The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-10-15
WALES LAND COMMISSION
The Proceedings to Assume Great PO-
litiCal Importance.

llllIdl ILL pUlIdHIC'
The Demands of the Welsh Tenant
Farmers Too Loud to be Disregarded
and too Far Reaching to be Disre-
garded without a Severe Struggle.
They Aim to Deprive the English
Land Owners of the Control of Their
Own Properties Gladstone to Clip
the Political Power of the UNIVERSE
ties.
Copyright 1898 by the United Press.)
London, Oct. 1.-THE proceedings Of
the Welsh land commission, which began
this week, have been almost ignored by
the English press. Nevertheless they
are likely soon to assume great political
importance for the demands of the Welsh
tenant farmers are too loud to be disre-
garded, aad too far reaching to be
granted without a severe struggle. Hith-
erto the small Welsh agriculturists have
kept in the back ground of politics
their desire to get land by legal
station after the mode of the Irish land
laws. The witnesses who have been be-
fore the commission so far, however, have
cut to the kernel of the Welsh agrarian
agitation All of them, including sew
eral radical leaders of local reputation,
have declared that their grievances can
not be settled without the governments
granting to them the regulation of rents
by land courts tixity of tenure and some
adaptation of the principles of free sale.
The tenants according to the witnesses
ought to be compensated not only for the
70 40 u
agreed, but also for those to which the
landlords have efused to agree.
THE AIM OF THE MOVEMENT.
In nutshell the agrarian movemen
in Wales aims to deprive the English land
owners of the control of their properties
there.
Disestablishment of the church in
Wales being almost within the grasp of
Welshmen they now follow Irish lead in
demanding the famous three F's-fair
rent, free sale and fxity of tenure-for
this cloaked under new phrases, is prac-
tically what their demands come to. Sug-
gestive evidence of the growth of national
aspirations in Wales is to be found in
the utterances of several witnesses who
referred to Englshmen as foreigners.
The chairman of the Anglesea county
council for instance complained while
before the commission yesterday that
certain lduulOIuS WtT6 lOItlEnCISs
'Who are these foreign landlordsl"
asked the president of the commission.
"Why, Lord Stanley, Sir George Ny
rick and several others whom l might
name"
But they are Englishmen," protested
the president, surely you do not con-
slider England a foreign country"
''Yes l do, rather" persisted the
These views are finding public accept
ance among the Welsh liberals and are
likely to cause the English
liberals to pause in giving
further support to Mr. Glad
stones Irish policy, for no sooner
would Ireland get home rule than the
Welshmen, now aroused, would turn the
last stone to secure for themselves the
same rights. Most English liberals are
hardly ready to follow the principle of
home rule to this logical conclusion.
They are very far from recognizing any
principle which tends to break up the
United Kingdom into four countries with
independent legislatures. If the conser-
vatives work vigorously on English fears
the present agrarian movement in Wales
can be made most potent argument
against Irish home rule.
GLADSTONE AND THE UNIVERSITIES.
There is a report credited to liberal
circles that Mr.. GladstOne's registration
reform bill, if accompanied by redistri-
button of the seats, will have provision
for the disfranchisement of the English
universities. As these great intellectual
centers persistently refuse to give Mr.
Gladstone a single supporter in paria-
ment, 1t is not improbable that he should
form some plan to wipe them out politi-
cally.
S. T. Evans (Welsh), member of parlia-
ment, has been interviewed again as to
the reports that Joseph Chamberlain
tried 10 arrange a deal with Welshmen
during the last parliamentary session
The basis of this deal was to be the CO.
operation of Welshmen with the unionists
IN voting no confidence in the government
and the introduction of a disestablish-
ment bill by the new uniOnist cabinet to
be formed by Mr.. Chamberlain.
MIR. Evans says that despite all denials
there is some truth in these reports. Mr.
Chamberlain, he said, had approached
the Welsh party before now Mr. Evans
said: Il have been informed by a lead
ing unionist politician that it has been ar
ranged between the conservatives and
unionists that the next government shall
be unionist and Mr.. Chamberlain shall be
the premier" Mr. Evans refused to
name his informant, and would not de-
scribe the nature of Mr.. Chamberlain's
approaches.
NApu d Wow W Cu6ChluB Italy 5 plans
TO involve Great Britain in a counter
demonstration to the Toulon affair, the
British government has ordered that the
visiting British feet be divided, and that
one half 60 to Catalonia, while the other
goes to laramie. No local celebrations
will be observed beyond the dinners of
the officers with the municipal authori.
ties. The special correspondents sent
from all points of Europe to laramie have
been recalled since the insignifcance of
the demonstration has thus been revealed.