LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
THE WELSH LAND QUESTION.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sta,—May I, in reference to your article on this subject, point out that it would be unfair to identify the land agitation pro- moted by Messrs. Gee and Ellis with religious Noncon- formity ? I venture also respectfully to doubt whether the present land agitation is being used simply in order to accele- rate the Disestablishment coach. Last year there was a great meeting of the Liberal Federation for Wales at Aberystwith. -I have it on good authority that there was the greatest diffi- .culty in preventing the extreme -party from securing the first place on the Welsh Radical programme for the land agitation. After the gathering, one of the Welsh Members—a man of large property—was heard to say : "We have got this Disestab- lishment cry ; let us push it to the front as much as possible, and so retard, if not indefinitely postpone, this attack upon land." It must be remembered that the Welsh are honest and religious people, disinclined to appropriate their neighbours' property. The tithe agitation, with its pseudo-religious sanc- tion, cleverly but covertly helps to undermine this disinclina- tion, and the tithe riot, beginning generally with a hymn and ending with violence, supplies an elementary education in the work of familiarising the Welsh people with the property- doctrines of the new morality.—I am, Sir, &c., Vicarage, Carmarthen, July 10th. A. G. EDWARDS.
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