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Mainly througih the generosity and enterprise of four Unionist eta.wu.rts, Colwyn Bay had. just been provided with party headquarters equal, if not superior, to any in North Wales. The pre- mises, which were formerly known as Oakamoor, are situated in Coeapeila-road, and arc sur- rounded by extensive and beautiful grounds, which form a no mean feature of the property. The club rooms consist of a reading-room, a. bowisVoom, and spare private-room on the ground floor; a billiard-room, a card-room, an office for the secretary, the headquarters of the local branch of the Prim- rose League, a spare room, store- rooms, and the caretaker's apartments on the first floor, with another billiard-room and card- room on the seoond floor. AU are handsomely fitted and equipped throughout. The remain- ing portions of the big building arc let out in llatAs. The grounds consist of a tennis or croquet court, immediately in front of the premise-, with a quoit ground in the tiheiter of some fine trees in the background. To the left iies a epiendid bowling green, recently adapted for its prceent purpu-e. Fruit and vegetable gardens complete the properly. THE OPENING CEREMONY. The formal opening ceremony took place to-day week, in the presence of practically all the leading Unionists residing in Colwyn Bay and district. The weather was seasonable, and the initial proceedings were carried out in the open air at the main entrance. The Earl of Dartmouth, who performed the ceremony, was conveyed from the railway station in a motor car, and was accompanied by Lord Kcnyon and the Hon. Laurence A. Ir Brodrick, president of the club. The dis- tinguished visitor was accorded a hearty wel- come afi he made his way through the gathering. Before any speeches were delivered his lord- ship was invited by the Hon. L. A. Brodrick, to formally open the club doors, and this, the noble Earl accomplished with a triumphant "Done!" inidrt loud applause. Taking .his pj¡¡we on the top step at the entrance, Mr Brodrick, in introducing Lord Dartmouth, said his lordship had come there specially to open the c ub that day. As they ail knew the club was no new institution, but the new premises were very much more com- modious and more beautiful than the o-d build- ing. The membership was also large. With- out saying any more he aliked his lord:hip to declare the club open. LORD DARTMOUTH, who was well received, said he had great pleasure in declaring the club open, and he offered his congratulations to these gentlemen who had made such a c'ub poesible, and to the company pre-ent for having such an admirable centre for an organisation in that immediate neighbourhood. Personally, he had had a good deal of experience in Conservative and Unionist Clubs. He represented for a "}d many years a constituency in which from time to time ciubs of that kind were formed, and he was giad to think that although it was getting on for over 30 years since he represented a seat in Parliament, the representation of his old con- stituency wat: still under the same flag (applause). And he had no hesitation in saying that one of the great reasons and results cf t.hat con- tinued success was the fact that clubs were started and carried oil successfully. He chou < now like to say a word or two on general sub- jects. They might admit openly that they were not ail entirely in agreement on a certain ques- tion. There were those amongst them who were inclined to be pessimistic. Personally he was an optimist; not too much ro, but he had had so much experic-noc. and knew the unin- tentional mischief. There wag much in the present situation which was most hopeful for their side. If they took the results of the bye- elcctions without counting Jarrow and Coine Valley, they had a combined majority of 11,000 votes. In the 23 bye-elections there had been an increase in the Unionist vote of tveven and eight thousand, and a decrease of the other side of 18 or 19 thousand. That gave an aver- age turnover of something like 1100 in each bye-election.. They might consider that the present Government was by degrees losing the confideinoc of the country, and therefore let them do the:,r best to make that loss great and increased day by day (loud applause). They had had a good deal of speaking in various quarter- A REPLY TO MR LLOYD GEORGE. There was a representative gentleman of Wales speaking the previous night. He had told them what they had in pr'cspect, and what they would have to do. He (his lordship) thought that gentleman was a little hard on the House of Lords. He told his audience that the House of Lords pafd his measures because they did not know what they meant. He to!d them further that Waicis in es]>cciai had more interest in removing the veto that blocked the road to Paradise than any other part of the country. That vva.-> rather a significant admission for Mr Lloyd George to make, because he admitted that his own bills had been passed and not blocked by veto. Therefore he must admit that it was not hiti own bills that were going to lead him to I Paradise (cheers). Obviously the measure which he anticipated would be blocked by the House of Lords was the disestablishment of the Church. He (his lordship) was not going to make any forecast, because he had no right to speak an to what the House of Lords might or would do. but he had his own opinions. Mr Lloyd George had given them time to prepare for the attack, because the earliest possible date at which that measure was to be introduced was to be the fourth Session of thie present Parlia- ment—if it ever came (laughter. Now they could comsolc themselves in consider- ing the old Spanish proverb which said that through the street of bye and bye they would reach the house of .I 1 -11 never (laughter). He stiould tixo to ic,,rciuiy impress upon their minds the importance of clubs like the Oint) he had opened that afternoon, and let them not forget that they had a double duty to perÍorm-Ûle social fiicie and the political side, and in times such as these, when there were differences of opinion, there could be no better centre than, a club of that kind, ■where those interested in such questions could in a friendly way discuss and arrange matters among themselves (applause)- In a club of that kind they would have the centre of their or- ganisation, where all those willing to work could come and obtain instruction us to what to do, and if he might be allowed to make one sugg'osrion to 'he members of the club, he would say that if they wished to ma..e a return to those generous gentlemen who Had made the club a possibility, the best return was to see that their conduct of the club was carried out in accordance with the objects for which it was built (cheers). LORD KENYON RETURNS THANKS. LORD KENYONsaid1 he had great pleasure in proposing a vote oi thanks to his lordshio- He wa,, very pleased to welcome him to Coiwyn Bii)- (hear, ficar). He sincei-ei- looped that too members of the club would take to heart what Lord Dartmouth had said- The members of the club, he believed, now amounted1 to 175, and he hoped eliort.ly tnat they would reach 300 or more- He was told that the population of Col- wyn Bay was now something like 14,000, and he felt that they ought to have a better percentage of that number than 175. He was sure that it would not be merely a sociaj club, but a real centre ot political organisation. There was a lot of spad-e work to do to win back the seats of Wales, and such clubs as those were the very best means to attain rhat end- They had done -Lr I.U good work in getting c, id' 'atei elected on the County Councils, but they had still more to do. They must send back members of Parliament to represent them- It was iile, for the conventions at Cardiff and Rhyl to say that they were the representatives of the Welsh people- They were representative possibly of the majority, but not oi tho whole ot the Welsh. There were 30 odd seats, and they as Conservatives must win back a certain number and ga.ih a proper share of them (applause). He had tho prcatest pleasure in proposing a hearty vote of thanks to Lord Dartmouth for his presence that day. This was carried amidst loud applause. In reply, his lordship said he was much obliged to the company, but it had been quite a pleasure to him to attend there to perform that simple ceremony- THE PRESIDENT'S HOSPITALITY. The gathering, at the President's invitation, then repaired to the club rooms, where a sumptuous repast had been prepared by Mr J- D. ( artmoll. Upwards of 350 sat down to the tables- The following were the (steward's — Messrs G. Marfell, H- Simkin. S- Bond, W. tables- The following were the stewards:— Messrs G. Marfell, H. Simkin. S. Bond, W. Brewster, A. Bond, J: Thomas, Geo Mason, W. Hodgkins, F. Bond, S. Woods, Dr. Mariette, Messrs J. M- Taylor, T. Pincott, E. Mactzig, C- Palmer, G. W- Adams, G. IX-akm, J. B. hitz- patriok, \v. R. Hands, J. Ll. Owen, T. O. Grif- fiths, II- Heap, K- 13. Moukdaie, ,1, J. Fleet, J. H- Newton, Win. Hartley, C. Hartley, and the ladies of the Primrose League. The following form the club's committee of management:—Hon- Laurence A- Brod- rick (president); Mr J- Brock (chairman^; Mr C. Reynolds (vice-chairman] Mr Ed- ward Allen (treasurer); Mr J. P. Wain- wxight (secretary); Mes-ifc George Be van, H. Charltcn Jonqs, \V. B- Lucas, A. J. Fleet, G- Marfell, S. Bond, W. J. Plows. John Walltw, 0. B. Lowe, II. Simkin, J. W. Mellor, and J. Fred Francis,
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THE PUBLIC MEETING. THE HOUSE OF LORDS- In the evening, the lIon. L- -1. Brodrick pre- sided o\er a large and enthusiastic pubiio gathering at the Pier Pavilion- By tiiiss time the loads had been reduced to an uncommonjy dirty state by a heavy and steady dowiiipomr of ram, and at the hour announced for opeciing the meeting raiu fell unoeasingly- But lor Üs fact the nyemy Pavilion would no doubt have been overcrowded. There were present on the platform: The Earl of Dartmouth, Lord Konvoui, Yisocurit Caiiideit, Colonel Cormvailis West, Colonel Melior and Mire Mellor, Colonel Howard, C.B., Major Radcliffe, Lad'y Mcstyn and Miss Mostyin (Tal- acre), Colonel the Hon- Henry IMostyn and the Hon- Mrs Mostyn, Hon. Geo. and Mrs Mos- tyn, Canon Roberts, Mr n. Heenan, Mr J. Brook and MrA Brock, Mr C- Rey- nolds, Mr G. Bevan, Mr Edward Allen, Mr W. J. Pícws, Mr Davie, Mr J. J, Wooller, Mr S. Bond, Mr C. C. Mott, Ma; and Misis Edgar, Dr. and Mis Venable Williams, Mr Owen Williams, Mr C- F- Ashby, Mr H- Charlton Jones, Mr H. D. D. Walthall Mr W. R- Hands, Mrs Pearson (Sec- Primrose League) Miss Everett (treasurer Primrctae League), and others. The proceedings opened with "Hen Wh:d' fy Nhaduu," rendered by the audience, led l>v Mr W. O. Roberts. THE CHAIRMAN'S SPEECH. The CHAIRMAN, who was cordially welcomed, then went on to explain that they had met that evening to put forward those views which they as Conservatives and Unionists held with regard ti the Government of tho country, and in par- ticular to protest against, the conduct of affairs a," carried (n by the present Radical Government (rpplause). The Government had now been in power for nearly two years, and they had en- jejed tho advantage of two sessions of Parlia- ment. They went into power boasting that they had an unpreeeciented majority; they also made a l'üast of what they were going to do in every department of legislation and Government. For two years, ho-vever, their record had been one of unfultiHed pledges. In fact-as a certain mem- ber of the House of Commons had said at Col- vyn Bav only the previous week—their attitude was still one ->f "hope and expectation." He (the speaker) thought that a very happy description of the efforts of the present Radical Government (laughter and hear, hear). They had not passed a single first class measure; they had fore- shadowed cne and promised another, but it was a case of always foreshadowing, always promis- ing, but n°ver of performance (hear, hear). What the Radicals had succeeded in doing could be seen by looking at two important spheres of politics. They had succeeded in administering a severo snub to their self-governing colonies, one member had indeed publicly boasted that the "door had been slammed, bolted, and barred" against the colonies. He thought that was a re- ord of which no party in the island could be proud (applause). In Ireland they found the Radical.- aiding and abetting by supineness and almost by direct encouragement the violation of jlaw and order. Law and order were a negatiort in many parts of Ireland at present—(cheers) —and that any British Government should descend so low as to tamper with the bfcsis of the civil life atrl everything that made modern conditions of life possible should be a matter of the utmost regret to everyone whatever their party or creed (applause). He had not heard a single nite of genuine defence to the course the Government had adopted in that matter. Failing in carrying out any constructive measures the pariv now in power had fallen back upon THE EASY DEVICE OF DESTRUCTION —pulling down that which had taken centuries to build np, namely, those institutions under which the Empire had grown fro.n a little island m the northern seas" to be- the greatest Empire the world had ever soon (hear, hear). Amongst other Jns'itutions the Radical were now attack- ing the Established Church. He did not propose to deal with thit question on that occasion, be- cause it was not within his province, but one of the objects their opponents bad in view was the destruction of the oldest, institution in Wales iia n, Tn 'y were alfc cndeavcuring to pull down another ancient institution—the House o" Lords ("Shame" and cheers). He noticed that thete had i)-e-i held during the previous two days at Rhyl a Radical Convention, and that a large oart of their lucubrations were devoted to attacking the House of Lords. When a great attack was delivered one always looked for some strength in the attack, but he noticed that among the speakers was a Welsh M.P. who pro- ceeded to attack the House of Lords, not for what it had done, but upon the old principle of the soldier who had no gun-by personal abuse (laughter and hear, hear). That gentle- man said the House of Lords was composed of old men, men in senile decay, and young men whose chief delights were horse racing and diabolo (laughter). That distinguished gentleman—who he (the speaker) trusted would attain notoriety throughout, Wtles and far beyond its borders for the statement whose ignorance was only equalled by its lack of veracity—was Mr Osmond Wil- liams. He hoped the statement would be made known far and wide to those who would come across Mr Osmond Williams (hear, hear). He would like to ask Mr Williams in which class he placed the twenty distinguished members of the Radical party who within the last eighteen mnntn8 havf1 .m- ACCEPTED PEERAGES 1 at the hands of the Radical Government (loud applause) ? He would like to ask him further i in which category—that of senile decay or the t horse-racing and diabolo playing class—ne would ] place the distinguished and noble friends who sat < on either side of him that evening—Earl Dart- ( mouth and Lord Kenyon (laughter)? Would he < award the palm for senile decay to Lord Kenyon, and would lie point to Lord Dartmouth as one who passed his time on horse-racing and diabolo j (renewed laughter)? Seriously, however, it was ill very well for the people of Colwyn Bay to laugh at such things, but there were iarts of the country where it was absolutely believed little as they might think it possible, that such was ac- tually the case. Nevertheless, ho thought anyone who, like Mr Osmond Williams, insulted the in- telligence of the Welsh electors by making such assertions before them was totally unfit to re- present an intelligent Welsh constituency in Par- liament (cheers). For the purpose of that meet- ing he might perhaps be glad that Mr Williams had made such a statement, because they had two gentlemen before them that evening who be- longed to the House of Lords, and who could speak for themselves. Lord Dartmouth had served for many years as a member of the House of Commons in the arduous and responsible posi- tion of one of tne whips of the Unionist party —(hear, hear)—and since his accession to the House of Lords he had devoted himself earnestly to the business before that body, wnilo as lord- lieutenant of Staffordshire he was a man upon whom Mr Haldane, a Radical minister, relied to carry out a large part of the difficult work in connection with the schemo for the reorganisa- tion of tho army (loud applause). Lord Kenyon, as they were all aware, had rendered great and valuable services for Wales (applause). As pre- sident of the Bangor College, for instance, he had been working unceasingly for the cause of Welsh education, and in every other sphere of social and political service he had spent his time ungrudgingly (applause). He hoped the audience would give the speakers one of those rousing welcomes which Colwyn Bay knew how to give to those who took the trouble to come down to ad- dress them sensibly and coolly on topics of cur- rent interest (applause). ON THE SIDE OF "SENILE DECAY. EARL DARTMOUTH, at the Chairman's invitation, then addressed the gathering. Ho said: Your chairman has asked some invidious questions. He wants to know to which of the classes to which he has referred I, for one, belong. I can tell him with- out, hesitation, I belong to the side of "senile aecay" (loud laughter). I don't know that I am very" much affected by the selection that has tetn offered us between these two classes by the jai-ticular gentleman who made it. I can quite understand his feelings The rEason for his 1 animus is that during t,.ie last Parliamentary golf handicap he was kno -ked out by a member of the House of Lords (renewed laughter). Continuing, tin nobli Earl said: Those of us who take e,n interest in politics anl in the welfare of tho lo-mtrv are bound to come forward to do of the, lo-mtrv are bound to come forward to do all they can when one of the great institutions of the country is attacked, and now that all we hold most dear is most bitterly and unfairly at- tacked I don't care how much senile decay I have, 1 will do what I can in the matter (ap- plause and laughter). It is a good many years since I had an opportunity of addressing an aud- ience of this kind, but one thing I am perfectly certain about is that at a time like the present it is the duty of all of us to do what we can to help the good cause (applause). UITY IN THE PARTY. If I may be allowed to say a word to-night, it will bo upon the importance 0: unity m the party. It is not for us to quarrel among our- selves and1 pre^s our own individual opinio&s when the enemy is at the dcor, but to stand shoulder to shoulder to beat him away if we can. We have differences cf opinion in the party upon certain questions, but when we re- member tho formation of the Unionist party and tho objects for which it was formed, and tiie noble way in which it has done its duty, surely we can combine when the danger is as great us it ever was beioiro (hear, hear). I don't want to say anything which might give offence to anybody. I admit I am a strong- Free Traclter—(loud applause from a section on the balcony)—so strcwig that I would support any well-considered scheme of tariff reioum that will enable us to compel that greater freedom of trade which we (prolonged cheering). We must remember that free trade is not like a game of "patience' you cannot play it by yourself (hear, heaj)- You must have someone else to play it with you.. earnestly urge vou to bear in mind that while we believe in the value of the greatest possible freedom of trade we must realise that we have not got it. It is said that those who believe in tariff reform de- sire to go back to the old dtiys of "t.he Hungry Forties, but let me assure you that I do not believe vhe-roe is a single member of our party who desires that (applause). We do not, as you have olten been told we do, dee-ire by that sys- tem to make the rich richer and the poor poorer, for did wo desire to go back to the days when wheat wa.s 80s a quarter we would support the prcfsent Government because wheat is nearly half that price now (ciheers)- There are eo many points upon which we can agree. WE ALL AGREE I that our present fiscal system 16 not incapable of improvement (hear, hear). Well, if we agree UJXJUI that, wiiy not agree unon taking whatever steps we can to meet it ? There is so much to be said upon widening the basis of taxation. I those who realise the importance of this matter to put on one side their personal differ- ences in order to fight the common enemy- Proceeding to speak of the Government's work, the noble earl said A good (ileal has been bpoken on both isides all over tho country, and various subjects are presented to different audi- ences from different sides in different ways. It all depends how matters are put- For instance, after you are married, if you go home with a long lace and say to your wife "I have had' a fall, and have been unconscious for twenty minutes," she will probably be anxious to send far a doctor at once. If, however, you go in the ordinary way saying you had fallen asleep for twenty minutes, she will not think much about it (laughter). It all depends upon the way things' a.re put. The Secretary for War, added Lord Dartmouth, had been congratulated upon the "magnificent territorial which he had' raised," but h3 (his lordship) looked at the mat- ter from a different point of view. The noble Earl at this stage quoted a few verses which were to the effect that, in spite of the effective appearance of the new army scheme on paper, "you cannot. buy jour soldiers at so much pe,r box." The "poor lord-lieutenant, unfortunate man is all that exi,sts of this wonderful plan" (laughter)- Another member had been congra- tulating the Government upon their foreign policy. He iN-a-, entitled to do that, but the Unionist could congratulate themselves upon the testimonial given to them by the leader of the Go\ernmient in the House of Lords. That gentleman had' paid that the management of foreign affairs by tho late Government had been so satisfactorily carried out by the late Govern- ment that lie had very little difficulty in follow- ing the example set (chcere)- Some credit was due to the Unionists for that- The same minister, however, in dealing with foreign matters, having gono from one point to another finished up as an instance of the success the Liberal party in foreign affairs with a re- ference to the visit of the German Emperor to this country Ho (his lordship) wondered what that visit had to do with the Liberal party, be- cause the German Emperor was coming over as the private guest of his Majesty the King of England, who had done infinitely more for the peace of the world1 than the Liberal Govern- ment. ever had Ù0;J«) or would do (loud ap- plause)- THE HOUSE OF LORDS. Dealing with the House of Lords, Earl Dart- mouth said the old' institution was now being heavily attacked from various point, The fiery cross had been ipised the other night at Edin- burgh, and they h-act all proIJably read the speech be referred to. When they remembered that the attack was made against a great British institution they could hardly realise that the statement made at Edinburgh was worthy Oil the occasion- It was a well-known rule that before tihey destroyed what they had they should make sure that they had something bet- ter to put in its place (applause). Their oppo- nents boasted a. good deal about the bills they had passed, but in the matter of legislation as in other matters it was not so much the quantity as the quality of things that was really impor- runt (hear, hear). Radicals boasted of the re- "0 cord they had' made during the nast- session, but it was not the record of a r-eefiicn but one of three weeks, and if they could have realised the state of the measures referred to when they left the House of Commons he did not think they would have much confidtence left in the statemanship of the leaders of the House of Commons. They had been told by a distin- guished' minister who had been particularly for- tunate that his measures had massed through the House of Lord because the members of that II ousj did not understand them (laughter). He | (tihe speaker) could assure them, however, that the members of the Houi-e of Pecre were quite as intelligent as any they could find in the other House (ciheers). Indeed he was often puzzled to know whether the House of Com- mons really understood their own Bill. One of the measures sent up to the House of Lords last eession bore no less than eighteen pages of amendments standing in the name of the peer who was in charge of the Bill (applause). When their opponents talked about freedom and liber- ty they should bear in mind that there was one place where there was very little freedom or liberty, namely, the House of Com mens- Dur- ing. the two years the Liberals had been in office the guillotine had been more in evidence than during the sixteen years of Unionist Govern- mCnt—(cheers),—and1 that was due not to per- eietent obstruction, but to a desire for stifling discussion (hear, hear). And what was the indicf ment against the House of Lords? The Prime Minister could not get away from the fact that the Upper House consisted of a number of private gentle- men who had got there accidentally merely for the purpose of thwarting some of his designs. He failed entirely to realise that the House of Lords at present was a not unimportant part or their great constitution. The House of Lords as a whole, like the House of Commons as a whole, was a part of the political machinery of their country—(hear, hear),—and it was estab- lished go as to secure the safe and continuous development of. the empire. The improvement Of the House of Lords was quite a legitimate object, and there had been proposals submitted with that object in view, but the supporters of the present Government did not desire such a reform because they knew it would only tend to make the House of Lords stronger than it was at present (hear, hear). Every nation of importance almost had its second chamber cf Government, and now the Radical, sought to do away with that of Britain by limiting its power of veto to a period of six months; in other words they sought to reduce the power of the Lords to impotence, granting them only the right of criticism and suggestion without any power to carry them into offect. NO BILLS THROWN OUT. What were the Billfi the House of Lords had thrown out? The Education Bill of last year was one alleged to have been so dealt with, but he denied entirely that the. Lords threw that Bill out. The Bill was lost because the House of Commons refused to consider amend- ments introduced into it in the House of Lords, many of which .stood in the name cf Lord Creiwe, the Liberal minister, who was in charge of it (applause). It should also be remembered that when the Bill reached the House of Lords it had been forced through the House of Commons, and that many of its most important details had not been even diiscutced. The great and unnecessary responsibility of making the Bill into a workable measure was thu- thrust upon the House of Lords, and as that House believed that every child in this country ehoui-d be brought up in the faith to which his parents belonged amend- ments were introduced--(applausc)-with the re- sult known to ail of them. He emphatically aseried that the House of Lords had no cause to regret their action in that direction (applause). A more shabby attempt to "get a bit off" their opponents than the action of the Radicals over that matter had never been known (hear, hear). Proceeding, his Lordship said he was ready to admit that there was a great deal to be eaid for the policy of one man one vote, but when they bore in mind the anomalies of the present electoral system they should also remember that 1 0 le a great deal more could be said for the policy of one vote one value. The Radical majority in the House of Commons at present was 354, but if each vote had the same value it would be only 94. At the last election 52,000 Unionist votes were recorded, yet out of the 30 members representing Wales the Unionists had not one. 1 Reverting to the Bills thrown out by the Lords, Earl Dartmouth said that one of the Lords, Earl Dartmouth said that one of the two other measures rejected—the Scottish Small Holders Bill-had been dealt w'th at length by other speakers in the country, and he would not therefore refer to it, except to say that it was not the fault of the House of Lords that it had been thrown out. The other rejected by the Lords last session was the Scottish Land Values Bill. He agreed that there was a gieat deal to be said about the alteration of the law of the taxation of land values, but he reminded them that, although that measure passed through its second reading in the Houte of Commons as early as July last, it only came up to the House of Lords on August 26th, and, as the House adjourned on August 28r-h, it- was quite im- pos;-Tbie for the Upper House to consider so in- tricate a measure in that thor-t time (applause). The Government should have brought t,he Bill up at an early part of the session, and it, would then have been discussed and considered as it deserved to be. It w.as sent up, however, with tho one and sole object of "filling up the cup" wh:ch was so much t-poken about (hear, hear). "THE HEREDITARY PRINCIPLE." With reference to the constitution of the House of Lords, the "hereditary principle" was fre- quently discussed, and they were told no one had a word to say in favour of it. He did hot mind admitting that, if they were to start upon a bran-new constitution to-morrow, it was very likely the hereditary principle would not be included, but Jet them not forget that under their present constitution of King, lords and co-mmons their great empire had grown up to what it was, and, if he might add a personal word, he would say that he was one ot those who had succeeded his father, and he was not ashamed to follow the steps of his father (ap- plause) He was also one of those who had faced the music of a popular election, and he was glad to think that on the three or four occasions he contested his seat, his majority had increased every time (applause). It was perhaps not. much to boast of but in thete daye that was a pleasant tiling to think of. From his knowledge of hereditary legislators he thought that those who had reached such a position by inheritajice realised that that fact threw a greater responsibility upon their shoulders, and they therefore possessed an earnest desire to justify their positions by their actions (applause). And who attacked the House of Lords? The Radicals. Who misrepresented them? The Radicals. Who trampled over every obstacle in order to get a. seat in that House? Again-the Radical (laughter and applause). And the man who was perfectly willing to accept the empty snobbery of the peerage or the empty snobbery of the coronet without any of the re- sponsibilities and duties which should be associated with them was al-o-a Radical (hear, hear). Since the Reform Act of 1832 there had been 410 new creations, and of that number two- thirds had been c.rea,ted by Radical Govern- ments. But where were those gentlemen now? If they were asked the question the reply would be "Evil communications corrupt good morals" (laughter and cheers). If the question were put to him (the speaker) he would answer: "They have all learned better by now." It just depended upon how things were put (laughter). MARKED CARDS AND LOADED DICE. They had been accused by Lord Crewe with playing with marked cards and loaded dice. That was a grave charge to make agairl-,t any- body, whether he be a private individual or a member of a public body. Lord Crewe had no right to speak of the House of Lords as a whole, but he might of that pa.rt of the House to which he (Loru Crewe) belonged (hear, hear). If the cards were marked they were not those on the 6ide of the opposition of the House of Lords nor those on the Unionist side of the House of Commons (hear, hear). The House of Lords were not like the House of Commons for they did not work by means of the guillotine. Neither did they proceed with things by the back stairs of a Grand Committee; they all worked in the full light of day, and were they given a fair field and no favour they would not be afraid of the verdict of their fellow country- inen—(applause)—because he thought they would realise that an uncontrolled House of Commons would be a far greater danger to the country than an unreformed House o.f Lords (hear, hear). Standing (here as we do upon the platform of the future, said his lordship, in conclusion, we. as faT as the House of Lords is concerned, may feel gratified on looking back on the great and glorious past, in which the House of Lords has had a grand share, there is one forecast I can make without any fear of being wrong. This I will tell you—that as long as the House of Lords remainjs as it is, an integral portion, of the constitution, so long will it work in the future, as in the past, in all that it believes to be true to the interests of the people of the country, entirely regardless of threats, misre- presentations or attacks—no matter from what quarter they may come (loud and prolonged ap- plause)- LORD KENYON DEFENDS SIR WATICIN WYNN. Lord KENYON, who followed, was also | given a rousing "welcome- He said tJhat Lord Crewe had observed the other day that "it is absolutely-necessary that, ive must have some sort of a second dhamber, because if there were only one chamber it would be impossible to ap- pily the closure." In other words, Lord Crewe acknowledged1 that one chamber would not be able to do any business whatever. Therefore, the proposal waa that the present House of Lords eho<u,id still exist, but it should have no po-weir whatever. It would resolve itself into the mere business house of the country for the management of railway and similar bills sent up for tiheir consideration- That particular ques- tion would be the onost vital issue before the country at the next election, but he warned them that it would be confused with several other issues. Education, the disestablishment of the Church, and' other questions would be brought up, but all those would be used as mere red herrings to draw aoroes the track- If the Radicals were returtned to power on one of the other issues they would immediately say "We have been reinforced-, and, therefore, we have the mandate of the people that the House of Lords shall be swept, away." Mr Haldane— (cheers)—lie (his lordship) had' no objection to the oheer neither for what Mr Haldane had said; for the fact that he was going to make a real good thing of the Army nor for Mr Hal- dane personally, because he lespected that gentleman very much—Mr Haldane had said that "when public opinion is with a measure the House of Lords is no obstacle-" If that was the case why abolish it or take away its power? (applause). He submitted that those words uttered by Mr Hald'ane formed
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THE GREATEST TESTIMONY. to the way in which the House of Lords con- ducted its business (hear, hear). Lord Dart- mouth had pointed out to them how Radical measures had been sent up to the House of Lords. They could hardly believe it, but it was a fact that many of those measures were passed througdi the Commons en bloo almost straight from the Grand Committee stage. As an instance of what resulted from this he might feter to one Bill in which a cer- tain clause had been put in and annulled in an. other clause, which, in the appendix, had been annulled again (laughter). That showed that the attention of the House of Comni-onis had neve,r been given, to the measure. If they were not to have a HouSQ of Lords what were they to have? If they had to elect the mem- bers of a second chamber the latter could re-' fuse to acknowledge the House of Commons, because they would be as reprqs-entative of the people as the members of the Lower House. They had recently heard that during the fourth session of the present Parliament they would be presented with a measure for the disestab- lishment of the Church, and one of the reasons quoted for that step was the precedent given when the Church, in Ireland (had been disestab- lished. He did not want to suggest that the two questions were at all on all fours, but there was a parallel between them, and if they were to accept that did the state of Ireland at the present moment suggest that the disestablish- ment of the Irish Church had done any good for law and order in that country? (cheers). Could their opponents claim that education had boon forwarded in Ireland as they would no doubt claim it would in Wales if the Welsh Church were disestablished ? He denied that it would. If anybody had been responsible for the BEGINNINGS OF EDUCATION IN WALES it was the Church of England (applause). Mr Haldane had also said that "ignorance is the strength of the Tory Party." That was a very curious fact, if true, because Lnurchmen had been the very people who had laid the founda- tions of education, and, that being the case the Ohmrehpeaple had consequently been pre- paring for their own ruin (laughter, and hear Ihear). THE WYNNSTAY AGREEMENTS. He was sorry to see that some local speakers I had been attacking a worthy friend of his—Sir Watkin Williams Wynn-on the subject of his agreements with his tenants. The party really responsible for the alteration of those agreements was the Radical party (hear, hear) because the new Land Bill passed by the present Go- vernment rendered all landlords' agreements nugatory in many ways, and it was in order to bring the agreements into line with the present Bill that Sir Watkin and another landlords had been obliged to reconsider the agreements. He (his lordship) had not seen Sir Watkin's new agreement, but he was perfectly certain from what ha knew of the Wynnstay Estate and from all he heard of it during the Welsh Land Com- mission that- there was not the slightest wish on the part of Sir Watkin to alter the terms of the tenancies in any degree, but simply to carry out the Act in the spirit it had presented itself to him (loud applause). People who object to the alterations must refer themselves to the Radical party and not to Sir Watkin Wynn. Could any- body oelieve th* landowners were eager to get rid of their tenants? (cries of "No.") Certainly j net. A landowner's main cbjtct was to gather on his estate good tenants who would farm their ptoperty to the mutual advantage of the owner -3 I and the tenant himself (hear, hear). To say that Sir Watkin Wynn wished to eject his tenants from their f-irms wa^ to utter the most fcoiish lis one could possibly do (applause). After making a short yet striking appeal to ali friends cf tho Unio-nst party for their help in the forthcoming campaign, Lord Kenyon re- verted to the question of the House of Lords, and in the course of a few sentences in conclu- sion he laughingly remarked that lie hoped his hearers did not believe what had been said that the Upper House" was composed of men in senile decay, horse races, and diaboloists, for he need scarcely remind them that the Lords included all the great soldiers of the country, many of the most, eminent statesmen from the Lower House, representatives of their great colonies, such as Lord Monnstephan, Lord 8trathcona-(chers)- Lord Milner—(cheers) — Lord Cromer — (hear, hear)—all men who were surely not in senile de. cav; Lord Kelvin, the greatest inventor of the .< "I age—(hear, hear)—and representatives of practi- cally every class and trade throughout the coun- try (loud applause). Colonel CORNWALLIS WEST proposed the following resolution, "That this meeting views with profound distrust the policy of the present Government, and desires to support the House of Lords in its endeavour to amend hasty and ill considered legislation." Continuing, the gallant Colonel said he did not profess to ba able to follow the preceding speakers, who had had experience of the House of Lords, and were thus able to judge the work and the way in which it was conducted in the House. But as a a outsider he had, of course, his views as to the way in which the House of Peers carried on theit 3haro of the business of the public. There were some of them who, no doubt, thought that reform of some kind was desirable 111 connection with the Houso of Lords, but as long as the gentle men were attached to the House performed their duties as well as they now did, he protested against their being subjected to any vulgar abuse. COLONEL WEST AND MR LLOYD GEORGE. He had been very much surprised ovel what he had read in the newspapers that day. Mr Lloyd George, for instance, who was the minister of the Crown, and so-called Statesman, had said in effect that ceitf-in of his measures which ha 1 passed through the House of Lords had been passed through becau&e they were con- ceded wi: h trade—a matter with which their lordships were unacquainted, and whioh they did not understands That as a matter oc fact was utterly untrue. There were more persons in the House of Lords who, either on their own account or through their ancestors, were con- nected with trade than could be found in any, other assembly in the world. They would find that the Peers were descendants of Mayors, Lord Mayors, and successful business people. The House of Lords had existed for 700 years, and it had brought enormous power to bear in the de- velopment of the Empire, and now they were sskfcd to knock that powerful system in the head; but he did not believe that they would do any- thing of t he sor; He believed the Government would realise some day that they had utterly failed to gauge the opinions of the majority of the people of th? country on that particular question. It was all very well for MJ Lloyd Gecrgo to come down there to speak on that sub- ject, because ho knew he could speak invariably am(ngst those who would support him, but he (Cclonel West) urged tli3 President of the Beard of Trade that if he wanted to maintain his character as a minister and as a statesman, h must use words less insulting. Continuing, Co*. West said Mr Lloyd George had compared the present Parliament with Cromwell's Par- liament, but he thought, if this Parlia- ment meant 10 browbeat the Unionist party in th: fashion adopted in Cromwell's day, it would lead not only to words but to blows. He did not wish to touch upon that ever-burning subject of disestablishment, of the Church, because it was a subject which, so far as ales was cotL- cerned, nauseated him rather- He had' the greatest possible horror over the terrible sec- tarian spirit which made social life in Wales absolutely intolerable, but Mr Lloyd George aeemod to think that a measure of disestablish- ment anG dendowmeIlt was possible- If thai disendowment was to be anything like what it was dee-cribed to be 15 or 20 years ago, the measure "would rise such a storm of indignation amongjst the members of the Church of Lnglandj in Wales that would lead to a civil Avar (loud applause). "I believe," continued too Colonel, "that if they wil] do what was intended to bQ dbne then, viz., seize the Cathedcale and Cnurohes and let them out to different denomi- nations that any suoh proposal will stir up the friends of the Church of England, who will rally round their CathedraLs and Churches to fight for them (renewed applause)- Continuing, he said he hoped and believed that the Union- ist party in Wa.les would not in any way be dis- couraged at the present condition of things. He acknowledged that they had been thoroughly beaten, but there was no reason to suppose thafi with a great effort they could not alter that- In conchusion, Colonel West urged that the Union- ist party framed a strong constructive policy 60 that the people of the country might realise that the party was not opposed to reform. Unionists believed in social reform, which was carried out on afe. sound Lines. Mr JOHN BROCK, who seconded, the retso- rS lution, said t+ °>re was much 1.n p^-itioal meet- ings that had evier jaj-red upon hau" to such an extent that he had generally avoided them. but he believed that they had now come to such a political stage that it was the duty of every man who loved his country to show on whiott side he stood. Dealing with the resolution, the speaker said they must admit, if they had r telligently watched the debates and' noted the measures that had been introduced by the pre- >4 sent Government that ita policy was a Socialis- tic one (hear, hea.r, and a cry "A good job and well that it is so"). What was the object of the extreme socialist? It was to bring every man down to the same level (a voice "No, it is to bring them up to the ^ame levol"). Mr AsquitK while speaking' at Newport on the previous Monday, admitted there was a danger that tha House of Commons might abuse the power. given to it to paes measures, never submitted to them by the electors. Was not that the d'anger threatening them just now? He sub- mitted it was, and therefore the second Cham- beir—the House of Lords—was absolutely neces- sary to check the tendency against giving peopla of this country fairplay. He firmly believed it was absolutely necessary that they should re- tain the Ho-use of Lords, and support it in its endeavour to amend the hasty and ill-considered measures.. The resolution was pint to the meeting, and carried with an overwhelming majority- MR BEVAN'S OMNIBUS BILL. Mr GEO. BEVAN, at this stage, announced that he had an omnibus bill to present for the audience's consideration. He termed it suoh because it contained a lot of useful little mea- sures, which, he believed, would be given their cordial support- One was that they present their heartiest thanks to their worthy ohairman for occupying the chair that night. The second was a resolution of thanks to the two honour- able Lords, who had 90 eloquently addressed them that night- The third was that their sin- cere thanks be acoorded to the two other speakers who had carried oil the debate to their delight. He thought they deserved those thanks, because their Lordships had come down tlliere to enlighten them upon a subjeot which, he was sure, many of them were very ignorant about. They had really been taught in North Wales, and the Unionist leaders had never ven- tured to tell them differently, that the House of Lords was rompcd of that class of peopLe to whom reference had already been made. He 4 was delighted' to think that the noble lords had » placed the matter before them in a reasonable, temperate, and common sense way, and he felt sure that whenever that old institution of the country came to be attacked; it would find in Colwyn Bay a band of noble and determined defenders (applause)- Mr CHAS- REYNOLDS seconded, and re- marked! that he hoped that that day, when they had been opening a new okub, would prove tot be the beginning of great things for the Con- servative party in. the district- He thanked those of the opposite party who were present, for ooming there that night, and he also thank- ed them for behaving in suen a good tempered manner.. The proposals were carried with loud ap. plause. 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