The South Wales Daily Post

THE "POST' DIARY. I THE EMPIRE.—Two performances eveij evening, 7.0 p.m. and 9.0 p.m. j C.-R..ND THEATRE.—"Tha Geisha" ev-ry | evening at '7.30 'po m. Oct. 17.—iyjeture at the Tempcrance Hall, S%ranSea, by the Rev. Harry W. Jones. Oct. 17.—Sale M Evans' Place. Mariner- street ,Swansea, Ly M-.ssr> John Harvey and Sons. Oct. L<—Sale at the Hafod Intn, Swansea, by Mr. David Roberts. Oct. 19.—Sab at Caiacrou Arms Hotel, S-araussa, by Messrs. Lowes and Son. Oct. 20.—iietheSda Baptist Chapel, Swansea, annual tea e.i;d concert. Oct. —Side at Ciase Farm, Llangyfelaeh, by Messrs. W. harry Rees and Son. Oct. 21.—Diocesan Conference at the Albert Hail. Swancca. Oct. '<>5.—Tea and Conceit at Rhvddincrs Hall, Ssvansoa. Oct. 26.—Sale at Cameron Arms Hotel, Swan- sea, by Messrs. Lowes and Son. Nov. 3.—i'i.n.nial Banquet at th r Royal Hotel, of the Swansea and District licensed Vic- 11:; :l 1 er s' As social ion. Nov. 22—23. Lord Tredegar'? Agricultural a"d Poultry She w. Dec. 1.—An eisteddfod will be hell at Hen- i ictta-itrccc Cbupcl. Swansea. NATIONAL TELEPHONE No. 161. POST OFFICE TELEPHONE N. 9. j

MONDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1898. NOTES & COMMENTS. I It now seems virtually certain that Alil. man Tutton will accept the Mayoralty o; Swansea. His decision in that. sense will b: extremely welcome to the majority of the i ourgesses, since whatever defects there may b" in Alderman Tuttor as a public man, he possesses in a niark:d degrie the qualities which justify the expectation that he will make a good Mayor. His acceptance of the position will defer rather than determine the qu li:, ell otherwise would bulk large ° in the public view just now—whether the Mayor must necessarily be a member of, or one subservient to the dominant c-oterii— whether, in short, independence is to be re- garded as fatal to ay> prospect of hlling the office. Usage has ordained that seniority shall establish an ;msi;'tible claim to the podticii, a re-;olution adopted by the Council has in the main emboditd this part of the umvritteii ::1W, but apparently a section of the Council are capable of setting aside both usage and resolu- tion. It is to b; hoped, fcr the credit of the Mayoralty and of Swansea, itself, tliat the opportunity will not be given them of doing so. It would b; an intolerable condition of thing:; if any faction, whether large or small, were allowed to treat the office as a piece of. patronage, and to xacl, terms from any one entitled to it ere he could cnt-r into his own. Quite immaterial is tL, personality of the member subjected to this treatment. The substantial salary of £ 300 is attached to the position, so that. the poor.st, may not be de- terred from exercising his rights if so dis- posed, and though we might lam- at the absence of the festivities which the wealthier sort of Mayor usually prides (sometimes, but not always, at his .c!\m expcnce), yet :t would be a. sordid mercenary spirit which would wish to Sl."e the dignity denied to all save the rich. A theory set up to justify the policy of preferential treatment of some members, and the excommunication of others, is that the aldermen and councillors being the representa- tives of wards rather than of the borough, cannot be regarded as popularly chosen. The inherent fallacy of this lien in tiie ignoring of the fact that every elective member of evciy elective body ill this country, from the Com- mons downwards, is the choice of a majority hi a restricted area. The putting forward of the th-eory implies the assumption that the I Council is made up of two or more parties, and that the majority are wit-sin their rights in selecting a mayor much in the same way as a party select a leader. But a mayor, especially in a town where the -.lections are non-political, belongs to no party is deemed to bo above party during his year of office, and any attempt made to drag the office into the maelstrom of factious an-i personal pre- judices must ultimately react to the damage I of an ardent and respected office.

¡ Mr. Rhodes' recent address to the electors of Namaqualand, who retarned him as their I' rapreseiitativ^t at the head of the poll, may be taken as indica.ting the lines upon which, th-e struggle between the two parties will bo zo fought in the not dis-tant future. Mr. Rhodes, it will bi remembered, was also electrd for Barklcy West., and he natuTaLy prefers to sit for his old constituency. In his farewell to the Naniaquarland electors, to whom he recom- mends Sir Pktcr Faure a? his sueo-ssor, Mr. Rhodes sums up the result of the late bRter struggle. "We should congratulate our- selves," he says, "upon the results of the elections, as a ear ful investiga.tion of the votes recorded, with a due allowance for the con- tested seats, shows that "he Progressive voters of the country are in a vast majority, and t will the our Mity to obtain for them an equally fair representation in die House of Assembly. The desire to defeat this is an attempt to apply I Krugerism to our Colony." Mr. Rhodes is frequently charged with I having Kruger 011 the brain, and certain ill- mfonned critics at home have attributed the comparative failure of the Progressives at the elections to the excessive riding of this hobby by tee ex-Primer. But Mr. Rhodes knows ¡ South Africa better t-lan his censors. Nor is he Ly any means alone in his views of the clangers of Krug-irism. It is a word which I aptly sums up all those reactionary tendencies, those attempt* at autocratic government j which have brought about- cnaos uid confusion in ths Transvaal. Sir Alfred Milncr, in his iambus speech at Graaf Reinet, when he r:- ouked the Dutcii m Ga-pa Colony wills always ¡ taking side of the lio-.rs whenever a dis- pute arose with the Imperial Government, hinted at the same danger in the diplomatic language which his position compelled him to hold. Nobody who knows South woubts Óat it the. Demel ^uec-eded in obtain- ing the control of lac Legislature there would be a" end to all reiona and progress, and 1. return to something like the reactionary policy | Widen is dear to the heait of the Boer. Things would not be allowed to go to the length they have reached in the Transvaal, lor the si-umbering prerogative of the Crown -uH be invoked to save the Colony from ths lite of the Transvaal, but the disposition to put- back the hands of the clock would be the sarne. Even quite recently Mr. Kruger has given another indication of his dislike for liberty; ths freedom and well being of in- d.v:duals in a State are, in a. great measure. proportionate to the amount of ind- pendence acc-ordei to the ores- The fLst step an auto- crat takes is to gag the Press, if he b? a Napo- leon, or to "square' it, if he be a Bismarck. One of the favourite devices of th?str&)igler<? of ths Pra-s is to in.nst uoon all articles being signed; in small communities especially this i1 is fatal to free and candid criticism. This is the course adopted by Mr. Kruger in the new Pr;Es laws "gazetted" ill: other day. The principal article tnacts the signing of all per- I sonal or political matter; and it also pro- j vidts that any ne taking over unsigned articles, whether he be editor, publisher or j oppression tan be manufactured out of them. j printer, .or, in the ease of a company, manager or representative, will b held responsible for those articles. Th*. law also provides that the responsible editor must be resident within the State. These regulations do not appear very severe on paper, but those who are familiar with the working of the law in the South, African itepublic realise now vigorous an engine of It is this kind of p-tty tyranny which (Mr. Rhodes denounces as Krugerism, and ths ympathy shown for the authors, by many, it i t most of the Bon-a members, justifies us anticipating that if they had the meau^ L'lty would seek the nds of their autocratic neighbours. Meanwhile, Dr. Lvyds, it h said, has telegraphed to his princinai that there is no need for him to be uneasy on t! scors of the Anglo-German agreement. As it is in the highest degree unlikely that the terms of the agreement have been communicated to the Beer agents, the reassurance must be so.nevhat unsatisfactory. It is true, iidT- ever, that the agreement does net aim at the independenoi of the Transvaal; no one wishes to i pset its autonomy, or to interfere with its internal affairs .so long as justice is ¿¡H1e to all. What the agreement does affect is to chstroy *'jr ever Mr. Kruger's hopes of German pro- tection should be bring himself into conflict with the Imperial Government. And with til- disappearance of this iilusL n vanishes the drtani of a great United States of Souta J\ii ;ca under the patronage- and presidency of Ai r. Xruger. in"~ll|~lll I I II IIIII ■ MB 11 II1 IHIBII _LU"I 1 ILII1 I-f L ffl I i

MKAT IN THE SWANSEA II MARKET. LLANARTKNEY DEALER SUMMONED. -> At Swansea Police Court on Monday morn- ing, before Mr. J. C. Fowler (Stipendiary), and other magistrates, William Jones, Gulliver Farm, Lianarthney, was charged with expos- ing four quarters of beef, unfit for human food, for sale. Mr. A. Francis, inspector at the Swansea Market, said that the carcase— four quarters of a cow—was in the shambles for sale. It was exposed for sale. It was very black in colour, flabby in condition and soft. Parts of the bullock had been cut away. t —Mr. Howel Watkins I thought it was r. I cow? (Laughter).—Witness It was a cow. (Laught-cr). ''It had evidently received some accide.it," continued the witness, "and it >v&s badiv bruised." Witness communicated with I the medical officer, but before he arrived it had been sold to another person.—Dr Ebenezer Davies, medical officer of health, said the quarters were sof:, flabby, and gieatly dis- coloured. A portion of the flank of one of the quarters was ioisrnig. There was evidence of old inflammation Tha merit was utteeiy unfit for the food of man. The animal ap- peared to have met, with some injury and. l then been slaughtered.—In icply to Mr. Howel I Watkins, witness said that any person accus- tomed to deal -%vitti meat must have known that it was unfit for consumption.—The doctor said that lie thouglil; that the persons who pnrehiiwd the meat for retail sale n tre equally to biame as the wholesale sellers. If there wer-J no people to buy this kllll of meat, there would be no sellers.—The defendant called Thomas IMatldox, a Cornrirthenshire farmer's son. who taid his father first of alJ owned the cow. On September 29th, witness went for the cow. and as lie was bringing it through a lane, another cow gor d it at the right side, rupturing lit. Witness's father t sent for a cattlc cicctor, who was now i;7 court. As a. result the animal was killed. The cow was jroricc-tly healthy before the accident.—Thomas Perkins, farmer, who said he had had experience in the treatment of cat- tle, also gave evidence.—Dr. Ebenezer Davies wanted to know why the offal wag not sent I into the market as usual.—The witness, Mad- dock, said the butcher didn't want it—Mr. Joseph Hall: Was it eaten?—Maddock Yes. —Perkins (a fine specimen of the Carmarthen- shire farmer): I 'at it twice. (Loud laughter) —The Bench said the meat was exposed ior sale when it was unlit for food. There were mitigating circumstances, otherwise the nne would have been vtry heavy. The defendant was fined JE2 including costs.

MR MARKS AND THE CON- SERVATIVE CLUB, LETTER FROM MR. HARRY MORRIS. (To the Editor of the "Daily Post.") Sir,—The above was one of the headings e: a paragraph in your report of the meeting of the Swansea Guardians on Thursday A Mr. Devonald, a person unknown to the rate- payers cf Swinsea, had made a statement (ex parte. as it afterwards transpired), tint Mr. J. S. Marks' work had resulted in mis- talo's being discovered. The statement wa.s ;->o vague and so unsatisfactory as to call for a. letter from Mr. T. HL Couch, one of Mr. Marks' guarantors enquiring as to whether any financial differences had transpired. M:. DevonaJd thereupon (with discretion to my mind) placed the burden upon the shoulders of Mi*. John Harvey, by stating that Mr. Harvey had informed, him that he had found more mistakes in Mr. Marks' accounts than lie had in Mr. Howells", and this from a man who has been mostly instrumental in damag- ing (or endeavouring to damage), the character of a servant of the board of so many years standing as Mr. Howell, the retiring relieving orlicer. Mr. Harvey, I do not attempt "0 deny, passes his life now in his hobby as a member of the Guardians, in making himself busy in doing work that does not appertain to the duties of an elective Guardian, and i" dealings and actions, to my mini., are not conducive to ami,-able woiking of the Poor Law Acts. As before state-J, I am not ac- quainted with Mr. Devonald, and from what lie stated to i-he Board, 1 must infer that he has been misled by Mr. Hervey, and the latter representative of Swansea repudiates anything concerning Mr. Marks' account". but takes refuge behind the frivolous assertion t hat a rumour -was ail oat that Mr. Marks wis spending more of his time at the Conservative Clu'b than he ought to. In the first instance, upon being challenged, Mr. Harvey admits that he had no complaints to make in regard to Mr. Marks' accounts. Why not have stayed there? Why introduce the Conserva- tive Club? Why did Mr. Harvey attend a dinner at the Conservative lab.' Why did Mr. Harvey ask the Conservative agent for Swansea to do I is best -.o help at the last election of GuarJians? In the first dace, did Mr. Harvey attend to see what T>o>uion Mr. Marks held in the Conservative Club. If 20. 11 may say that is soon as Mr. Marks obtained his rppointmenl, n • ?• Tnquished his position as a member ot the committee of the club, much to rhe nT'jOt of hi: colleagues, and to the loss of the club. The letter received from the committee will prove that they regretted the loss of Mr. Marks' services, and attributed it. to ba bigotry of siif>h public men as Mr. Harvey, who are never slow to thrust their political views down the throats of those with whom they come in contact, and more especially those servants whom they control. I trust. the day is not far distant when public officers in Swansea will be enabled to enjoy the privileges of citizens, and spend what sparo time they have at their leisure, and L whee and how they like. then, and onlv then, will I consent to consider Home Rule for England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales. Yours <• i e., H. J. MORRIS, Swansea Conservative Association; hte Secretary Conservative Club. Salisbury Club, (Jet. 14th, 1SSS.

= j THE FOST BAG Mr. Hen Davies is to sing before the Queen at Balmoral on the 29fch of this mor.t-h. What with a new dock (say: the ''iMail')? a new hate;, a new railway, and last, but ieast, a new candidate, Llaneilv feels reat' vated. A well-known deacon of a CanaartafTi chapel didn't look very comfortable when re- cognised in the Swansea- Empire the other niy'iit. Poor fehosv! Mr. Gwilym Evans has taken the heart out of Liberal politics hi the Carmarthen Boroughs. What's the good .of having a candidate if h" I i isn't squeezable in a financial sense. A stranger In reading the account of the Geliynudd v. Clydach matcli not inaptly ren- dered it "the JoiiynuLbs v. Slidash match.' Names most descriptive of the ,ga-me are they mot? The decision by the Mayor of Swansea to abandon further attempts to arrange for the selection of aldermen means a go-ais-you- plea.se race for the seats of ease on the 9th November. Duiing his month's absence from Dr. Rowlings carefully avoided reading any newspaper. It is a form of abstinence We wish to see iirmly discouraged—in Swansea, all events. A small boy in Rutland-street Schools, on being asked what weie the races that. ha-* I dominated England since the invasion of the Romans, r plied:—"Epsom. race.s, Ascot races, Newmarket races, and Doueaster races It was at a Swansea labour candidate's meet- ing, and tli- chairman stood waiting a response to his invitation to those present DO ask the candidate questions. There was no response. The chairman looked blissfully pleased. "Silence gives consent, don't it,' he observed. A witness at the Swansea Police Court had evidently quite lost recollection of the fact of her being a married woman when, in repiy to the question of the clerk as tu her naia«« she tendered that of her maiden days, s- hu.sl>ai/i. who wis in court, looked quite stupefied. From a variety of sources information has rea.ched us from which it would appear as If one of the marks cf esteem missed by the Rev. Alexander Roger was a punch. hi the nose from a. dock's chandler, who has a sister a nun. Swansea people, after a perusal of Tuesday'8 report of the Harbour Trust meeting, a.ra ne-W in an easy position to imagine the vigour oi the debates when big questions are discussed at the Executive meetings. To tell the truth, some of the private meetings lately have beec of a very boisterous character. This is one of the two seasons of the year when the chairmen and members of the Swan- sea Committee are shocked by the way in which certain of the spending departments have exceeded their estimated expenditure. This is a concession to tOje pretty idea that t,4,3 Finance Committee exercise some control ovei the Borough finances. A horary-handed son of toil at Llanehy was the centre of a. group the other evening, advo- cating the formation of a small syndicate to repay i<ae refilled Liberal candidate whatever monks he has given away during the period of his candidature. '-r d do the thing my" self," he isaid, "only I have been out of a joi for some months." A speaker at the Swansea Free Library lecture, who stated that President Lmco^11 acard twnltv-tive different dialects before ar could get half way down to the hold cf sr A 'c, American warship, was reproved for speaking in a derogatory sense cf the Am-rican Navy- "Abe" Lincoln, the most patriotic of Acae^1 cans, originated the story. A curious co-incidence has been experienced by a Swans-a man. On Saturday he placed two dips of paper in his pocket, and did not knew he had lost them until on Sunday afternoon he found the wind making sport of them in a corner of the town lie had not visited for weeks. The papers looked as they had spent the previous night out. The office poet says ue has great- faith 411 advertising." There was a poem — Early to bed, Early to use, Makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wiap, It is now changed to — Early to bed, KitnV t i.se, Never get tight, and advertise. The efforts made to induce General Kitchener Spring to yield up the Ward to Capt. Marchand Roeke have failed- The old warrior is strongly entrenching hinfr* self behind a series of convivial club dinners- AU Amazons in the ward have been long a,90 secured, and the Shillock (otherwise known as the saell-out) natives are flocking to his ban- nor. An unreported incident at a r:c'-nt pubI;C dinner at Swansea has caused; more talk tn knowing circles than any one of the speeches then delivered. It began with impromptu poetry, having personal trimmings, and ended in the precipitate retreat of a magistrate- ait6* an explosive announcement- was in the company of gentlemen, and not of fools. b For a. Liberal ;vd\s the "Mail"), Aidemia-n Tutton, of Swansea, is the most modest man we have come across. For a couple of yp<w':> the Corporation have been waiting for him to signify his issent to become mayor. On Sa-t- urday they pissed a unanimous resolution to invite him to take office, but the ?.ldenna'n absented Lime-elf, and was subsequently caught by the coat-hails by the members aS he was disap-peaiing into his oRice. Then 110 wanted "time." Tut! tut! Tutton! The writer tf "Mid-Car-diganshira Notes in the "Celt'' of the 30th uk. is t>eside mnisel with rage because, apparently, tlie peep show courtesy and respect to their clergy- "Strange," he writes, "how double-faced a-Ild hypocritical many Noneonforsnist-s are the'50 days. Though they pay the tenth part of labour lomd property to maintain the id;1^' ones of the State Chimin, when they see fc-ic priest bhey smile from e?ir to ear. Does n° the Bible tell us to oppose the devil ?, Someone has written to a Cardiff paper s'J^ getting that the Rev. A. Rogers should be lrl- vited to '•cturn to Swansea to give tne a-ban doned lectures, as a demonstration that ^ree dom of speech is respected in the town, i correspondent probably lives in Oreenhill d^ trict. and has a keen sense of humour, and; a. reserved brick. Freedom of speech is in c danger in this country, or in Swansea, tXcet where it is abased to ire nlt things "hid'. are held in reveeenoa by a proportion of the habitants. The Rev. A. Rogers is an ent» £ tainer best appreciated at a decent- distant' The statement of the Rev. Harry don^ that there are but few Englishmen in Unitei states Navy, is capabje of a ve;r1 simple xp.notion. They cwise to be once their naturali«ation papers are tak: out. The Editor o* the "Post" travelled^1 107 rete tilts for the Amcricau Navy from cago to Gas City, the great- majority of were English, a.ud only a very small PerceAf t-age i\meriean-born. Que of the Iffighte'st the lot was a Scotch laddie, who said he D four uncles in the British Navy, and psrSOi<; ail? disclaimed any intention of taking American nrituraiisation papers, either taen Qr j in the future.