- • qaent" who welded 6og~ethci\ the national and literary life of the people. Wales at this e&ectaon has doubled the number of Joneses in the Wedeh Parliamen- par y. Sir Brynmor Jones and Mr. V/illi'i-m Jones have now been increased by Mr. Edgar Jones from Merthyr and Mr. Jones from Merioneth. However, j Lief of that. ilk will be missing, 'C. A man coming to the front in the South Waiee coal world is Mr. E. Jenkins, eecre- tary of the Waster a district of miners at rJvransea. Mr. Jenkins, who is"quite young, was for a consideiable time a most active and useful member of the District Council at CymiTioi- (Giynoorrwg), œK! also an nTI- tiring worker on behalf of several Friendly; Societies. Ttie late Maithew Arnold soid that the would nave nothing to do with Welsh rat lire and language on any terms, and i they had no notion of the volume of v. e!sh literature. The records cf bygone1 .ituries in the Wek-h language had beta the Welsh coal seaios were at one time— an known, unsought for and useless. -+- A new departure was made in the de- claraiiou of the Gower poOll on Friday, the p.viis being called into the C-ouncil Ohaanber jiist a.fter the result was arrived at, and ti e prescanen receiving the figures before tiiey were publicly announced. Th ar- rÙJlgement could with advantage be re- pealed in future elections. — Viscount Tiverton, who made a strong fiat. for the Carmarthen constituency, i-s con and heir of the Earl' of Hals-bury. Lord Tiverton is a traveller and a man of parts— in more, senses than one, for he is a remark- ably clever amateur actor, and when at Ox- fOl-o. was a prominent member of the Uru- versit.v Dramatic Society. He married, in 1907. a daughter of Lady Duif-Gordon. j The old Swinish fishing fleet, once so ex- tensive,! bits practically disappeared except for a few craft which dredge local waters. Steam tmwku-s have taken their place, and these go so fa.r afield as the Mediterranean Soa and the North Coast, of Africa. Swan- Sia, a« a centae of distribution for the fish trade, is, however, msk*ng great strides. 4r w- Mr. J. Roberts Powol1, formerly of Swan- sea. who has born acting ns organising secre- taiy in -conne.^ion with the Llaneily j Y.M.C.A. Buikling Fund, and was largely instrumental in coflecting the funds for the Luilding which is rapidly comple- tion, been appointed industrial sccratary for Wales under the vVei»h .Executive Y.A1.C. A.. and wfli take up his residence in Aberdare. Mr. PoweSl, however, retains his connection with the Lianelly Committee until the opening of the new building next June. The old house of PanpLdilvm, Carmar- thensbiro, has many points of antiquarian interest. There is a tradition that an an- ceator of the family was a general of some note dtu-Ug the troublous limes of King C,'huk^ r. aiwi the ConrmonweaJth, his name being preserved as "General Jones." H is said to have been a remarkably good shot, and to have been possess;xl of one eye oriy, and it is to this latter fact—so the tradition has it,—that his directness and dexterity can be attributed, because "when aiming there was no time lost w closing an eye." Coionel Wright, the defeated Conserva- tive canidadiite at Swansea, wae in younger days (says the Car- diff Liberal organ) a steel. furnace- maa. ie is a good employer of labour acd rarely dismissed a man except for flagrantly Lad conduct. On the ox^usion of a serious expkwaon at the Elba Colliery, Covertor, lone of his properties, he went bitterly j when the res^cue party brought the dead bodies out, most of the men having beeai many y¿.ar5 in his employ. Until a couple of years ago Colonel Wright was command- ant ef the Giomargan ArtiLlerv Militia. Colonel Pryce Jones in his fight to rc-l cover Mcmtgomeryehire for the Censerva- j tives, failed by jiE-t 13 votes. Mr. Vena-1 bics Llewelyn won Radnor for the same cause by a majority of 14. Both results are ,so exceptionally narrow that when oom- ¡ pare'! with those lor the preceding bye- I elections, they afford exjmiples not cnlv of the influence of the personality of a candi- II dature and the hopes that may be enter- tained by a strong local and highly es- I teemed man, such as both were, if he be! but sufficiently partincoicac, but also of the necessity for the most minute and t painstaking of organisation. Both con- sutuericies have changed very little, and c er a period of several general elections the rnaorities hare varied within a couple of hundred or less. Li the case of Mr. Llewelyn, the most meticulous care to the cases of tilt) recent additions to the elector- ate, sufficed to turn the scales; in Col. Pryce Jones' case it just failed of success. In ¡ other seats, however, whatever the organ- isation, a certain margin must be left tor chance, and for a dozen odd influences w:1Íh cannot be foreseen; in such seats as Montgomery and Radnor it is the "last I gaiter button" wheih telis, and ideal fields are presented in which organising talent, haaxl work and nursing can achieve their merited triumphs. The results tend to show also that the purely 3»gric-ulturail areas of Wales offer problems from the political standpoint alone very little dissimilar to those of the English agricultural districts. -+-+- It is stated in Ladxrar circles in Swansea that henceforward a candidate represent- ing their party will be put forward at every election for the Borough seat. On Sunday last Mr. Bon Tiliett, at a mass. mealing at the Star Theatre, expounded what seemed to him the lefoons of the re- cent ccntesst. The, according to him, were that, besides disloyaXy in their own ranks, they had to combat the press, the purse and the pulpit, feimilar meetings are j announced to take place monthly, in view cf ancUier general election which is coiih- dently expccled withn the next year or eighteen months. In the meantime the process of pinging and oon^oLduting the party is being taken in haitd, and the leaders express their confidence that by means of this preparative work, the Swan -1 sea teat can be .captured lor £ A)ci;sni. j In this connection we may note a. sug- festive 'fact the general, belief held in boti; Conservative and Liberal circles, that the candidature of Mr. Ben Tiliett in the re- cent election was helpful to Mr. Mend i rather than to Col. Wright. As the Social-j ift candidate wes opposed to the Budget, Labourites who were in favour of it. vo.ed for the Liberal, while Labourites who Le- iiig opposed 1..0 the Budget would in the ab-1 ccnce of a third candidate, have voted for Col. Wright, formed the bitik of the four- teen hundred odd electors who supported j the red ticket. There seems to be a con- census of opinion that Col. Wright woaidj have done infinitely better in a single handed fight, tlioagh the defection Of the Irish Catholics would in any event have; prevented him from winning the seat. _+-- In East Carnuirthem.shn-e, West Carmax-1 thenshire, Gowcr and Swansea District the Conservative candidates were all rejected by such majorities that the question ine\it-| wblv arises—what is the use of such forlorn ho.p.ef.? Why enter upon a fight at all when it is certain the Liberals will only rout. their foes and slay the slain thrice Over, In two of these casesi at least the Co:is .r-! vative candidates were man for man tne equal of their opponents, regai-ded as politicians; and in the oase of Mr. Mervyn Peel, he was superior to his opponent in qualifications, being an idee! representative for a semi-agricultural constituency, whilst; his opponent, a. proacssional g'entlen.an, could plead oriy his political faith and past, associatic^ns (no more, pronounced, how- ever, than Mr. Fears), having next to no i first-hand acquaintance with either the i agricultural Or in-dustrial interests. All this, however, was of no avail. The advp,.■<=« niaioiities, were ürushingJv heavy. The justification for the candidature's lies there- fore in the hope of prospective and not of immediate gains and in the educational wcrk performed. There is always a certain nucleus of adherents to be found, whether the vortes are'ten. to cne 'or but three to two; and this nucleus will inevitably be. ultimately exLngvLihod if no. efforts are put' forward to maintain it by providing it with a standard bearer. There is aiways. nmre- over, a certain class bpon to <^anviction or susceptible to that influence, most; lucidly! defined in "Pickwick" an the desire to j 'Mhoal the biggest- crowd," which 1 over runs the country when tiie first polls have demonstrated that the peiidudum has commenced to swing. Ref-igiKition to the inevitable is an oriental philosophy which is utterly ruinous in politics as in most, practical affairs. j ThjoreticaJly the ConcervaLive opponent of Air. Llovd-Gecrge in Carnarvon Bor- l'oughs should have had the most hopeless tusk of any candidate in the whole coun- i try. In practice, Mr. Vincent, tne adver- i sary in question, even at a time when! nearly all Wales is demonstrating its ley-1 adty to the Chanceilor, pclLs 2,105 votes in a total electorate oi 5,717, and fifrthermore reduces the dhaAice'lkM-'i?; majority, which wao 1,224 in 1906, to 1,073 in this year's cor test. Compared with the huge majori- ti > recorded for the Liberal candidates in other Welsh constitueir.cies, where the five thousand limit has been approached or ex-, ceeded in many cases, this is a beggarly; majority and inexplicably puzzling to thoee who beaa: in mind Mr. Lky/d-George's inati-oti the political faith of two-tiiirds of the voters ÍD Wales. But it in reality i confirms an impression to be derived from many other notable examples of kindred type at this type. The defeats of the two Pease's (Conservative and Liberal), of Sir Henry Gorman, t'rofarsor I-lewins, Mr. G-eorgio Chiozza Money, and others who "oirld be cited, suggest that constituencies are not particularly in love with repre- sentatives however prominent they may- be in the fight, whose activities arc di- rected. practically exclusively to their par- ties, and who neglect the local needs and claims for which, in the language of Mr. Mond, they have "insufficient time." Sir William liar court, when he was defeated at Derby and compelled to fly to a pooket oon- stituency in Wales, furnished another ex- ample of this tendency. On the face of it a division would prefer to be represented by a champion than by a mediocre repre- sentative of the mechanical majority of one side or another, but this does not seem in practice to "be by anv means the ease. It is but in human nature for an electorate to resent being regaa-ded as a conveni- ence, a peg, upon which to hand a busy member's hat and cloak, and there is solid justification for the belief that in political matters it is just in iris ow ti c;Hintry where the prophet l-eoeives the least hon- our, artd that it is the chosen constituency of a liero which in least given over to hero worship. Mr. Chamberlain'g case provides a the clinching exception. The belief is widely current among Lib-j erals that in the reconstruction of a Liberal Mirii.ury a place wiSj be found for Mr. < Mond. Should this prove to he the case a bye-eleotion of course would follow, and there i.3 considerable frp-aculation as to the act-ion that is likely to be taken by the Tariff Reform and Socialist parties. j I It feared that the preoccupation of the public mind with Parliamantary elec- tions vromd severely prejudice the sucoees of Swansea* Hotipital Balls last week. Ha.p- pily, however, thanks to the isp^cial ei- forts put forth by the Ladies Committee— over whom Lady Llewelyn presided—the forebodings of failure were proved to be unwarranted. Last year the committee handed over £ 230 to the Hospital, this year that sum is likely to be exceed«d to the ex- that sum is likely to be exceed«d to the ex- bent of aibout forty or fifty pounds. This is a very gratifying result- After their defeat by the English at Twickenham, the fifteen selected to play for Wades against the Scotch at Cardiff on Saturday of next week, will be faced by a .task justifying some doubt respecting our ability to carry h out. There is the difer- ence of course of playing at home before a friendly crowd, but the Scotch there is ever r«asoei for believing wiH be a very strong side indeed this season, and Wales, alter keeping a position at the top for two or three seasons past, may in this find thesn selves competing for the wooden spoon. Seme Liberals show a. disposition to ex- tract amusement from the candidature of Unionists in divisions where the latter have very little chance of winning. But in point of fact the policy responsible for these 'I forlorn hopes is a sound one. It is only by persevering that a chance is offered for ul- timate success. Each of these served the purpose of bringing Unionists" together, and are exrcSfceirt methods of propaganda. Gentlemen, like Mr. Mervyn Pocl, Mr. Percy Simiver, Me-. G. Williams, and Mr. Robert Campbell, deserve every credit fcT their plucky fights for the sake of the party under most difficult conditions. j A development is now taking place in Irish politics virtually unnoticed by the people of this country which is destined probably to have importa:V consequences in the new Parliament. Under the leader- ship of Mr. Wm. 0 Brie-n and Mr. Tim 1 lea W, an independent band of Irish Na- tionalistfc is being formed which is bitterly hostile to the Redmondites and incidentally to the Budget. They hare already sa> coeded in capturing seven seats and even if they obtain no further accession of strength, as the amjority of the candidates are strong men and capable orators, their pro- set ice in Parliament will doubtless, prove most embarrassing to the followers of Mr. John Redmond. I The outstanding phenomenon of the Gen-ij eid Electic-:i of 1910 his been the tr&tnen- i do us revulsion of feeling against the Liberal party in the county constituencies of Eng- land. The excuse offered that agrioiltaraJ- I ists are mcri5 stupid than inha iitants of I towns, or inoTe susccpiible to) intimidation or persuasion^, obviously fails to account for | the enormous turnover of polls..And it I mav be added thai they are certainly not more stupid now tha.n they were in 1906 ( when their rally to Liberalism wae being j clafmod as a striking manifestation of in- telligence. A more rational explanation is I', that the policy concerned with the crea&ion of a peasant proprietary on an extensive I oommends itsedf stron^Uy to the opin- ion of practical agriculturalists. Especially when linked to a promise of Tariff Reform, which will yield sonaie protection against the dumping inio this country of ¡ tiie surplus produce of ether lands. I I One eurious and suggestive feature is ta I be <Wed in connection wit.h Pariiamentary elections in Sout.h Wale. This is the via-- tual disappearance of the distinction be- tween and Socialist. The circum- stance than Mr. J. Wiliiame in the GOWØ" Division and Mr. Wm. Brace in South Glamorganshire had .subscrihed to the I.L.P. prcgramnio, did not apparency cost them a single Liberal vote, and in Merthyr, Mr. Keir Bardie, despite his oft repeated rie iaration of disregard for and independ- j ence of the Lib ends-, ran in double harness j with the official Liberal candidate, the two j of them drawing their support substantially from the same source. This complete merg- ing of separate identity is perceivable also in Errand, whence a. Liberal or Spcialist I confronts alone a Unionist opponent. But in practK-.viivv every instance that a Labour or Socialist candidate has actsiaJly gone on I his own in rivaÜv wrWi both Liberal and Conservative, the Sociaiiet vote has proved infinitesimally smailll. I Swansea XV. corrrpiietetly failed to rise to the occasion on Saturday last. They wore given the ajvporluniity ¡Ü home of atoning for their defeat, at Newiport, and at the same tirae sucoes^fu'V chalktrtfrmg the c'ad'mis of the Newport men to the Web:, It is true that Owen was an absentee, but even tlsat did not account for the indifferent form shown. The for- wards played excellently, and though dis- couraged by the failure behhsd to taipport them, waged a pluctkv ar.d dashing fight to the very end. As for the backs, not one played up to farm. R. 'Williams, Dunvaat, who Wa4 deputing Owen at inside half, failed to combine uith R. Jones, with .the I result that pasees often astray. Then for the three-quartera, apparently they I couJd do nothing light, whilst Jack Ban- croft, besides missing four easy shots at goad, was many degrees below par. Thaa I collapee on the part o.f the backs was the more axfcitoying as one opportunity after another was given for scoring without a, single onp. being properly utilised. On the other hand the visitors had one chance, and made the most of it. Apparently the Geraù, Election had no ¡ detrimetttail effect upon the trade at the Swansea Docks daring last week, and not- I withstanding the weather ixring most un- favourable, the aggregate of exports and imports was better to the extent of 30,000 I I' tons than thai of the oorreeponding week cf 18C9, v.-he-n it was only 75,702 tons, an UllJOOmrOonty tow return. Of ooal 66,295 I tons wore shipped, patent feral 14,180 tons, and general goods 6,535 toue. ■ The juan- J tity of tuifpflbtes put on board, 56,407 boxes, was small, being 10.000 boxes less Chan the quantity received from the -works,. A note- worthy arrival at the docks this week— one thai will donbtiees have an effect upon tli-3 tinplate shipments—is the Hotlit liner, I Clcac;, a 10,000 tnotoer. and socood W- gest boat to enter ttle new dock. She is 'to ioad tinpiates and general cargo fOt. ainga- pore acd other Far Eastern poets. At j Llaiwdly the shipping business iinsatisfactory, exports drofrkig the week be- ing 2,647 tona-ot which tmplates represent 5M import* 2,610 tons. Having I regard to the fact that both the ooal and tinplote trades are busy and the position of the steel tarade satisfactory, the sustained failure of the IiianeKty new dodk to justify expectation, is very decreasing, especially to those who were conspicuous promoters j of the enterprise. At the annual banquet of the Swansea Chamber of Gomraeroe, which took place on Tuesday evening, a most interesting event wa,- the presentation of an illuminated nd- dress to Sir Griffith Thomas testifying to the keen appreciation of the members col- lectively of Sir Griffith's long conrtec- tio nwith the trade of the port. Amongst colliery proprietors and coal exporters there naturally exists a strong compeiitive spirit, and some amount of friction is oc- casionally unavoidable, but this address is a faithful expression of the great respect and esteem of which Sir Griffith is the ob- ject among the trading c*>miminity of Swan- sea. Like the president of the Chamber, we vish him Ion;? life, good health, and hap.pi.iees. It is earnestly to be hoped that the mer^biM's. of the Swansea Council in their capacity as the Local Education Authority, vviÐ make no mistake in selecting a. prin- cipal for the Training College. Properly dire-ten and properly utilised the latter will bocoane of enormous value to the com- munity. All the more need, therefore, for every possible precaution.' being taken to avoid a mistake. The procedure recom- m-ended by a. special oob-oommit charged with the prelrminaiy arraaigements provideis for advertising the position at a. commencing salary if £500 per year and t'o submit a list of candidates to distinguished ad'uoationa]ists with a special knowledge of the matter' and ask them rto make up a short livsi of eight of the nances of these beet. In the meanwhile the Council is to be urged to adopt a. resoluting confining the ultimate selection to one of the can- didates on this list, thus insuring the se- lection of a competent Principal, and min- imising the influence of canvassing. The extreme length to which .a sectiou of the Swansea Council are prepared to push pa.Tty aaid patsoml oia.ims to distinc- tion were disclosed at the last meeting in connection with the appointment of au Ailderman to succeed Mr. H. D. Solomon. When the latter resigned the MUIIKIO.1 Reform party, although constituting^ nearly half the elected members of that Council, bad not a single representative among the ten aldermen, so shamelessly b,d tae seat* been jockeyed two years ago. Col. Sinclair had served, the pobJic as couneilior fur over twelve years, giving them aU the benefit of his special knowledge as electrical on- gineer. Five of the aldermen were junior to him. And yet when as indisputably the senior councillor, it was proposed that he should be oleeted an alderman an attempt made to substitute for him Mor- ga.n Tutton. who lias already enjoyed the privileges of an A'l-dormanship, and who. until 1907, had hoon permitted uncontested returns for over tvty years. So gixissly unfair a proposal received but a small back- ing, the only persons prepared t.o vote for it being Dr. Rawling, Messrs. Rd. Martin, Wm. Williams, Pnyne, IjovoII and Philip I Davies, whilst the Mayor and twenty others voted for Col. Sinclair. Swansea lost a most%estimable and useful uitizen by the sudden death of Mr. Howel Wat kins, J-Pr The cLeCoascd gentleman, while not staxjng, had been in fairly good health until a. day or two before. He passed away apparently without pain: in bed. L is stated that in a, conversation be had with a, friend a day before, he expressed a p!f feronce for such a death, without, however, suggesting that he had any premonition of his approaching fate. Mr. Watkins, who •wa^ a. most; gentle and upr ight ma-». had u. his time served Swansea in Yaauy capacities. PoreaTS lie was a. member of the Conn rl and tlie Harbour-Trust, and acted as Mayor of the borough in the Jubilee Year of 1&97. In later years he became pi aciisaLj an un. paid stipendiary magistrate for Swansea— if such a. contradictory statement can be employed—beca-ise he was most regular hi his attendance on the bench, and his judi- cial turn of mind made him a most valu- able magistrate. Indeed, it was a. remariv made by people who knew how mmh he did in this way and what an' excellent ad- ministrator of justice he was—that there would be no general! demand for a stipend- iary magistrate for Swansea so long as Mr. Rowel VYattkim lived. The. fivnerrai was attended, despite weather extremely tempestuous and cold, by a gathering repre- sentative of all that is best and most in- fluential in the town. The .personality of ilr. Uoyd-George and his responsibility for the Budget had un- questionaljiv an enoamous effect upon the Weteh elections'. Not merely m assisting in the defence of Liberal saats strongly as- sailed bv the Conservative, but ako iri swellirsg the majorities in divisions where the Liberals under normal conditions are uverwheuningly powerful. The.re is lwiOe doubt that Montgcjnca-y was saved to Lib- eralism at the eleventh hour by the demon- strations organised to xeoeave and hear the Chancelloi- of the Exchequer. His effor were all but atcces^ful also in Radnor- shire, so aaiflswit-ly won by Major Venaol s IJewelyn., by the small ma.jority of 14. In view of the influence exercised by Mr. Lloyd-George tfwooghoat the re&t of Wales, it is somewhat astonishing that his own majority in the Oannarvon .'Woughs was reduced by nearly two ixundred votes by a candidate who was i-eally uu^ble to hoi o | public meetings or secure a hearing for prommerst orators prepared to expound the case for Tariff Reform. One would have expectod in the circumstances t-hat^-itn nsv tional fervour for Lloyd-George and his Budget, coupled with the strong sense off local patriotism on the part of the people, his candidature would have simply isreeigbM-e at the present rime. Brt it was not so, as clearly denoted by the votes disclosed at the counting on Mon day. The death roll of the South Wales ooal- fiekls in 1906 totalled 283, and beings the total for the eight yeaas since 1902 up to 1,935. There were 93 falaiktioK in the Swasisea and 188 in the Cat-di ff distric>s. The most- diMstrMM) year in this period was 1906, whe-n 363 mon perished, and the leaat 1903, when 197 perished. The most dis- astrous year in the Swansea district wai. 1997 wlien 110 men,perished, and the least 1903 when 49 fell victims. The dessih roil-s of laite have grown considerably heavier than in the early yaars ol the period al- luded to, and have always heen from two to three tinnis Ivtia vicr in the Cardiff thaji in the Swansea district. The most dis- quieting feat ureg of the figures aje, besides the tendency to increase, the number t- deatBs which is attributable not to excep- th>naSi causes like the groat explosions which a.re of rare occurrence, but in the minor j dpily accidents taking toll of one life or possibly two or three. Explosions. any sourco oniy account tor 14 per ceo-to of the fatalities. Falls.of roof and side oaaise 41 per cent ólJJd the remainder are mostly attributable to mdacellaneous oauses. The ded'ooticn is that even were the precau- tione against explosions completely success- ful (aaid these is not the leanotest sign -of this being the ease as yeit) WIlle R5 per cent, 01 the total fatalities would still re- < ur, and that the relief afforded wcfuld be u!iappreciahl.e compared with the total bulk of casualties. The Swansea Council has ta.ken the in- itiative in a step affecting the bulk of municipalities throughout the land. As a result of a eo.rimunicatkm from Swansea to the Town Clerk of Liverpool, a conference I of corporations is to be held in London to consider a gas companies biB, which would have in brief the effect of reducing the il- luminating and heating powers of The public would be decidedly indignant were such a biU to be permitted bo pass without 1 any protest, and there is here a clear case for the deputation cum-Parliamentary com- mittee room expenditure wliich is usually of so little public profit. so little public profit. I How many British firms have enterprise equal to tliat of a Swedish firm of oil engine manufacturers who are sending around the coasts a fishing boat equipped with an oil engine capable of steaming eight knots a.n hOilT One of these craft is at present at j Swansea, and luus attracted widespread in- terest amongst the fishing community, though tlie oil engine does not yet appear to have been developed to that degree at which it would booome suitab'le for the much lagged trawlere which frequent the port. It is one more indication that the okl- time race of seamen is bdng sapetrsoded by meehariics. The fishing fleets were almost the sale refuge of the old British "shell back." the ma.n of ropes and tar, to any I appmiial^le degree, and his days even here are numbered. Swansea Hospital lias been in luck's way this week. The Hospital Balls it is an- nounced are likely to yield £2:75, or a sum in excess of last year, whilst at the meet- ing of the Hospital Board on Wednesday substantial donations towards the new building fund were announced. Sir John Llewelyn contributed the handsome sum of £900, completing a total of £1,000, which has been spent upon the Pen'iergsor Ward. Mr. W- 1. Farr h opened up a new source of revenue, a.nd ha £ set an exampte iviiich othsa- freemen arid senficr burgages of Swansea,, who receive £lOper a>nnum, could very well foHow. He hais given the wlwle of his receipts, from 1899 to 1908, £ 100 in all, to the Hospital, and nearly has been received in oontn but ions from three other _+- Flushed with a sense of triumph over the victory in the Parliamentary I'keti"n,so m I Sv'.ajns«-xi Ij bean Is on Tuosd-ay wei>& deiciajr- ing that their parry would henceforward confccst every ward in the borough. A chance of giving etrect to the boast was quickly afforded them. On Wednesday of 4 last, vvecik a vacancy was t reated in the Castle Ward by the pr;>rrotion of Colonel Sinclair to the Aldermanic Bench. Two in- ioimal mieec;:i,gs wers held by some of the I&adets. at the first of which the name of Mr. E. L. Behenna was suggested as a suitable Liberal candidate. But the latter, 1 after he hid been granted au opportunity of surveying the situation, showed rto dis- position to come forward, and, eventually, •liieii ncHnination day arrived the only can- didates put fott'ward S5IS, D. J. Bai«ett and R. Hodgens, both Municipal Reformers, and Mr. K. Jenkins, iron- monger, who was [irepared to support the fair treatment, cf Voluntary SehooJ tea- | cherse Neither Mr. Hodgrns nor Mr. Jenkins persevered with his candidature, and Mr. Bosset-t. therefore had an unopposed iv-turn. j — One of the cardinal features cf the Gene- red Election has been the relaipse of the Labour party into the rinks of the Liberals, firm which they had claimed to have de- finitely emerged. Thty have the other: hand tinted the Liberal policy with chetri own pronounced co-loaring, and are a power- ] fit! asset of the extremists, Messrs. Church- ill and Lkyd-George, the former of whom has an oppcruiidiy of obtaining the leader- sliip of a new brand of "d&mocracy." I^ac-king- a leader who could make any naiional a>p*)eal. tills reaffinnation of the old alliance is peseibly tihe bast move open to the Labour party, and it has enabled them to a/Fwance their doctrines at a, far /aster rate tham would otherwise have been possible. But whilst Socialism, gradually introdueed into and inoculating the Labour ¡x¡,rty first, and bb.rcugh the Labour party the Liberals, within v/hose ranks there was already a body of thought ripe for the a<-xiepUmce of thu type of vestoo Socialism. Socialiem ita&lf when it cocnes fnmskiy into tlie upsH appears to have not the slightest atu-action for th3 otectorajte. Mr. V'icbor Grayscwn has die- j appeared, -and is u.iHkely to r&-eater .Par- J liarnent in the dieguise of a Labs«,r! candidate. lr. H. M. Hyndman also did i very badly. Socialism, when submitted to i a mixed constituency, weme a creed as alien I as abhorreiit.
REV. OSCAR SNELLING'S| MISSION.…
REV. OSCAR SNELLING'S MISSION. | 460 DESERYIXG OLD FOI-K KNTERfiAINED [■ AT SWANSEA.. j The annual tea &r.d eJiterDaimroent to the aged poor of Swansea,, in co«wnection with the l-kv. Qdoar sja&iiiD.e's MJilbiou at the Gosp*>l Hall, Orrhard-'ji.i; s-t. tool; plaoe on Tuesday! orenin# when 460 o'd. atwi deserving foJks sat down to an exoaiieiit lepaet. Rev. Ocar Saelling. siippcrt-eii by Mr R. O. Da.yiee (secretary, presided, and said j some cheery words of comfort in his breezy e.irr.est way to his "gueste." who thoroughly enjoyed themselves. The entertainment tbat, followed ..A. at. a delightful on-e and the pro-! contri Jataj to by Mrs Louis Torr, Miss George, Mr D. J. Squires, Miss. vu- kcr, Miss Gertie Evans, a.a.d others. The children will be similarly entertained this '"Wednesday) eveniM*. Tito belpe r, and workers wereMesdatnes Peidaaanu, Wiuk'ey, Walker, laaac. Voiaey, Df'wsbuiy. BloÜeklc", llarrfe, Skapaon, Pa.i\7e. 'flicker, Rich arros, Joiaes. Homer, Lewis., Evens, IlajT s. T >wnsenu. Alvagt3, Jchaaia, and Howell; Misfes Hughes. PaynE. Gubb, Thomas, iticbarcli, Smale, Price, Ha-meon (21. Rambrook, Kent, Gow, arvd iTkditscl (2X; and Messrs R. Johns and E. Meredith. "Dhe collectors to the fund, were Mr and Mrs' Wieikley, Jfet-sivf R. C. Goodadn, J. Evans, j and. &avage; Mesdansos Feidmaan, Voieey, Townsend, ixy.ris, Uorris, 3Tcwton, and Mor- gan, av.(i Misaea A.nnie Daniels. Beynon, H. and F. Scott, Hearne, Jtiowe^l, Hopknis, Ma-, and Chappie.
DEATH OF MR. R P. PIKE.
DEATH OF MR. R P. PIKE. SWANSEA CHARTERED AC- COUNTANT. Mr. Richard Phillip Pike, chartered ac- countant, Wind-street, Swansea, died on Wednesday morning at his residence, No. 1, Gran v i lie V il Is.e. Mr. Pike, who was about 42 years of age, had been in bnskiees at Swansea for about, fifteen years. A year ago he had a severe attack of paralysis, from which he nwer recovered. htkI although he went frequently away for the purpose of recruiting his health, progress towards recovery was al- vvays very clow. He wap about town as late as Monday last. Mr. Pike was formerly secretary of the Swansea. County Club. He was unmarried.
--_._._----------EGAGE. MENT.
EGAGE. MENT. A marriage has beer arranged between Mr. Aibore F. Railton, second son of Mr. uikJ Mrs. T. Railton. Tyr-mab-EUi«, Ponty- pridd, rmd Margaret (Maggie) Jenkins, second dadightev of Mr. and Mrs. John Jen- kins, MansoJton, Swansea, and will take plpx^e at St.. Mary's Parish Church on Feb- ruar# 2od. 2od.
WALES AND THE GENERALf ELECTION.
WALES AND THE GENERAL f ELECTION. It cannot truthfully be claimed that the General Ejection has .in Wales yielded satis- factory results from the standpoint of the Unionist and Tariff party. True, the solid phalanx of Radical members returned in I 1906 has been broken into by the capture of Radnorshire by Major Yonables Llew- elyn., and the defeat of Mr. Clem. Edwards in Denbigh Borough by the Hon. Ormeeby Gore. To this limited extent the Unionists have reason to be gratified. But on the other hand .Montgomery Boroughs, Swansea | Town Mid Pembroke Boroughs failed to j realise the expectations regarding them, a-nd in the majority ot the constituencies leit in the possession o.f the Liberals, large and even enormous majorities were ob- tained by the successful candidates. Vari- ous explavuvtioits h.a.ve been offered for the ajpparent obstinacy of Wa.les in refusing to I' yield to the new influences which have pro- duoed so marked an effect—more especially in London, the Home Counties, and sea- port like Liverpool, Sunderland, Ports- mouth, and Devonport. The troth appears to be that Nono&nforniity in the Princi- I pality continues to be synonymous with I Radicalism, and that the combination of 'the Labour and Socialist element with it has tended to substantially swell the forces opposed to Unionism. So long as political j faith in Wales is for all practical purposes wedded to a particular type of theology and every Nonconformist pulpit is virtually j a committee room for the party candidate j and every Nonconformist minister a.n advo- i cate, it is almost vain to expect the fair I interplay of vonflieting political views in I this corner of the Empire. On the present occasion, too, the circumstance tha.t a Welsh- 'I man was second in command of the Liberal party, with an aw-mred claim to the rever- sionary rights to the Leadership, affected to an appreciable degree the state of public feel- ing acnongst the Welsh ele-Aors. The Cymry, like all other sections of the Celtic race, are pecnli-i^.y liable to yield to hero, worship, and at the present time Mr. • Lloyd -George is to the Cymric imagination a resplendent figure who can do no wrong. And this, notwithstanding t.he fact that Wales owes neither to him nor to the Lib-j eral party any debt incurred by reason of services rendered by thorn. The 'legisla-; tion which enabled the Welsh University j to be established as wetLl am the Intermedi- j ate Local Education Act were obtained from an Unionist- Government, and the j Liberals have nothing to offset against these measures in claiming the gratitude ol the j Wedeh people. The comparative solidarity j of Wales in its Supgxmt of Radicalism and Socialism has not however prevented such an outcome for the General Election as will pi&ce the -ll1!lt!try at the mercy of the Irish Nationalists. It is noteworthy tha.t I the Liberal journals and liberal orators aM speak as if no distinction existed between j the Liberal and Labour members. This and the absence of any word of protest from.. tne Labour leaders implies a grim and sug- gestive commentary upon the oft-protested j demand of the Labourites to be regarded as a section politically independent of and i more or less hostile to the two historical j parties. If this alleged independence had any read value the Ministerialists would end the ejection about equal in number to the Conservative Opposition. As' it is, how- over, the Liberals merge the Labour repre- santatives with their own party, and thereby create am artificial majority com- pared with the Conservatives, who will j form the largest homogeneous body in the House of Commons. Even if we grant for the purposes of argument tlvu the inde- j pendence of tlie Labourite* is a myth, the coHintn v would t/ill be confronted by a coHintn v would t/ill be confronted by a. situation dominated by the Irish National- j iste, who are placed in a, position to turn out the Government wheaiever they think proper to do SQ. So tliat if Mr. Asquitb perseveres with the intention of attacking i the Constitution it must necessarily be Wie a.id of the party of avowed disloyalists. hostile to everything that is Engli^i. When the Gen-era 1 Election. was embanked upon the public were invited to believe tfca* there existed a natiorwl crisis which, how- ever, did not disclose itself. The real crisis will be approached when the Ministry, discredited and weakened in the country, attempts to put into effect its destructive policy subversive of the Constitution, the I Church and the national system of Ednea-, tion. ) ii ——— )
) SWANSEA LICENSES.\
) SWANSEA LICENSES. TRANSFERS MADE PERMANENT. I At Swansea Police Court on Thursday the I folio wine: temporary transfers were made j permanent: — I HoteJ, Wind-street, to Sidney Allen; Golden Cross, to Samuel Thomas; Cattle-street Stores, Onstle-«treet, to Ada Dennis; Clarendon, Bond-street, to Simon Jones Castle, Morristoo, to Joseph Saltern Cambrian, Somerset-pSiaoe, to W. A. James; Bh Vue Vaults. Neteon-street, to Margaret Evans; Museum. Strand, too Robert Henry Owens; Centre, Somerset-place, to Thomas Rees; Stafford Arms, Gardner-street, to J Richardson Mile End Inn. Port Tennfint, to Raatrice Annie T-eharne; Corner House, Brynhyfryd. to Margaret WiJUiiums: White Hor. Morristoo. to T. Thomas; Avenue Stores, St. Helena-avenue, to Ada Con- taucfee Cumbrian Tavern, James.-stw^t, to j Winnie Prater. It Wellington Inn was further temporarily transferred to Morgan Hayes.
--------------_.--.."MAY-QUEEN."
"MAY-QUEEN." A NEW PREPARATION FOR THE TOILET, BATH AND SHAVING, for replacing that most unsanitary article, a cake of toilet reap. May-Queen does awsy with the 01,- jectionable feature of using a wet, soft and wasteful cake of soap which may have been used by other people. It is a well known fact that practically all skin diseases are I oonta-acted in this tnannef. Mav-Qneen is manufactured by one ( of the largest firms of soap ma.aufa.ctuvert;, I who have been established nearly half a i century and gained a reputation "hy selling the best value for moiVcv. I A good article always recommends itself. When you try "May-Queen, you will find it much superior to any toilet soap, awl you wiil never be without it.
SWANSRAT FTtEYGHT MARKET.f
SWANSRAT FTtEYGHT MARKET. f SwaoiBea. Thua^ay.—Honfleur, 41;. (Vi. j jpFleon), E. W. Cook and Co. St Nazaire, J 5 fas. fuel (F-hsjei-g), Societe Commerciale; I Guernsey, 9d., Cann and (ilass. I
NEVER SAW SUCH ECZEMA
NEVER SAW SUCH ECZEMA When our baby girl was two weeks o.d stie had a line rash on her legs. 1 tried two or three kinds of ointment but they aid no good. Then it came all over her head and face and her eyelids, ears. and iips would oleed. I took her to tne doctor. He said it was ecaema but did not do her much good. In two weeks time it was a-ii over bar body, tier head became covered wit-n thick scaies Uiat came ott, taking the liair with them. Vv e went to the aoctor for over a month and then another doctor saw her and gave me ointment but it did very little good. "Then 1 tried Cuticura Soap and Cuti- cura Ointment and in two days we could see a difference. The scales csuae off and did not come back. Agaic I used two caikes of Gutioura and one box of Cuti- cura UniiUneait. Baby is now cured and the skin is clear and the hair is growing wonderfully. 1 he ckx^tor used to say,— 'Poor baby, 1 never saw anything like it before. 1 thought she would never get better. Mrs. W. E. Codes, 1, Jubilee Ter- race, Adelaide Grove, East Gowes, lsie of Wight, Feb. 24 and-Mar. 8, 1009."
NEATH NOTES.
NEATH NOTES. Liberals Dance to an Irish Jig W eil, the Libjrai pur iy is in a pretty pickle, ad no. mistake. What on earth aie they going to do? Vv ell, there appears to oe only one thing they can t1o, ana that is to go cap in hand to Mi. Rearnond and say You see how we are situated, inose wicked Lords chockmated us again. They are a set clever dogs, ana we thought they were such ninvoinpoops too. Hut we must stop them. Y, stop tbean at any price. WuA you help US You must, oi course, because we ha-vt) always been tlie true friends of Ireland." And to this the Irksh a.utoora.t will reply; that all depends upon cir- cuinswinces. lou see, friena Asquith, there is a little trifling matter which neecig some consideration hst. 1 refea- to a cOTupiete meaaiu<e of Home Rule for Ireland. 1 feel certain you will have no difficulty in con- nection therewith, for your party have al- ways been so enthusiastic in regard to it. And when frielhl "1.1d sud ta..i.t he had his tongue ;1, ch^ek. "Yes," Air. Asqui n would reply, "but what about those Lords—those gentlemen of the gilded chamber, who are the op- pressors of the peopl.e You know, John, it would be absolutely useless parsing Home ivuie while their powers of veto continue. For they would simply chuck it out. No. it seems aDsolutely dear to me that we must deal with the hereditary crocks first, and then all else will be easy." And John would smilingily reply "Quite so, friend Asquith. We have not the slightest objection to assisting you iu your campaign against the Lords. We, like the Liberal party, would like to see them mended or clIded; or rather 1 should ended. And we are prepared to strike ft, bargain with you and your party. Give us a written undertaking that we shall have Home Rui!1e and—weil, the rest will be easy. One good turn deserves another, and as you say, it is so easy." And Ir. Asquith would look very much hurt and ex -lp.im "Friend Redmond, 1 must confess to great surprise! Cannot J'on repose implicit reliance in the unapproach- able integrity of the great Liberal party ? Ine parly which believes in Government by the people, for the people, and of the peo- ple? Trust to our honour. Trust to gratitude. And ail will be well. And the Irish autocrat would rejoin i friend Asquith, I personally have* the highest respect for the integrity and honour of the great Liberal party. And I would be the Jast to doubt their gratitude. But And the leader of the Liberal party would ex,laim: "Thanks, many thanks, John. 1 have always regarded you as a born leader of a great and free people. And I am delighted you see things just as wt do. Let there be no Let us to work. Let the people rul<e..Let us clip the wings of the peacocks- in the gilded Giiamber. 1 have the assurance of your un- qualiiied support. Thanks, many thanks. Now it sbali be People v. Peers, and the People shall'rule." And quietly the wily John (still with tongue in cheek) would reply: 'Not so fast, friend Asquith. Our assurance is cer- tain, if wc receive yours fist. And as 1 am only the agent of a great a.nd free people. lul have it in writing it you please. We have so much political shuttling (although I do not impugn your bona-fides for one single moment) that I think this would be the safer course. Then all the rest will be simple and easy." Then Friend Asquith would sigh, put on his spotlass tan kids and top hat, and after easting a reproachful glance at Friend John, would go out into the foggy night. Really its a sad, said day for the Liberal party ihev attempted to get an unoon- stitutional liudget through, and be.ause tlie Lords would have none of it they shouted "Down with the Lords!" "Down with tHe men who born with silver spoons and with- out brains, wild seek, to thwart tne will of the people. "Peers v. People!" "Let the people Rule! "The People shall liule'. What a múckerv those "nshy" erics must. appear now. I call them fishy because the Liuonist party nave been slated up and down the couuLry with driving red her- rings across the political path. Why even as recently as last Saturday night, Sir Samuel Evans, K.C., levelled the accusa- tion against the party which has .struggled iiard jeariessly to uphold the honour and integrity 01 the Empire and to pre\e it its disintegration. 4 -+. And pray, wha.t was the cry of "Down with tile Lcrde!" but a red herring. it. wa* a clever and unscrupulous poii move brought into being with the object of setting clasvs against class—-a move whion was intended to upset the mental eqniu- br.um of the people of the country—a move, with its cries of "Land for the People I" which was intended to hide the real issues, and so obtain a snatch vote from the elec- tors. It was something like "Chinese La- bour," but infinitely wor&e. But the people are not such fools as th?y were at the iast Geueral Election, and al- though, no doubt, thousands of votes ,\f\re inilutneed by the Liberal red herrings, d s- approval of the Government ha? been show l by the immense Unionist gains. Even as I write these words (on Tuesday) news eoines through of ten more Conservative gains as the result of Monday's polling, the success of the Unionists at the has been principally due to the mpOc re of the policy of Free Trade and the ad- vocacy of Tariff Reform, and the neressity (which the Conservatives fought for) oi strengthening the Navy so as to make ug secure against foreign imasion—an eventu- ality winch may not be so remote as Liberal party would have us bellieve. The ultimate balance of parties must be .mcl1 as to makt; the tenure of the Coal- ition Parliament a very short one. Dic- tator Redmond wiil insist upon a full measure of Home Rule which t.he Liberal party is cortaiiily unable to grant. Henos there must be an appeal to thr country re- fore very many months are over, una thed the Unionist party wiil undoubtedly a hieve a great and lasting triumph. .+.p. But what about the abolition of tIt. House of Lords, subsequently modified by Lihel orators to an aboliticn of the v to ot the Second Chamber, The cry which the Liberals thought would have sent them back to power on H. tide of glorious sue- cesses has failed- and the people have jus i- fied the Lords in the at: ey cour.:g«- oualy took at a. critical period in the I tory of this (.cuslictn C:iU».ry. ip^ I repeat it: "What about the Lords?" "OUSERY ER." c_
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