The Pontypridd District Herald and Rhondda Valley, Llantrisant, Caerphilly, and Mountain Ash News. — 1891-06-06 (Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

WILLIAMS, "RATEPAYER" AND "ORPHAN."  To the Editor.  Sir,—With great diffidence, very great diffidenoe, I again venture upon the task of replying to these three intellectual whalers. "Ratepayer " imagines that I have a natural affection for Mr Bryant. He is mistaken. But I have for the young couple who got married. I had no intention of rousing the igassoent elements in the natures of the three named gentlemen to slush a piton of fury. My Itest letter discussed the schoolmaster's right of granting or refusing the use of the premises. I did not use a single disrespectful word of him as tna individual or as a teacher, neither did I make use of such ohoioe expressions as :—"Boudan rebel,‘ " unworthy epistle," "mouthpiece of a ciltqui,"S" dull of comprehension," (by Ratepayer) "'Sprat," " heriing," " satall_for," "puppets," 'insignificant thing," ".btears4hted observer," " cunning and ignorant , schemers," " orsing sprats," "the man " (by The schoolmaster). Can it be posaibbritat a " sprat " has caused all this commotion ? Mr Williams is an aetuter controversialist than Ratepayer, who is a beardless boy and not yet arrived at the years of duseretton. Mr Williams knows when he is overthr,wn in argument, and instead of replying to very simple questions, descends to personal abuse. "Ratepayer " (who possesses no property that I know of, except a pair of pantsloons of great width, unbounded affectation, and a pretty fashion of blushing, calls me "dull of comprehension" because I cannot see that "Mr Williams admits in his letter that his csontrol mules after his duy's work is over." Mr Williams (Who surely prays "save me from my friends ") says "my control never ceases." I cannot possibly make these assertions agree, so this Litiputian lick-spittle is undoubtedly right, and I am dull.  Mr Bryant is frightened out of his wits because of Ratepayer's threat about the next election. Did not this pragmatic pettifogger use his tremendous influence against Mr Bryant at the recent Election of Guardians? And did not Mr Bryant's name appear at the head of the poll with a triumphant majority ? 0 Braggadocio, thy nanie is Davicll " Orphan " is a humorous perfectionist and a sycophant of the first water. He calls Mr Virilliatao "a noble and respected schoolmaster," "a gentleman of sterling goblin's," "an ornament and acquisition to our parish," "a gentleman whose character is as bright as Venus," "a gentleman who has been untiring in his efforts, to elevate the village. Why elevate the village? did not know Mr Williams was a mason, Shakespeare t  .41 says "The evil that men do lives after them,  The good is oft interred with tbsir Wines." Mr Williams's bones will be awfully oiercrowded. Many persons with fewer qualifications, have been oanonized as saints, and no doubt our future calendars will contain a day dedicated to St. Lewis, the Parish Ornament.  Now for Mr Williams, who cannot blame me if I follow his example and fedoe without foils I Shall now cull a few choice sentenoes from the lucid letter by Mr Williams, who pretends to know ft I I nhnnt Donqdßs' Penny Grammar and Collins' Mr Williams wonders at my temerity in replying to his letter. Allow me to inform this pedantic pedagogue that in the course of a varied experience I have replied to better men than himself and come off victorious. Nevertheless, not being the intellectual wonder that he is, I cannot be expected to know much about Imperfect 'Verbs. Yet lam egotiolcsl enough to believe that I could accomplish task of passing the matriculation exan44....i00n without being plucked three times. This feat is performed with honours by youths of sixteen and seventeen years of age. Now for specimens of murdering the Queen's English. "Nevertheless allow me to satisfy the cravings of ignorant schemers, Ac., who keep behind the scenes on the following points." He evidently meant to satisfy on the following points, and not keep on the points. The " schemers ' must be uncomfortable on the points. Again, "I never lusked him to write his letter directly or indirectly." "Ratepayer, did you write directly or indirectly? The schoolmaster, no doubt, mow that he never (Joke directly, So. Age* " tOc Committee htMO power," itnd "this oonopittee it not, fko." Verb plural in the first and verb singular in the second, Again " unintermittent stream of eloquence, eligatim of style, purity of diction, loftiness ‘,l thoughts," is copied from one of Johnson's essays. The plagiarism would be more =indult if Mr Williams could spell correctly the word elegance. Have you not discarded the Penny Grammar and Penny Dictionary too soon, Mr Williams? More to follow. Yours, eto.,