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EDITORIAL NOTES. The General Election is now in its full swing. It aifords the democracy of the country an opportunity to prove its moral nbre. The nght is a straight one, despite the efforts of the Lords' party to confuse and complicate the issue with Tariff Reform and other side-tracking questions. Shall the Lords ruler' That's the issue. And we are glad to find that the Welsh constituencies generally, and particularly those in the industrial areas, grip the issue of control or. non-control by the Lords. It is difficult to make some people understand the Constitutional argument. Mr. Lewis Morgan, for instance, argues tha,t what the Lords did in refusing to accept the Budget was legal. The Con- stitution is not a written law, and goes back some 300 years. The point to re- member is that it is the Commons that makes the grant, and the Lords assent." The Commons are bound to make the grant. If they will not, some other set of Commons must be found to do it, and ever since the time of Cromwell the House of Commons has never refused supplies to the Crown. Therefore, con- stitutionally, the Lords are as bound to assent to the Supply as the Commons are to make it. It is very Rtrange—if the legal argument is worth anything—that the Lords have been so long before exer- cising this right and power. The Lords cannot forbid or authorise the spending of a single penny. They have no power in money matters. If they destroy the Budget, the Lords have no power to pro- pose another. It is the People, and the People alone, that have the power of the purse. It is, as the old saw says, that the one who pays the piper has the ordering of the tune. It is the elected represen- tatives of the reople who have the con- trol of nnance. It is the. key of the power of the House of Commons, and whoever votes for the Lords in this General Ejec- tion is a traitor to the King, to the Commons, and to the liberties of the people. The Lords have insulted and humiliated the King by urging the Con- stitutional crisis. It is the King's pre- rogative to dissolve Parliament; it is the Commons that grant supply. The Lords, therefore, have usurped the Royal pre- rogative and the privilege of the people by their conduct. If the people will take this "lying down," they fully deserve the calamities that will follow. The privilege of settling, without interference from Lords, the financial policy of the country has been fought for and won by our fathers, and we would be cravens if we did not hold our own. That this privi- lege is the people's is undeniable. Mr. Balfour. the late Lord Salisbury, and Lord Halsbury have said so. The words are irrevocable, and the scandalous thing is, that for party gain and possession of power these people will sacrince the Con- stitutional balance in order to win a party triumph. But the people must arise and again assert their power. Thanks to the good seed of a generaJ education, the people are not so easily fooled as of old. The voice of the heckler" is a power to-day. The Rhondda election campaign is not a boisterous one. On the surface the calmness of death is the nrst impression, but it is otherwise below. The Mabon Committees are at work everywhere. Strong and experienced stalwarts are at work organising and planning a campaign which will tell its tale of success on the 21st of the month, when the ballot box will receive its overwhelming returns for another lease of life—a, long one, we all hope, for the veteran leader of the Rhondda. Even Mr. Harold Lloyd will not be without his reward. He will be patted on the back by the Tariff Reformers," and he will get the con- descending smiles of the Dukes for his ambitious, though not discreet, adven- ture into the realms where working men care nought for plutocrats and aristocrats apart from the manhood and humanity which may be associated with their repu- tations. It is to be hoped that, after this record of fighting the forlornest of forlorn hopes, he will be offered something with a better prospect. But he must not be too sanguine though. In these days—and it will be more so in the future—reason- ably safe -Conservative seats will not multiply; and, therefore, the scions of great houses will have the first chance. Even Mr. Balfour. after his defea t at Manchester in 1906, had the greatest dimculty in being placed, and a City seat was the only one that he could venture to negotiate with any certainty of suc- cess. Poor Gerald is still out in the cold, and is not likelv to be T)Ia.ced for some time. When we connote such facts, the opinion is formed that there are but few plums left in the way of Parliamentary seats for the people who come from the masses by the merits of pushful assertion if they are in the ranks of the Conser- vatives. However, Mr. Harold Lloyd, we hope, will not go without some recog- nition. Even a banquet is a possible solatium, and it will be a mean return if such a function does not come off. We shall not be blamed, at any rate, after making the generous suggestion that he deserves something from his party. The Rhondda will, from now" on, begin to think seriously politically, and go for electioneering. A few public meetings on the crisis of the day Is Indispensable for the good of the rising generation, and a little variant on the local entertain- ments which are so popular nowadays. Rhondda people will all rejoice to find that Miss Amy Evans has come to her undoubted recognition as a great vocalist. Her debut at the Savoy has been a remarkable discovery to the Londoners. We have wondered why the discovery has been so tardy In realisation. Her entry into the musical world when very young was a striking one, when Mr. Ben Davies, the great tenor, in his adjudication at the Cardiff Eisteddfod, marked her for a great career If taken in hand. We all know how Mr. Pol-rest most handsomely took the matter in hand and really nourished her ambition by giving her the best education which money could corn- mand. Though the opportunity did not come as speedily as we could wish. never- theless, to put our point in metaphor, though the mill grinds slowly," it has ? surety. When we find London -> .<liICS writing that her singing was beyond question the most brilliant heard in that home of melody for many a year," it means success. We are glad also to find that, as an actress, she fully evinced the "tromise which must co-exist with great vocalisation before abiding success can be achieved on the operatic stage. Mr. Robert Newman fully realises that she is a great dramatic soprano, and in this opinion her Rhondda friends, though with less authority, always concurred. We delight in her success, too, because she is a very homely Welsh girl-real Welsh type, and will add to the increasing testimonies of the day that the Welsh nature and the Welsh temperament are such that can develop great ideals. The Celtic fringe is really significant of coming triumphs. In music, the pulpit, politics, education, law. medicine, trade and commerce, when the Welshman adds persistency of effort to his natural enthu- siasm, there is no stopping his upward march.
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M, Bpace, M P, at W!<!iamstown Splendid Fighting Speech. An enthusiastic meeting in support of the candidature of Mr. Wm. Brace, M.P., the sitting member for South Glamorgan, was held at Nazareth Chapel, Williams- town, on Wednesday evening, the Rev. LI. S. Davies presiding, who was sup- ported by the candidate. Mr. Tom John, M.A., and Mr. Tom Evana (miners' agent). The Chairman said that the present nght was the greatest in the history of the Kingdom. They had been fighting sections of the House of Commons pre- viously, but now they were fighting with the House of Lords—the Goliath of the Philistines—a band of rapacious wolves in sheep's clothing. They had. however, hanged themselves with Mr. Lloyd George's Budget—(applause)—and Mr. Brace was going to be returned with a large majority to represent South Gla- morgan at the funeral (loud applause). Mr. Brace, who was accorded a rousing reception, said that the present General Election was not an ordinary General Election. It had been forced upon the country through the arrogance and insolence of the members of the House of Lords. They, for reasons best known to themselves, had claimed the power that was refused to Kings, and in claim- ing this power, they did so in direct opposition to the Commons House of Par- liament, and at last the people were called upon to say as to whether they or the Lords should in future govern and control this country. He did not think that anyone who had followed the history of the country had any doubt but that the Lords had been guilty of serious violation of the British Constitution (ap- plause). The supporters of the House of Lords said that they had acted within their technical rights in throwing out the Budget. He (Mr. Brace) did not deny their technical right; it was exactly the same as the technical right enjoyed by the King, but the King was too great a Constitutional Monarch to set the Con- stitution at denance. The King knew that it was the Commons that provided the taxes and revenu 's to carry. on the Empire, and that all that revenue was a gift from the people' through the Com- mons towards those purposes. The House of Lords declared that they had not thrown out the Budget, but had merely referred it to the country to have the voice of the people upon it. If the House of Lords were so simple as to think that the Budget only was involved in this con- test, they had made a sorry blunder. There was something more than the Budget involved in the contest; the here- ditary power of the Gilded Chamber itself was involved. The candidate then proceeded to deal with the various provisions of the Budget, and said that the Lords had been guilty not only of bad taste, but guilty of an offence against high humanity. The Dukes and Earls in this controversy had not displayed the standard of patriotism to be found in the common people of the country. If they thought they were going to enslave educated democracy, they had made a great mistake. For 40 years we had had a free system of education, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer was the nrst fruit of that system (loud cheers). In proportion to the advancement of the democracy, the aristocracy had gone back. and one of the nrst measures that the next Government would have to initiate would be a system of free education for the aristocracy. Dealing with the valuation proposals. the speaker said that the Doomsday Book was to be brought up to date, and future Chancellors of the Exchequer would only have to turn over the pages to arrive at the true value of the land. And it was this that raised the gorge of the land- lords. When they came to analyse this Budget, it was a tremendous thing. He thanked God that at last human life was recognised at its proper value. A Chan- cellor had arisen that recognised that principle. The Budget contained tremen- dous issues, and -he hoped they would strike a real and crushing blow for the emancipation of the democracy. But, said their opponents, the Budget did nothing for the unemployed." One of the most sorry spectacles was the callous, cold-blooded manner in which their oppo- nents exploited these poor people for their own political purposes. But the Budget provided the machinery for depleting the ranks of the unemployed. -No one Act ¡ could do away with unemployment; several Acts would be necessary for this. At the root of all, however, was the land problem, because it compelled men to leave their native villages to find employ- ment elsewhere. Tariff Reform would not cure unemployment. It was nothing but soothing syrup. It was a quack remedy put forward to soothe the people to sleep, and while they were sleeping, their rights and privileges would be filched away from them. The coal tax was paid by consumers, and it had shut out Welsh and English coal from several countries. He opposed Tariff Reform because it would not give the people the standard of comfort to which they were entitled. The increase in employment in British coalnelds was far greater than in Ger- many for a given period. What they wanted was not Tariff Reform, but Land Reform (applause). This was contained in the Budget, and if they supported him. he would support them in securing land reform, and rid the country of the arrogance and the insolence of the Peers (loud applause). Mr. Tom John said that the House of Lords was clearly the oifence. The House of Lords had never, and could not pos- sibly be the friends of the people. What could the people who lived in drawing- rooms know about the people who lived In the kitchens (loud laughter). That was the mistake made in the past; the repre- sentatives of the people were drawn from the unner classes, but since the Welsh constituencies had sent the sons of the neople to renresent them in Parliament. Proceeding, Mr. John said that the House of Lords were formerly advisers to the
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Election Notes and News.
Election Notes and News. Dr. Wm. Morris, the veteran pastor of Noddfa, Treorch:i') who presided over Mabon's meeting on Friday evening, christened the Conservative candidate That little sprat from Cardiff." There are 17,640 Parliamentary voters in the Rhondda, an increase of 2,459 since 1906. In the published list of candidates at the General Election given by the London. Daily News on Tuesday, the name of Mr. Wm. Abraham (Mabon) is pre- nxed with The Bight Hon." Is this a case of Coming events cast their shadows before them ? Mr. Edgar Jones M.A., the omcial Liberal candidate for the Merthyr Boroughs, is making a splendid nght. His meetings are marked with remarkable en- thusiasm. which should place him well at the top of the poll. The polling day for South Glamorgan has been nxed for the 25th inst. Mabon's majority at the 1900 election was 6,509, the highest in the United Kingdom. Will this be exceeded this year ? The Young Wales Progressive League at Pentre is entering the present nght with a surprising energy. Election literature is being bought and devoured with gusto, and there is every promise of a warm time when the Tory candidate next visits the district. Mr. Lewis Morgan, the Conservative candidate for South Glamorgan in oppo- sition to Mr. W. Brace, M.P., the sitting member, addressed a meeting at the Forth Schoolroom on Monday night. Mr. E. S. Williams, M.E., presided. A public meeting was held at the Work- men's Institute, Llwynypia, on Tuesday evining last to consider ways and means of furthering Mabon's candidature in the locality. Mr. Noah Meredith, Pandy Square, was elected chairman, and Mr. T. Ayton Jones, Sherwood, secretary. The chief business of the meeting was the appointment of workers to go round the Llwynypia Ward distributing leaflets and canvassing. A hearty vote of thanks was accorded the chairman.
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Treherbert.
Treherbert. At Carmel (W.C.) Chapel on New* Year's Eve, a social tea was given for the chil- dren who took part in the concerts recently held at the Treherbert Opera House.
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!ncorporat!on of the j Rhondda. j Morthyp's Experience aa to R&tes Mr. John Reeo, secreta-ry of the Mid- Rhondda Chamber of Trade, has favoured us with the following letter received by him from Mr. W. R. Harria. Borough Accountant of Merthyr: — Borough Controller'a Oi&c?, j Town Hall. Merfhyr Tyd&I, 1 16th November. 1909. ? John Rees. Esq., The County, Tonyp&ndy. Dear Sir,—Referring to your enquiry as to how the rates were ejected by the Incorporation of the Borough, it is neces- sary to consider only the ra.tea applicable to the purposes to which the Boreugh and the County formerly contributed, and which purposes aj-e now wholly met by the County Borough. These purposes can be followed in the statement underneath and you will note where they change from the County t<) the County Borough:'— ■ ~i Year ended. General District Borough Fund. County Fund. Total for Rate. General Purposes. I Policing General Purposes. Policing. year. s. d. d. d. d. d. a. d. 31st March, 1904 I 3 9 4 4* 4 5} 1905 3 7 4 4! 4 4 4 -L- „ „ 1906 I 3 4 31 5 4 4 4-3, „ „ 1907 3 2 4J 5 3 11 t 1908 I 3 1 5 4 3 104 1909 3 2 4.63 4 3 11.13 „ „ 1910 J 3 5 6 6 4 5 During the year ended March, 1907, 1908, 1909, the County Council also issued precepts for 64'd., 7-xld., and 7.74d., and the rates had actually to be levied in the Borough; but the sums &o raised have to he dealt with in the Financial Adjustment between the Glamorgan County and the County Borough. The other rates levied in the Borough, such as Education. Libraries, Poor, Overseers and Cemeteries, are not aifected by the question of Incorporation, and need not, therefore, be referred to. —Yours faithfully, "W. R. HARRIS, Borough Accountant and Controller."
IYnyshir.
Ynyshir. A Cinderella dance was held on New Year's Eve at the Ynyshir Council Schools in connection with the Standard Colliery Brass Band. The M.O. was Mr. Harry Hughes. and the pianist Mr. David Davies. The band is engaged in a brave struggle to clear off a big debt, and a. strong and representative committee is working on its behalf. A supper was held on New Year's Eve in connection with the Lily o'r Ynys Lodge of the I.O.G.T. at Bethajiy (E.B.) Chapel. The following ladies were the capable hostesses:—Mrs. Rees, Mrs. Thomas, Mrs. Collins, Miss Brothers, Mrs. Martin. Miss Williams, and Miss Rose Rees (Vice-Templar). Acting as cutters, &c., were Mrs. Smith, Mrs. Robins, Mr. Hellard, Mr. Walker, and Mias Hellard (Bristol). Mr. David Rees superintended the boiling arrangements. Performing other useful services were:— Messrs. Robert Rees and James Evans (treasurer), Mr. Collins (nnancial secre- tary), Mr. Evan Evans (Chief Templar), and Mr. William Thomas (Marshal). The remainder of the evening was devoted to a small entertainment, presided over by Mr. Evans (Chief Templar).
Penygraig.
Penygraig. A meeting to support the candidature of Mabon was held at Pisgah on Wednes- day evening. Mr. J. D. Thomas (Emporium) was appointed chairman. A vote of confidence in Mabon was moved by Mr. Joseph Jones. M.B.G.. seconded by Mr. H. W. Hughes. B.A., and sup- ported by Mr. Griffith John Thomas and the Rev. T. Deri Jones, B.A., and was carried unanimously. A committee of 50 was appointed to carry out the work of canvassing. Mr. Harold Lloyd's supporters find it a rather dimcult task to secure a com- mittee room at Penygraig, an offer of 30s. a week with coal and extras has been refused by occupiers.
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King, but they received the "sack" (laughter). Now it was the time of the people to give them the sack. Another duty they had was to finally decide great law cases, but, with the exception of the few tLaw Lords, that had been taken from them. Their only function at present was forming part of the Legis- lature, and now the time had arrived to make some changes here also. They had nothing to thank the Lords for. For years the Roman Catholics were dis- qualified from taking any position in Par- liament. The Jews also laboured under similar dimculties, and it would be well for Lord Rothschild to remember that fact. Nonconformists also had an old score against the Lords. For years Non- conformists were not recognised as other people (laughter). Dealing with the Budget, Mr. John said that the custom of previous Chan- cellors waa to start taxing with the work- ing classes, and proceed upwards until certain incomes had been reached, and all above that escaped. The Welsh Chan- cellor. however, adopted a better rule. He commenced with the wealthy., and on coming down to a certain level, those below were rendered free of taxation (applause). The Lords forgot that since 1870 the common people had been edu- cated. The Budget for the nrst time struck a chord of sympathy and under- standing with the -eonle. They should not be fooled by Tariff Reform or other side issues. Mr. Tom Evans also addressed the meeting at length. A resolution in support of the candi- dature of Mr. Brace was carried unani- mously.