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The narrow-minded and intolerant- (spirit exhibited by the Welsh Insutanco Commis- sioners in their v.iterpretation í the powers conferred upon them by the Act was alluded to at the annual conference of the West Gla- morgan and Carmarthenshire English Bap- tist Association on Wednesday, when a re- solution was carried supporting the Commis- sioners' decision to stand by their prohibi- tion of approved societies meeting on licensed premises, and deprecating the hos- tility evinced by the Oddfellows, who at their annual conference strongly protested against the Commissioners' order. The facts that a body of men conspicuously identified with thrift and good works have for many years been in the habit of fore- gathering at pubiic-houses, and that many of their societies were founded in such places and have for very many years been carried on there, prove that the public-house is am institution perfectly compatible with goud citizenship and character. J he argu- ment of some people appears to be that it is desirable to strip it of an such claims to consideration, and that it is commendable to treat as not respectable places that have xliidicated their claim to respectability in a Reasonably convincing manner. Apart from th(; natural indignation of licensed victual- lers, some of whom have in addition a senti- mental antipathy to the rupture of an asso- ciation with one society or another that has k?i!,cl ure d fol? endured for a loirr space of time, the Odd- fellows are thenhehe, indignant, impotent as yet, for in these matters a handful of folk of extreme views entrenched in the tactical key to the situation wield a power dispro- portionate to their numbers. The Commissioners, in issuing this pro- hibition. have blundered signally. It puts a personal affront upon every friendiy society man it runs counter to the experience that kas been manifested for years past; it is offensive and injurious to a class of trades- man who are perfectelv entitled to respect; and it assumes a most lofty and superior attitude upon the part of these expensive officials, who set their personal notions of pro- priety above those of tens of thousands of l>t;¡/,Ië who are as well fitted to judge these matters for themselves any bureaucrat. The episod e illustrates what may be ex- pected when further "democratic legisla- tion -still further drills, classifies and orders lwoplè, ordains what they shall eat, drink, where they ha II spend their leisure and how, and in fine reduces them to a lower. level in point of freedom and responsibility than the children, who are at least nowadays j rmitted a wide liberty of action, It 'b I *,Lte(l ;I wide (?f ).Cti?C)tl. It !n-? j.DfJ:it: ?-har«?t?r tkaA mak< dividual satisfaction with its benefits in \01- lective resentroetit of the disabilities it im- noses, or that are imposed by people paid ky the public to be their servants, but who take upon tJ¡2meJvcs an obnoxious and Ill,miliatilig censorship of the morals of their paymasters and employers. And the whole tiend of legislation is in the direction of multiplying this army of men, who may be guxl but ?v h o at-e illtol.erable Yria.S- Kood servants, but who are intolerable mas-
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Mr. Samuel Storey, who is typical of a large class of North County Radicals of the older school, puts a question to a member of the Government in which he requires en- lightenment. He points out that the Ulster- men at present may he, in point of Parlia- mentary representation, a fraction of the House of Commons, but are at least a por- tion of a party that occasionally governs the country, and do consequently enjoy from time to time a voice in the Government. But under Home Rule they have no prospect of ever becoming anything but a hopeless and permanent minority. He asks how the Welsh people would hke in similar fashion to have their representatives in the Imper- inl Parliament withdrawn and themselves to be placed under tSie domination of another people, whom they detested, and from whom they were divided by a traditional feud, by irreconcilab le differences of religion, his- tory, sentiment, ideals and character. In such circumstances one can well imagine the Chancellor organising another Welsh revolt of a more serious nature than the starving of schools—a. policy adopted by men who boasted their Icountry's zeal and sacrifices for education cu other occasions. There is no parallel to Ulster, but-Mr. Storey's ques- tion puts in a pointed form a constitutional find democratic principle of the first im- portance, and suggeds the reason that tends to justify the armed movement in Ulster as a policy seeking to maintain and vindicate liberty against the attack and abuse of a. transient Parliamentary majority.
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j The weAk has witnessed a financial muddle over the Budget of 1914 of the first magni-, tude. The haphazard spirit and levity with which the Chancellor juggles with the prin- I ciples of sound finance and good constitu- tionalism moved too much even for members of a pa-rty that is exceptionally subservient to its leaders and patient with their caprices and mismanagement. As a result of the revolt of Mr. Holt and his supporters, who are understood to represent the financial element that bulks so largely upon the Liberal benches, the Budget is to be split in two, the second portion comprising the new grants to local authorities which were to 'have bean the features of the contused and rambling proposals introduced by the Chan- celJor and intended by him to pass into force this season. Only the education grants to *j«ce.3*itous areas and for the feeding of chil- dren are to be operative in the present year, 4tnd as a result of so much money not being ^quired, a penny is to be knocked off the "cone-tax and the money already paid in excess refunded. The general expectation ?hat, in view of the jaded and debilitated edition of Parliament as a whole, the vast scheme of pouring out milli<ms 'Of ahonal money for the relief, to a greater  less extent, of local authorities, will be d p? ??d t-o next year, when there wilj'be a in addItJon-ll1volvmg the ex- b austive ?"? exhausting discussion of an ab- se subject devoid of human interest. THiSa)6 extent of the Chancellor's pro- j po:e full e,taut of the Chancellor' s pro- Tx" ?', -II (?llil,d on]y b&c"me apparent after de?n II y  Ilt,d?,- ?" e?ect they amounted to the ea,-Ctilig ? Htost drast;c changes in the en- re oca.l self-governing machinery of the <:OUl1trv h 0 ? ?') cha?ng-as to be made not overtly, < under the screen of financial proposals. d al lanl\'nt ?? in the frst Pla,oe to be in- du?ce?d m a moment of hypnotism to consent ? Ch viRious principle of permitting a whel'r tl) raioo monev fo) purposes ?ho?ic?h ? ? bad not yet lega!isednpowel' ..n, ? ?"er words, to exercise the p"i- .e of an unconstrained and arbitrary ??'s? ?o"ot? ic ?wer, tt?t does what seems good in its own eyes-and. further, to place the entire local administration of the country > a grave degree in subjection to the same Minister. YV ith the Chancellor initiating and financing legislation of the first import- ance, touching national life most closely, raising money for any purpose he thinks fit to spend it upon, and master of the purse of the municipal bodies of the country as well--dict.ating to them what, they shaii do •v.- refrain from doing, the opinion would speedily become general that this high digni- tary needed his cla.ws clipped, and a salutary humbling of his authority. Such power as this is good for no man, and defensible by no argument that. is recognised as valid und3r. a system which reposes decisive power in the people. Fear the Greeks when they bring gifts," is one of the proverbs of the wisdom of an- tiquity. It may be applied to the Chancel- lor's finance. If anybody voted for Part IV. (the local grants in aid) under the im pression that he was voting for the relief of rates he would find himself sold," said Mr. Holt himself. Mr. Holt, in the role of candid friend, continued that he did not criticise bhe outlay upon Social Reforms, but it had cost a very great deal more than Ministers had been led to believe they would cost. The Chancellor's prospects are open to criticism on the score of general pohcy and on that of financial policy. When there is persistent and a most heavy miscalculation of their cost, it argues an in- capacity for accuracy which is one of the hrst essentials in the en dowment of a ChlHl- chellor. When there is in addition the con- version of the Treasury into one of the most profusely extravagant of departments; the aggrandisement of power by the holder of the Chancellorship to a degree that repre- sents a constitutional danger; and a con- tinuous disregard of the principles and cus- toms that financiers and business men find it obligatory to respect in .their own business, the most sluggish and cold-blooded of Min- isterialists is moved in turn to action. A French journal, it may be added, com- ments upon the proposed grants in aid that they would be useful to the Government of the day or discriminating in favour of bor- oughs whose political complexion is agree- able, and that the grants may be converted auto a great engine for "making the elec- tions." The danger is lessened by the curi- ous division which exists m this countrv between tax and ratepayers-the former in- different to errors that involve millions of expenditure more than was expected the latter a great deal more sensitive to aug- mented expenditure. But the peril exists. and many recent episodes have well-nigh ruined faith in the political integrity of the present Ministerialists. The decline in the Government majority of Thursday night to 38, and the dissensions openly revealed on the Ministerial benches, indicate that there is an 2iid even to Liberal complaisance. -1. World affairs have entered temporarily upon a period of lassitude, though in the New World, as in the Old „ it Jill& be ti3,4 precursor of MNrcnte- both tragic and momentous. Mr. Roosevelt has chosen this opportune moment for a re-emergence into the political limelight in a fashion that indi- cates a. renewed intention to contest the United States Presidency in the future. Fresh from a characteristically strenuous "holiday" in the steaming jungles of Brazil, a vacation crowded with moving incidents by flood and tield." with encounters with river rapids, the perils of the wilderness with u.s wild animals and wilder men, with hun- ger and 'fatigue, he fought a geographical controversy defending the existence, or at kast the novelty, of a thousand miles long river that he came across in the capacious interior of South America. Having de- molished rival travellers who professed in- credulity and avowed they knew the river by another name, he plunges forthwith upon his arrival in the United States in the vortex of American politics. He commenced this week with an on- fl.'ught upon the policy of Preside at W oodrow Wilson, typically vigorous in character. First he fell foul of the American Treaty that is now before Congress voting five million pounds to Colombia as. compensation for the territory taken from her in the regime cf Mr. Roose- velt in the guise of a revolt of the State of Panama'"—a puppet creation to which Wash- ington was believed at the time to have been privy. Besides the money, President Wilson expresses regret at the harsh arbitrariness of the rupture between Panama and Col- umbia. Mr. Wilson thus strives to make amends to a weak little country for an act committed by a strong, big State which causes the latter's present ruler qualms of conscience. Mr. Roosevelt terms the Bill "merely a belated payment of blackmail, with an apology to the blackmailer." He defends his own abruptness in dealing with the acquisition of the territory for the Panama Canal by an argument that the pro- crastination of the Colombian executive might have made for an indefinite delay. He proceeds to characterise Mr. Wilson's policy in regard to Mexico as a course of wavering between peace and war, exquisitely designed to combine the disadvantages of both. U usually it has permitted the free in- gress of arms into Mexico, both from our country and from others. Occasionally, however, it has undergone spasms of un- derstanding that these arms might ulti- mately be used against our own troops; then it has prohibited the landing of arms." Mr. Wilson's Mexican policy has been of a na- ture that renders it very difficult to follow or understand, and its most serious feature ha.s been the partiality repeatedly shown for the party in which (General Villa is dominant—a faction typifying the brutal violence and lawlessness that Mr Wilson seeks to purge from Mexico. But Americans may lesent Mr. Roosevelt's at- | tack, upon the ground that when horses are i) mid-stream it is not the time for C'riti. cising horsemanship. But much depends upon the course of events in Mexico whe- ther he will not eventually triumph, through the temporary pacification of the troubled State by the bdication of Huerta, who has in many ways smoothed the path for Mr. Bryan's diplomacy. Mr. WTilson has, however, reached a critical stage in his fortunes. The present President has little personal popularity to support him he is enigmatic, cold, aloof, or at least that is the reputation ascribed to him. He has compelled respect as a still, strong man, in a Janet where politicians are apt to be blatant, and by his achievements in the revision of the tariff and the currency lawr,-ttio latter achievement of much morq moment to an American than it would he to a British electorate. But a decline in trade, for which the tariff revision is blamed, and the Pyrrhic triumph in the repeal of the law authorising discrimination in the Panama Canal tolls—a repeal forced through the Congress nd Senate against heavy odds —have weakened his authority. It remains to be seen whether Mexico will complete the process at undermining or xestore his crsdit. .t Mr. Wilson has -iilied the. New World with the Old by authorising the sale of the Idaho and the Mississippi, two fairly mod- ern battleships, to the Greek Government. it is an act that is daring and unconven- tional from the diplomatic: standpoint, in view of the circumstances of the purchase. The Turkish settlers who have been harried and driven out of Thrace into Asia Minor appear to have been visiting their ill-treat- me.nt and wrongs upon the heads of the GTeek colonists who have tenanted the sea- board regions of that territory for ages be- fore the Turk ever swarmed to the shores f)i the Ægean and Levant. There has been a greater or less taut Government connivance, nnd a certain amount of murder, outrage and looting. It is much what is occurring throughout the Balkans, Bulgarian ?l' Serv- ¡ ians and Greeks being all engaged in the task of nakir.g life unbearable to the numer- ous peoples of differing nationality who have ¡ been incorporated within their domains by the Treaty of Bucharest. The Greek pro- test is due to the fact that by August the I; Turkish fleet will possess two super-Dread- noughts of the most powerful type. As against these the Greeks can dispose of a. solitary armoured cruiser that is in no way fit to stand up against the broadsides of 121 and 13.5-inch artillery. It is manifestly to the Greek interest to act within the next few weeks or never. The acquisition of the American battleships, by conferring an evanescent local superiority on sea upon the Greeks, may wel; Jiting the.crisis to a head ■ Whilst Greece is incurring relatively vast financial burdens, rendered possible only by the patriotism. sacrifice, and wealth of her brainy and active mercantile classes, who are rapidly building up a mercantile marina, with which British shipowners to- day to the Mediterranean will have seriously to reckon, Albania upon her northern bor- ders is in a condition of anarchy. Prince WiUiain of Wied has displayed hitherto very i little decision of character, and the newest European throne is tottering to its downfall. A revolt, instigated, it is .believed, by Turk- ish agitators, has spread so rapidly that the malarious village of Durazzo-the Roman Dyrrha.chum, in its day one of the greatest points of transit in the ancient world—has been invested, and the half-hearted allies of the Prince, bent more upon plunder than upon fighting-, have been driven back dr I dip-ered by the insurgents. Italy and Aus- ti-ia, "I interest in Albania is predomin- antly strategical, play with the unhappy country and its turb-alent and incoherent clans as a pawn in a masked diplomatic struggle; the upshot is lessened Ït1 interest I for Europe at iarge by a general consent upon the part of the component potions of the Concert that has temporarily di?olved partnergiup. that the Balkans c?n be the direct pretext for no struggle that may set British,. French, German and Russian forces upon the move. j In the Baltic there has been a series of naval demonstrations of a happier character, j British battleships and cruisers have been the recipients of Danish hospitality at Copenhagen, Oerrnan ;,itt Kiel- and ,at,.Si..Peters burg. The German visit M caB- j siderably the most interesting. The latest battleships of the British and German fleets lie side by side in. the clear, green waters of the beautiful harbour, singularly reminis- cent of the low green shores of the Isle of Wight, with its tree embowered villas and low cliffs. There have been visits of cere- mony, sports—in which the British seamen found they had met remarkably proficient adversaries—dinners and a great deal of fraternising that. was facilitated by toe j general diffusion of a, knowledge of English amongst German seamen. Considered as a display of professional good-fellowship, the Kiel visit appears to have been a complete success. The British and the German navies have, as a matter of fact, more in common than any others; Kiel, in the heart of Schleswig-Holstein, is in many ways a place where an Englishman may feel at heme, for was it not from this district that the ancestors of the Angles, who gave their names to the English, went raiding across I the North Sea. to the island where they ul- timately settled? There is no bftd "blood between seamen, and in all armies and navies there is a pro- fessional kinship that assures a mutual cour- tesy and respect. Friendly encounters of i the nature of that at Kiel do not possess ) in consequence much significance irrespec- tive of the political situation at tho time that they occur. An Anglo-German rap- prochement nnds one of its principal obstacles in this lack of a mutual sense of past illwill that has been dissipated by a warm and friendly feeling. In the seven- teenth century there was, it is true, a com- radeship in arms with Prussia, when from motives of policy Frederick the Great was aided by arms and subsidies in his conflict against Russia, France, Austria and Sweden, that was in many ways the sternest of national ordeals. But in the nineteenth the French and Russians were the figures that impressed the imagination of the British I¡ public, and it is but within the past decade that the significance of the power of the unified Germany, aggressive and ambitious, wealthy and well armed, is sinking in. The tension of diplomacy may slacken or tauten, there may be visits, speeches and demonstra- tions galore. But the concrete facts of the existence of a most powerful and formidable German Navy, backed by military forces that are individually the most redoubtable in the world, or in authentic history, remain, and we are compelled to pay practical heed to their import. It is fortunate for the Triple Entente that a period of relaxation has supervened, when two at least of the three Powers are pre- occupied with domestic anxieties, France has at last secured a iwpoiisible Govern- ment. but the opponents of the three 'years' service are predominant, and despite the un- equivocal declarations of the Premier, M. Viviani, that it cannot be tampered with, there are symptoms of the recrudescence of the. internal intrigues that made the French Army from 1897 onwards a theatre for a con- iflict that divided the officers into hostile camps. Nor must the meaning of certai,, statistics be overlooked. It has just been disclosed that in 1913 the number of births, nearly a million from i872-?5, has declined to less than three-quarters of a million, and the year before the excess of births over deaths was but 15 per 1,000, whilst in Italy it was 140, and in Germany 127. More power means also wealth creating power, and the Italians, like the French, industri- ous, frugal, gifted, are steadily challenging in pol-)ulatioii the Ms of France to primacy amongst t V, Latin Powers, and par- ticularly to predominance i 11 the Mediterran- ean. And in Britain a Government, bereft of vitality, dawdles in office, regarding with unconcern and lethargy the imminent peril of the Irish situation; two great- armies of a fighting people, the one hot- headed, the other dourly resolute, in prox- imity, with the daily chance of an incident that may precipitate an explosion. It is a scathing commentary upon the industry and | eloquence of the advocates of internat-iona.1 peace that it should be possible to hring I about. so easily the danger of a strife that shouiri, of all forms of struggle, be the -ir.vt eay to. avoid, if there were truth in their conten- tions that men are abhorrent of bloodshed. Civil War in the Umited Kingdom would have seemed but fi-ve"yeir- ago a fantastic and crazy idea thfe grotesquest of improba- bilities. Few things have been found easier of accomplishment than the process, with its air of smooth and deadly inevitability, that has brought thi-s unnatural danger to our doors.
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No trades unionist with th<> intelligence to realise wbtt consjatutf* tho strength and the weakness of. ^j^aiiised labour can fail to regret the strike at the Mannesma.nri, and sympathise with the leaders who have been striving to undo the mischief of an ill- advised step Wititout entering into the merits of the grievances alleged by the strikers—and it is generally prudent to allow those to be diftnisised by the parties directly ooncerncd —the onlooker is war- ranted in deploring the scant respevt shown for agreements entered into and the d j- pisition to cast asid^the instrument of con- ciliation which ha?> well served el11- ployers and omplby^S alike during the past seventeen years. For every agreement violated renders more difficult the making of another, and if in good tim-es freedom from contracts may tem- porarilv .seem to offer an advantag e to the wage-earner, it is obtain that the latter ■would ultimately he/the principal loser by the. a bsence of agc$ £ aients and the conse- quent ability posse^led by both sides alike to "down tools disniiss bodies of men at a moment's notice. ■ Under such condi- tions industries would languish r.ud decay. the orders passing ti more happily situated countries, and the toiler would never be sure of a. week's pay adequate to satisfy the requirements of hisfmily. If the sanctity of the contract is TIm., restored in the United Kingdom, dismal will become its prospects in competing with rivals, every year prov- ing more formidable.
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I The assassination of the Archduke of Austria and his wife in the streets cf the Bos- nian capital is.an event which on ib human side adds a fresh aid terrible example of the misfortunes which have persistently dogged the Hapsburg family in modern time3. Francis Joseph, the aged Em- peror, has survived to witness a most appall- ing sequence of domestic tragedies. His wife, the Empress, wax murdered; his eldest son disappeared years a&o and was last heard of as tht mate on a sailing ship; the second son was found dead in a park, believed to have fallen the victim to an enraged father, with whose daughter he was alleged to have-an intrigue. And now the nephew, the diiett heir to the throne of the Hapsburgs, has -fallen to Sclavonic hatred of Austria and its rulers. Xot wit,hont rca- son has Francis Joseph been described as the most afflicted of pen and unhappiest of monarchs.. T  t \í.- --t..v.t"'k' Th? i • tte ■ Arghlftke—: j obviously the result of a plot, since the first attempt, foiled, was soon after followed by another which unhappily succeeded—is of profound importance to Europe and, indeed, the world. For the thrones of Austria and Hungary are occupied by a man so old and of such precarious health that the end of an eventful life, surcharged with sorrow, may come at any moment, with all the direct heirs trained for filling the exalted office swept away. When t ie. anarchists so-aght to destroy the King of Spain en his wedding day it was in the expectation that the right of succession to the throne would by his death he made so confused as tc facilitate- the overthrow of the monarchial system and the consequent triumph of disorder. It is prob- able that the assassins of the Austrian Arch- duke acted under the influence cf racial hatred rather than considerations of policy. Nevertheless, the effect of their work is greatly to accentuate the perils to European peace now. and especially when the hand of the aged Emperor is withdrawn frcm the helm of the most buffetted of ships of State.
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In hi.3 speech in the debate upon Mr. 1 Hayes Fisher's Amendment to the Finance Bill in the House of Commons, Mr. Bonar Law made a damaging contrast of the past expressions and present policy of Ministers He reminded the House of the fact that 1), fore the General Election of 1906 "no charge was more frequently made against the Unionist Government than that of extrava- gance. On this subject Mr. Asquith said in one of his speeches "The vicious system of extravagant finance if ,not to be measured by the money it takes out of your pockets and mine. It is a burden which presses on the springs of industry, because, if people had to pay so much every year more than they used to have to pay to the Exchequer. to that extent there is'less monev free as capital for the employment of labour, there is less money free in the ordinary house- hold "for the purchase of commodities, even of necessities, so that in every direction this system is injurious to the people." That. as Mr. Bonar Law pointed out, was the old Liberalism. Ten years ago Mr. Winston Churchill made an attack upon the Unionist Government, in the course of which he declared that: "Extravagant fin- ance was written on the head of their in- dictment, and it would be written on the head of their tombstone. The Government had found in the spending of money an easy solution for almost every Parliamentary evil and electoral difficulty, and it had in- dulged in aljrtost every conceivable financial irregularity. And, when he was in Opposition, Mr. Lloyd George said that eor g e said that "Chancellors of the Exc.<eqiujr were, after all, very human. The. old tradition oïGhalJ- cellors of the Exchequer was' to reduce taxation. The line of the new Chancellor of the Exchequer was to sa^ 'Look at my term of office My predecessor put on £ 5,000,000. I will put on £ 15,000,000. My little finger shall be thicker than his loins.' That was their claim to ir;mortality. | But even the vivid imagination of the Chancellor of the Exchequer was not equal to a forecast of his own potentialities. The increase that has occurred during his tenure of office is not £ 15,000,000 but £ 50.000,000, and, to quote Mr. Bonar Law "W7ith the Chancellor of the Exchequer ext-ravagance is not merely an accident. It is a prin- ciple. Not content with carrying it out at j the Treasury over which lie has control, he is trying to force it on the local authorities over whom he has no control. The m(mber for Hexham (Mr. R. D. Holt, L.) said that if the local authorities thought they were going to get any additional relief they were fooled. They will be easily fooled if they are. for the Chancellor of the Exchequer has made it plain that the use he intends to make of the grants he is giving is to compel the treasurers of local authorities to follow his example and cure every difficulty by pouring out money like water." I in his effective indictment of Lioyd George I -ri iaiici, Mr. Bonar Ijaw; pointed to the fact that at the time Mr. George took office "Consols stood at 87; they are now at 74 .a fall of 13 points. In the same time, although Germany has built up a navy, partly out of borrowed money while we not been borrowing, the national security of Germany has only fallen five points." The fall of 13 points in what in time of war would be our greatest national security is Mr. Llovd George's contribution to the well- being of the country. Comineritin, upon the Budget muddle. the "Morning Post" remarks: "As late as Saturday, June 20th. Mr. Lloyd George was still fighting desperately the millionaires of his own side. He divided the whole class of rich men into glood millionaires, who ap- proved of his two, Budgets, and bad mil- ?13u d ,,ets an d bad iiil l lionaires, who did not approve of them. The former were 'worth all their luck' the latter were 'mean and egotistical rich men' who 'growled and snarled and bit when ther could.' They were not, however, to he al- lowed to interfere with the 'great forward movement towards the dawn' which was going to take plice owing to the Finance Bill. We might say in passing that miuy good people were no de-uht surprised and disappointed that-in the opinion of i-i) hope- I ful a calculator of celestial chronometry we had not yet reached the dawn—after all that Mr Lloyd George has done to push it forward. 'The dawn.' to our certain knowledge, has been heralded with confidence by the Radi- cal chanticleer with every new measure that the present Government has introduced. There have been so many dawns about to break that people may be excused for get- ting a little sceptical on the whole subject when, after all these Radical reveilles, they are at last told that the movement towards the dawn is only begun. No doubt the true dawn will come when the income tax stands at 20s. in the JB: until then we must con- tent ourselves with such auroral illumina- tions as the Insurance Act, Form IV.. and Clause T. of the Revenue Bill." <- Sir Edward Carson makes the following important statement with regard to the Bill to Amend the Home Rule Bill in the July number of "Our Flag" — "I wish I could express the view that the Home Rule Amending Bill introduced -in the House of Lords on June 23 Eliows a real desire on the part of the Government to avert the dis- aster of placing the Home Rule Bill on the Statute Book. But, on the contrary, it really demonstrates that- no progress has been made in that direction fince larch 9 last. It i, j he old offer which I described as a hypo. itical sham, and which was only allowed to be offered to us because it was j known Ave could not possibly accept it. Moreover, the Bill demonstrates that during all tll -se months no progress has been made by the Government in the framing of the details for the separate government of lTl, ster; and it is somewhat ludicrous. to pro- viao that Ulster appaiently is to accept any administration that the Lord Lieutenant, who will be subject to the advice of Dublin Ministers, desires to set np. The whole idling shows in every line a policy of drift. :I-,i,i it looks to me as if there was to be no c fiort of statesmanship to solve the present situation. The time is fast approaching whan v&c. muse Look all nivAi i; Britain who realise the unselfish fight that Ulster is makmg tu keep her place in the > United Kingdom, and to give us not iroieiy their sympathy but their active and deter- I mined support. We appeal to them in the name of loyalty and British honour to see us through in the fight, which is as much on their behalf as it is on our own." If is increasingly, evident that the rea) purpose which the Amending Bill has been devised to serve is not that of securing a just settlement of the Irish crisis, but that of attempting to force the House of Lords into a: position that can be misrepresented by Ministeriaiirsts. The secret plan consists of (1) Giving the House of Lords a task in which they cannot b" successful since Mr. Redmond will force the Government to re- ject any amendments to the Amendiug Bill that will satisfy the demnnds of Ulster and ] t er an d avert civil strilc. (2) Misrepresenting the amending action cf the Peers as the gross misuse of a great and magnanimous Minis- terial offer and falsely declaring that the failure to arrive at a peaceful settlement is due not to the Government but to the ex- acting arrogance of the Upper Chamber. The Amending Bill is "a trick Bill," and little can be hoped from it. The only ef- fectual solution of the increasingly grave crisis in which the nation is involved by the unauthorised Irish policy of the Govern- ment is the relegation of the whole issue to the judgment of the electors. "The Times" has appropriately described the "hypocritical sham" Amending Bill as "a phantasm, [I, shadow, a thing without substance." It provides no effective ma- chinery for administering a temporarily ex- cluded Ulster it does nothing to solve the important questions of control of the Cus- toms and the Post Office; it puts a town in Ireland under a Home Rule Government, and its suburbs under the Imperial Govern- ment, and in spite of the condemnation of the plan of automatic, inclusion of Ulster at the "nd of six years by eminent Noncon- formist supporters of the Government, who have pointed ou.t that if it is wrong and unwise to coerce Ulster to-day it will be equally wrong and unwise in six years' time. the Bill provides for automatic inclu- sion. In a hundred and one ways the measure is manifestly nothing more than a pretence at dealing with, sin exceedingly perilous situa- tion. It has fully justified the condemna- tory description of it. given by Sir Edward Carson and will do nothing to shake the irrevocable resolve of the artisans, labour- ers, farm wotk'ers, merchants, farmers, and manufacturers of Ulster t(, maintain at all costs the conscientious resistance into which they have entered. In respect, of the Bill the iir>vse of Lords cau be relied upon to do its duty by the nation, without f.'1r or fa- vour, but the responsibility for the ultimate situation u not tncirs. It remains wholly with Lie Government, and unless M;"listers, with or without tiie permission of Mr. Red- mond. either submit the whole question to the px)ple or MBKI an eleventh-hour attempt honestly to avert the worst consequences of their conspiracy with ttye enemies of Britain, the war-clouds wu! burst with devastating' effect over »he whole kingdom. j
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"Change, the premier play in the reper-j toire of the Welsh National Drama Com- pany, came, was seen, and conquered at j Swansea. There could be no mistake re- the verdict of an audience in a j measure composed of people disposed to look upon the drama as a fearsome thing, to the fascinations of which it were prudent not to yield too readily. But the: in com- j mon with habitual theatre-goers, found the appeal of "Change" practically irresistible, its humouT droll and unexpected, its witwlom palpable ajid engaging, its pa.thos 1>> poig- j nant and penetrating as to leave the impres- sion that the sadness was too profound for a popular entertainment. Like the old Greek drama, "Change" mirrors phases of human" existence with relentless, uncompromising' fidelity, inducing a recoil from the suffer- ing revealed, the martyrdom of the inuoce-ut and the earnest. It would bo easy to convict "Change" of conspicuous defects as an example of the dramatic art. The characters are didactive and talk roo much ;;d- do too lutie. and the action appears to move so imperceptibly as to suggest to the superficial glance an a b sence of progress. There is only one scene and, apparently, only a continuous series of meals, or preparations for them. In this I respect there is a simplicity verging on ab- solute erudenoss. The theme, too. is con- cerned with th, commonplace—the diverts •' encies of view eff ected by time. (,. and environment in the* home life of a col- lier's family not, dissimilar from t housands to he found to-day in our coal valleys. The one external event imported to round off the story—the death under fire at a strike riot of one of the characters—only deepens the gloom of one of the silent tragedies, which convincing because so ordinary and nat- urrl at. a transitional state of the develop- ment of Wales. It was the fidelity of the picture of the tragedy interwoven with life as lived by to be encountered everywhere and any day in industrial Wales that gripped t.hp heart and hrought the tears to the eye, and called up laughter as a necessary relief to over- ¡ wrought emotions. I Change ? the product of a thinker. a close observer and a natural artist with t he I eve to see and the skill to delineate the most elusive of things, the intellectual and spiritual development of a people. Its very crudoiieos is a sourc e of strength in the same sense that the bold use of cardinal colours lends conviction to the works of Japanese; painters. In both instances there is the same approach to the real, which a more elaborate and orthodox treatment is apt to le+ard. (hCll Price." the embodiment of the maternal instinct—pointing steGdily to the magnet of human love for its offspring under any ana every condhi, '1)- represents an element of stability that lias persisted through the ages in all V.limes a.nd amongst all races. The 'ologie:; of the typical Prices trom generation-to generation may rage and war, but they beat in vain against the impregnable rock of motherhood. ¡ But in the conflict between th? old ideas and I th£ new. producing countless tragedies that ?&<:? nn)!oLiced and unchroniclsd in humble and other homes—"M i lestones" has plo- | quentlv suggested them to English-speaking peoples—there are involved not only bruistd hearts for non-combatants, but also broken hopes, disillusionment and the shaking of old-established beliefs for those in the firing line. In" Change. you have depicted the tragedy of the clash between the narrow un- yielding. but. wholly sincere faith of John > Price." held four-square against every wind that blows, and the less ecur.ely anchored faiths of a younger and better informed i generation, and the consequent tearing of family ties, with the mother always as the chief sufferer, receiving blows from all sides, but immovable from her moorings fixed by the strongest and most primitive of instincts. Lewis, symbolising the fermentation of thought, in the industrial sphere: John "'Honry ■> ChSt t-hc srwri^.) ], with Gwtiyrh' physically afflicted, as the eon- j .ciliator ever striving to adjust differences, are types that occur ratd recur in life as I lived nowadays in Wales and elsewhere. For the phenomena responsible for them peculiar to no corn&r of the earth they pre- vail throughout the civilised world. j Change," properly contemplated, is thought-provoking; in a rough sort, of way it goes to the very core of things, and, in- cidentally, touches the heart-strings. The Welsh National Drama Movement can with confidence staifd or fall by it as an expres- i sion in dramatic form of the ideas germinating in the minds of the thinkers who uncon- sciously are shaping the destinies of Wales and the Welsh. It is a pioneer eifort with the defects inseparable from s^ch, but it blazes a path for the guidance of successors I to higher altitudes. And it is sincere, COUl'-1 ageous and trne. Not le?s significant than the aptitude of the author to depict life is the capacity of mainly unprofessional actors I I and actresses to interpret and visualise his l story-a fact denoting the innate dramatic powers of the Kelt. The rugged and obstinate "John Price"of ",Tr. David M''reran the Sam Thatcher"' of ATi,. Gwilvm Phillips (whose Cockneyism was I :so aggressive and true as to render almost | unbelievable the fact that the interpreter was the son of Cochyn Bach, a famous I 'Vd choir ?onductor. and not an imported !aH<;n"); the "Twm PoweH" of Mr. G. Jones, and the "Gwen Price" of Miss Rhys 'marNd somewhat by an enunciation whh could with advantage be made less.sing-song, were outstanding eaples of clever at- ing. Tb dcct1.maLon of Mr. T. C. Wil- liams, as "Lewis Price," was splendid in Mparts, but suffered from being pitched ere- scendo throughout. And the gestures in I the closing scene N,,ii,,(,dlon the me lodra- • inatie.. Tanad Powell, as Gwilymj" and Mr. David Hughes as John Henry were most convincing. And. taken all in I Change" is a play that no lover of j Wales can afford to miss.
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There is mourning in Petticoat-lane, and the Iraw^i bliiid; iii th-a windows over the gaudy stalls are l'ymbols of regret for the | passing of the "Kosher King." Mr. Emanuel Barnett, the Jewish super-butcher, who d'led at his residence, The Poplars, Finsbury Park. was one of the best-known figures in the East End. From a little shop | in Houndsditch. which he opened fifty, years ago he had developed an enormous organisation for the supply of Kosher food to the London Jews, and supplied not only the orthodox poor, but the orthodox rich with meat and poultry killed ac.-ord' -g to the requirements of the Hebrew code. M any Swansea people waited until after I midnight, on Saturday to learn the result of the. Johnson v. M or an match in Paris. This brought confusion on 4.11 the, pundits who were agreed in predicting that Moran would be knocked out in the course of the first few rounds—or if he toiled the "terrible black" in the early stages would, oh account of his youth. win in the test of endurance. JVIoran .?vas not knocked out. but vent the whole distance, and yet Johnson won. The pb?-- sique o? the latter must be wonderful, taking into account his age and the liberties he has taken with htinself in recent years. The Swansea cricket match at I Newport wili long be remembered for a number of .unusual incidents. First of all Swansea dis- posed of Newport for 55 runs, and eventuallv won a capita] victory-—the first for eight, seasons—against- the. Usksidtis. In this game Creber bowled Silverlock with the first I ball of the match. Later on Creber sent down a ball which hit F. Jones's wicket. but did not remove the bail. Then Max-I well, with one of his expresses," hit Jones s wicket a?ain, and ?nt the bail i ciM? up in th" aIr, but the baJJ Game down J and ludglm on ts socket on top of the j wicket in its pioper position, and Jones I could not b-» given out Practically speak .1 irtg, Jones was bowled three times before j he was out. and his experience must be unique
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Cockett parish docs not figure in the lirt. i t aiew J.P. "What's the reason?" asks a correspondent. Ask us another. < <:> $>-< Tin- reason the late Mr. Morgan B. Wi). lirn;.s wias buried at Penrnaen Churchyard v.as t.h?t a !it.t?? daughter of his wa buried there thirty years ago. irtv ,,eai-s ag<). The suspicions feature about the recent drowning mysteries at' Swansea is that ninety per cent, of them take plaoe in the same quarter of the port. The i act that there are only about ha-lf-a- oozen corporations owning estates was a iactor in Mr. Albert Jenkins' splendid ap- pointment at Liverpool. Practically the only remaining flat portion of the Cwmdonkin Park where the little ones disported themsel ves is now given over to tennis. Our "open spaces" are being gradually enclosed. Dr. Rawliugs and his invalid wife nud considerable benefit from the air at Pen- inaen. where they are staving. Except as a consulting practitioner. Dr. Rawlings has practically given up active business. Lord Howard de Yi-aideii, t\* o oi whose Cymric plays are to be staged iv Lhe G..and Theatre, Swansea, this week. inherited six million pounds sterling and is tiie freeholder of the greater part c f Oxford-street, London. oõI> It is surprising what a. large number of influential professional and commercial -"en- tlemen hold shares in the Swansea Town Club. At the annual meeting on Friday night tlnere w&s a most representative gathering. The Rev. T. R. Davies, of Llwynhendy, and the Rev. J. Rees Davies. B.A., Oxon., of Llanbadarn-F awr. preached to crowded congregations at Lianfihangel-y-creudyn and Llantrissant this week. It is not often that a father and son preach together. -4'>< Rose-growers in all jjarts of South Wales complain bitterly of the blight which has stricken ths year's blooms. Talcing this into consideration, the recovery of trees generally has been remarkable, and is an- other example of Nature triumphing over difficulties. Mr. R. Whittaker Evans, J.P., who pre- sided oveiJ the Llanellv Rugby "annual," was one of the greatest full-bach} that has over pkysji for "LJaaeliy, The -apxkrn sCii.Hibi.fii gaiiso in. his omcion, however, j* more -hall that was when he played. Swansea, in respect of the Welsh National Drama movement, has gone nap as usual. In no other city or town has the same mea- sure of, corporate support been yielded. Thoroughness is characteristic of everything the Mayor takes in hand. One inevitable result of the linking-up of Swansea with the outlying districts by the new motor-charabanc services will be the hastening of the Greater Swansea." Tradesmen in the town are already feeling the effect of the influx of suburbans—parti- cularly in tile vicinity of the garages. Cockett stands to gain so substantially in reduced rates and tramway and other con- veniences by coming hito Swansea County Borough that it is not surprising to find the leading inhabitants activelv identifying themselves with the unity campaign. At a later stage we idiall probably find Gower- ton. Gorseinon., and Pontardulais combin- ing to form a new urban district. The old wcaver. William Jones, ot Jones. of Bishojtft/o.n, who is in his 97th year, and hale and hearty at that, and able to walk to Swansea and back. told a "Post" reporter that the secret of his living to such an old age was the consumption, of barley and, white bread and plenty of bacon and cab- bages, tea and sugar. Fresh meat came on the table about once a week, and was a flixury—he was a farmer's lad—for Sundays only. A eorrespolldent suggests that it is high time the authorities responsible should take some action as to the use made of the Swain- sea, West Pier any evening in the summer (vide recent police court case). A large number of young men and girls nightly con- gregate at the far end of the pier, dancing to the accompaniment of an accordian or a mouth-organ, and no respectable person can pass without hindrance or annoyance. In fact, the pier has been virtually abandoned j and left to this class of patron. :iiidleft to this class of patron j When the Museums Association visit Swansea- next month the members will be greatly interested in the exhibition of china. which is being arranged in the Glvn Vivian Gallery. Mr. H. Eccles, who will read a paper on Swansea and Nantgarw china, hae one of the hnest collections extant. Much that i,? generally supposed to be Swansea china is nothing of the sort, and perfect specimens are comparatively rare. A few years agu a genuine piece of old Swansea china was j ticked up in a dealer's for 4s. The lucky buyer disposed of it for 25. But such bargains a-re very rare indeed.- I ("Western Mail. ") In Radical and Labour circles at Westmin I ster the feeling is intense against the mil- lionaires who, in their own class interests, compelled the Government to take a penny off the super-income-tax—depriving local au thonties of over a million pounds for the re lief of the ratepayers—and thereby brought a crisis wthich nearly destroyed the Ministry and left the latter irretrievably damaged. The Radical baronet. Sir R. Markham, who denounced Sir Alfred Mond as the spokes- man for the "Radical plutocrats." gave ell- pression to feelings general in the ranks n: the Ministerialists. The distressing end of the little girl Winifred E. Tyte. who fell down the hold -iiid v. -s killed, recalls a similar acci dent that happened pn the regular S'.varuwa trader, the Alice M. Craig, between Fonea and Swansea, not very long ago, but in t.hm case the victim, by a miracle, is alive and well. A young son of the skipper. Captair. Black, was playing on the deck whoc tiko hatches were off, and when the steamer coming (loWJI the River Seine the lad fee- down the empty hold, and his ■iistrAefcwa father put into tb* S-rsIt French vilkg* ft* medical p.dvtee. fivsk, vsisnculousiV «aoufA. nothing 1" iÜüt,,1 on an examination. r,d the .»suffered ao ..i.. jJi- eftec-te