Welsh Journals

OFFERTORIES AND COLLECTIONS AT ST. MARY'S DURING JAN. Jan. Jan. Jan. Jan. 7th, 14th, 21 st, 28th, WELSH. 10 a.m. 6 p.m. 10 a.m. 6 p.m. 10 a.m. 6 p.m. 10 a.m. 6 p.m. o 16 o 5 s. d. 6 3 8* 10 ENGLISH. Jan. Jan. Jan. Jan. 7th, 14th, 31 st, 28th, 11-30 a.m. 6-30 p.m. 11-30 a.m. 6-30 p.m. 11-30 a.m. 6-30 p.m. 11-30 a.m 6-30 p.m. 1906. £ s. d. 1 0 0 5 0 14 3* 0 7 2* 0 12 0 5 1* 0 16 0 5 10 Total (English) £4 6 6* Jan. 3rd.- ,1 4th.- „ 4th.- „ 14th.- ,. 26th.— Dec. 5th.- Jan. 10th.- » 33rd-~ Total (Welsh) £408 Total collection for December, £8 7s. 2^d. BAPTISMS. -Richard, son of Richard and Ann Jones, Deanery Cottage. -Jane Blodwen, daughter of Richard and Leah Grant, 28, Tai'rmynydd. Harold Glynn, son of Owen and Mary Ellen Price, 30, Tai'rmynydd. -Katherine, daughter of William Edward and Katherine Dora Richards, 67, Carnarvon Road. 34 Boys from the Training Ship Clio, Minor Canon J. C. Morice officiating. MARRIAGES. -William Owen, 18, Edmund Street, Bangor, to Antonia Annie Eugenie Thomas, 108, Orme Road, Bangor. Robert Griffiths, Railway Crossing, Port Dinorwig, to Sarah Ann Jones, Plas Lodwic, Upper Bangor. Frank Bellis, Cliff Cottage, Bangor, to Elizabeth Violet Rowlands, Gwyfryn, Bangor. It is specially gratifying to find that a great Conservative paper like the Western Mail can, on broad national grounds, rise superior to political differences and advocate the claims of a political opponent to the freedom of Cardiff. My readers will, I am sure, enjoy the article, written as it is in a broad-minded, lofty, and patriotic spirit. Appended is the article referred to :— MR. LLOYD-GEORGE AND CARDIFF. By the great majority of the citizens of Cardiff our suggestion that Mr. Lloyd-George should be honoured with the freedom of the city has been received with cordial approval. But it was only to be expected that amongst 200,000 inhabitants some would be found ready to raise their voices in protest against it. We publish in another column the few protests we have received, and it will be seen that the objections are purely political. It cannot be too plainly stated that the freedom of Cardiff is a matter of citizenship and not of politics. A man is none the less a good and loyal citizen for being a Radical, or even a Socialist of the most extreme type. Our social and civic life would, indeed, be narrowed into intolerable bitterness if a man's politics were made a test for his admission to the scroll of honour. There are things which stand above politics, and Mr. Lloyd-George's qualities as a Welsh Nationalist of the most representative type entitle him to the highest honour that the capital of Wales can bestow. He is a Welsh Nationalist in the truest sense, possessing all the merits and some of the weaknesses of the type; and first amongst the merits is the fact that he loves his country, its language and literature, its customs and institutions, with an ardour more abiding than his attachment to any political faith. Zeal in a cause with which we profoundly disagree does not blind us as to his merits as the most representative Welshman of his day. Politically, no one has opposed Mr. Lloyd-George more vigorously than the Western Mail) and it is strongly probable that nobody will oppose him more vigorously in the future. We have not forgotten " his peculiar attitude " during the South African war, nor " his fierce and bitter opposition to the voluntary schools in Wales " ; but we also remember, as a redeeming quality, that he had the courage of his most unpopular convictions. However, a vivid remembrance of a man's hostile views should not blind even the bitterest partisan where citizenship is concerned. After all, Mr. Lloyd-George is not the only man who has expressed extreme opinions. To take instances from the roll of honorary freemen of the city, Mr. Gladstone, Sir Edward Reed, Sir William Thomas Lewis, Sir Alfred Thomas, Alderman David Jones have all expressed