17 AUGUST 1889, Page 3

Perhaps the South Wales Daily News, which is more candid

on the subject of tithe than Mr. Gee, gives the true explana- tion of this melodramatic wrath. It says frankly :—" If the tithe become, so far as the tenant is concerned, merged in the rent—and that is what Ministers by their latest move seek to accomplish—it will be a step further away from nationalisa- tion. Plain speaking is best ; and we may plainly say that the tithe is a useful lever for the upsetting of the Establish- ment, and the people must keep hold of that lever." That is as admirably candid a confession that some of the Noncon- formists in. Wales deliberately intend doing evil that good in the shape of a socialistic measure for nationalising the land may come of it, as we ever read in an English journal.