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MR JOHN MORLEY'S VISIT TO NORTH WALES. The Right Hon. J. Mor1ey. who was sccompa by Mr Oborne Morgan, M P., Mr St,rt ft?ndet, M P Mr T. 1. Ellil M.P.. U, NV- M P, (Rhondnu), Mr A. J. W'lhamsN,):-W:r Humphreys °*en (obalrmH.n of the LibEral Federation) 'and others, arrived at Newtow» (Montomeryahire) on Mon J f"r the porpo8 of ?dd,?i?.i g sf''e of meetms i? con. purpose ofad r S NI\tlonal Connci, Not. 'ToThU thewet weather a huge crowd awaited rhe arriva o' 'he train, and when Mr Morley appeared he was greeted with cheering A process- ion was formed, and headed by a brass band marched to an hotel in the town. where a tempor- ary platform was erected. Here the chair was taken by Mr Humphreys OlveD, Mr Morley, after thanking those present for his recention, said no Liberals had been more staunch th? tbos. of WI?ll-, I\1thouh he confessed that in 188? when the eloion took pl?", many Liberals had serious misgivinss as to how Wales might gn. In the first place, it was thought that there was a feelinp not entirely of friendliness between the Welsh and the Irish in matterof competition for work and they knew, in the second place, that attempts had been made, not very oreditable to those who made them, to stir up the baleful fires of religious antipathy. Those apprehensions proved to be groundless. Wales returned an almost solid vote for Mr Glad3tone and his policy (cheers). After ooming through an ordeal of that kind trium- phantly, they need not fear anything that was likely to happen to the Liberalism of Wales. He had no fear for the people of England he had no fear for the people of Fivtland and when the time came for the opinion of the country to be tested at the polls, they would see assuredly that the oonutry had been stannoh throughout. After a few remarks from Mr Osborne Morgan and Mr Abraham the meptin" separated. In the evening a pntlic meeting was held in the Viotoria Hall, admission being by ticket. There was a crowded attendance,and Mr Stnart Rendel, M.P., presided. Mr MORLEY on rising was loudly cheered. He said he had at one time thought that there was a chance of the Irish question being solved without the expe- dient of a separate but cirsnmstances had altered this view, and he contended that every honest man was entitled to make such a change of opinion (cheers). He wished to ask them what advance had been made in the Irish question since the election of two years and a half ago. At that time the friends of Mr Gla,1atone were bellot,enand it was prophesied that if there were another election they would be utterly wrerkN1,p\nd that all that was required to quiet Ireland was a period of firm and resolute government. How had these prophecies been fiilfilled ? Lord Harfington, in his recent speech at Inverness, had laid down three propositions which would answer that question. He said first that the Irish party was now supported by a great and powerful partv in England numbering not muoh less than halnhevotingpower of Ireat Britain. Th4 G!a o..tonian Liberals were no longer the rump of a broken party (cheers and langhter). In the second place Lord Hartington, said a state of things existed in Ireland in some parts not far removed from civil war and rebellion. So that 11 firm and resolute gnvernmeot" had not accomplished its work Thirdly, his lordship said that sn lon as the temper of the Irish people re- mained what it was, and the policy of a ereat partv in thisconntryremained what it was, then an at ternative policy on the part of the Utiionios-a constructive pnlioy-wa" almrst an impossibility. Take these three propositions as they would, be contended that in them they bad the most com- plete confession of failure, of impotence, of helpleRg!1eS, of hopelessness that was ever made by a party leader (oheersl. The policy of the Unionists had broneht the country to a dead- lock, for there was going to be no reversal rn the part of Liberals. It was no nse Unionists Lloiiii abollt the country with a eatechiBm in one hancl and a birch-rod in the, other (cheers and laughter), The result of the policy whioh had been pursued during the past two years was that the Unionist Party was doomed (cheers). The Unionists, referring to the Home Role agitation in Wales, said that by ad- vocating the Home Role policy in Ireland the Liberals had called np a monster which they were very anxious to keep in order. but that the monster would end by making them his slaves. But it was not they who had roused the Welsh question. Those wbo said they did foraot the extension of the franchise and the ballot. Did people suppose tha1: when the franchise was extended the new voters were going to make no new demands? ThaI, exten- sion meant that they had had enough of driving 0.,1) sooial discontent beneath the Bnrface (oheers). One of the great questions in whioh Wales was interested was that of intermediate education. Mr Mundella brought in several bills in different years to secure this. A Tory Government promised support, but re- fused to erant a committee, so that seven years after the report W' made the question was exactly where it was before. Could they wonder, then. tha> there was growing up a Welsh ques- tinn' (Cries of No,") Thau there was the lanl The Riohmond Commission, appointed in 1879 to inquire into the land qnes tion. undoubtedly dealt with Wales in a manner that had proved unsatisfactory and insufficient. The Welsn member..howr} that the "English sys- tern oould not be .lwc0.sflllly applied in Wales in the face of difhrences of languaae, creed, and p"litior. ThNo. waR. therefore, a strong and irresistible ca«» for inquiry, but the Tory Govern- ment, being a povernment of landlords, left the Welsh farmer, than whom there was no harder worker, to strn«-.de with enormons difficulties Could they wonder that snon slack and slngni^b apathy was makin? ft Welsh question. It was that apatbv ar>d indifference that made the Irish qnestion. Then thev had seen another remarkable phenomenon in Wales—namely, the passive resistance to th, law in the form of the ar)ti-tithn agitation. The Government had brought in a hill to end the qnestion, but that hill reminded him of the work of the clllaR in London known nil "j <rry builders." The work was not intended to last, and the relations between landlord and tenant, a'readv strolined. wonld prohablv be aggravated. Then with regard to the Churoh-that was another question which wonld have tn be faced. He had no inclination to treat the Church qnestion except as a purely political question (ehsors) Tt was to Liber..18" question of political j"Atine, It wis A question of the highest national expediency, build- ing np peace, contentment, and concord in A par. tion of her Majesty's dominions. He knew Kwvors said that there was cnmn!et. legislative, ecclesiastical, histo-ical and constitutional identity between the fonr dioceses in Wales and the Church in Rngland hut behind the dust of this question lay the hard fact that the Ohnroh pron«rty wont, to the service and advancement of n small minnritv of the population. Oomingto the question of local govern- ment., what they had to fin waR to see that in Wales, as in Scotland and in Ireland, manhinnry was pro- vided for os.rr'. Vlv out sr, far q wns consistent with j'1qtiOA io the intcreof f tbe 1"l>1rn l i who1. th wiit]" and tho interests or the population. ITc n«<. vr had expected identity of machinery where the aifftl1HitTR 10 he met with wp,"u no' identical. The condition of Ireland demanded that «:1 the enerey of all her sons should be employed in lifting op and regenerating their miserable land (cheers). The history "f Wales WM different, and what English Liberals ileired to dr) was to listen to the demands, to do what tnev oonld to meet them, hut not to be drawn into a trap to commit themselves to acoept identioal machinery where the case* were not idontical fcheers). TTe honed that in Wales they would leave OJIJ stone unturned t" make the new County Cnunrils M national and as po verful po.ble, He renrratt'd that they had not be*n J'tnlJi!itn greater pv-vera, hnt there wM ft mention which emnowerei! eombmaM'on Amon'/ entities, h* fartvaH to the f»rorvlh and extsnfUMi of a <i^^ir« in Wales for Ro-a- !mrr1 rA. nreRentitive ant-hority for the general I\mini"r". tive purposes of the Priho!paHty (oneMA) The first qnestion was the Irish qtjv»tion. Nothing could b* dnne nntil that WaR diapnjprt of. hot when it ont of the way th.v conld deil with othpra (hpar. hear), Meanwhile other qnestionn were ripf»in«?. They were being pressed into the minds of the people. Thev were making their way into the minds of members of Parliament who English onnstitnenoie., and into the minds nf the Knclish constituencies theniS^Wog fhe^r. hear). With 10. bfifttv, with j'"i'!men arid with foyaTtr to one another, they might be qnite ffnre that when the next general elation cam* the Libprat Partv wonld take a great step forward in secuMng n Parliament which shonM represent their principles, and which would once m'1"O govern tv, ('P1+' with justice, with wisdom. »nd with power (lond cheers). A resolution was then carried, heartily welcoming Mr Morley to Wales. Mr John MorTey on Tnesday briefly addrease I the annual meeting of the Welsh National Oonnc l at Newtown, Montgomervphire, over which Mr Stuart Rendel presided. He said that for aome time to come they mngt be contend to 1<0 on per- snadinK and argnitie until the Irish question wae not merely deoided on party lines, but until it was decided by the conviction in the minds of English, Sootch, and Welsh voters that justice and political expediency reqnired the settlement of the qaegtion upon a broad and durable basis. Ha congratulated himself on having, dariag that occasion of hi8 first viait to Walee, oome into contact with what he tmderplood FnH the moat representative gatheriijg of Welsh Liherals that could p"A,¡itJr be got together. Mr Osborne Morgan was also one of the speakers. He thought it would be time enongh when thev got the Church dipestablinhrtd, inter- mediate edanstion,ands. Land Bill, to settle what sort of Homo Rule they wanted for Wales.

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