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Sir Herbert's Loyal .Constituents.

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Sir Herbert's Loyal Constituents. ENTHUSIASTIC MEETING AT COLWYN BAY. On Friday evening, in the Rhiw-road School- room, Colwyn Bay, a meeting was held in sup- port of the candidature of Sir Herbert Roberts. The speakers announced proved a great attrac- tion, and at the opening of the meeting the spacious hall was well filled. Mr. Frederick Grubb, private secretary to Sir Herbert Roberts, road the following letter which Sir Herbert had addressed to the Chairman, the Rev. Robert Roberts: Will you kindly express to the meeting at Rhiw Chapel to-morrow evening my great per- sonal regret that I am unable to be present? My friends at Cdwyn Bay are already aware that I am speaking at two meetings in my constitu- ency every evening from now to the day of the poll. To-morrow I have to be at Cetn and Trefnant; but with such an array of speakers as you have I am. sure you will have a success- ful meeting. You will be gratified to learn tfhaA thro'ughout the division there is great enthusi- asm for the Liberal cause. (Applause.) It is impossible to exaggerate the seriousness of the issues at stake in the present contest. I feel certain that my friends at Colwyn Bay fuUy realise this and that they will make a greater effort than erver before on behalf of Liberalism. We have in this election to establish the su- premacy of the House of Commons to resist an insidious attack upon Free Trade, and to de- clare our firm adhesion to the Budget of Mr. Lloyd George. (Applause.) It is in what I con- ceive to be the highest interests of the country that I would make an earnest appeal for the loyal support of those in the Colwyn Bay dis- trict who have for so long given me the honour of representing them in Parliament." (Loud ap- plause.) In the course of his remarks the Chairman stated that it was the first time he had ever anneared on a politi&al platform. There was much difference of opinion as to whether it was right for a minister of religion to concern him- self with politics, and perhaps there was as much to say on one side as upon the other. But he considered that at the present crisis it would be. absolutely criminal for ministers of the Gospel to keep aloof. (Hear, hear.) When one realised that all the forces which impeded moral and social progress were arrayed together against the people one felt it was time to show oiM's colours. (Applause.) The Rev. Spinther James, who a year ago de- livered an excellent address in the same hall, was accorded a splendid reception on rising to speak. Dealing first with the House of Lords, the speaker declared that by their action in rejecting the Budget the peers had shown themselves unfit to participate in the govern- ment of the country. Let them show the lords that the country was mightier than they. (Hear, hear.) The peers had declared the revolution, but the people would carry it out. Having con- demned the Enclosure Act, the speaker urged the meeting' to assist in putting an end to a body who were all powerful in the land and respon- sible to no one. Dr. James's eloquence moved his audience to a high pitch of enthusiasm, a reference of his to Cromjwell being greeted with loud cheers and cries of Grand old Oliver." Dealing with the measures rejected by the peers in the Last Parliament, the speaker remarked that the lords had their wealth hidden in the liquor traffic, which was the reason for their throwing out the Licensing Bill. The House of Lords was an intolerable obstruction that must be swept away the peers fought against pro- gress and hampered social Teform in every pos- sible way. (Applause.) The Rev. 0. Selwyn Jones, a bright and con- j vincing speaker, delivered an address that ap- pealed forcibly to all present, and his remarks were frequently punctuated by applause. Every Nonconformist ought to be a Liberal," said the speaker "I, too, would prefer to tatke no part in politics, but I feel that I must fight for justice for the- people, and to accomplish this it is necessary for me to speak on political plat- forms as well as in the pulpit." (Applause.) The speaker did not think the Budget had been referred by the lords to the judgment of the country; rather had the lords themselves been cleverly brought to judgment by the Premier and his Ministers. (Applause.) Mr. John Crompton proposed the following resolution: -fo- That this meettng heartily ap- proves of the candidature of Sir J. Herbert Ro- berts, Bart., and hereby pledges itself to sup- port him at the poll." Having dwelt upon Sir Herbert's excellent qualities as their representative in Parliament, Mr. Crompton reminded his audience that Sir Herbert was the leader of the temperance move- me'nt in India he was an Empire builder of the right sort. (Hear, hear.) Continuing, the speaker quoted extracts from the ""Daily News Year-Book, and showed the way in. which Germany will raise the twenty-five mil- lions necessary to meet the necessities of the Imperial expenditure. The speaker ridiculed the idea of a nation raising money by means of taxes on electricity and gas and newspaper ad- vertisements. He had spent a short time in Germany, and one of the things that impressed him most during his stay was the way in which Germans dressed. One hardly ever saw a well- drcssed man irb Germany, and their suits were m<T-s)tly made of shoddy stuff for which they paid twice the price asked in England. Turn- ing to the Budget, the speaker gave some in- stances of the rapacity of landlords in exacting huge royalties from commercial undertakings. In Germany all royalties were the property of the State, and they were considerably lower than in this country. In conclusion, Mr. Crompton urged We'lsh and English to join harids and strive earnestly to secure the return of Sir Her- bert Roberts by a largely increased majority. (App.La.use.) The Rev. J. Wesley Hughes, in seconding the resolution, described the Budget as Christian and just. (Hear, hear.) The resolution was unanimously adopted. Mr. J. Tucker proposed a vote of thanks to the Chairman. He described the struggle with the peers as a momentous fight against terrible tyrrany. (Applause.) Who were those lords who allocated to themselves the right to govern the country? What were their antecedents Let those present study Pepys' Diary ''— (laughter)—and they would find that not a few peers owed their origin to the immorality of one of the most wicked and profligate monarchs who ever disgraced a Christian nation by occupying LS9 its throne. (Loud applause.) Mr. Owen. School House, seconded, and Mr. T. J. Dowell supported the vote of thanks, which was carried amid applause.

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