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CROMWELL'S OPEN LETTERS.

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CROMWELL'S OPEN LETTERS. TO THE NONCONFORMISTS OF THE PARISH OF .MERTHYR TYDFIL. Dear Friends,—Holy writ • ,i:; ua that "a word fitly spoken is like apple." o* r old in baskets of silver." Once more we aro in u • Óiu of an electoral war, and it behoves 11s as Noeeon: •imiats to bo more consistent with, and more loyal t<\ our noble principles in this than in any other local election. Tho Church army and the Roman battalion «et themselves in order, and take counsel together against the Nonconformist warriorn, who have fought in the pant to the shedding of precious blood, and the sacrifice of noblo lives,^ for the social and moral progress of the people. The Nonconformist* of to-day seem to have a knack of forgetting their historical lessons, which contain a serif* of jeremiads showing the cruel and barbarous treatment our fathers and forefathers have received at the hands of English priestism and Romish priest- craft. And indeed we are not clean out of the wc-od yet. They do not seem inclined to pitch the crack. Ritual- ism is rampant even in Nonconformist Wales, inso- much that the rope has marked the Priüejpalityout as a splendid missionary field for the propagation of those pernicwn" doctrines that are deemed worthy of acceptation even in the face of the multiform tortures and barbarisms of many Inquisitions. You will 1*3 astounded to hear, perhaps, that clergymen of tha Established Church have obtained sufficient brazen- facedne-^s to make such harum-scarum statements as the following that all the ohaijel-people are damned and destined to IKS lost in eternal perditioti, and that Church-goers only will manage to reach the heavenly mansions above. If such is the ease, the redeemed will never be anum'jerless multitude to depicted in the Word of Go-1. I want to call your attention more especially this time to the tactics of the Tory Church palty in the present School Board election. During the last few months the Sectarian party, viz., Church and Catholic membei-s, professedly go in for economy in the administration of School Board affair;?. 0 yes, economy is a very plausible cry a better one could never have been devised to bamboozle the ignorant and indifferent. A certain memlter of the last Board, who made himself notorious, if not ridiculous, as a cham- pion discoverer of many a mare's nest," was in the habit of barring ever and anon on this string of economy and yet lie is a member of a religions sect that receives public money to support the most ineffi- cient school* m thecountry,ond that for the ex press and chief purj>os(i of infusing Catholic tenets und doc- trines into the minds of the rising generation. Don't furget this indisputable fact The Church party and the Catholic party are estromely jealous of the superior efficiency of the School Board system, and they go in strongly for economy in the form of reducing salaries, in order thereby to reduce the effi- ciency of our schools. This is the He phu alt ra these hypocritical chatterboxes have in view. They solicit the votes of the ratepayers with the view of stultify- ingo the Education Act as incorporated in the School Board rtJjiwf. In vain is the net spread in the eyes of any bird, and these lay wait for their own blood, they lurk privily for their own live" Beware, beware, ye Nonconformists of Mevthyr, and do not Ist! misled by that Roman Catholic layman, anent [ whose tall and belligerent talk ot late ask yourselves { quietly and conscientious!}*, cut bono ? The alcohol party are also to the front, shouting economy with all their might. Good heavens fauey men earning their livelihood upon the social and moral degradation of the serfs of John Barleycorn; men dealing in that abominable traffic that robn thousands of families of their comfort and happiness a traffic that makes it impossible for poor children to be properly fed and clad by their drunken parents a traffic that robbed the country during the last ten years of not less than £1,32ó,004,999, or £35 S". b-á(1. pfir head of the population a traffic, according to Sir J. D. Llewelyn, that is responsible 1 or aixmt 15s. out of every pound of the poor rate a traiho that dt-mon- itiea society, that makes our prisons, workhouses, and lunatic asylum* dire necessities in our beloved country, and hence must be supported by the rates and taxes of the people at large fancy men of that class trying to mislead the people to dream that they are champions of economy They may as well pose as moral reformers, or as ardent followers of Sir Wilfrid Lawson. The ancient publicans collected the national taxes but the modern publicans manu- facture them. The publicans at Evesham, during the Parliamentary election, printed large placards, and stuck them up in their bouses. "The Local Veto Bill, if pa.;)sed, will shut tin's house immediately." An intelli- gent elector got bold of one of the bills and stuck it on the workhouse wall. Let the publicans take this lesson to heart before posing before the public as economists. Consistency is a rare jewel." They imagine that we have forgotten the fact that they are members of the Bible and beer party," who have made solemn vows h kill every social," intellectual, and moral reform promoted by the Liberals, and especially the Nonconformists, of this country? Non- conformists of Merthyr, have no dealings with per- sonifications of rottendom. Men who do gross in- justice to Got! cannot be expected to do justice to their fellow men. 1 find the names of two Churchmen and two Catholicsfrom Duwlaif among the candidates for the coming School Board election. The Rector, J am ¡ told hopes to be returned by the Church vote. Very good, I hope he will not IK; caught poaching on lire- serves other than his own. But Mr. T. Jenkins, Pant, seems to make a boast that bo does not require any support from the Church, inasmuch as the chapel people are wont to .sell their political birthright in hi" favour in over local election, and he has grounds to believe they will continue faithful to him this time again. What a terrible indictmeut against the Non- conformists of Dowlais Arc you going to support a rank Tory and Churchman at the risk of jeopardis- ing the chances of your own respective candidates I can assure you the Church folk will fight with might and main for their candidates, and they will record as many votes for trie Nonconformists as Lord Salisbury wohld for Mr. Lloyd-George inaParha- mentary election. Bear this in mind The School Board Election so far is fought on denominational lines. Every denomi- nation selects it i own candidates and pledges itself to return them honourably with the express view of securing a majority of Nonconformists on the Board, ff any Nonconformist will give a single vote to any Churchman or Catholic he will help to return the foes of his own rights and principles. Are wo prepared to entrust our children in the hands of Englisfi and Roman Catholics Our principles have been trans- ferred down to us, red as it were with the blood of our forebears. Shall we bo disloyal to them, and allow them to be trampled upon by the Church and Catholic parties V No, a thousand times, 110: Remember that the right and proper education of the rising race is a sacred duty of paramount importance. Merthyr Nonconformists, vote for Mr. W. L. Daniel, Rev. J. Thomas, Councillor D. Davie. Mr. Rees Williams, Mr. Joseph OWetl. ltr>v. D. C. Edwards. Dowlais Nonconformists, be loyal to your old and tried friends—Key. James Williams, Hculah Rev. 1L S. Williams, Bethania and Mr. ltees Price. Allow no men to poach upon your preserve. Do not bo bamboozled by anyone, even tho tyrannical lords of gatferdom, and beetdom, and unprincipledom. He loyal to yourselves, to your noble and world-renowned principles, and to Him whose eyes will follow you to the secrecy of the polling booth, aud the Noncon- formist candidates will bo placed in an honourable a.nd enviable position on the Merthyr Tydfil School Buard. Your", in faith and fortitude, CKOMW;:IJ.

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