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WE are glad to hear that Cardigan town is to be boomed as a health resort. It is a delightful old borough, and the walks along- side the charming river Teify are unrivalled in any part of the Kingdom. Good whole- some country fare is also obtainable at Cardigan, and the people are clean and kind-hearted. THERE was already an Alexandra Dock at Newport. Now that Cardiff also has its Alexandra Dock, it will be seen that the Queen's name is well perpetuated in South Wales. MANY people have been shocked at the revelations in Mr. Geo. R. Sims' articles in the Western Mail. This shows that there are thousands of people in South Wales who are ignorant of what is going on in their midst. Mr. Sims' pictures of Dowlais and Ebbw Vale are certainly not overdrawn. A KELT correspondent who was in Dowlais the other day, says that the condition of some of the houses there is simply disgusting. The Royal Visit. OUR South Wales correspondent writes :— The visit of the King and Queen and Princess Victoria to Cardiff on Friday occasioned quite a remarkable demonstra- tion. In fact few expected such a genuine outburst of joy. There were quite 70,000 visitors in the city, and as the resident population (estimated at 180,000) turned out practically en masse, it may be safely calcu- lated that over 200,000 people witnessed the procession of the Royal visitors. The principal streets were one blaze of colour, and there was a brave show of Welsh mottoes. A very striking fact was the dis- play of Welsh mottoes on the front of houses inhabited by Greeks in Bute Street, the foreign quarter of the City. Evidently the Greeks have an admiration for gallant little Wales. Like Greece, Wales is a small country, and both have had to fight for liberty and freedom. A fellow-feeling makes us wondrous kind," as the saying goes. The 25 Cardiff Welsh young ladies (attired in Welsh national costume), and conducted by Madame Hughes Thomas, wife of Mr. Edward Thomas Cochfarf," ac- quitted themselves admirably when singing before the King and Queen on board the Royal yacht on Friday night. Another striking feature was the singing of God save the King," by 6,000 school children when the Royal Party arrived at the City Hall to receive the city address. The Cymmrodorion Society at Cardiff also did well. They turned out a 1,000 strong just after the King had performed the ceremony of opening the new dock. The King made a most sympathetic reply to the address. The Cymmrodorion members wore their national badges, and carried a fine Welsh flag. They are to be heartily congratulated. Alderman Robert Hughes, J.P., their energetic presi- dent, worked hard to bring about the prominent recognition of the Welsh National Society. The conduct of the great crowds in the city was wonderfully good. There was practically no disorder nor unpleasant incident of any kind. Mr. W. S. Crossman, the Lord Mayor, knighted by the King, is a stonemason by trade, and at present is the paid representative of the Stonemasons' Society. He is an ardent Trade Unionist." Sir Owen Roberts. Writing to the City Press last week, in connection with the Jubilee number of that paper, this well-known Welshman says :— On the eve of my retirement from my position as clerk to the Cloth workers Com- pany after a service of more than 41 years, I desire to send you an expression of my goodwill and appreciation of your constant endeavour to give a faithful record of City news, accompanied by as unbiassed and fair comment thereon as human editorial nature is capable of. Moreover, I fully recognise your unfailing public spirit, and I shall always remember the courtesy and considera- tion of the late Mr. W. H. Collingridge in helping me to bring before the Corporation and Chartered Companies of the City the claims of Technical Education, which have been more or less acknowledged by most of them, although not as fully as I fondly hoped, in 1874-1880." Slums in Wales. Mr. G. R. Sims, the eminent journalist, has just completed a series of instructive articles in the Western Alail on the housing question, and the condition of life among the poor in South Wales coalfield districts. As Mr. Sims is a friend and upholder of the capitalist, it is idle to expect him to con- demn the real culprits of the present system. It is true that he condemns the inactivity of local bodies, but he has not a word to say against the grabbing colliery owner who herds the people in unsanitary dwellings near the pit mouth. Social reformers throughout South Wales are fully alive to the facts revealed in Mr. Sims' articles, but the present landowning system and capitalism bar the way of any speedy and real improve- ments, and much as Mr. Sims pooh-poohs the Socialists' remedies, we believe that ultimately he will find that in Wales nothing else will successfully restore prosperity and cleanliness in the fair vales of Glamorgan. A Timely Sermon. The Rev. J. P. Kane, preaching at the Unitarian Church, Dowlais, last Sunday referred to Mr. Sims' articles and said:—" The problem, we all know it, is a very complex one, but are we to believe that it cannot be solved ? Are we to believe that these chil- dren are created for an exhibition of the wrath of God in their massacre ? How long are we going to stand viewing these horrible sights, believing, somehow, that everything is for the best ? What is our duty ? Our duty is the demand of the hour. It involves, first and foremost, the giving of his rights to man as man. We owe service not to any party, but to mankind. The class society of to-day, while on the wild hunt for fortune, have forgotten their relationship with the human race. In their desire for possessions they have forgotten that their proper trade is making others better. Nay that such a trade is cruel and inhuman. The people who protest against this wrong have been ridiculed by many. The Socialist panacea for social life,' says Mr. Sims, is a quack remedy.' This statement is astounding from y I;n him. Are we to believe that the effort to do good to others is quackery ? Is a better house for a bad one a quack' remedy ? The Churches in the past have refused to have anything to do with the bodies or the souls of the slum-dwellers. Their charity has gone to those who are of the faith.' The only rite they cannot very well refuse to them is the burial rite, and even this is most awkwardly performed sometimes. A suggestion has been made that the Churches should take up the housing question. If by this it was meant that the slum-owners who were inside the churches were to be ex- communicated, the suggestion would have some value. An Abercarn Testimony. Preaching at Abercarn on Sunday evening to a crowded congregation, the Rev. Ceitho Davies made striking references to the trenchant articles of Mr. G. R. Sims on the social condition of the industrial centres of South Wales. The old idea was, he said, that religion had to do with the souls of men, and the services of a church or chapel only, but the whole of the human life be- longed to God and religion. Christianity touched life at all points, and he, personally, was not alarmed at the signs of the times," or the "rising of the democracy." The trusted leaders of the people, at least the majority of them, from his own intimate knowledge, were temperance men and Christian workers. The sad and seamy picture drawn of the conditions under which human beings were herded together in hovels at enormous rents, resulting in drunkenness and poverty, was a black spot on the fair name of the Principality.