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POINTS OF VIEW. MR. ASQUITH'S MEETING. By J.M.H. The long-cxpectcd meeting is now a tilling Of the past. Wha., have wu ganed by it,e We have ga.ned this. Interest in the great politico problems of the day Las been quickened. A moribund people politically tail 80n easy prey to the quidnunc, the flunkey, or the b usterer. Liberalism as a political creed has nothing to lose and every-tbing to g&in by publicity and discussion. The County Conservative Associa. tion is apparently propagating its creed by hold- ing small meetings in hamlets and villages in support of tiie Govemmont which is suggestive. The Liberals of the county have held, during the current year, two striking demonstrations: the first a Lampeter when about 500 dele- gates were addressed by Mrs. Lloyd George, and the second on Friday, the 31st October, at Aberystwyth, when. Mr. Arquith spoke to a mass meeting of 2,000. The "Member for -C Treorky'' calls this with his Q^aracteristc plea- santry," "serving two masters." It looks like it to men of suspicious and attenuated pclit-cal minds. It msy be also a symptom of political intelligence and independence. Lord Loreburn when he was Lord Chancellor is reported lo have said: "I am cursed with the facultv of seeing both sides of a question." Perhaps the constituency of the ounty of Cv-i-diga is thus cursed. But in tiie critical situation in which we are placed it should be a curse that may develop inip a b essing. « It would appear that Coalitions cannot las', for over and that Party Government is in- herent to the 1emper of our people. and that it in the aptest instrument to restrain corrupt tendances Epd h promote the highest welfare of the State. It be, tlierefore, that 'he Liberals of the county are seers and pioneers in anticipating liio difUcuFiies that will have to be faced sooner or later by every constitu- ency. Ig Liberalism as a political organiza. tion to emerge out of the fires of '.he last and to attain to the vigour of a re- juvenated existence? Than is tJhe question tbain should occupy, and is occupying, the attention of the County Liberal Association, and every constituency in the United King- dom w I have to think it out. A special correspondent of one of the South Wales papers was careful to note hhat he had evidences "that there was a strange desire to make it known that the town of Aberystwyth had no voice in the invl at-ion to Mr. Asquith I or in the arrangements for Friday's meeting." I am quits sur( that the correspondent met Aberystwyth poiple who migh'. have uttered such an asseveration of so'f-indulgent virtue. But then those people had forgotten that in this case "the whole is greater than the part;" that Cardiganshire is something di:;tin_ guishable from Aberystwyth, and Ihnt it was possible for nonc1e3cript Liberals outside Aber- ystwyth to organise a meeting in Aberystwyth thaf was 'o opwii tiheir eyes," and that "success would succeed." And whi st thus answering our ,critics it should be. asserted with emphasis tliei it was an Aberystwyth delegate who at the Liberal Executive Com- mittee propped to invite Mr. Asquith. Fur. thermore, his fact, should be emblazoned in conspicuous quartets-that the Liberal Club of Aberystwyth gave most valu a-ble and indis- pensable services in staffing and stewarding and in ai the help tha'' was required to carry so big a meeting through. In one of the newspapers, there was an observation. t"o, that wcJl-knpwn Aberyst- wyth Liberals were conspicuous by "heir absence. Perhaps so, Wa" Mr. Vaughan Davies in the writer's mind? His absence did not me-an very much. Also there a/re every- where men who wiH take ali the pampering and sprfcn.feeding, and yet will whimper dis- eonso ately. They nit on vantage places tio 1Ifal'cl1 the game, and patroniz0 the p(,-)pe who plary to win, and when Mrsi Lk\yd George visited Aberystwyth, six months ago, it was reported that the "reception" given to her did noij excel in alacrity and heartiness She had to go to Aberayron and Lampeter for these qualities. We, the erstwhile officers of t.he County Liberal Association, ma 7 lure fore* join thoso children sitting in the narket place casing to their feliows at Aberystwyth and frying We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned unto y'lu, and you have not lamented." Then we, are twitted by a Cardiff month y I periodical with poutifical infallibility, "that Asquithian Liberal:?1 m etc., is a. mere corpse," f as much as to say you did quite the wrong thing in asking Mr. Asquith to Aberystwyth." It will take a very long time for Cardiff patriots to persuade the peojJe of Cardigan, shiro to worship the idealistic—nationalistic cal?—whicu they arc manufacturing. In tile meanwhile wc will go our own way; believing and anting on the belief that the spirit of Lib- eralism is mdestructabla. Why call it e rn "Asqnithian Liberalism?" Asquith is merely the illustrious survival cf a school to which Gladstone, Bright, Bannermnn, Henry Richard. Stuart Reudol, and Tom ø lis belong. Each had his personal, pcJit cal sympathies and pre- dilections. Gladstone did nob care for Dis- establishment. Bright repudiated Home Rule. Henry Richard w:)".).]d not have war under any conditions. But they were all Liberals. It is a condescension on the part cf the cra.da to admit that he (Mr. Asquith). being an educated man," knew something of political thought and history. The reader will punctuato the word "something" and note tho vast height frcm wbick the compliment -falls. It waitM help to priek the bladder of the critic's oonccit if he wore at the luncheon when Mr. Teify Jones proposed the t/a'-t of "our illus. trious guest," and if lie nuvked the effect, of the word-, on the immobile face of Mr Asquith and on the mobile faoes of tho sixty members of the Executive of the Cardiganshire Liberal Association who were his l)o"t. Said Mr To:fy Jones with his inimitable shrewdness, homeli- ness, and humour, We are' Liberals, pUl-e and pimple, but not quite so simple as not to know what we are about." But wJi,t about the meeting? Wedl., it is safe to say that Liberals from every district in the county were thero, of every degree cf in- tensity of every shade of colour. For presum- ably, unlike the intense uniform green of Cardiff national idealism, we havo a variety oi bloom, growing frcm a common stock. I met also men from Portmadoc, DolgePey, Machynlleth, Bar- mouth, Tcwyn, Birm-tigliam, Carmarthen, Llandovery, and Swansea who had come to Aberystwyth for the meeting. And this is mCrf¡Y indicative of the hoberomerous character of tfie gathering. The hall will accommodate 2,000 people, and it wa, full. The platform was occupied mainly by the members cf the Executive C mmittce and leading Liberals from many district-. Sir John Williams, Bart., sat next to the speaker. Sir Jol.n, PrcfessOj. Zim- morn. and Mrs. P. Hughes Griffiths wtTe the only poople at Aberysstwyth whom Mr. Asqu-th know. tie called Sir John an old friend, and Prof. Zimmorn an int.mate acquaintance. When Mr. Asquith came on to the stage with hiE daughter (Laxly Bonham Carter). they received a hearty welo me. The interruptions oi the students were not coruvcatiens of wit. When they nec.tod Wlio won the war? Uoyd George wJn the we,r," I (I,, not think anyone wislied to object. But people unused to the amctaities of college culture were unable to appreciate tle inten-uptivo, boistcz-c-tic, laughter which f;]1--vod many a wisliy-wasliy remark. Mr. Asquith way. a'lowed to spo-ak without in- teirruption. Mr. Asquith paid his audie«co t>o highest compJiraent by speaking on high matters cf State. The people.p^cd him ti e best "compliment at thtdr d"k p .saJ, viz., that, of lis- cning intently. What did he, say? He said that the Liberal cresid should be revered and avowed and made a vehicle of reform and prepress. He migiht,have borrowed this "tip" from Mr. Teifv Jones's address at the luncheon, fo" we have it on the authority of the Cardiff "ideal :st that Mr. Arquith, standing aJcnc. havr. hnd D:" orreat mcrsape to sive t-) younsr Wrdes." TV,n he said that the national dcV vas £ 8.OCX) 000.000; in interest ^1.000,000 a day: that there coidd he *v» vidurfr'al prcxrrcss nor a return v^n^on- ø. TyScc fur rreessa-y crrmodit'e. till the car^rvl debt, W3.<; rrdneed, and he indicated t)1e mwins he thoUo-bt it could be 'ittcno'pd in ordor t,') achieve thri end. U \V" k"(' all tf 7-n did- is n-^ the r'y-t i.shnes,^ of prnarhivtr" tKit >j. h«s ordained "t", RTO the.tn that hel"eve." » # T ,:1. Mr. AnTlit,h couM "r W'1!\(1 ,n s.vd;e-nce. TTis anno a' to +" Thfljr^ abr>„t hirr, W;Pl T„% .1,1,1, r..f effjee «r f1' ,f" T1--i..1 or- t'"rr>e- ve^s. rp nK«ie-i^ rf TpnUf. T Hlik a h" "1'><;q..l", f,n(] rv-T>v1«r»e hi.1f hT-j,T" 1 :1- t. M'" r.o;,edy and drjy r He

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