Glamorgan Free Press

—— THE present Government has helped the necessitious schools, and the necessitous landlords; it is not too much to ask them now to help the necenitious poor. But, we are told that to adequately deal with this matter new sources of revenue will have to be discovered. The income tax and the local rates are heavy enough, it will he generally admitted. Then where is the money to come from ? If the present Parliament was not so much landlord-ridden it would be easy to find a source of revenue. Let a Ground Rent and Ground Value Bill be brought in with the same readiness as the Landlord Relief Bill was brought in, and them it will DOt be difficult j to solve the Poor Belief carse of the present age. The Compensation Act, one of the best Bills ever passed, will multiply the victims of old age disability. Already we are beginning to see this painful shunting of old people from their employment. Dimness of sight, dulness of hearing, and slowness of physical movements, increase the possi- bility of accidents. Kesh and blood" arguments avail little when pounds- shillings-pence monarchs rule supreme. WHILE we are talking of reforms in this country, our colonies are giving effect to them without much ado. Old age pensions have been the promises of the last few years, and yet we are as far off as ever. In New Zealand the question has been solved by which the declining days of the aged poor are made smoother. There, the extremes of the millionaire and the very poor —the pauper—are not o pronounced as in this country. Yet there was poverty, and so it seemed a very wise thing to take it into serious considera- tion. Under the provisions of the New Zealand scheme every industrious, sober,

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CONCERT AT PENTRE. On Thursday evening, a Jarge audieuI assembled at the Drill Ball, Peatra, wfeaS the floreb English Baptist Choir, Trwrky, gave an excellent interpretation of the sacrtd cantata "Abraham's Sacrifice", which resulted in a splendid su both musically aai financially. The choir were assisted by aevegu al well-Tmown artistes. The president for tftft evening was "billed" to be Mr G. H. Smittfc Bailey*s Estate, but owing to unavoidnMs circumstances that gentleman failed to to present. Wise Lizzie Austin, R-A M, Ji8. don, opened the programme with a fine r4fe- dering of "When the heart is young," attar which Mr Thdd Jones, the popular t.saaIr¡. obliged with "Queen of the Earth." A WIllI promising rising contralto, Miss M. J. Bval% of Cwmpark, next engaged the audience with "The Shepherd feedeth his docks." Mr AJN- eurin Edwards then favoured the compasQT with his old favourite "Lead, Kindly Ligld. to the great delight of the listeners. JIIII Austin gave another item, this time -00 Holy City" m Welsh, the audience being de- lighted. Mr Todd Jones having complied with another request, this time sang "OoaIt Company," with effect. The second part of the programme was devoted to the perfuiM anoe of the cantata, and the singing, whkb readied a standard of excellence, clearly d* moostrated the effect of the strict tnuai^g which the choir had undergone under tftH eotift) conductorship of Mr Richard H. Bebb, who fulfilled all expectations. Them ll no doubt w to the quality of the singing, and it certainly seems that the congregational singing in the Valley is fastly improving, IM performance of the Horeb TChoir on Thassdagr afforded ample proof of their abilities. Tkej sung each chorus with precurioo, tone ow effect, which bad an inspiring effect upon tin audience. The artistes, in addition to Mr IVfli Williams, baes, Traorky. a1øo appeared in to form, aad Hie reached a tJ4a8. plant SniA with the chonM "Pimise aai Th."Imm.g.. The accompanists MP David Jones, Pent1*. on the piano, and Mr Ben Griffiths, Treorky, organ. The chapel authorities, including Mr David Short, ow r*tary. and Mr B. Miles, treasurer, deeeiTi the warmeafc thanks for having laborned so 10- cegsantly towards achieving sush distanctiMt for the locality.

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to give his evidence in Welsh, coerce another to speak in English, and could hold up the threat of disallowance of expenses for not conforming to his own monoglot unfitness as president of a Welsh Court of Justice. Again we cannot write with much respect for the Counsels who were engaged, and who show that however qualified they may be in "legalknowlg," failed in this one essential qualification of the bilingual fitness when doing the circuit of a Welsh District. Both the Judge and the Counsel in the Carnarvon Court displayed the same impatience with the purely Welsh witnesses. Monoglots ought to sympathise with monoglots. We grant it may be very inconvenient for the ermine fraternity to seek the services of the interpreter, but they should not forget that these set vices are made equally necessary by their own incapacity as that of the poor Welsh witness. And even when the officials of our courts fume and foam with irritation they unconsciously com- pliment the poor people they rail. I Justice Darling said of one witness I that he understood English as well as Judge and Council. Really this is blowing hot and cold-a Welsh peasant I understanding English equally with the scholar and the Englishman! We hope I that Wales will ring its protests against such scenes as the Carnarvon Court reveal. Welshmen are stigmatised as liars, and bullied into a legal handicap in the bargain. If Englishmen come to live and do work amongst us—wel- come but they must not taunt us with inability to be bilingual when it is a notorious characteristic of the English- man that his monolingualism is one of the root causes of his depressing trade and commerce. -0- WE deeply regret that it is our duty this week to record the passing away of Mr. Tom Edwards, a well-known per- sonality among the hills and valleys of his native country. Mr. Edwards was easily a facile princeps" among the Licensed Victuallers of the Merthyr, Aberdare and Rhondda Valleys. He had a scholarship ability which gave to his speeches a cultured influence. He was always ready, and whether his public call was impromptu or otherwise, the man of resource was always evident and pronounced in his performances. Geniality and generosity were twins in that departed tenement. His illness was long and anxious to his many friends. It was in 1887 he came to Pontypridd from Merthyr, or rather Cefn, after which place he was best known. His start in life was in a printing office, and doubtless this early association with letters accounts for the development of his tastes in the literary j and oratorical paths. His presence was always sought when post-prandial duties had to be done. His peers in this department were few, no matter what the area of competition. His Cymric patriotism Was the natural accompaniment of a warm and generous heart. He touched life at many points— as a public mau, as a writer, volunteer, politician and Churchman he was equally valuable to colleagues and friends. Though we could seldom agree on public matters, still a more genial, upright and noble opponent it is not our wish to meet. But we could al ays agree with our friend in loving Wales and ennobling its sons. He knew his people well, and loved their language. We mourn his loss sincerely. His was a tenement of generosity, consideration, ympathy and courtesy. Truly, life is a stage. Mr. Tom Edwards played his part, and has made his departure. -0-- Bishops, as members of Parliament, were not condemned. It is a remark- able fact also, that the B'shops were always found arrayed against the people and the people's assembly. The histraj of the Deceased Wife's Sister Bill,ltbo Reform Bill, Bills to modify the condi- tion of land tenure to terms of equitabto justice for the rights of the people are irrefutable ^instances. In Wales we have little or no reason to be thankful to the Bishops. If they could dare to absolutely mutilate all our Weigh Educational Schemes they would have done so. Mr. Lewis' motion was not successful, still it is a revelation of that growing public opinion which will ac- quire sufficient momentum some day te sweep away the anomaly of an unrepre- sented body posessing the power aud priveleges which alone are the rights of the people.

CLUBLAND. The return match between the represent* tive cueists of the Mertbyr and Pontypridd (Social) Clubs was played at the first naand town on Thursday, and ended in a win (of the homesters by 221 points. In the first OW counter Pontypridd ran out comparatively easy winners, ami the result of the match under notice, therefore, leaves "honours easy."

honest man or woman who had lived and worked in the colony for twenty-five years was entitled, on reaching the age of sixty-five, to a pension of 6s. lid. per week. This X18 per year was every man's right, and he was not called upon to contribute a single shilling towards the fund from which the pension was taken. Each man and woman was entitled to this amount so long as his or her own private income from personal savings did not exceed £3,. per year. If a man had managed to save enough to bring him in more than £ 34, his .£18 pension would be reduced by £1 for every .£1 by which his private income exceeded £34:, so that gradually it disappeared, and a man who had X52 a year income got no pension. The terms for women were similar. A married man and woman had a double income, and did not forfeit the pension until their own income amounted to X104. This scheme, we think, isa direct encouragement to thrift, and not an incentive to extravagance, as many people alleged. MR. HzRBimT LEwIs, the member for Flint County, had another good innings with the motion on the Bishops with the Lords." The debate proved that the strength of argument lay with Mr. Lewis, while the votes were in the power of the party of privilege and monopoly. The Hon. Member dis- claimed any motive of disrespect for the Bishops in bringing the motion before the House. He was urged purely by a belief that their presence indicated an anomalous condition of representation. The motion is valuable since it is keeping before the people the growing opinion that, not only the Bishops in that august body are out of place, but that the constitutional principles which generally upholds the existence of the House of Lords itself requires thorough reconsideration and reform. The people have long since learnt to look upon the Gilded Chamber with unfriendliness Its history is crowded with facts of its antagonism to the progress of the peoples' rights. The removal of the Bishops, if permitted, would start the reformation of that House by instal- ments. Piece-meal reformative legisla*. tion, we fear, is inevitable while the power of privelege reigns supreme at I Westminster. The question raised by Mr Lewis, is viewed by a lagre circle of Conservatives with approval. As Mr Lewis pointed out that the theo- logical differences dominating the Churcfe at the present time suggests very dearly that the Bishops are not without urgent duties in their diocesan routine. When the ecclesiastical cat has been playing with politics the ritualistic mice have been devasting the spiritual granarim of the Church, and fostered, in this day, serious intecnecine conflicts of the most serious consequences to the religious principles of the established Church. In the early canODS of the Church, the Bishops were prohibited from interference with secular duties. The Nonconformist minister has been branded with opprobrium for active identification with political ambition. It ha* been the stock phrase of the Tories in Waleti since Liberalism has too strong an ascendancy for them. And yet, the 0 THE sooner Justice Darling is made to understand that it is his business to accept the convenience of the people, and not his own incapacity, as the rule in dispensing justice in our Welsh Courts, the better. Wales is not tile Wales of thirty and forty years ago. The a meek submissive and mild" generation of Welsh people are fast I Ceooming extinct. The voice of Walen to-dav is resonant and courageous i enough to be heard in Parliament. And it will be heard again. It 113 nil a ply un tolerable that any judge in Wales should ordur a witness to stand I down because he expresses a preference