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Mr. Chamberlain's Proposals. Interesting Letters from Col, West and Mr. Stanley J. Weyman. (To the Editor oi" The iVe/sii Coast Pioneer. SIR,-I have- .read with iÜl'terieslcand surprise thee advice given1 'by Sir Charles McLaren in your lasit issue, t'o Welsh fanners. IncomIDicon with Kiln -and many other country gentlemen, I am dependent on) agricultural rents, and aim ou-s for the we&l-bei.n.g ctf my ten- antry. In the lalSt 30 years remits generally irave lessened qu'te 30 per cent.; in diact, or,, many farms removed from towns, 'the economic value 0'£ the land has disappeared1, and' the owner OIf 'the soil is ccnterJt to get in'te'resft at three per eejilt. on; the capM: he' and 1,Iis predecessors have sunk in farm houses and buildings. Sir Charles deprecates Mr Chamiberla ai's policy, butt what remedy docs he propose for a 't C h 1 h f h" 1.- S!c':> e ,or t ,;nlg's \V'.1'K:il 'or years ,as tnea patience of all 'Classes, oonneclced Wiith land from the impoverished. landowner and nearly ruined l'anmer lcia the peaisamt, who has had to leave his home :n khe country to seek iemploTment in the towns or to migrate t'o a strange land? Like t'he leaders -of his party r<v!o acknowledge the pitiaible co-nd:i'ti'cn of agriculture, does h,e advocrarte "repose"? Or has he some remedy t'o supersede the suggestions made by Mr Chamber- lain? Let !me state- exactly w'hat 'they are, as giiven an a speech, delivered at Glasgow on October 6, 1903 — tHe pDOpcses fro prJt a low duty on foreign corn ndt .e'x!ceedin'g 2S a quarter, no duty at all on t'he corn coming fromi our British possessions. This will ri,cic ,make ithe smallest differoence on the price -off bread. No tax is to be pu!t on maize, because it makes va/l'uialhle feeding stuff. *A tax o.n flour will be levied which Will give a sub- stantial preference "Lio, tlhle miller, (thereby estab- lishing tlhe milling business, Which has l'o.n:g perished ou!t of t'he land, and1 giviin'g more labour to the rural p,o?p-ulation, b,es:i?de,s caus,"n, t;" ,r i..?e to rei-n?'alin in ?his ?counitt.?, off al ar,,d w?"n,e-.iL an,d, beic,oi-ne a che,ap food &,or s,tack,and e,Dp?--c?, ally the poor man's pig- :Mr Chamberlain also proposes a small tax of 5 per cent, on foreign, meat and dairy produce, excluding Va/Cion, these food taxes ito be m'e't by rami's sion of taxes .on tea., sugar, and other aTttieles of c,c,,n!su;mtpici,oll. We are now the only nation uipoin earth de- pendienit on a "foreign"- Stla'te! for our fOlod. We can never feelll secure' so lonfg as this is the case. Fromi America we now get yelarly 70 per cenlt. olf our food supplies and slhe takes barely 10 per cenlt. of our manufactures Sir Charles dlepreicate's our preferring to deal with our kith and kin beyond the, seas for uie food we absolutely require, notwithstanding the fadt, -as 'hie well knows, that tlhey are our besit customers, and' 'thereby giving them preferentiall treait,meinit, We shall largely oinicrease the volume of trade wiith them. The mlore extended our home trade is the more prosperous will our agricuil'ture become. The tillers of our soil would supply a 1artger proportion of produce, especially lolf a perishable character, to- an in- dustrial pqpuliatiion. in full work, instead of as now ornly working half-time, or in many large works not at all, for the system of free imports has die stroked m'any industries o.r lessened tne-ir output. Antolther suggestion has be-en made and Which may very possibly become part of Mr Cbaimberlaen's scheme—a tax on foreign, manufactured, or half-ma:nufactured,aiticles now ccim,p,dting with our own productions would, it i's calculated, bring dm .sufficient revenue to enable Parliament to take up the question of local isaxati'on. At presenit land is unjustly treated. All improvements and requirements in the country relating to education, sanitation, and those of a purely national character, such as the main- tenance of lunatic asylums, main roads, &c., fall on the landed interest, and the relief suggested would simply be an act of justice, and be warmly appre- ciated. The announcement made last week by Mr Chamberlain that a sub-committee of the large and important body now sitting will consider the position of agriculture in relation to the system of free imports, will gladden the hearts of many a Welsh and English fanner, who will, with the natural astuteness of his class, realise that now for the first time for many a year a statesman has arisen who not only acknowledges the sad plight into which our greatest industry has fallen, but is doing his utmost to seek for such remedies as may secure to all classes concerned in its operations future prosperity, whilst at the same time cementing the bonds which unite us to the great Empire of Britain Beyond the Seas. Mr Chamber- lain's proposals will all tend to making the^mpire and re-making England.- Your obedient servant, W. CORNWALLIS WEST. Ruthin Castle. January 18th. (To the Editor of The Welsh Coetst Pioneer.) SIR,—I hlave only to-diay read Sir Charles Mc- Laren's letter under t'he above heading in your cl -1, and f-n,din?6,? tha?t in 1-il;s refer- I.s,s,ue of th,e Q?ti .1 enloeis to the effect o!f protection in Germany he has omitted' to, nairne1 some facts, I aim sure he wim like me to supply them. Hedloes net it ell your readers IVhla1 during the last forty years the wealth, the population, and the standard of living anrdi c,cm-fioilt ihave risen much imore quickly Ül Geitmiany under protect- Ition than in England under free, i'mipoilcs. But it is a fact, though Sir dra-rles. MciLareni forgets to mention it, Germany, which midway in Itals(t century was a very poor and,. commercially speaking, a third-rate country, has so far -caught I up Enigland as to stand almost abreast of her to-day. And this in forty years under the' sys- tem cif protection, which, accordi ng- to Sir Charles McLaren, 6s to ruin our trade. He does mot tell your readeirs ithiait if the stan- dard Of wages be lower in, Germany tha n in Eng- land', work is m,ore, plentiful and more constant. You do not see in the cities of Germany the squalid poverty wlhlircliJ rises to the eye- so Eng- land. In Germany there are not twelve millions nor two. million's on the verge of starvation, as we have ilt on authority tlhere are in this country of free impiortis. He does not tell you thait ailthouigh wages still remain lower 00 the whole in. Giermany than in England, they have risen considerably in the last fority years. Moreover, thatt the difference in ir.be rates'o'f wages in the two couxJtries is due not to free trade nor to prcitec;t,io,n,, but to the effect in England of Trades Unions. Wages whien, albove, the subsistence liimiit, de- pend upon the demand for, and alhe supply of, labour. This as the natural law, and were it now allowed' to o-p-eraite here, wages would! go down in many branches of trade, .because there are1 more hand's than work. But then the Trades Unions sell. ,in-I have no't a word IIO say against thern—and keep up the rate of wages. They cannot, however, force employers to employ all who need (work; hence in this. counitry Wiarges are high, but employment is uncertain and insuffi- cenit. But Sir Charles McLaren, while cimllting these facts, lets drop a word about the black bread and horseflesh to which he infers the Germans are reduced. Precisely. And so, sad to say, lJar;!c¡3shire is |the poorest oouinlty in England, for there a miserable starving population has for generations eaten, horses'' food—oatcake. By the same token I have been myselif reduced very low. I ihiavlô eaten oatoake at Lancaster and black bread in Lubeck-aye, and in thait miserable, poverty-stricken, trade-deserted, dwindling city oif Hamburg—'which is not much larger than Liverpool, and enjoys a death-rate Jess by 25 per cent. And by the way, seeing that the Germans have some £ j per head tin their savingsbanrks, while Nve have ab.o,t /,4, what a p,'Ity 4t ?; is th,a:,t .ey do not take out a shilling or two so as to afford a bit of wb:te bread Buit ItlO return. While Sir Charles r.l'cL,a.ren does not' forget the black bread'—henceforth the loaf music not only be small, but black—he for- gClts to explain that between 1872 and 1902 the exports of Germany douiblied under protection, w'hiiile those of Great Britain oi-iily increased abouic a tenth. And that the exports of Ger- many whiicb were to those off England as 3 to 8 in 1872 are now as 6 to 7, or thereabouts. Now, isi.r, I ask your readers to let at stand or !fall by thait. I aim unable for lack of 'time to follow Sir Charlies ,1IICLare,n throu'gh all his reasoning. I might go on to show that i!f, as ha says, wheat rises, more grain-growing means a greater demand for labour on the land, a.nd thait 's a ri-se in rural wages and a consequeTIit drawing of men from the towns, w'h:;ch. again means a rise in manufacturing wages, which ex- tended security and a certain market will en- able manufacturers to pay. Bult let it 'stand alt tli:,?;. lit sa--ims noit u-nif-air o ask, wq -oul d t, -iy sh .lh-- pro'teat.ive -sys-tei-n wh-ch ?q,,a,s so, er?io.rrncu,s-.Iy e?,irl:,clhed Germ;a.nty, augmentted b,e-r p-o-wer a:ntd raised her standard of hfe, of comiforfi, and of wageis, have the precisely opposite effect here? Germany is called into the witness-Ibox. Let her evidence be heard and weigheld.-I am, etc., 'STANLEY J. WEYMAN. Plas Llanrhydd, Ruthin. January 19th. +

North Wales Lunatic Asylum Committee. A Short Quarterly Meeting. MR 'P. P. PENNANT presided over the quarterly meeting of the visitors of the North Wales Counties Lunajaic Asylum, held at the Station Hotel, Llandudno Juncltlion. There weme at so present: Messrs J. Watkm Lumley, Thomas Wil- liams (Llewesog), and A. Foulkes, representing Denbighshire; W. Elwy William's, Flintshire; H. ic, Thomas Evans, Dr. E. P. Ed'wards, and R. W. Roberts, 'Anglesey; J. J ones Morris, W. J. Parry, and Hugh Owen, Carnarvonshire; Dr. Rolgers Hughes, Meriomethsibire.; and P. E. Storey and E. A. Foullkes, for the subscribers. It was reported tihia7t the following balances were in the hands of the treasurer Maintenance, £ 2,112 13s 2d; enlargement, ^3,878 18s 4d; waiter supply, Z837 14s, and the 64oo account of ,,218,1 7S 2,d. f lit was relporited that there were 792 patients on, the books, (the pauper .pialt;ent's beling ap- portioned as follows: Denbighshire, 199, being 19 under quota; Flintshire, 165, 30 over quota; Anglesey, 97, 13 over quota; Carnarvonshire, 193, 15 under quota; and Merioneth, 83, 2 over quota. i It 'appeared that 'the average weekly cost of mtainten.ance during the quarter was at the rate of 9-S IOY; d per head, or d per head less than for the coirrespondiingi pe-riodi of last year. The Chairman reported, in private, as to the progress of the new buildings, and the aribitrator, With Mr 'Wla,r'burton, #l'he oniginal contractor for ,t,he exite.ri!.i* ',s. lor Mr J. W. -L,urraey had given, noltiiice of his in- tenlbion to propose that the two deferredl blocks for male and female piauper paitlients be now pro- ceeded w:ith, but the question was defenred to the next meetiing oif the com'milttee.

Carnarvonshire Teachers and the County Authorities. Alleged Friction a Myth. AIR T. J. WILLIAMS, Bangor, president of the Association, occupied the chair at a meeting of the Association of ElemEntary Teachers for Carnar- vonshire, held at Carnarvon on Saturday. There was an unusually large attendance of teachers from provided and non-provided schools :n the county. I An interesting discussion arose on the question of nature study and brushwork in elementary schools, and a resolution was unanimously adopted asking the County Education Committee to arrange for summer classes in these subjects for the benefit of teachers, and to obtain some of the best exponents of these subjects in the kingdom to conduct these classes. The Chairman, who is a member of the County Education Committee, intimated that the subject was already receiving the consideration of the Committee. Mr E. R. Davies, clerk to the Education Com- mittee, attended by arrangement, and delivered an address indicating what the general policy of the County Education Committee was in its rela- tion to elementary schools and teachers, and sub- sequently replied to a numHer of questions put to him by various teachers in further elucidation of the matter he had discussed. The speech and answers met with a mo3t cord- ial reception, and a vote of thanks was accorded to Mr Davies, the whole tone and character of this portion of the proceedings disposing effectu- ally of the rumours recently circulated as to the alleged existence of friction between the teachers and the education authorities for the county. The meeting emphasised the fact that the rela- tions existing between the elementary teachers in the county and the new education authority are of the most cordial character, and promise well for the future progress of elementary educa- tion in the county.

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Tariff Reform Campaign in North Wales. Formation of a Welsh Association. Officers Appointed. A MEETING for the purpose of discussing the methods of advocating tariff reform in support 11 of Mr Chamberlain's policy in North Wales was held on Saturday a the Queen's Hotel, Chester. Colonel Cornwallis West (Ruthin Castle) pre- sided. Amongst those present were Lord Kenyon, Sir Watkin Williams Wynn, the Hon. G. T. Kenyon, M.P., Col. Pryce Jones, M P., Col. Mousley, the Rev T. F. Reece, W. Morgan (Bethesda), Colonel Mellor (Abergele), Mr Richard Conway (Llandud- no), Mr David Williams (Bangor), Mr W. J. Lewis, Mr Thomas Bate, Mr Gordon Roberts (Carnarvon), and Mr C. A. Vince, general secretary of the Imperial Tariff Committee. Letters of apology for absence and expressing tympathy with the movement were received from the Duke of Westminster, Lord Mostyn, Lord Penrhyn, Sir Hugh Ellis-Nanney, Sir Richard Williams-Bulkeley, Sir Lawrence Brodrick, Hon. W. W. Vivian, Mr Adiie, and Mr Stanley J. Weyman. The chief purpose of the meeting was to ap- point a tariff committee for North Wales and discuss methods for the advocacy of tariff re- form. After short speeches by the chairman and Mr Vince, the following resolution was moved by the Hon. George Kenyon, M P., seconded by Colonel Pryce Jones, M.P., and carried unanimously (a) That an association be formed, to be called the North Wales Imperial Tariff Association, (b) That such Association shall consist of (1) all per- sons attending this conference (2) all persons in- vited to this conference who have signified their approval of the purposes of the Committee and (3) all persons resident or having voting qualifica- tions in North Wales who promise active assist- ance in promoting the objects of the Committee. (c) That the purposes of the Association shall be those defined in the circular of the Imperial Tariff Committee dated October 30, 1903." The Duke of Westminster was appointed president of the Association. Colonel Cornwallis West will be treasurer. The appointment of secretary was left to the Executive Committee, but Mr W. Jenkins, organ ising secretary of the Imperial Tariff Committee, will act as secretary pro. tem. The following were appointed vice presidents —The Earl of Powis, Lord Kenyon, Lord Mostyn, Lord Penrbyn, Sir Watkin Williams Wynn, the Hon. George Kenyon, M.P., and Colonel Pryce Jones, M.P. It was also resolved that the following form the Executive Committee :—Major R. W. Williams- Wynn (Montgomeryshire), Mr A. W. Pryce Jones (Montgomery Boroughs), Rev. Canon Hughes (Merionethshire), Mr J. Rice Roberts (Anglesey), Mr J. Issard Davies (Carnarvon), Mr H. Knee- shaw (Carnarvon), Mr Thomas Bate (Flint), Mr T. W. Hughes (Flint), Colonel J. E. Mellor (Denbighshire), Mr T. A. Acton (Denbighshire Boroughs), Mr T. Darlington (Chirk), Mr Stanley J. Weyijian (Ruthin), Mr Lloyd Jones (Ruabon), Rev J. F. Reece (Denbighshire). Mr J. Whitting- ham (Denbigh Boroughs), Mr W. J. Lewis (Machynlleth), Mr W. J. T. Storey (Flint), Hon. W. W. Vivian (Carnarvonshire, Arfon), Mr Lloyd Carter (Carnarvon Boroughs), Mr Gordon Roberts (Anglesey), and Mr George Rae (Carnarvon Boroughs). «

Defrauding a Railway Company. Serious Charge Against a Welsh Stationmaster. AT the Merionethshire Assizes, held at Dolgelley on Thursday last, before Mr Justice Phillimore, Thomas Tinsley, 36, stationmaster at Frongoch, and Charles Edward Fisher, porter at Llan Festiniog, surrendered to their bail on the charge of conspiring to obtain moneys belonging to the Great Western Railway Company—the sum of lB. 7d. on the 6th November, and a like sum on the 12th November-the sums being the third- class fare between Frongoch and Festiniog rail- way stations. Mr Trevor Lloyd prosecuted on behalf of the railway company, and Mr Ellis Griffith M.P. (instructed by Mr Jordan, Bala), defended. Both prisoners pleaded guilty. Mr Lloyd gave a detailed account of the prisoners' mo3us operandi, which showed that Tinsley issued tickets from Frongoch] to Llan Festiniog. At Festiniog the tickets were collected by Fisher, and sent back in an envelope to Tinsley who again reissued them. Detective-inspactor Thomas said that Fisher had been in the company's service for six years, and his conduct had been meritorious. Tinsley had been 22 years on the line, but his conduct bad been indifferent. Since the men were suspended the takings had increased. Mr E. Griffith, for the defence, said that at the magisteral inquiry Tinsley admitted that he had suggested to Fisher the carrying out of the frauds. Fisher, before becoming a porter, was a grocer's assistant, and was a nephew of Tinsley, Since his suspension he had been in employment with an oil manufacturer at Festiniog, and who was willing to take him back to his service if his lord- ship would see fit to deal leniently with him. His Lordship, in sentencing Cinsley to imprison- ment for eight months, eaid he had pleided guilty to a grilve and serious offence. No doubt he was the cause of Fisher finding himself in the position he was in. As to Fisher, he would be bcund over in £ 10 to come up for judgment if called upon, but he sincerely hoped that that would not be the case.

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