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It is the cue with Welsh Radical news- papers to assume that neither fact nor argu- ment can move a great body of the Welsh electors from cast-iron convictions, founded upon prejudice rather than reason. Never- theless, ttiere are signs on every side that a gieat change is conning over the electorate of the Principality. The old docility to the crack of the Rauical and Nonconformist whip is disappearing, and all the devices of eajolry and coercion are being found neces- sary to check the exodus from the ranks so long dominated by extremists. Labounsm on one side, Unionism on the other, are mak- ing deep inroads. The frenzied efforts to force through "the mean little Bill before a chance is given to wst public opinion is a tacit confession that is is a case of now or never with the spoliation of the strongest and most active of religious organisations in Wales. And but for the prosperity—com- mon to all producing countries in recent years—which tends to en- courage indifference regarding fiscal blunders, working men as a class would be alive to the foLy of expending their re- sources in fighting non-Union ladour whilst permitting the products of sweated toilers abroad to be dumped into this country tp the grave injury ot British trade and com- merce. The iean years, when they come—as they must inevitaoly sooner or later—will compel a closet study and a keener apprecia- tion of the anomalies of the free import system. There is not a constituency in Walas un- aftecte.d by the haphazard and crude legis- lation of the present Government and the personal shortcomings of a Ministry that has lowue;¡ the whole tone of public life in this country,, once held up as an example to tne re.,t of the world. Unionist candidates and speakers hnd themselves now in a new at- mosphere in South W dles, And there is a reasoned deterainatioii to accelerate pro- fress towards a sane fiscal policy and a i.>ane imperialism, it only to hold together the far-hung Empire wnich it is the interest of civilisation to conserve and develop. In West South Wales every elector is l.kely to be afforded an opportunity of giving expres- sion to hibcomietions in the polling boot; Swansea Borough, Gower, East and W t i Oarmarthensnii e, Caimartben Boroughs, Pembrokeshire and Pembroke Boroughs have already Unionist champions in the field, a.ad in the course of a few weeks Swansea, District (where Sir David Brynmor Jones has probably fought his last fight), and Mid-Giamoiifin will be siinifariy ,r" i It is noteworthy as an indication of the spirit on the other side that whilst Mr.' Rajrtithorn is committed to a challenge of Radical representation of Mid-Glamorgan, and Mr. Ramsay Macdonald (most servile of Ministerial hacks in the House of Com- I mons) is scourging the Liberal party in Derbyshire, theie is no perceptible move- i ment to provide Mr. John Williams with a Liberal opponent in the Gower Division. Recalling the denunciations of the Rev. W. F. Philiips, who attributed his defeat as the .standard-bearer of the paity in this constituency to treachery within; Radical sluggishness is not without a deep signifi- cance. It is an unmistak:ible sign of the control of the Liberal party by wealthy plutocrats. j
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Democratic Government as expounded by thr Liberal candidate in the Unmsby I and North East Derbyshire bye-elections is a degrading travesty and caricature that in- sults the electorate. The correspondent of the London Daaly News" cheerily ob- serves in a message from Chesterfield The figiit (in N.-E. Derbyshire) still revolves round the source and destination of politi- cal funds in the division. Explosive. challenges and hot retorts are fired nightly from the Liberal and Labour camps." Mr. Bannister stood for Grimsbv on the ground that, as he put it, It doesn't matter about Liber-Is. Wha.t you want for Grimsby is a man who will represent the fishermeu. I can't talk very well. I can vote well. If I go to Parliament I can put my name down. If I put my hand up, it will count as well as anybody else's." This is Government of the people, by the people, fbw the people "—in the one case a sordid wrangle over the source of the local party funds, in the other a candidate who blandly confesses ignorance and indifference to poli- tic. and boasts of the blind and unques- ticning obedience that he is prepared to give; nis capacity and readiness to play the human automaton to become a cipher, dumb, a clockwork figure--at,a cost to the country <7f J38 a week. Politics might as well be played like a game of cards with Counters if the People's Party" is to father the candidature of many more men of such a curious type as Mr. Bannister. And what is the political situation of to- ty Ma.t ? tFeat?Od w:?h LOVIty and con- ?utpt ui me&e wmtciled quarrtis and fri.o- lbus c?mp<ngu6? The Gk)temmeQt hag in- troduced a xiiil that so violently cutuagea the feelings of a great body ot, men that tnmy ve been driven to a step unparal- leled for a century and a half. and ruom- they are prepared to resist it by force 01 •Mas. The question for the electorate, the expression 01 wtioe views is particularly Weighty at this oritiral moment in the fortunes of the Bill, is as gra-ve a matter 416 could be submitted to ii—it concerns tlw. a)QthorMing of the shedding of blood and th( ?"?ng of Uffe, if men can be found who axe  f&r the tools of a put that they wi]" ?h?ot. down its opponents like the levies of ?:?€xica? faction, with the aame unques- ?oimig c??aie?t?e as Mr. Bannister was pre- t' d manifest rn other dir?.?;? rY the ekctont?e were bidden to die l'O?rd, this trivial matt&r of thOQndolnua- ti'n Or endorsement of civil war, a m( ?'? quite b..th their conoi'der.atibnl ?- ?'??ratc; their thoughts upon the ?1! .?tnpOl't.a.nt P?"? that ?? Lib-M-? c?ndMi?t.e  w'hHsth,u¡ oppe'fLt. in.ad jam. fish Whiigt -his oppopent made jam. -?'?? in Derbyshire n\cJ d.amG'<" axe? b:, h other's throats, acd the eledtor-tk' hore a.g!a,m ?re bidden to await &nd ahidr ,t y the ?s??t of the Btru?Ie between t'h? two F°Ups of w""e-pullers.—Sir Aithu.T it a,rkb?,m, a L:btral ?.in?vTMr, ?ujr. tha' ..e Liberals should have a monopoly of 'Vioi0irt "?'? astM!-a.tions of the people," ?ca?L"? ??-'?ntoed the expen<?< of the b-v??e-'e?on !?t year; whi!?, the LaWr P'1:1.'t. at'go ?? ''?"? it ? Sp?Int thou.¡ 'ld A Là'l I,. 01 pMn<'a m e?ct.ion.Mrin?. A ?? '? ?<?-(wM ?M ?ai. d?- c?LT?L,? .?? t'-?-<rh? th? c?'?.t.rv w?- «• l. tired of th(? trnc.1m of t,h" ? ? ?" i.?'?-np of t.? I?S??S ?rty managers to t?M 8oc.iaj? ex- tilemists of the Labour party. With their own strength the Labour voters could not win wore than two constituencies in the whole of England. That much Mr. Philip Snowdep hinlself had admitted. All the othor seats which they held they owed to Liberal help. But that fact did not prevent them from making constant blackmailing demands on the benefactors. It was time for a stand to be made." As one branch of the Labour party is endlessly preaching its independence of the plutocratic Liberals, and the other section is roundly abusing it for the Prussian obedience that its repre- sentatives pay in Parliament to Liberal edicts and policies, one is justified in draw- ing the conclusion that the men who claim Ii in conj unction to be the voice of the peo- ple are mutually sick of each other in the conntituerows, however serene their con- cord at Westminster. Whilst Mr. Ramsay. McDonald asserts that in recent years the Labour party has spent many thousands of pounds upon the division, and Sir Arthur Markham, M.P., the Liberal magnate who controls the local coal mines, denies that anything of the kind has been the case, a shoal of Labour mem- bers are invading the constituency; but there is a remarkable shyness upon the part of Liberal members in supporting Mr. Hufton, the Liberal nominee, who stated on Monday that he did not know if his nomination was endorsed by the Liberal headquarters in London, and that in any case it would make no difference. To add to the confusion in the constituency between Labour and Liberalism, there has been a further controversy between them as to the party to which the late Mr. Harvey belonged at the time of his death—Mr. Ramnay Mac- donald asserting that he received the Labour party whips, whilst Sir A. Markham insists that he intended formally to leave his La- bour colleagues, and that on March 30 he had received a Liberal whip. The contest of recrimination, charge and denial, and counter-charge serves but one. useful purpo e—'the revela- tion of the utter unfit mss of the Liberal and Labour Coalition to be considered as in any case one party, from the point of view of the moral weight that attaches to votes cast jointly. There can bt; no sincerity in a political alliance of expediency between parties who, in the country, are fighting amopg, t each other as they are doing in Derbyshire, and, conse- quently, no authority behitnd any action to which they may give their assent. Of the three candidates, only the Conservative is placing serious political issues before the electorate; yet doubtless, if he is returned, the votes of the Labour and Liberal parties will be added up by the Liberal Press to show a "majority" for Home Rule—a ques- tion that both have, in their mutual an- tagonism, thrust entirely into the back- ground in their efforts to destroy each other.
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A writer in the second number of the Candid Quarterly Review," issued a few days ago, laments the increasing indifference of the British people to foreign affairs, as a national peril, for no country, and es- pecially no country with a Parliamentary Government, is likely to be well n-ed in aqy branch of its national busines* in which it does riot take a real and continuous in- 1 t-;)|st." He observes evidence of this indif- ferences in the gradual disappearance from the columns of the leading London news- papers of authoritative foreign political news, presumably because the editors, who must be credited with knowing their busi- ness, have decided that such news is not ""a marketable commodity." At one tame," he observes. 'The Tim'efe' gave us day by day, in teleo--rams' frorn all over the world, all the information that mat- tered on foreign affairs. It has recently very greatly restricted the supply and now de- votes a large profort?on of its forO'n new? to lighter non-political topic*. This ten- dency was evident before the price was re- duced to a penny it is not likely to become ¡ less marked now that the paper is caterintr to a wider and presumably less educated and less serious public. Two newspapers, the 'Standard' and the Dnilv News,' which used almost to rival the 'Time-i- in thfl fvl- ness and accuracy of their floreirn politic* 1 news, Ion? ago k, from that point of view. The Daily Telegraph and the Morning Post' still publish numerous j foreign teleerams and letters, but neither in the one nor in the other is the quality of the service to be compared with that of the old Tiniei,' 'Standard.' and 'Daily News.' To the few of us who still wish to know and un- derstand what is going on abroad it is be coming a more and more difficult problem where to get independent and authoritative information." If an example were needed to illustrate the unquestionable truth and reasonableness 1 of the foregoing complaint it would be fur- nished in the fact tJhat a warlike struggle is now proceeding in North Africa of profound mterest to us and the rest of the civiliied world, almost unnoticed by the Press of thia j country. In the course of the really as- tonishina demonstration on Friday afternoon I of the general knowledge imparted to the senior scholars of the Deaf and Dumb School at Swansea, four out of five children, reply- ing to a question put by one of the audience, "What war is now taking place men tioned the United States and Mexico en-! tanglement, which, technically, is not as yet any war at all, and the- fifth unconsciously imported an element of humour into the pro- ceedings by writing, The war between the North of Ulster and the South of Ireland." vMrh may be a prediction but is hardly yet I a fact. Not one made any reference to the dou- ble war which is proceeding in North Africa, and the, omifsion was not. remarked upon, a.nd probably was not noticed. Yet for a period to be measured by years rather than months this warfare has been going on almost incessantly, involving at intervals, when the hostile forces on considerable x-ale have come into contact, a much greater loss of life than was considered worthy in New York of a great State and national funeral, with the American President as principal speaker. And except in the French newspapers no attempt has been; tnade to convey to the reading public any adequate idea of the importance, of chat culminating movement by which armies from the East and the West have at iast "joined hands at Tzza thereby asserting French predominance from Cusa Blanca in he Atlantic to Tunis in.the Mediterranean, in :*» way this achievement of France is as jecisive and wide-reaching an event as the issertion of British authoiity over Fashod.. ►hysically an area of sterile desert and rnurass, but standing for so much that the I ight, to its possession came within an ace of plunging this country into war with France. Only the discovery by the Frencli -that through Ministerial neglect the magazines if. their arsenals and warships were nearly Jepletfd of ammunition is believed to have averted the catastrophe. For, apart from 3.;iai pride, our neighbours realised that he withdrawal of Colonel Marchand and j lis littie band, under pressure applied by Gene,tal Kitchener, meant the determination in favour of Britain of the conflict long fore- seen between the British hope of an eventual all-red route from Cairo to the Cape and the French dream of a continuous tri-coloured African Empire across the width of Africa from East to West. In Morocco we are now witnessing the realisation of a modified scheme still from East to West, only the East begins in Algeria with a Northern out- let into the Mediterranean, and is a long way West of the Nile, which represents the first great stage of the All-British avenue of trade and commerce from North to South of the Continent that is rapidly ceasing to be dark or unknown. Proximity to an event tends to magnify its proportions or significance, just as remote- ness from it has the oontrary effect. Vol; i taire expresaivelv set out this when he de- clared that whltt a comparatively trivial street accident actually witnessed was cap- able of exciting the liveliest emotion, life at a great distance seemed to have so insignifi- cant a value that if one could, by touching a button, kill a Mandarin in China, the finger would itch to apply the pressure fre- quently. It so happened that the writer was recently in that close, if indiioct, contact with Moroccan affairs which temporarily at least made them real and of imposing pro- portions. From the Rock of Gibraltar-that towering sentinel by whose tireless and sleep- leas vigilance we hope to hold watch and ward over the tossing highway which carries our principal food supply, and to demobilise the collective naval strength of the Triple Alliance—Ceuta, the base of the Spanish operations against the mountaineers of the Hilt, lies hardly more than gunshot away. Indeed, nowadays when artillery of the heaviest calibre has an effective range of sixteen miles, and is adding to the distance I every year, Ceuta., which, with" Gib," stood with the ancients for the Pillars of Hercules, is considered by some experts as a possible future counterpoise to the sea stronghoid that the British captured two hundred years ago, and have since stedfastly held, making it incidentally an object lesson in point of cleanliness a.nd good government —the streets are washed down by hand hose three times a, day, crime and disorder are hardly known-to all the Levantine nations. For Swanaea people there is a special interest in this, as one of the principal executive officers is Mr W. H. Niles, Captain of the Port, chief of the dock police, magistrate, < no of the Trinity Brethren, inspector of emigration ships, a Swansea man, and the ready friend of every visitor from the town or from Wales. He is more than a man in authority in Gibraltar it is impossible to be a day on the Rock without realising tho respect he commands with all clauses from the highest. Go into the towns of Southern: Spain and I you find the garrisons denuded. The fight- ing men by the thousand have been deported to Ceuta and Tetuan, where a heart-breaking campaign against the Riffs has been in pro- gress for years. The end appears further off now than when it beg. For these [ ficrce and hardy mountaineers—Tangier, -their one ga.tlltffl » texture ekwelj r»- mbtirig sáëRt, piertHjd to let throbgh the arms and bare as from the knees down- ward, and ,with the head shaved except for one tuft of hair falling over the right ear, y. appear to represent the most primitive form o(civilisa.tion-are indomitable fighters, I and so far have successfully defied Spanish advance into the interior beyond the range of-their guns at Mellila, Tetuan and Ceuta. Notwithstanding the fact that nominally the authority of Spain has been para- mount on this coast for centuries, and is not the recent importation that French authority. is south of the iiiiternational or neutral kone of Tangier and ita immediate hinterland. Across the straits from Gibraltar, approxi- mately as far as Swansea is from the Mumbles, ia Algeciras, the Spanish town- with a history connecting it with the Phoenicians, the British of the earlier world —where the fata of Morocco was determined. The meeting plaoe of the representatives of th*? Powers-three Moors in their silent dignity introduced a pathetic element—was tho Council Chamber of a Spanish province net nearly so imposing as that owned by the Swansea Corporation. Half the flooring usually occupied Ly the public and on a lower level had to be raised to accommodate them all. A resident of Algeciras oonfided the information that, the hall underwent a I thorough cleaning before the arrival of the dis- ,.iliguisned visitors. The present musty condi- tion of the room, with its tablet commemora- tive of the conference, and picture of the members of the latter, suggested the de sir- ableness of another such visitation in the in- terests of sanitation. Still the city authorities of Algeciraa thoroughly apprecIated the value to them of the history-making event--which nearly became the starting point for a European war-and have re-christened the approach to the building as the Street "Con- ferencia." It was here where the bark from I t.he trees in the cork woods undergo a rough treatment before being shipped, and where square miles of land are covered by orange trees, that the agreement was reached whereby—save for a small plot. represented by Tangier and its surroundings, declared to be internationa.lJl Morocco was divided between France and Spain, the latter being granted only the light end of the purse. The writer in the Candid Quarterly Re- view finds in the disposition of Moroccan affairs a conspicuous instance in which Great Britain has sacrificed British interests bv forgetting that the entente with France (and Russia) is not an end in itself but the means to an end. He remarks The interests we sacrificed in Morocco were valuable, but it was worth while paying a good price to put an end to, the irritating campaign of pin- pricks by which France had endeavoured to make out position in Egypt intolerable. If the agreement had been followed, as was expected, by relations of really mutual help- fulness between us and France there would be little ground for complaint. That has, however, scaicely been the case. And he goes on to say "Using the Anglo- French agreement as a base France has gone a;h(-ad, in i%oi-acco until it is now a French protectorate, and sh e has compelled Spain to grve up to her a considerable portion of those districts which, by an agreement to which we were parties, she bad recognised as within the Spanish sphere. At each succes- sive ft&ge in her advance she received the ungrudging support of Great Britain. In the face of German opposition the French advanoe would have been impossible had there been any shrinking or lukewarmness in our support. Germany had, it is now generally admitted, a better cast than we recognised at the time, but she pit herself so completely in the wrong by the clumsy and blustering way she endeav oured to enforce her views that she coil 1d not recent our conduct. Had France, ex- cept in words, any appreciation of our atti- tude, there would be no cause to regret it.. She bas shown none. In Morocco itself she has shown not only indifference but even hostility to such British interests as we still f preservea by the agreement. Her political influence, which we worked so hard to make supreme has been used to discourage Brit- ish trade and British industrial enterprise." And the criticism takes a wider range. The French attitude over the future status ot Tangier was not so muA a matter 01 course. Our position at Gibraltar irakes it important to us that Tangier should not come into the hands of any foreign Power, and our commercial interests in Tangier it- self make it important that no foreign power I should acquire a predominant influence in that port. The negotiations to settle the composition and authority of this (the in- ternational) "administration have met with hitch after hitch. To judge from the French and Spanish newspapers the difficulties have! been caused by tho persistent endeavour of France to make French influence supreme in the administration which would then be in- ¡ ternational only in tiame. A French Tangier would lie an infinitely more serious I menace to our naval position than a German Agadir. There is an old and safe rule in international politics always to, remember that the friend of to-day may be the adversary of to-morrow." I The disposition of the French to reach out for power over Tangier is easilv understand- able to the writer, who (with his friends) was kept a day longer there than proposed by reason of a signal said to be raised by French authority that the port was closed because the sudden rising of an Eastern wind had made emba-rcation by boat dangerous. It was doubtless justified-laet summer the crew and passengers of a launch had their lives under similar conditions—but the incident indicated the penetrative effect of French influence. In the language of diplomacy Tangier is important. But in reality it is much more than that. It is one of the wonder cities of the world. Three hours' steaming from Gib." where the power of the Western World is manifested in the most arrogant fashion, projects the traveller into the stoical changeless East, where in oontemplativ mood you can see pass as in a panorama the various stages of civilisation since the world was young. The Bible story is vividly visualised. You conceive with clearness never before possible the migration of Abra- ham with his herds; you can see Joseph and his brethren making their journey to Egypt ,the coat of many colours that a fond father gave his favourite son is suggested in the heavily embroidered, vest disclosed beneath the robes of spotless white that the stately Berber sports—the very embodiment of hnman dignity sitti/ig astride his Arab horse the source and origin of our best English ffibronghbreds. In Tangier the Biblical records assume a new meaning, and the "Arabian Nights" demand re-reading. For the successive lay efts of civilisation are exposed con- currently, anij- obscure writings are made plain. In every minute of the day and the night an endless procession enter- ing Tangier or laying it passes over the patch of seashore leading t0 the4eseit. B6ine mounted on asses, mules, horses, camels, but the majority oh fobt, the representa- tives of twenty different races, Arabs, Berbs, Riffs, Nubians, Soudanese, and the many grades that come between move noiselessly into the ancient city, or proceed without into the mysterious interior. For hundreds if not thousands of years this has gone on continuously. A stranded German steamer guarded by a French an da Spanish cruiser to keep off looters in'dicat;T anish closely the civilisation and restraint of the West were elbowed by the lawlessness of the East. And in Tangier, as elsewhere in North African ports, there is the Moor, dignified of carriage, with a fine counten- anoe and black eyes aglow with light and fire, lamenting the withdrawal of the Brit- ish from Morocco, and a living testimony to the fatal folly of the Spanish in expelling the race which furnished Spain with its best agriculturists and artisans, whose handi- work to this day is Spain's most valuable asset in all that is artistic and beautiful.
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By reason of the settlement effected be- tween the representatives respectively of the Swansea Corporation and the G. W.R. Com- pany, the public may now confidently anti- cipate within a reasonable time a material improvement not only in the appearance and character of the High-street Station, but I also in the arrangements for reaching or departing from the town over the principal railway serving the latter. We may be sure tllat, having undertaken to do certain things, the company will redeem its promises in both spirit, and letter. The facade facing High-street will therefore supplement the, efforts which the Corporation and private mvestor? in buildings are making to beti?: the condition architecturally of the principal streets. A? a sum of £ 4,000 to £ 5,000 :s to be spent on the elevation, and a pon- .siderablo spa^e recessed to give protected accommodation for vehicles, the renovated station is bound to be very different visually and otherwise from what it is :\It present. The platforms, triple the, existing length, will conduce t/o the greater comfort and oon- venienoe of passengers, and enable a, fuller use being made of the Cockett loop-line, which so far has not realised its purpose in permitting the principal through trains coming into Swansea, thus disposing of the long-standing grievance of the long waits apt to occur at Landora. The Corporation, to ensure these improvements, has also to shoulder obligations. Certain streets will have to be closed, and provision made on behalf of the company for the housing else- where of the tenants now occupying the fourteen houses which are to disappear in order to obtain land for the extensions. With regard to the streets' closure, the facilities for reachiug the Strand and the docks will be for all practical purposes not inferior to those now enjoyed, and if the Local Govern me tort. Board sanction the ar- rangement, the hdusing of the displaced tenants will amount to more than the grant- ing-of preference to the latter in the letting of the houses about to be built on Town Hill. So that taken all irv all the station and rail- way improvements 'will mean an advance of appreciable value to Swansea.
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It is earnestly to be hoped that the result if the recent re-examination of Captain Alfred Thomas will be satisfactory in the 'enøe that a certificate will be obtained of lis absolute physical'soundness. This would eguiarise & situation that otherwise must laeome seriously embarrassing. The prac- tical experience already obtained of Mr. homas in the discharge of the duties of "hief Constable has produced a favourable mpression, especially having regard to the iifficulties naturally arising from the, ele- nent of doubt in regard to the continuity '{ his work And authority. So that if the ssential certificate were forthcoming there vould, tve believe, be TIO besitatioa in | changing a provisional into zi permanent ap- pointinjarit. Bot if the certificate be again I j withheld the whole matter will have to be i | reconsidered. I In this connection sight must not be lost of the fact that the Watch Committee is but one of two parties concerned with the sta.ffing of the police force, and the terms of the reference to the Swansea organisation in the recontly-isued Blue Book containing the reports of the Home Office Inspectors suggest the expediency of extreme circum- spection on the part of the local authority. For the Home Office possesses drastic pow- ers to enforce its disapproval-powers likely to be increased by the change in relation to grants foreshadowed in the Budget state- ment. Hence the possible financial conse- quences of any mistaken course followed are of such a character that the Watch Com- mittee would have to consider long and gravely before accepting the risk of incur- ring them. In truth, the prospect opened up by another unfavourable report is so dis- turbing in every sense as to warrant the conclusion that the receipt of a medical cer- tificate complying with the requirements would yield a sense of relief all round.
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One of the most hop&ful signs in the Irish controversy at the present time is the cour- ageous stand against tyranny and unreason made by certain influential Free Churchmen. We are glad to note that the British Weekly," in its cusrent issue, condemns in plain terms the impolicy of attempting to force Home Rule upon the loyal Protestant community of Ulster by the civil war for which many Radical and Labour men are clamouring. The "British Weekly." which is edited by Sir W. Robertson Nicoll-a Liberal knight—expresses the following opinion on the right attitude of Liberalism to the clamour for the subjugation of the Irish loyalists by bloodshed The Star,' quoting our statement of last week, that- If we are not to coerce Protestant Ulster now, we cannot coerce her at the end of six years,' is good enough to describe it as pla- titudinous. Our contemporary goes on to say that the time limit does not mean that Ulster will be coerced into Home Rule at the end of six years, and that 'the Ulster counties, we may be sure, will be as free to choose in 1921 as they are in 1914.' They wall, but that is not the meaning of the six years' limit, as construed by Nationalists. What they mean is that at the end of six years, Protestant Ulster, voting or unwill- ing, shall come under the Dublin Parliament. What we say is that, after their great con- cession of the six years' interval, there is no stopping short of an option when the six years axe ended. Such an option would be in the very best interests of Nationalism. It will give them a fair ohance of wooing and winning Protestant Ulster. whereas, as long as the shadow of possible coercion lin- gers in the air, there will be no approxima- tion, but rather a fiercer hostility. Let the Irish settle the Irieh question. Let no one imagine that the Liberal party in any future will go to the country on the question of the coercion of Ulster having only a comparative handful of Nationalists to support them. For the exclusion of Ulster means its repre enta- jj tion in the House of Commons. j
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It would be prudent, in relation to the relief of the rates promised by the Budget, to curb the temptation to count the chickens foefot* they are liatrke*. The Wtttrp and extent of the relief have not yet been de- fined, and it is clear that these will not be uniform for all areas but will be affected by the peculiar circumstances of each. Besides, past experience of Exchequer promises sug- gests the need of allowing for a generous dis- count. So far as can be judged from the statements in the Hoiuse of Commons a pre- mium is to be placed on local expenditure— as if there was not already a pronounced ten- dency towards excessive spending and a too general failure to discriminate between what ■ is deemed desirable and what is necessary and expedient. If the principle of the more you spend the larger will be the grants in aid is to be introduced, the last condi- tion of the ratepayers is likely to be worse than the first. The relief will be temporary and a stiff price later exacted for it. The effects of the oemplated new sys- tem of valuation have aJso to be ascertained. We know the defects as well as the merits of the present system—which had its origin in Elizabethan times and has been compli- cated since by much tinkering-but the na- ture of its proposed successor has not been disclosed. Except to the extent that the armv of valuers appointed under the Budget of 1910 are to be found -fresh scope for ac- tivities which hitherto have been con- spicuously unremunerative to the nation. In other words control by bureaucra,-N--gat is to say paid offidal&-is to be extended by elbowing out of existence unpaid bodies like the Assessment Committees, overseers and assistant overseers, which, whilst far from perfect, have generally brought local knowledge and common sense to bear upon th" valuation of rateable property. Without prejudging their substitution by individual Government valuers, with powers as yot, undertetrmined, more particularly in respect of restrictions imposed by the property- owners right of appeal, it is obvious that thr real measure of relief for the ratepayers must be affected by the valuation of rate- able properties under the new arrangement. If the assessments go up the fact will have to be taken into account in ascertaining the actual relief yielded by lower rates. Nor must sight be wholly lost of the cir- cumstance that Imperial taxation increased to afford the relief in the rates is. in a large measure, drawn from the persons who. as ratepayers, are to be relieved. So that for many it will be a case of paying out from one pocket to ease the drain on the other. And, finally, since the ultimate effect, of all, increased taxation, howsoever imposed, is to increase the cost of living, some part of the relief must necessarily be more apparent than real.
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The "Pall Mall Gazette" puts in a nut- shell the case for Tariff Reform in its com- ment upon the comparative returns i-ssued by the Government. "The general effect of repregeii-e as compared with stimulating! taxation" (it remarks) "may be seen in the remarkable return issued on Friday, showing how steadily Great Britain falls behind her Protectionist rivals. It presents the per- centage of growth in twemty years for Engr hold, Germany, and the United States in such matters as agriculture, the use of pig- iron and coal, imports and exports, railway goods traffic, and population. There is not a single item in -which this country is not hopelessly outstripped. If Free Trade loses our agriculture, restricts our industry, let.3 our competitors gain on us in trade, and compels ufi to get rid of huge segments of our population, it seems to be a mystery where its advantages as a national policy come in. And ii it 16 claimed that it makes life easier for the working classes, we must ask why they do not stay at home to enjoy it. Why does Labour flee the blessings of Free Trade and hug the tyrannies of Pro- tection? For there is no emigration from Germany, now that she has put Cobdenism behind her."
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I The situation in Mexvco has changed to the disadvantage of President Huerta, and, I consequently, to the advantage of President Woodrow Wilson. by the capture of the oil- fields around Tampico by the so-called Con- stitutionaliste, whose campaign is abetted if not covertly aided by the American Govern- I ment, whose methods have been marked by I barbarities, such as the execution of prisoners, and out.rages such as the levying of blackmail in Tampico, and whose leader, Villa, is suspected of complicity in the mur- I der of a Britisher, and has had a sanguinary career. But Tampico is still a very long way from Mexico City, and President Huerta 'I has been probably in a leini desperate situa- tion than Washington advices represent him. In any event his fall but complicates mat- ters. The American objection to Huerta is I that he gained power by violent and uncon- I' stitutional means. But the Conetitution- I diet" brigands led by Villa are liable to precisely the same objection, and, moreover, the British Government—unless it is pre- pared to sacrifice Mr. Benton on the altar of "Anglo-Saxon" friendship--is bound in I honour to remonstrate strongly against any acceptance of Villa &s a power in the future Mexican Government.
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« I The first week of Lord Howard de WaJ- I den's effort to popularise the drama m I Wales has just concluded at Cardiff, under the patronage of the Chancellor of the Ex- chequer and one or two notable dissenting ministers. It appears to have been a success, albeit we shall be better able to I judge at Swansea whether the production of Welsh plays by Welsh actors will reconcile I' the theatre and the theatre-abjuring portion of the population, who are probably very few at C?rdiS and by no meahs con- spicuously numerous at Swansea. It is non- sense to credit Wajes at large with an aversion to the theatre based upon religious or moral scruples. There is the fact that in the industrial districts, where the bulk of the population is concentrated, theatrical amusements are intensely popular, and foot- ball, for instance, flouriMies like the green bay tree in the face of much overt dissent- ing disapproval. But there is also a large I and well-defined class, strongest in the rural districts that are not in any case possessed of many opportunities for theatre-going, which is still affected and moved by preju- dices that have elsewhere in the community been swamped by a general spirit of pleasure loving. I Welsh dramatic talent and dramas are beaig materially encouraged by this move- ment, and one trusts that it will indirectly J bring about the production of a school of Welsh playwrights. They have in the life of the country stuff at least as abundant as Ibsen 'I I had to hand in the sparse and scattered communities of Norway, and it but remains for the country to produce the necessary I talent to work it up attractively to interest the whole of Britain in Welsh life. That I has been one of the several handicaps in Wales—that the country is, in literature and drama, of so small an appeal to the interest of people beyond the border, and the deficiency is not made good by ephe- meral triumphs in sport that produce a good deal of bad blood and prejudice, incident- 1 ally. _000..
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[ .4.06 raaaiilj £ or ^rattst igaifidi the tin- pioyweijt of "Chinese and Asiatics." i», v is curiously worded upon British ships, held at Swansea, is an interesting symptom of a movement which is now world-wide in scope, and that has produced momentous conse- iquences in Australia. The Cclonials at the [Antipodes have adopted compulsory national service to train an army to defend them- selves against the menace of d the Asiatics, whom they debar from their sborea; Canada. enforces a similar prohibition—even at the expense of British subjects from India, and leaves it to this country to defend her own shores against any retaliation that may be attempted by a modernised Japan or in the future from a regenerated China. The anti-Asiatic prejudice is now being mani- fested closer at home—a campaign artuated by more motives than- one, and capable in I any oase of making serious trouble and mis- chief in the future. The merits of the case apart-and' one instinctively sides with the men of one's own colour against black 01 yeuow--it is quite competent for the Chi- I nese to get even with Western attackers. fhe power of the boycott of goods is per- fectly well understood, not only in China but also in India, and even in Turkey. And ] such a boycott wou!d deal a reeling blow at I?anca?hire were it to be made effectual. For the present, that is a contingency that is remote; but in the future, when the Asiatic nations, Bengali, Chinese, or Jap- < anese. are fully conscious of the restrictions and limitations that the West seeks to im- pofte upon them, it is the British Empire which stands to become the heaviest loser; j and it is the British workman who will per- I serially have to pay his share of the costs of racial antagonism. -1- 1 111 I
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It was very hard lines on a Cwmbwrla landlord, who bought a muzzle for his dog, to lose the animal the first time he put it on. But he didn't mind walking to Treboeth at > ten o'clock at night to bail it out" when 1 ie wa.s informed by the county police that 1/ it had been" locked up" overnight. Advantage is being taken of the absence of the vicar, the Rev. J. H. Watkins-Jones, to push forward with a movement to mark the completion of his twenty-five -VCAI'O' very suc- cessful ministry in Christ Church Parish, ':(1 Swansea. It h" been ascertained that Mr. 'I Jones' wish is not to receive any recognition J i jf a 'financial character, but that the beauti- fu! chancel screen recently put up should serve as a memorial. The idea now is to j j ■ v jor the screen and place 1 on it a suitable inscription, which, in com- j pliance with the desire of the vicar, is to j f-)ear the names also of the clergy who have assisted him during his charge of the parish. An appeal has been issued by the church- | wardens, Mr. F. H. Glyan Price and Mr. j D. H. Morgan, to the members of the con- gregation and the many friends of the Rev. j J. H. Watkins-Jones. j 0 41 0 4- & I "Towyn" disturbed the decorum of the < House by a wild rush to help to save the Government from defeat on the snap divi- sion on Thursday (,wti" ti? Parliamentary < correspondent of the "Western Maii. ") When the division was called the Govern- 1 merit needed nine to secure a majority, and j < Lhev whipped up sufficient just in time. < "Towyn" was discusamg theological proh- j 1 lems with some Congregational brethren 1 outside the House, heedless of his party's peril. A whispered remark from a police- man and he was gcitf-as suddenly and as < unceremoniously as if his coat had caught the toil rope of an air-nwichine. He t.orein 1 a mad flight through the crowds of people i in the outer-hall. They gaaed on in be- I j wilderment, wondering who might be giving I I chase and for what. Through the Lobby the, i Welshrnnn pti?zi-,ing bigger men j cut.ot hi? puth. H? knocked one membci 1,i de'?tt aad verely assaulted two oth?!'? be- j: fere h? ?ot msid?. P? "To?.yn'f." vote i was bkcn, ?cd he W. a 8 the haro of the day. 1 'H':? tte of write for battery have be?n pain- 1 ?D? upon Lim ever sicc? f
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Nice to he Gondoliers this weather. <!<-?-<iX t -<t-  The r< Colts did not bolt at the Coart Leet. They are now knuts." The Lord of the Manor at Swansea at cne time possessed the power of life and death. ..$*" Coun. David Willlan18 says if he were a Beaman he should be a growler. But isn't he T But there <>-0 ♦ » A juryman arrived late at the Swansea Court Loet. The fine was 2s. 6d., but it was not enforced. "A week-end in theike is bow the Carmarthenshire vagrant refers to his "Saturday to Monday." The Duke of Beaufort's-Court Leet dates back many hundreds of years. There are printed copies of the powers and orders of the court extant in 1650 8 The thought of bread cheese and beer-to take the place of the present Swansea Court Leet champagne luncheon made the gueeta yesterday shiver at the prospect. The Court Leet at Swansea, which wae held on Monday, dates hack n-any hundreds of years. Ite original functions were largely those now possessed by assise, sessions and county charts. "The Welsh Sroithfield is the title of an emporium in a Carmarthenshire village. Wales is ambitious to be in the running at any rate, even if !I!e can't do things oa Metropolitan scale. Mr. Ernest Hulley (formerly of tho Grand Theatre, Swansea, orchestra, and eldest son of Mr. W. F. Hulley) is head of an orches- tral quintette party now touring the h,%U& Last, week thay were at the Victorio. Palace, London. > The hay wards of the Court. Leet have 'as one of their duties to preserve the com- mons. They seize stray sheep, keep them ene year, and, it unclaimed, they become the possessors, -giving the Lord of the Manor, the Duke of Beaufort, 2s. 6d. for each. The late Mr. John L. Griffiths, the American Consul.General in London, whoss di,atb was recorded on Monday, will be r", collected jjy all Swansea docksmeQ for the brilliiujt speecn he made ftl the last Cham- \f)l t bstiffrei tut Wefafe at$ix«- tions an £ character. One of the gondoliers had hard work, to keep his balance qa hit N,rge at the Grand Theatre, Swansea, last ight. But, judg- ing by the way the said barge was being carried by the tide, this was not surprising. To have withstood, the strain the gondolier would needs be an equilibrist. Writes a co.rreqpon dent. "It was an in* cident typical of that fair-mindedness which makes tb* British envied of the nations. Not all the. ran tings of the 'hot gospellee brought forth a sheer, nor did his 'singing' raise a laugh fiom the multitudes that passed along I the Mumbles Road on Sunday afternoon." "+-.r "With the Bath and West of England Show herft in Swansea next week," writes "Shopkeeper," "will it avail asking our Corporation officials to take steps to prevent the eyes and noses of the visitors who will nrowd our streets on those days from being, offended by the buckets of garbage which line the main streets at a late hour of the morning, approaching ten o'clock?'' The formation of large tracts of sand on the front at Oystermouth is becoming more apparent every day, and the local children 1 :an often be seen playing where once was thick mud or iashing e, and only a few weeks a.go boys were playing football not far from the lay-up on the Dunns Station side. What » day for the Mumbles when one long treth of sand marks the five miles from pier to pier I The judgment debtor at the Swansea County Court had obtained a new trial, but appeared without the hearing fee. The judge. wpa, lotii to dismiss the matter, and offered to adjourn it on payment of the uosts on the other eide "Lend me four shillings, Will' v,.)u- shouted the man to a pal in court. You shall have it back tonight." The mopey was forthcoming, and the man won his case because the wife bad got the goods after she had been ad- vertised." The Right Hon. Mr. Lloyd George, Chan- cellor of the ..Exchequer,. on Sunday last motored through the Wye Valley, Chep- stow and Tifttern, and back to Cardiff, later proceeding with friends by oar to London. Ind not a sound echoes through the Taber- -laoles. But because Bill Sloggin, of the Doc, takes his missus and kids to the Vlumbles on Sunday and incidentally regales limself with a glass or two, he is denounoed irom pulpit., and platform as a Sabbath- jreaking, pleasure-seeking, besotted repro- jate.—("Prospero.") The late Capt. Tanner, of the Swansea pilot outter, once told a good pilot story. It appears that an American full-rigged ship, )ound to QueenBtown for orders, shipped an Irish pilot. Haul down the flying jib," ordered Mikiy an soon as he stepped on joard. Oh, no," answered the captain, we don't shorten sail like that; I guess we 3o everything all at once. Very well," answered Mike. All hands ^>n deck, ia :.hree royals, in three top-gallant sails, lower lown three topsails, haul up three courses, iown jibs and stavsails, in with the spanker, tet go the starboard anchor, and out with the port quarter buajt 1 1" The Mayor^ speaking at the annual dinner A the Brynmill Athletic. Association F.C., ;poke for some time upon the value of foofc- !)al! in teaching men to keep their tamper, md went on "I saw the Rev. Alban Davies play one day—I think it waft at Cardiff. I iva* watching him from the stand, and o fellow treated him very badly, but the Rev. \ibau Davies did not say anything, although ie felt it, I am ■sureperhaps I could have *aid it for hiiu (Laughter.) However, I .bought to myælf. '-Tbat fellow has learned ;0 restyant himself ir adverse circumstances.' Ft is a good thing for young men to do the same-