The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1887-10-15 00:00:00

THE WELSH;

On Tuesday evening Mr. Osborne Morgan, M.P.,
delivered an address, in inaugurating the winter
session of tbe Liverpool Welsh National Society.
There was a large attendance and Mr. Morgan's re-
marks were received with great enthusiasm. Referring
to the question as to what constituted a nation, he
said the accident of being politically united under
the same sceptre, though it might make a State
did not necessarily make a nation; nor was a nation
in the true sense of the word always made up of men
of the same blood and origin, nor would it be right
even to infer that a common language was invariably
the true test of a common nationality. The true
answer was, speaking generally, that naticinality con-
sistzd of a combination of all the three elements he
bad named. Applying these tests to Welshmen, he
thought it would be admitted that as regarded two of
them they might claim to be as distinctively a nation
as any people in the world. The inhabitants of Wales
proper, with the exception of various places near the
border, were probably one of the purest races in
Europe, and he doubted whether any other people in
the world who were subject to such penetrating social
and political influences from outside could have
retained its own language for so long a period and in
its pristine purity. Englishmen said that the Welsh
language was dying out, but it was an undoubted fact
that - the number of Welsh speaking people had
distinctly increased during the past fifty years. But
what was almost unique in history was this—that
while the Welsh people continued to cling as pas-
sionately as over to their own nationality, that
nationality was or had been until lately almost
ignored by the outside world. The majority of the
English people were only just awakening to the fact
that Welshmen were entitled to have a voice in the
management of their own affairs. He did not propose
to enter upon such a thorny question as that of HOMO
Rule for the Principality, bat it did seem to him abso-
lutely monstrous that upon matters which concerned
Wales, and Wales alone, that the almost unanimous
voice of her representatives should be overridden by
men who were as little in touch with the people of the
Principality, knew as little of its wants and wishes, as
if they lived in the great Sahara.

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