The Rhos Herald

Cigarettes Down the Mine. RHOS BOY CHARGED. At Wtexham Petty Sessions on Tues- day, Ezra Hughes, of New-street, Rhos, was charged by George Baldwin, on be- half of the Ruabon Coal and Coal Co, with taking tobacco for smoking down the Hafod Colliery in a part in which safety lamps were required. It was stated that no matches were found on defendant, and the magistrates dismissed the charge. Although in this particular instance no fine was inflicted, yet it must be pointed out that the carrying of tobacco-be it cigarettes. or in a pipe-is against the rules of the mine, and a very dangerous practice to boot. With the possesion of a cigarette there is always the temptation to indulge in a secret puff, and inexper- ienced boys might thus imperil the satety of the mine. it is indeed a practice to be most heartily condemned, and we hope the boys employed at Hafod and other collieries in this district will be wise enough to leave all traces of cigarettes at home before setting off to their work.

Rhos Territorials' Prize Shoot. The annual prize shoot of the G Co 4th R.W.F. took place at Erddig range on Monday. Sergt-Instr Morris was in charge. The following were the results Trained men competition (seven shots at 200 and 300 yards) 1, Sergt R. R. Williams, 54; Sergt T. White, 51 Pte D Jaivis, 48 Pte K. Jarvis, 47 Pte R. EdWands, 42 Cpl P. W. Jones, 42 Pte jos Jones, 41 Cpl H. Hughes, 41 Pte T. Blower, 41 Col-Sergt R. Gough, 40 Pte J. A. Rogers, 40. Cup Competition (seven shots at 2@0 and 300 yards) 1, Pte S Jones, 56; 2, Pte F. Aspinal, 55; 3, Sergt T. White, 53. Recruits' competition (seven shots at 200 yards) 1. Pte Aspinal, 27 Pte M. T. Duckett, 24; Pte J. G. Duckett, 23; Pte H, Morgan 22; Pte H. Bache, 20.

East Denbighshire. OPPONENT FOR MR HEMMERDE. There are signs of activity in the camp of the Welsh Unionists, and they are slowly—very slowly-filling up their list of candidates for the Welsh constituencies. Mr David Rhys, who has been at the call of the party for some months, has now, it is understood, been definitely selected to fight Mr Hemmerde in East Denbigh- shire. Mr Rhys is a Welshman and a N oncionformist who has been severely bitten by the Tariff Reform microbe. In times gone by he was an ardent Dis establisher. It will be interesting to know what place he will give to Welsh Disestablishment in his election address.

District Council Vacancy. NO REPRESENTATIVE UNTIL MAR. By the lamented death 01 the late Mr William Williams, Maelor House, Rhos, who was one of the Rhos representatives on the Wrexham District Council, a va- cancy has been created on that body. Owing, however, to the fact that no nom- inations have been lodged by Sept 30th, the? filling of the vacancy must now be left until the triennial elections in March 1910. The nominations of a vacancy "created by death must be lodged within six months of the general triennial elec- tions, and as the, elections take place next March, it will now be useless to at- tempt to nominate a candidate.

Revising Barrister at Rhos. The Hon. R C Grosvenor, revising barrister attended the Public Hall on Monday afternoon for the purpose of revising the list of voters for the parishes of Rhos & Penycae. Among those preseht were Mr Thomas Lewis, Wrexham, and Mr ISamuel Rowley, Rhos, representing the Liberals Mr J M Leah, Acrefair, representing tlie Conservatives; Mr J Trevor Jones, Rhos and Mr Phillip Pickering, Penycae, assistant overseers. Fourteen ownership claims were made by the Liberals and six by the Conserva- tives, and these were also allowed. At the close of the business the Revising Barrister complimented the Assistant Overseers for the satisfactory way in which the lists had been pre- pared.

ITO CORRESPONDENTS, Anti. U?,sólcre.JlJ week.

OUR POST BAG. SOCIALISTS ON THE CROSS. To the Editor of the Rhos Herald. SIR.—The extraordinary concoction of J W W in your last issue reminds me that if he has been studying psychology, philosophy, logic, &c., &c. &c for the last fourteen years. he evidently requires another fourteen years to &tudy that most valuable science known as common sense. Then perhaps he might venture to indulge in what he calls his caoethes scribendi." (Part of his fourteen years' persistent study I presume). His scrawl merely proves my assertion re the half-educated zealots." I might also venture to remind him that the spirit of his letter is a remarkable illustration of the 'Uni. versal Brotherhood' theory, which Socialists preach so much about-and practise so little. As he has not ventured to toueh my argument, I shall leave him-and his biography—and give this little advice to rational Socialists-" Heaven preserve us from our friends." We bow come to I L Peer. I admire his spirit. It is a fine contrast to his worthy partner in the faith. It is quite evident that he is nonplussed as regards the problem of small property holders. He flounders and splutters about, and eventually man- ages to ejaculate, "the people themselves will de- cide." This is the sum total of his reply. As re- gards unanimity, it is all very well for him to try and make light of it, and ask whether we are to make a fetish of it. Certainly not. But we natur- ally expect the leaders of any great movement- and especially when that movement is in the nature of revolution to the existing state of things to at least know their own minds on the subject. For instance, let us take Mr Lloyd George and his mag- nificient Budget. How would it do for him in ex- pounding his Land Clauses, to say ClOthe people will decide as to how we shall do it! Why, he would be the laughing stock of the whole country. Again in introducing any great measure of reform in the House of Commons, ar enot the leaders. viz the Cabinet Ministers, ULaDimous ? Do they not speak as one voice ? Is it then unreasonable to expect the Socialist leaders to be unanimous ? I know very well that it is possible for I L Peer to quote passages denying for example that the family tie will be loo-ened that small property holders will be touched that intellect and brain power will cease to exist; that they are not going to pay for the land:; that they are going to take away my right, to dispose of my goods to whom I please, &c. But on the other hand I can quote equally good So- cialists and leaders of Socialism, who say exactly opposite. This clearly proves to me that they do not know their own minds on the different ques. tions. Socialism, as an I L Peer will no dJubt ad. mit, is not a local or parochial movement, but an international one and its trend of thought must be judged as such. Looking at it in all its aspects was not Lecky right when he sa'd that Socialistic re- medies would only bring evils fir greater than any they could possibly prevent. The desire of each man to improve his circumstances, to reap the full reward of superior talent, or energy, or thrift, is the very mainspring of the production of the world. Take these motives away persuade men that by superior work they will obtain no superior reward cut off all the hopes that stimulate among ordinary men ambition, enterprise, invention, and self sue- lifice, and the whole level of production will rapid. ly and inevitably sink. The essential differenced of men in aptitudes, capacities, and character are things that cannot be changed, and all schemes and policies that ignore them are doomed to ultimate failure." ANTI-SOCIALIST.

SOCIALISTS ON THE CROSS. Siit.-The invariable tactics, adopted by the so called Socialists, to wriggle out of a dilemma when cornered, is very amusing, Instead of answering a straight forward question, they simply make some odious comparison, which is irrelevant to the point at issue. I.L. Peer in your last asks the question Is unanimity a fe- tish &c?" He evidently does not think so. No 'doubt he knows there never was, nor will be any hope of unanimity among the leaders of this new tangled theory. Who then, is going to sail in the Socialistic barges, in the command of muddleheaded captains, to be ultimately wrecked on the rocks of Socialism ? He abso- lutely fails to answer Anti-Socialist when the latter asks, what will become of the small property bolder, or say the industrious collier, who by dint of hard work and thrift, has saved enough to build a few cottages. He simply suggests, this is a point for the people them- selves to decide. Does he mean by the people the leaders of the rabble ? If not, who then will have the moral right to call upon the skil- ful, persevering working-man to deliver up, or pool his bit of property chiefly for the benefit of the thriftless and indolent ner'e-do-wells ? Have not the people the power to decide now, under our present form of political economy ? Then if so, what is there to prevent their decis- ion becoming law ? Refering to the effusions of Mr J W Williams I expected a reply to the well directed attacks of "Anti-Socialist," but he utterly fails to refute that statement against socialism. Instead he opens out the flood gates of pent up ire, in a tirade of abuse and gibberish, remarkable for its egotism and self appreciation. He has been touched on the quick, so he commences to kick, perhaps this is only natural. He objects to Anti-Socialist" gratifying his cacoethes scri- bendi in your columns while he eternally indul- ges his Caoethes Loquendi at eveiy street cor- ner. He also says education of to-day is nothing bu t a handmaid to business, which fosters the present Rotten state of commercialism. What queer ideas they have ? No doubt it would be still more "rotten "if the people swallowed the quack nostrums, of Social- ism prescribed by the fanatics on the Cross. Mr Williams insists that money is the root of all evil, at the same time, he, without any qualms of conscience, would snatch at a good sized piece of the root" if it were tendered to him. Now sir, Why is he afraid to'reply to the questions of Anti-Socialist" It is easy to see he cannot tackle them. so he evades the difficulty by wading beyond his depth in an ocean of bombastic loquaeity-rank arid un- savoury. The latter part of this vindictive epistle also is nothing less than,vi fl-burish of trumpets respecting the superiority of his mental calibre. This though is excusable in fourth standard philosophers. In conclusion Mr Williams, may I ask you to favour us, in your next edifying contribution, with a few practical details of your conception of Socialism, as they may be interesting, coming" from one whose cogitation embraces psychology, philosophy, &c., aJij1 who preaches the Universal brother- hood" in the language of spite and all unchwr- Yours ANTI-HUMBUG.

SOCIALISTS ON THE CROSS. To the Editor of the Rhos Herald SIR.—Kindly allow me to deliver one feeble (and final) blow at "Anti-Nonsense." The soundness of the common-sense, and the force of argument of his last letter were only excelled by its lucidity of expression. Really he is too much for me, and I must confess myself beaten If one were to teach a parrot to say Tariff Reform mean work for all," even Mr Lloyd George might argue with that bird for six months, and at the end it would still assert that Tariff RefQrm means work for all." In the same way, I recognise that it is futile on my pait to argue with a man who has it on the brain that Socialism is nonsense and is bank- rupt." Unfortunately Anti-Nonsense is guilty of a few "terminological inexactitudes" in his last contribution. For instance, he says I evade his statements that the Cross Spouters' are ebbing and are financially bankrupt. Of course he never made this statement before-he said that Socialism (not the Cross Spouters was ebbing and bankrupt and if he takes the trou- to re read my leters, he will find that I have flatly contradicted that statement. I now beg leave to say, politely but firmly, that the said statement is an unaldulterated falsehood. And as for denying yes or no (whatever that may mean) that we have a debt, I frankly admit that we have, but that is greatly different from say- ing we are bankrupt. Further, we can and will pay our debts. Will this satisfy Anti- Nonsense 1 As regards political obscurity and want of in- telligence this ardent Lloyd-Georgeite had bet- ter pull the beam out of his own eye before looking for the mote iu mine. I've challenged this political cognoscens to show his political sagacity, and he runs away howling Non- sense My firm conviction is that he would follow Mr Lloyd George anywhere, and if his leader advocated Protection to-morrow and be- came a Socialist the day after, Anti-Nonsense" would do the same. I really would profer not saying anything about his" intelligence," comment is superfluous. Agreed I have not ordinary intelligence. This may appear like boastfulness, but mine is far above the ordinary if we are to take Anti-Nonsense as a criter- ion. Then he taunts us about going about preach- ing nonsense (he is full of this word) for what we can get. We give a deal of time and money to the cause, and much we get in return; We get more kicks than ha'pence, I can assure him. What we do get is the taunts and joers of ignoramuses like Anti-Nbnsense," who has not the courage to come forward 'and refute our arguments. Yon correspondent need not flatter himself that I deigned to notice his first letter on .account of its intrinsic merit I merely wanted to put in a shot for Socialism. Now, as he has shown himself utterly incapale of dis- cussion, and as my time is valuable, I cannot condescend to reply to any more of his letters which are devoid of sense as they are crude in diction. I might perhaps be able to deal more effectively with him, if I could descend to his level. Sarcasm might do but even that is thrown away on th ckheadedness. I have there- fore decided to leave him victor. He can crow over it to his heart's content, and strike as hard as he likes at his fallen foe. 1. L. PEER. fOwzng to out numerous correspondents on the above topic, we must ask them to cur- tail theil epistles. From 300 to 350 words is the limit ]—Ed

RHOS SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS. Sir,—During the perusal of the report by Mr Read, giving an account of the progress amid difficulties of the S.D.A. at Rhos, it is amus- ing to read of the case of the drunkard who came to do mischief. I should rather have thought that the Lord would have chosen a dif- ferent method of expulsion other than a public- an and his bulldogs. Would it not have been more in keeping with their evident desire to ex- alt the Lord of love and mercy to reason with the man ? I also notice thot they feel proud of the fact that their teaching tends to separate husbands and wives. With regard to the eight dear souls I have in mind several instances of their so-called soul winning. At Pembroke Dock after twelve months work six dear souls remain at Cardiff there are about 30 souls and at Ulceby they have a church building with four dear souls. It can easily be seen by this that only excitement and fanaticism, not blessing, results from their teaching. Newport, Mon. A. McDougall.

♦ ■ — RHOS S.D.A. Sir—May I be allowed just a word of com- ment on the letter by Mr Read in your issue of the 18th. It seems by that letter that some- one has asked for more light and information concerning the Sabbath question and Mr Read's j reply was that he would be pleased to study with anyone seeking the truth by appointment at their homes." This innocent reply seems all right to those who are unacquainted with the methods of the Mot mans and D A. sects; but to those who do know those methods it is quite another matter. Getting into the houses of the people is the sweetest note of all to the leaders of the S.D.A. and Mormons. It is the chief instruction from headquarters and it is the most welcome report to them. I trust the men who read this will see to it that these men do not enter their homes, or any of their books and papers.. No man can fulfil his duties as a husband and no woman can ful- fil her duties as a wife, if they are obedient to the teaohing' of Mormonism and S. D. Advent- ism. In the same issue there is a letter from a Mr who after four years exper- ience says Have nothing to do with it— shun it and avoid it as you would the plague." So say 1. I seeMf Readreports to Watford that some of the wicked people of Rhos tried to intercept the agreement which was made for the securing of a place to hold their meotings in, and he seems to be somewhat triumphant in that they failed, and as he says we are here for six months anyhow." Six months for the purpose of soul saving, or six months for the purpose of money making ? Wbicb9, I A RBADUL, j

FOOTBALL. LEAGUE MATCH. RHOS RANGERS v BRYMBO On Saturday last the Rangers were at home to entertain Brymbo. The team were timed to kick off at 4-15 the referee being Mr Postle. Brymbo won the toss. and elected to play with the sun behind their backs, the weather was ideal and the gate was a good one. Clutton set the ball in motion for the homesters and- was soon testing the burly defence of the visitors. Several fitting opporttinitice, presented themselves in the first twenty minutes, but when near the goal their shooting was erratic and poor. Brymbo although they only played ten men got away on several occasion and tested Foulkes on more occasions than one, The home forwards played good football and their passing and combination was' ideal but when the critical moment arrived they shot wide. Perhaps the one back; game that Brymbo was playing hindered1 them a little, but nevertheless several good openings were missed. The first goal was netted by Clutton from a pa# £ v from the left from Johnnie Davies. The next five minutes Brymbo made a strongf attack on the Rhos goal but FoulkeS" cleared splendidly. A Jones, Brymbc, made several smart runs on the extreme left and hard lines in not equalising frOEtF I a well judged shot at a difficult angle, I The right wing of the Rangers had sever' breakaways and only missed the goal by ) inches. Matthews played a sterling game all along and made several individual runo which were worthy of success. Brymbo were all the time playing a good and game, and got through the backs without difficulty and after a good rush Williams managed to equalise with a swift ground, shot. Both teams now being on ai?1 equal footing a good deal more energy was applied to the game and the both goals were visited but neither could get the lead. Half time. Rhos, 1 Brymbo 1. After the interval "he Rangers were tbe first to become dangerous and Mathia» the Brymbo custodian brought off some- remarkable saves from the foot ot Davieff and Clutton. Several corners fell to the- Rangers, on the left but they all went OM#r The half back line did not play their usual good game, Cave not being half up to bi* usual form. Brymbo were now strainings every nerve to get the lead but were only just nipped in time by the backs. E W Jones on the homesters left this half great- ly improved and passed all his opponents with ease, but no One could reach his? passes in time. Clutton had an open goal belbre him after one of his periodical breakaways, but owing to some mistake, Davies takes the ball from his toe an8: shoots out. The Star of the Brymbo forw wards was the out-side left, his centering was splendidly performed, no matter wha angle. A penalty was awarded the RaifK gers but Hughes failed to pilot the leather through. No further scoring took plact- and when time was called the score stood" Rhos, i goal, Brymbo, i goal.

I RHOS ATHLETIC v. R.W.F. Rhos Athletic visited Wrexham to play. j off their match with the R.W.F. teanv The Fusiliers from the outset forced thO play and after a few minutes play forced A corner, from which Austin scored. Rho& at the other end were indeed unluckyitJJI not equalising. Before the interval Hilt and Austin each added a goal each tO the score. The second half opened witlt I ths Athletic pressing hard. A fine run by' Malone was made and from his paøØ" T Reeves crashes the leather into the netf giving Evans no chance. No further scoring took place. Final R. W. F., Rhos Athletic, 1.

_J ♦ JOTTINGS. Rhos were terribly unlucky on Saturday in their match with Brymbo, and tl: fault was through their bad and erraJi^ shooting. J Alter showing their smart passes afl^ play in piercing the defence they woul" get completely lost and drive yards wldf of the upright and crossbar. II- Brymbo played the match through WltW only ten men and considering this dJ remarkably well. The Stars flf the Brymbo team J A Jones, and D Jones. and for RW E W Jones and Alfred Mathews. I #' The kicking of the Rhos backs unreliable, andfaulty, and through t*1* poor clearance the equalising goal got. '■ A penalty was awarded Rhos the second half which Hughes failed utilise; Mathias saving in grand styJel <r Ponkey North End added another to their list, beating Rossett, at Rosse by two goals to one. If they keep on as they have they will be strong candidates tS\gt J champions of the Wrexham and &tC, 1 League, Division II. M 1