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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of Wit and Wisdom of Lord Tredegar, by 
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+Title: Wit and Wisdom of Lord Tredegar
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+    WIT AND WISDOM
+    OF
+    LORD TREDEGAR
+
+    [Illustration: Tredegar]
+
+
+    WIT AND WISDOM
+    OF
+    LORD TREDEGAR
+
+
+    1911.
+
+    WESTERN MAIL, LIMITED,
+    CARDIFF, NEWPORT, SWANSEA,
+    MERTHYR, BRECON AND
+    176, FLEET STREET, LONDON.
+
+
+
+
+FOREWORD.
+
+
+There are a few observations which may be deemed appropriate in
+presenting to the public this collection of extracts from the speeches
+of Godfrey Charles Morgan, first Viscount Tredegar; but it is
+inconceivable that any should be necessary by way of apology. During
+the course of an active and a well-spent life, happily extended beyond
+the allotted span, Lord Tredegar has made hundreds of public
+utterances. Innumerable are the functions he has attended during
+half-a-century and over; and at most of them he has been the central
+figure. But while his high station would always have secured attention
+and respect for his words, this volume may serve to prove to future
+generations what this generation well knows, that Lord Tredegar has
+held his listeners by his humour or by his earnestness, according to
+the occasion, and that, in the homely phrase, he has always had
+"something to say." It is my hope, however, that this little book may
+have a still worthier mission. For I think it will be found to reveal
+a noble mind. The simple words of Lord Tredegar have time and again
+struck deep to the hearts of his audience. Collected here, they reveal
+the gentleness of his disposition and the purity of his motives. They
+show the consistency of his life. But they do much more. They appear
+to constitute a great moral force. Not that his lordship ever posed as
+preacher, or constituted himself a Court of Judgment on any class of
+his fellows. There is no trace of a superior tone in his speeches. His
+words show sympathetic insight into the trials and difficulties that
+beset the path of every one of us, and his desire was never to
+censure, but ever to encourage and assist with kindly suggestion and
+cheering thought.
+
+No aspect of these extracts is so interesting as that which enables us
+to observe how faithfully and well Lord Tredegar has discharged his
+promises. Long before he could describe himself as a landowner, he
+said that if ever he came into that position he would give any
+assistance he could to his tenants in the way of improving his land.
+He hoped he would never become "such a ruffian as some people would
+make landlords out to be." Reading later speeches we find Lord
+Tredegar undertaking in his turn conscientiously the public duties
+previously discharged by his father. We find him making the
+acquaintance of the farmers and studying their difficulties. We find
+him raising the Tredegar Show to its present pre-eminence in the world
+of agriculture. It is a noble record of honesty of purpose. And
+agriculture, as well we know in Wales and Monmouthshire, is but one of
+Lord Tredegar's many interests. He has spoken wise words on education;
+he has urged the claims of charity. He has led the way in historical
+research, and inspired among many whose interest might not otherwise
+have been aroused a love of our ancient castles and our dear old
+parish churches. He has spoken eloquently of our Welsh heroes and
+bards. Upon the value of Eisteddfodau he loves to expound. But it is
+not these higher interests of his that have made him so beloved. His
+appeals for the ragged urchin of the streets, his appreciation of the
+bravery of the worker, his jokes at bazaars, his quips at the cabmen's
+annual dinners, his love of old customs, his pleasantries at the
+servants' balls, by these and by his transparent sincerity he has won
+the affections of all classes of the people, who have found in him a
+leader who can share sorrows as well as joys. His brave words have
+been the consolation of the widow of the humble soldier slain in
+battle, as they have been the encouragement of the boy or girl scholar
+shyly taking from his hand a prize. He has told the boys they will be
+all the better for total abstinence, and he has dined and joked with
+licensed publicans. "Here, at least, is inconsistency," may exclaim
+the stranger into whose hand this book may fall. But Lord Tredegar
+justifies himself by the fact that having licensed houses on his
+estate it is his duty to take an interest in those who conduct them.
+
+Lord Tredegar has never sought to adorn his speeches with rhetoric. He
+has always spoken so that he who heard could understand. And yet he is
+reputed justly to be among the best of after-dinner speakers. If it be
+necessary to delve into the possible secret of his success, one might
+hazard a guess that it is because in his speeches it is the unexpected
+that always happens. The transition from grave to gay or from gay to
+grave is so swift that the mind of the listener is held as it were by
+a spell, and all is over e'er yet one thought it had begun.
+
+Much of this, however, is in passing. Quite a multitude, at one time
+or another, has listened to the words of Godfrey Charles Morgan. Quite
+a multitude has been influenced by them. That multitude, I am sure,
+will be glad to have those words in permanent form. There may be but a
+sentence chosen from a speech that has been heard, but that sentence
+will be remembered or recollected. And to that greater multitude who
+by the natural force of circumstances cannot have listened to the
+words of Viscount Tredegar, this little collection may serve to show
+forth a figure that, though simple, is great in simplicity, and it
+were strange indeed if some sentences were not found which may help to
+make a crooked way straight.
+
+    THE EDITOR.
+
+
+
+
+WIT AND WISDOM OF LORD TREDEGAR.
+
+
+
+
+EPIGRAMMATIC ELOQUENCE.
+
+
+I would rather trust and be deceived, than be found to have suspected
+falsely.
+
+    _Reduction of Armaments Meeting, Newport,
+    March 17th, 1899._
+
+Some people will not go across a street to hear an oratorio, though
+they would go many miles to listen to that very entertaining melody,
+"Whoa, Emma!"--and I'm not sure that I shouldn't be one of them.--
+
+    _Tredegar Show.
+    November 26th, 1879._
+
+The other day I was doing a little bit of horse-cropping--I'm fond of
+that sort of thing--and went into an Irish dealer's yard, where I saw
+a horse which grunted very much. Looking at the dealer, I said, "The
+horse is a roarer," and the Irishman replied: "Ah, no, me lord, not a
+bit of it. I've 'ad 'im from two years ould, an' e' 'ad wunce a most
+desprit froight, an' 'e's 'ad the hiccups ever since!"
+
+    _Tredegar Show,
+    November 26th, 1879._
+
+[Illustration: "_'E's 'ad the hiccups ever since!_"]
+
+I do not think there is a man in England who has more at heart than
+myself the religious education of children. In 1839 the Chartist Riots
+took place at Newport. In the following year National Schools were
+opened, and I believe that had the men who took part in these riots
+received the education imparted at the National Schools they would
+never have decided upon such a misguided course of action.
+
+    _Jubilee of Newport National Schools,
+    May 16th, 1890._
+
+I was rather alarmed when I received the notice, "Peach Blossom Fancy
+Dress Fair," and I telegraphed at once to a lady who I thought knew
+what was going on and asked, "Am I obliged to come in fancy dress?"
+The answer I got was, "You need not wear anything."
+
+    _Llangibby Church Fete,
+    August, 1910._
+
+[Illustration: "_You need not wear anything._"]
+
+I generally pay great attention to what a clergyman says, but you
+cannot always take the advice of a clergyman. A certain man had a dog,
+and his minister told him that he had better sell the dog and get a
+pig, to which the man replied, "A pretty fool I should look going
+rat-catching with a pig."
+
+    _St. Paul's Garden Fete, Newport,
+    June 23rd, 1910._
+
+Without some sort of religion no man can be happy.
+
+    _St. Paul's Garden Fete, Newport,
+    June 23rd, 1910._
+
+I am not accustomed to begging, being more accustomed to being begged
+of. That is one of the hereditary privileges of members of the House
+of Lords.
+
+    _Meeting in connection with the new Infirmary for Newport,
+    March 17th, 1897._
+
+It appears to me that my good qualities increase in proportion as the
+hair comes off the top of my head, and it is well that in proportion
+as we grow less ornamental we should grow more useful.
+
+    _Tredegar Show,
+    November 29th, 1876._
+
+I really think I must be out of place here. You know I am one of the
+hereditary nonentities. I cannot help the hereditary part of the
+business, and I have tried all my life to avoid the other.
+
+    _South Monmouthshire Conservative Association,
+    December 22nd, 1909._
+
+You ought, of course, to learn something about ancient art, or you
+will be like a certain Lord Mayor of whom I have heard. One day he
+received a telegram from some people who were carrying on excavations
+in Greece, and who had discovered a statue by Phidias. They thought,
+in common with most foreigners, that the Lord Mayor was the most
+powerful person in the kingdom--abroad he is supposed to rule the
+country. Anyway, they sent him a telegram saying "Phidias is
+recovered." The Lord Mayor wired back that he was pleased to hear it,
+but that he did not know that Phidias had been unwell.
+
+    _Art School Prize Distribution, Newport,
+    December 12th, 1899._
+
+A noted musician, when asked whether he thought it was right to carry
+out capital punishment, replied: "No; because you can do a man to
+death with a piano."
+
+    _At Llandaff,
+    June 26th, 1900._
+
+[Illustration: "_You can do a man to death with a piano._"]
+
+I believe I have laid more foundation stones than any other man in
+England. I have mallets and trowels sufficient to supply, I believe,
+every Parish Church in the country. They are very handsome and
+ornamental, and I hope I shall have more of them.
+
+    _Foundation Stone Laying, St. John's Church, Cardiff,
+    March 12th, 1889._
+
+[Illustration: "_I believe I have laid more foundation stones than any
+other man in England._"]
+
+We (agriculturists) are looked upon as a long-suffering and patient
+race, and some of the manufacturing class think we are fit subjects
+for bleeding. In fact, it has been said that agriculturists are like
+their own sheep, inasmuch as they can bear a close shaving without a
+bleat; whereas the manufacturers are like pigs; only touch their
+bristles and they will "holler like the devil."
+
+    _Tredegar Show,
+    December 17th, 1867._
+
+Lord Rosebery is alternately a menace and a sigh.
+
+    _Conservative Dinner, Newport,
+    November 15th, 1895._
+
+We have had an old-fashioned winter, and I do not care if I never see
+another. The only people, I fancy, who have enjoyed the winter are the
+doctors and the Press.
+
+    _Servants' Ball_,
+    _January 16th, 1891._
+
+
+
+
+MEMORIES OF BALACLAVA.
+
+
+I consider myself one of the most fortunate men in England to have
+been one of those spared out of the 600 about whom so much has been
+said and sung. Although my military career has been brief, I have seen
+a great deal. I have seen war in all its horrors. It is said to be "an
+ill wind that blows nobody good"; so it has been with me. I have
+learned to doubly appreciate home and all its comforts. Before going
+out to the Crimea I was accustomed to see, on these occasions, farmers
+looking happy and contented, and I was in the habit of thinking what a
+great nation England was, and how she flourished in all things; but
+since the war commenced I have seen the other side of the picture. I
+have seen an army march into an hostile country, and in the midst of
+farms flowing with milk and honey, and teeming with corn and every
+luxury--and there, in a few hours, all was desolation, one stone not
+being left on another, and the people made slaves to the invaders. How
+thankful we ought to be that we are not suffering at the hand of an
+invading army. Now that my military career is at an end I am sure that
+a great many of you will sympathise with my father, whose anxiety has
+been very great. We were out during the most dreadful period of the
+war, and it need not be wondered at that I yielded to the most earnest
+entreaties of my father to relinquish my connection with the army lest
+I should bring his grey hairs with sorrow to the grave. My father
+thought that one such action as I have been in was sufficient to prove
+the mettle of his son. I will not further enlarge on the horrors and
+miseries of war. May you never see them as I have done, and may we
+all meet at this festive board next year.
+
+    _Newport Agricultural Show,
+    December 18th, 1855._
+
+I do not intend to say much about Balaclava to-day because you have
+heard the old story over and over again, and I am too old now to
+invent stories of Balaclava. On my way down here I stopped to receive
+a telegram worded in these terms:--"Fifteen survivors of the Balaclava
+Charge send your lordship hearty congratulations and affectionate
+remembrances on this day, the 54th anniversary." Well, recollections
+of a sad event are at any time, of course, unpleasant, but it is
+particularly sad to think that there are now only 15 survivors
+remaining out of the Light Brigade of 600. That attenuated number does
+not include myself, and there are three other officers still alive.
+You may be pretty confident that of these few survivors there were at
+least two or three with whom I conversed within a few hours of the
+Balaclava Charge. You can imagine those conversations. They were not
+very lively ones. They referred probably to some comrade who had been
+killed or to the difficulty of filling the place of some officer who
+had fallen; because when we drew up after the Balaclava Charge I was
+the officer in command of the decimated regiment. All my superior
+officers had been either killed or wounded, and I was placed in the
+difficult position to find men suddenly to fill the vacancies. So you
+can imagine the recollections of those survivors. Since that time
+there have been a number of gallant deeds on the part of the British
+army, and I hope that those gallant deeds will be remembered, just as
+the Balaclava Charge is remembered here. I hope the British nation
+will never forget such events as Trafalgar and Waterloo, but will
+always hoist a flag or do something else to commemorate them.
+
+    _Balaclava Dinner, Bassaleg,
+    October 25th, 1908._
+
+My own courage in the memorable charge was small, but the deed of
+daring conferred everlasting credit on the Senior Officers who took
+part in it. I trust that you will keep your offspring fully acquainted
+with the heroic deeds of the British Army, and induce them to display
+similar courage in the hour of their country's danger.
+
+    _Balaclava Dinner, Castleton,
+    October 25th, 1890._
+
+When a person gets beyond the allotted age of man there must, I think,
+be in his mind a melancholy thought regarding the possibility of his
+being present on a similar occasion twelve months hence. I am afraid
+that some men of my age would have to limp into a room, probably
+assisted by a crutch. Fortunately, however, I was able to walk into
+the room without a crutch and without assistance, and I am thankful
+for that to the Power above. The term "hero" is a term with which many
+soldiers do not agree. The mention of the word recalls to my mind the
+well-known lines of Rudyard Kipling:
+
+    "We aren't no thin red 'eroes,
+      An' we aren't no blackguards, too,
+    But single men in barracks,
+      Most remarkable like you."
+
+I am sure the soldiers who fought with the Light Cavalry at Balaclava
+did not think themselves greater heroes than others in the Crimea who
+did their duty. Quite recently I read an article in a military
+magazine, it dealt with the question of the advance of cavalry and the
+arms which should be given them--the lance, the sword, and the rifle.
+The article commenced with the statement that it was the business of
+every soldier to go into action with the determination to try and kill
+someone. I suppose that is right in its way, but it was hardly the
+sentiment we went into action with. We went into action to try to
+defeat the enemy, but the fewer we killed the better. I have to
+confess that I tried to kill someone, but to this day I congratulate
+myself on the fact that I do not know whether I succeeded or no. In
+these days of long range guns our consciences are saved a great deal,
+and so far as killing anyone goes I always give myself the benefit of
+the doubt, so that the charge of murder cannot be brought against me.
+
+    _Balaclava Dinner, Bassaleg,
+    October 29th, 1910._
+
+
+
+
+QUIPS AT THE SERVANTS' BALL.
+
+
+I have arrived at the age when to clasp the waist of one of the
+opposite sex for three hours is not considered the height of human
+happiness. I remember, however, with pleasure, a time in my younger
+days when I thought it was so, and perhaps some of those who can
+indulge in a valse without feeling giddy, or a polka without being
+"blown," think so now.
+
+    _Servants' Ball,
+    January 14th, 1889._
+
+[Illustration: "_I remember, however, with pleasure, a time in my
+younger days._"]
+
+I am happy to be able truly and honestly to say that I have not a word
+of difference with any servant of my establishment. Each year as it
+rolls onward finds me stiffer in the joints, shorter in the breath,
+and less able than formerly to perform the double shuffle, but there
+are others coming on--the younger members of the family--who will be
+able to kick up their heels as lightly as once I was able to do. As
+each year rolls round, too, there are always saddening memories, but
+on an occasion of this sort I will make no allusions to them, ... I
+hope you will stick to old fashions and old ways. You may be told of
+new-fangled ways, and be advised to get rid of the old, but I think it
+will be well if you do not pay too much attention to those advisers.
+England is like old Tredegar House, and you will find that the customs
+now prevailing have been in vogue for over 500 years. You will
+probably be told that the best way to make people happy is to make the
+poor rich and the rich poor; but, in truth, the richer people are, the
+better able they are to help the poor.
+
+    _Servants' Ball,
+    January 7th, 1910._
+
+Many of you waited last night for the old year to go out and the new
+year to come in. I did for one. I listened at the window and I heard
+bells ringing, and noises which I can only describe as hideous. There
+is an invention in this part of the world, which I believe comes from
+America (where they have a great many disagreeable things) called a
+"hooter." When I listened last night it seemed to me that it was
+deliberately hooting out the old year which to so many of us had
+painful recollections; and it occurred to me that it was a most
+appropriate thing to do. It was the wettest spring, the coldest
+summer, the windiest autumn that I have ever known.
+
+    _Servants' Ball,
+    January 1st, 1892._
+
+I can imagine the Bassaleg Parish Council rejoicing in a license for
+dancing in the hall, and the teetotallers passing a resolution in
+favour of total abstinence, in which case we should have to obtain our
+refreshments from the village pump.
+
+    _Servants' Ball,
+    January 9th, 1894._
+
+Railways are springing up all round, and, reading the signs of the
+times as I do, I think there will be increased prosperity. If all the
+railways now proposed are constructed, we shall be able to paraphrase
+the poet's lines:--
+
+    Railways to right of them,
+    Railways to left of them,
+    Railways behind them,
+      Most of them silly 'uns.
+    Into the lawyer's jaw,
+    And the Contractor's paw,
+      Go the eight millions.
+
+I shall be able to convert Tredegar House into the "Railway Hotel,"
+join the Licensed Victuallers' Association, and do a good trade--if I
+can get a license. We have progressed a good deal lately, even in
+dancing. I can remember the minuet being the fashion. It was danced
+with a great deal of bowing and scraping. Then the waltz, quadrille,
+and lancers came. We next had a kitchen lancers, and this year we have
+a barn dance. Next year, perhaps, we shall have a pigstye polka, which
+will no doubt be very amusing.
+
+    _Servants' Ball,
+    January 8th, 1896._
+
+[Illustration: "_I shall be able to convert Tredegar House into the
+'Railway Hotel.'_"]
+
+There have been many changes in the manners and customs of the country
+during late years. I am very fond of old customs, and I hope this
+old-fashioned Servants' Ball will be kept up by those who come after
+me. I am sure there is no gentleman in England who is blessed with a
+better lot of servants than I have. If sometimes by my manner I do not
+appear pleased, I hope you will make allowance for the business
+anxieties constantly hanging over my head, and which do not always
+conduce to a pleasant expression. I will relate an incident. An
+individual who apparently takes a great deal of interest in me wrote
+to me not so long ago and asked, "Why did you look so proud and
+haughty when you met me the other day?" I have no recollection of
+having been proud and haughty, but I have a very distinct recollection
+of a very tight boot and a very bad corn.
+
+    _Servants' Ball,
+    January 8th, 1896._
+
+[Illustration: "_When your toe begins to take a fantastic shape it is
+pretty nearly time to give up dancing._"]
+
+I always sympathise with you in your sorrows and try to join you in
+your pleasures. In this life, unfortunately, for a good many, there
+are more sorrows than pleasures, but I think it is the duty of all who
+have it in their power to try to make those around them have, if
+possible, more pleasures in their lives than sorrows. I congratulate
+myself that I have still a kick left in me. You know that Milton, the
+poet, has said in two lines:
+
+    "Come and trip it as you go
+    On the light fantastic toe."
+
+but when your toe begins to take a fantastic shape it is pretty nearly
+time to give up dancing. As my toes are beginning to take that shape,
+I am afraid I shall not have a kick left much longer. I have always
+spoken a few words to you on these occasions--sometimes of sentiment,
+sometimes of politics, and sometimes of fun. I usually prefer fun,
+because there is generally enough of the other phases around us. I
+will therefore content myself with giving the establishment a little
+bit of advice, or rather a hint. I have found that what I say on these
+occasions has somehow or other found its way into the papers. I do
+not know exactly how that is. However, I think it will be more
+impressive in print, because if you forget what I say before the end
+of the evening, you will be able to read it in the Press next day. My
+hint is about fires. There are large fireplaces in Tredegar House,
+which is an old one, full of old oak which is liable to catch fire.
+During the last few weeks some fine old country houses have been
+destroyed by fire. I do not think this has occurred through
+carelessness. I know my servants are not careless. What I want you to
+understand is the difference between a fire and a furnace. Old Welsh
+families--and my family is really an old Welsh family--all believe
+that they have very long pedigrees. There are in the strong room at
+Tredegar House a great many old records--some of which I have read out
+of curiosity. Many of them, no doubt, are mythical, and some are
+accurate, but in all my study of them I have not been able to discover
+that I bear any relationship to Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego. I
+therefore fail to see why the household staff should pile up furnaces,
+especially now that I assure them I am not quite impervious to fire. I
+always like to entertain you a little on these occasions. I will
+therefore just sing to you a few lines, and ask Young Charley (the
+huntsman) to come in at the end. I notice that Old Charley (the former
+huntsman) is also present, and he, perhaps, will join in as well. His
+Lordship then sang the following verses to the tune of "Ben Bolt":--
+
+    There are soul-stirring sounds in the fiddle and flute
+      When music begins in the hall,
+    And a goddess in muslin that's likely to suit
+      As the mate of your choice for the ball.
+    But the player may strain every finger in vain
+      And the fiddler may resin his bow,
+    Nor fiddle nor string such rapture shall bring
+      As the sound of the sweet "Tally-ho."
+
+    _Servants' Ball,
+    January 11th, 1898._
+
+Times have changed, and fashions change very quickly--so much so that
+I was half afraid you would have petitioned me to allow you to have a
+ping-pong tournament. I am glad to see that you still prefer to stick
+to the old custom of a ball. Of all entertainments a ball is, in my
+opinion, the most harmless. It will always follow that there will be
+some who perhaps on the morrow will think that their affections had
+not been quite under control, and that they had spoken words of
+endearment that perhaps they regretted, and the lady might not. And
+perhaps there will always be those whose control over their thirst at
+a ball is not quite so strong as that of others.
+
+    _Servants' Ball,
+    January 3rd, 1902._
+
+[Illustration: "_Perhaps there will always be those whose control over
+their thirst at a ball is not quite so strong as that of others._"]
+
+I have no doubt that much of what Mr. Perrott has just told you about
+the revels that have taken place in the hall during the last 200 or
+300 years is perfectly true. There may perhaps have been more fun in
+the old days--that is a matter of history. I very much doubt it
+myself, and I have a sort of idea, and I hope and trust that at the
+Servants' Ball which still takes place here annually--unless there is
+some misfortune to prevent it--there is as much fun and revelry as has
+ever before taken place in this hall. The old lamp hung over your
+heads belonged to a former Lord Mayor of London--Sir Edward
+Clark--from whom I inherited some property and plate. That lamp
+probably hung in the Mansion House in London some two or three hundred
+years ago, and I have no doubt it has seen some peculiar scenes.
+
+    _Servants' Ball,
+    January 8th, 1903._
+
+I also have my little anxieties. I have been hoping and praying that
+the enemy will not come up the Bristol Channel and land somewhere near
+here before I have got my Territorial Army into position. At the
+present moment the Territorial Army in Monmouthshire consists exactly
+of 17 men, all of whom are officers. So that unless the enemy give us
+due notice that they are coming here, I am afraid that we shall have
+to depend principally upon the Tredegar House establishment. I am
+quite certain that you will all answer my call, the ladies more
+particularly. I don't care so much about the enemy, whenever he comes,
+so long as I have the ladies with me.
+
+    _Servants' Ball,
+    Jan. 8th, 1908._
+
+[Illustration: "_I don't care so much about the enemy, whenever he
+comes, so long as I have the ladies with me._"]
+
+I take this opportunity of thanking you, and all those in my service
+who have spent this year together with me, for the happy way in which
+we have been enabled to pass the whole year together in our mutual
+admiration for each other. I was going to say affection for each
+other, and I should like to think so. We are--I propose using a silly
+phrase to express our relations at Tredegar House--a brotherhood of
+men. We are here as a brotherhood of men, and a sisterhood of women,
+and I should like you to look upon me as one of yourselves. It may be,
+before this time next year, if things go on as they are, that I shall
+be calling you Comrade Perrot, and you will be calling me Comrade
+Morgan. Things are going very fast just now, but I think there is a
+right feeling throughout the country that we are going too fast. It
+may be that next year, instead of being summoned to the ball here you
+will be asked to
+
+    "Come and trip as you go
+      To the light fantastic veto,"
+
+and we shall be invited to dance the Referendum Lancers.
+
+    _Servants' Ball,
+    January 17th, 1911._
+
+[Illustration: "_I shall be calling you Comrade Perrot, and you will
+be calling me Comrade Morgan._"]
+
+
+
+
+ON ARCHBISHOPS AND BISHOPS.
+
+
+It is customary among certain classes to look upon Bishops as men
+living in beautiful palaces, faring sumptuously, and rolling about in
+carriages; but there is no ploughman who does a harder day's work than
+does our Bishop. As to the clergy, many of them labour amongst us for
+a stipend which many an artizan would despise.
+
+    _Bassaleg Farmers' Dinner,
+    October 13th, 1881._
+
+There is a certain class of advanced politicians who never lose an
+opportunity of serving their own ends by impressing upon their hearers
+their particular notions of what a Bishop of the Church of England is
+like. That dignitary is generally pictured as a gentleman who receives
+a large salary, is clothed in purple and fine linen, fares sumptuously
+every day, and lives in luxurious idleness.
+
+    _The Opening of the Seamen's Mission Church, Newport,
+    January 18th, 1887._
+
+We should remember the duties and responsibilities which rest on an
+Archbishop. He has a vast correspondence, in which there is not a
+single letter that he can write without weighing every word. He is not
+like ordinary people, who are able to scribble off their
+correspondence; for if a word in a letter from an Archbishop is in the
+wrong place, it may upset a college or cause a revolution. If you
+study the history of the Archbishopric of Canterbury, beginning with
+St. Augustine, then going on to Lanfranc, to Anselm, to Theodore, and
+down to Benson and Temple, you will, I believe, come to the conclusion
+that I have reached--that whilst many of the men who have gone before
+him have filled great parts in making the history of the nation, there
+is not one whose character, whose powers of speech, and whose
+earnestness in carrying out his duties, exceeded those of the present
+Archbishop (Dr. Temple).
+
+    _Seventy-fifth Anniversary of St. David's College, Lampeter
+    October 9th, 1902._
+
+[Illustration: "_There is not one whose character, and whose powers of
+speech exceeded those of the present Archbishop (Dr. Temple)._"]
+
+
+
+
+THE TRIALS OF THE CLERGY.
+
+
+Bishops and Clergy have to deal with all sorts of communications from
+parishioners. I remember one case where a clergyman received a letter
+telling him he would never do for St. Phillip's because he was
+altogether too quiet in his preaching, and not half sensational
+enough, but that if he would preach in a red coat in the morning, and
+with no coat at all at night, he would be just the man for the job. As
+to the Bishops, they have so much to do that one of them--Bishop
+Magee, of Peterborough, I believe--summed up the situation by saying
+that people seemed to have an idea that a Bishop had nothing to do but
+sit in his library with the windows open, so that every jackass might
+put in his head and bray.
+
+    _Church Luncheon, Newport,
+    May 16th, 1900._
+
+
+
+
+SERMONS AND SINNERS.
+
+
+If the clergy only preached as well as they might, there ought not to
+be a single sinner in their parishes.
+
+    _Licensed Victuallers' Dinner, Newport,
+    February 7th, 1889._
+
+
+
+
+THE OLD PARISH CHURCH.
+
+
+I believe that all classes, including the Nonconformists, have a real
+love for the old Parish Church and its grey tower, beneath the
+shade of which so many of their ancestors are laid. Here at
+Michaelston-y-Vedw we have a fine historic building, erected about
+1130. I may tell you that one of its old parish registers contains an
+interesting entry. It is that "Godfrey Charles Morgan was baptised
+here on May 4th, 1828."
+
+    _Eisteddfod, Cefn-Mably,
+    September 15th, 1897._
+
+[Illustration: "_Godfrey Charles Morgan was baptised here on May 4th,
+1828._"]
+
+I always take more interest in these historical little rural parish
+churches than I do in a brand new Church erected in some populous
+district. Of course, the Church is really more necessary there than
+among the small Communities; still, there is the sentiment, the old
+association of the old Parish Church and the churchyard in which "the
+rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep." Those lines of the poet Gray:
+
+    "The cock's shrill clarion, nor the echoing horn,
+    No more shall raise him from his lonely bed,"
+
+often strike me, because the little Church is so closely connected
+with the Llangibby family. The Llangibby and Morgan families have been
+associated very often before in the long vista of history, but you
+have amongst you now a relation of mine, come to live amongst you, and
+who will look after this little Church.
+
+
+
+
+RELIGIOUS TOLERANCE.
+
+
+It is possible that I am very tolerant in my religious opinions. But
+seeing that we are now living under perfect tolerance, and that the
+religious wants of the people must be supplied, I think it is the duty
+of those who own property to see that there is accommodation for the
+religious needs of all who live thereon. As science advances there
+must be considerable differences of opinion on religion in a large and
+important town like Cardiff. A great man once said that tolerance was
+simply indifference; I do not agree with him. I think it is possible
+to be tolerant without being indifferent to one's own opinions. There
+is a great leaning nowadays towards scientific religion. Education is
+advancing very rapidly, and philosophical men are trying to make
+reasons for every line in Scripture and every line in the Prayer Book.
+That may be useful in a way, but I cannot help thinking that many
+books written lately by men who are very learned, and with very good
+intent, will, if circulated among the young of the country, do a great
+deal of harm. I look forward to an increase of religious feeling
+throughout the country, and I shall be always ready to assist, as far
+as I can, in erecting chapels and other places for religious
+instruction and religious worship.
+
+    _Chapel, Cardiff,
+    September 14th, 1894._
+
+I have never posed as one made of that stuff of which martyrs are
+made--and perhaps my remarks may offend some, or scandalize others.
+But I would rather see any place of worship in the town than none at
+all, I will go so far as to say I would rather see a Mohammedan mosque
+in the town than no place of worship at all. I have the greatest
+possible admiration for faith of any sort. Early in my life I had
+occasion to look with admiration upon the faith even of a Mohammedan.
+I have listened to the minister of the mosque calling the faithful to
+prayers two, three or more times a day, and I have seen the
+Mohammedans in the street go down on their knees and say their prayers
+in front of everybody. I have seen a regiment of Mohammedans on the
+march, and at the hour of sunset every man in the regiment would kneel
+on his carpet and say his prayers. Those were soldiers who were not
+afraid of their faith, though it might have been the wrong one. I have
+watched a poor Italian peasant kneel on the roadside and offer his
+small tribute to the shrine. He was not afraid of praying before
+anybody; but I am afraid that some of us would rather be seen with our
+hands in somebody else's pocket than kneel down and say our prayers in
+the Club-room.
+
+    _Foundation-stone Laying at Baptist Church, Cardiff,
+    June 14th, 1894._
+
+[Illustration: "_But I am afraid that some of us would rather be seen
+with our hands in somebody else's pocket than kneel down and say our
+prayers in the Club-room._"]
+
+
+
+
+THE CRICKETER CURATE.
+
+
+Cricket is the nicest, best and most gentlemanly exercise in Great
+Britain. How general is the love of cricket is shown by the story of
+some parishioners who, when asked by their Vicar what sort of a Curate
+they would like, said:--"We don't care much about the preaching, but
+what we want in the Curate is a good break to the off."
+
+[Illustration: "_We don't care much about the preaching but what we
+want in the Curate is a good break to the off._"]
+
+
+
+
+THE BROTHERHOOD OF MAN.
+
+
+I think you are quite right in commencing with a religious service a
+ceremony such as I am about to perform. These institutions are
+established for the welfare of the inhabitants, and we begin with a
+religious service in order to impress on those who are going to use
+the Hall hereafter that, whatever is done inside the Hall should be
+done in a way which is really a Christian way. It will not affect in
+any way the feelings of those who attend for amusement or instruction,
+except to prompt a religious feeling which we all wish to have some
+time or other in our lives. I was very pleased to be able to come
+to-day and perform the opening ceremony. A little pressure was put on
+me because at my time of life you don't recover from any extra
+exertion.
+
+I do like this term of Brotherhood. Those who have arrived at my time
+of life know what it is to have and to value a really sympathising
+brother. I am referring to my own dear brother, who has recently left
+us. Throughout our lives we did not have a single word of difference
+or a thought of difference, and the word "Brother" will draw me out
+at any time. It is the idea of universal feeling that everybody is
+trying his or her best in this world in whatever he or she may be
+trying to do--it is the feeling of Brotherhood which helps us to get
+that feeling.
+
+    _Speech at the Victoria Brotherhood, Newport,
+    March 4th, 1910._
+
+
+
+
+THE USES OF THE PARISH ROOM.
+
+[Illustration: "_The Ploughman returning from his weary work may just
+scrape his boots outside._"]
+
+
+In olden days the ordinary village school was the only place available
+for meetings or for general gatherings of the parishioners, and a long
+time ago that did very well. But the advance of education is tending
+to interfere a good deal with our old ideas and places, and it is now
+almost necessary that every Church, or every parish, should have a
+clubroom--a room where all classes can mix together and improve the
+knowledge they have gained at the various county schools--intermediate
+or otherwise. We want the Parish Room to be open to everyone. The
+ploughman returning from his weary work may just scrape his boots
+outside, and he will be perfectly welcome any time he likes to come
+in. I am sure there is a great deal of learning to be acquired, a
+great deal of good to be done, a great deal of instruction to be
+gathered, in a Church Room of this description, when it is managed in
+the way it ought to be. As you know, there are certain superior people
+who like essays and that sort of thing, and who, are inclined to sneer
+at the village concerts and penny readings and little dances which are
+likely to take place here. But we do not all possess the wisdom of
+Socrates, the dignity of Pliny, or the wit of Horace. Perhaps I shall
+put it more plainly if I say we do not possess the wisdom of
+Shakespeare, the dignity of Wordsworth, or the wit of Byron. But there
+is quite likely to be as much good sense in a humble gathering of an
+evening here as amongst those superior people who always try to teach
+us by telling us what we ought to do, what to think about, and what we
+ought to remember. Those are the people who advertise the simple life.
+I fancy most of you are living fairly simple lives, whilst those
+gentlemen who advocate it so much do not know what the simple life
+means. Not very far from us is where "the rude forefathers of the
+hamlet sleep," and in Gray's beautiful Elegy we are told:
+
+    "Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid
+    Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire;
+    Hands that the rod of Empire might have sway'd,
+    Or waked to ecstasy the living lyre."
+
+Might not some of those who are laid in the Churchyard close by, if
+they had enjoyed the advantages we have, have "wakened to ecstasy the
+living lyre," or been great members of either parish councils or
+county councils, or even Members of Parliament! I think that before
+this room has been in existence many years we shall find that some of
+those attending the gatherings which I hope will take place here, have
+done their best to make themselves prominent in life, especially in
+trying to keep before the world the truths of that religion which we
+have thought so much of and heard so much of to-day.
+
+    _Opening of Church-room at Llanvaches,
+    February, 1909._
+
+
+
+
+GENTLE MANNERS.
+
+
+There is one great thing that will carry you comfortably through life,
+and that is a nice, gentle manner. I see you all have nice, gentle
+manners, and what I ask you to do is to carry them outside the school,
+and retain them when you are on the roads or in the fields, or in your
+own homes. I ask the boys to cultivate the same language outside as
+inside the school, and the girls the same manners.
+
+    _School Prize Distribution, Rhiwderin,
+    April 24th, 1891._
+
+Bad language is unnecessary. Bad words are used by some people in
+every other sentence, without any necessity at all, and they mean
+nothing. If you can only learn to drop those disagreeable words you
+will be much more pleasant members of society. I like to see boys
+lively, spirited, and anxious to amuse themselves whenever they can.
+But they should be kind and gentle to their mothers and sisters. It
+is the nature of boys to be tyrannical to the other sex, but they will
+lose nothing by being as kind and gentle as they can be.
+
+    _Boys' Brigade Inspection, Newport,
+    April 19th, 1894._
+
+[Illustration: "_It is the nature of boys to be tyrannical to the
+other sex._"]
+
+It has been well said that good manners are something to everybody,
+and everything to somebody. Some people will not take anyone into
+employment unless they have good manners. As an old soldier, I know
+the value of _esprit de corps_. A hundred soldiers with the spirit of
+their corps are worth two hundred who do not care a straw about the
+regiment.
+
+    _Pontywain School,
+    December 15th, 1909._
+
+Mr. Labouchere has said he would rather have a gentleman of bad morals
+who voted right, than a gentleman whose morals were right but who
+voted wrong. Well, I would rather have a gentleman whose manners are
+good, even though he votes wrong, than one who votes right and whose
+manners are bad.
+
+    _Licensed Victuallers' Dinner,
+    July 13th, 1891._
+
+
+
+
+REVERENCE FOR RELIGION.
+
+
+As I grow older I find that the younger people are the less they like
+advice, and the less likely they are to take it. But I hope you will
+henceforth be good citizens of this great country. In your Brigade you
+are taught to have reverence for religion and respect for authority,
+which are great principles to get on with.
+
+    _Boys' Brigade Inspection,
+    April 4th, 1895._
+
+
+
+
+THE TEACHING OF REFINEMENT.
+
+
+There has been a great deal of talk lately about education. We have
+had board schools and national schools, and we are now going to have
+technical schools. But there is one point we have not yet arrived
+at--the teaching of refinement. I look upon the Eisteddfod as
+encouraging literature and music and art, as one of the great
+institutions for the encouragement of refinement in general life. We
+may become very well educated and very scientific, but unless there is
+refinement among us in general life, we will naturally tend towards
+roughness of manners.
+
+    _Brecon Eisteddfod,
+    August 18th, 1889._
+
+
+
+
+IN PRAISE OF HOSPITALS.
+
+
+We are met to endeavour to raise sufficient money to erect a hospital
+or infirmary worthy of the town of Newport. There are two statements
+nobody can dispute: Newport is a large and yearly increasing seaport,
+and a town of this magnitude ought not to be without a large and
+splendid hospital. I am afraid that with many people the idea of a
+hospital or infirmary does not go further than a small subscription
+and a few admission tickets to give away. But I wish to explain to the
+public generally the enormous advantages and the necessity of a good
+and well-organized hospital in the town. Whatever subscription you
+give you may be pretty nearly certain that the money will be spent in
+the right way. All other charities are more or less liable to some
+sort of imposture, but that is almost impossible with a hospital. I
+remember, as a soldier in the old days, that there was a certain sort
+of complaint we used to call malingering. If a man wanted to shirk any
+duty he pretended to be ill, but was very soon found out by the
+regimental doctor. So in the same way hospital doctors will soon find
+out the malingerer. A hospital is a high school of medicine for young
+doctors, who not only mix with scientific people at the institution,
+but gain a high moral feeling, so that there is no room for small
+petty jealousies amongst the medical practitioners. Then look at the
+injured people carried to the hospital. They have the best of care,
+and in most cases are turned out cured, sound and strong. If it were
+not for the hospital, they would probably be cripples or invalids for
+life. In that way hospitals save the rates. I am sure that hundreds
+are yearly turned out of the infirmary sound in mind and body, able to
+support their families and keep them off the rates.
+
+Then, again, a hospital makes an excellent school for nurses. That is
+one of the greatest benefits possible, because the authorities of the
+hospital are always strictly careful that nurses, before they are sent
+out, are thoroughly proficient. I am sure no building ground or house,
+or any other little present I may have given in the course of my life,
+will be more useful than the land I have given for this site. I hope,
+in addition to the land, to be able to give a good sum of money if I
+see it is required.
+
+    _Meeting in connection with a new Infirmary for Newport,
+    March 11th, 1896._
+
+
+
+
+WHEN IS A HOSPITAL A SUCCESS.
+
+
+This toast has always appeared to me very difficult to word. I do not
+know whether success to the Infirmary means a full Infirmary with all
+the wards engaged. It reminds me of a celebrated American who, when
+asked what sort of a town he had just left, remarked that it was very
+flourishing, for every hospital was crammed, every workhouse was too
+full, and they were about to build another wing to the gaol.
+
+    _Cardiff Infirmary,
+    January 25th, 1911._
+
+
+
+
+RECLAIM THE STREET URCHIN.
+
+
+The Arabians have a proverb to the effect that "The stone that is fit
+for the wall should not be allowed to lay in the way." Amongst the
+children who wander about the streets there are many who are, so to
+speak, quite "fit for the wall"--that is to say, they may, through
+being brought under drill and other conditions found in the Brigade,
+be turned into respectable members of Society.
+
+    _Bazaar at Cardiff,
+    April 13th, 1898._
+
+[Illustration: "_The stone that is fit for the wall should not be
+allowed to lay in the way._"]
+
+
+
+
+THE INFLUENCE OF WOMEN.
+
+[Illustration: "_Broke the engagement off because the young man said
+he had never heard of Browning._"]
+
+
+Women exercise a great deal of influence upon the affairs of the
+country, even without taking part in business, politics, or anything
+of that sort. For all I know, there may be some girls here who will
+affect political and many other movements in connection with the
+welfare of the nation. Girls ought to be made to think that they will
+have great power in the future, and to realise that they may be able
+to influence some one for good, not by their great learning so much as
+by the power that a good girl or a good woman exercises over men. I
+heard the other day of a young lady who was engaged to be married, but
+who broke off the engagement because the young man said he had never
+heard of Browning. I am glad to be able to tell you that she thought
+better of it afterwards.... It was said of the great Queen Cleopatra
+that when the Roman Emperor fell in love with her she was the means of
+altering the history of the world. Some say that if Cleopatra's nose
+had been shorter, the face of the world would have been different. The
+fate of some young men may depend upon the noses, as well as upon the
+learning, of some of the girls present.
+
+    _Re-opening of Howell's School, Llandaff,
+    June 26th, 1900._
+
+
+
+
+A FRIEND FOR THE FRIENDLESS.
+
+
+There cannot possibly be an object in the wide world more worthy of
+sympathy than a girl without a friend. All over the world this Society
+has its habitations, and it has already befriended 4,000 girls. It
+renders assistance when they are penniless, provides friends when they
+are friendless, and religious consolation when they require it.
+
+    _Girls' Friendly Society Bazaar, Newport,
+    April 24th, 1895._
+
+
+
+
+THE BRAVERY OF THE WORKERS.
+
+
+I think it is my duty to allude to the dreadful accident which took
+place in July at the dock extension works. The facts stated in the
+report should be printed and go, not only to the Shareholders, but to
+the country generally, as a record of the heroism and endurance that
+our workers, from the highest engineer to the lowliest navvy, were
+capable of under distressing and dreadful circumstances. We hear so
+much of the decadence of the English race nowadays, that I think the
+report of the disaster at the docks is well worthy of being printed.
+
+    _Half-yearly Meeting Alexandra (Newport and South Wales)
+    Docks and Railway Coy., London,
+    August 5th, 1909._
+
+I have always admired the working collier, and if British records
+could be printed thousands of colliers would be found as much entitled
+to the Victoria Cross as those soldiers who have performed doughty
+deeds on the battlefield.
+
+    _Workmen's Outing at Tredegar Park,
+    August 8th, 1885._
+
+In the old Town Hall of Newport many great celebrities have received
+testimonials, compliments and honours--warriors, church dignitaries,
+financiers and great politicians; but I do not think any circumstance
+like the present one has arisen before, and there could not be a more
+interesting ceremony than that which we are about to perform. It is
+necessary to make a slight excuse for the time which has expired since
+the great disaster on July 2nd, 1909. Those who remember the incidents
+know perfectly well that the whole of the dock premises and the town
+were in a state of excitement for some considerable period, and a
+large number of unfortunate men were overwhelmed by the disaster,
+while others fortunately escaped. I think the officials have done
+their very best to try and select those who really performed heroic
+efforts. Those who have not received recognition, but think they
+deserve it, will, I feel sure, make all due allowance, and give those
+responsible the credit for having done their best. It is satisfactory
+to the directors to know that they have a body of men around them who
+are ready to do their duty. It is a trait of the educated British
+workman of to-day that, when given something useful to do, he will
+perform his task heroically--heroism is characteristic of him.
+
+    _Presentation of Certificates for Bravery on the occasion
+    of the Dock disaster, Newport Town Hall,
+    March 14th, 1911._
+
+
+
+
+A TRIBUTE TO THE ENGINE DRIVER.
+
+[Illustration: "_The feeling of a Newport cabman when his horse runs
+away._"]
+
+
+I have the greatest admiration for engine drivers, particularly those
+on the Great Western Railway, on which line I travel most. I have
+often wondered at the admirable manner in which they stop and start
+their trains. Mr. Gladstone once said that he could understand the
+mind of a great historian like Gibbon, or of a great poet, like
+Milton, Byron, or Wordsworth, but that he could not understand the
+formation of the mind of a man who wrote poems and plays like
+Shakespeare. Personally, I cannot understand the mind of an engine
+driver on an express train. I have been myself, in some very
+disagreeable positions, and have had some very nasty half minutes. Not
+very long ago I found myself underneath my horse in a muddy ditch and
+the half minutes I spent in waiting for a friendly hand to drag me
+out, and in wondering whether assistance would come before I was
+suffocated, were very unpleasant ones. Only a fortnight ago, too, a
+gentleman was driving me in a light vehicle down a narrow roadway when
+we saw a runaway horse attached to a lorry galloping towards us. It
+seemed as if there was nothing for it but for us to be knocked into
+the proverbial cocked-hat. However, our vehicle was drawn very close
+to the side and the runaway just cleared us. I can understand, too,
+the feeling of a man driving four horses when they run away with him,
+because that has happened to myself; or the feeling of a Newport
+cabman when his horse runs away. But I cannot understand the feeling
+of sustained courage on the part of a driver of an express engine with
+his train going at 60 miles an hour through the darkness of the night,
+perhaps in a storm of snow or sleet. To use a pretty strong
+expression, it must be like "hell with the lid off." Those who travel
+on railways ought to think more of the responsibilities which rest on
+railway employees.
+
+    _Railwaymen's Dinner,
+    April 21st, 1908._
+
+
+
+
+TEMPERANCE "IN ALL THINGS."
+
+[Illustration: "_There are many Radicals who take a great deal more
+than they can carry._"]
+
+
+When I talk of temperance I mean temperance not only in drink, but in
+all things. There is temperance in eating, and temperance in life. In
+the present case there are three sections--the temperance people, the
+Sunday closing people, and the total abstinence people. I cannot see
+how the question of religion can enter into party politics. I have
+known many Tories who were habitual drunkards, and there are many
+Radicals who take a great deal more than they can carry. There is
+always a difficulty in drawing the line between the enthusiast and the
+fanatic. Enthusiastic gentlemen generally get what they require.
+Fanatics, on the other hand, by the way they advocate their
+principles, turn people away.
+
+    _Opening of the new Temperance Hall, Newport,
+    May 2nd, 1889._
+
+I believe that if the medical men of the country published their
+opinions concerning the cases which come under their notice, it would
+be a revelation to the general public how great a proportion of
+illness is due in one way or another to alcoholic drink. I cannot,
+however, help noticing that a great improvement and advance has taken
+place in the cause of temperance. A good many years ago, when there
+was going to be a great family festival--a wedding or something of
+that sort--one of the family retainers was asked if he was going to be
+there. "Of course," was his reply, "and won't I just get drunk." That
+seemed to be the prevailing idea of enjoyment--to get drunk. But that
+attitude has been changed.
+
+    _Band of Hope Festival, Newport,
+    May 3rd, 1900._
+
+[Illustration: "_Coming out and making themselves disagreeable to
+their neighbours._"]
+
+I have no doubt there are several in the hall who, like myself, are
+not total abstainers, but we are all one in our endeavour to promote
+temperance generally. To those who cannot be temperate, we advise
+total abstinence. There is nothing, I am sure, so fruitful of good as
+the advocacy of temperance amongst children. When children are taught
+to advocate a particular cause they do it more effectively than older
+people. But we are sometimes apt to become too much imbued with one
+particular idea, and it is never well to be too much of a bore to
+those around us. A little child was asked not long ago what she knew
+about King John and Runnymede. She had evidently been a worker in the
+temperance cause, and replied, "Oh, yes; he's the man they got down to
+Runnymede and made him swear to take the pledge." She had forgotten
+about Magna Charta, and thought of only one kind of pledge. There is
+nothing that disturbs the general happiness and comfort so much as the
+action of those who persist in going into a public house when they
+need not do so, and coming out and making themselves disagreeable to
+their neighbours. I only hope that some of the younger portion of you
+will live to enjoy a Bank Holiday without seeing a single drunken
+person.
+
+    _Band of Hope Union, Newport,
+    May 29th, 1901._
+
+
+
+
+TOTAL ABSTINENCE.
+
+
+There is a rule in the Boys' Brigade according to which you are
+supposed to be abstainers from drink. I need not say what a good thing
+that is. You will all be very much better for being abstainers. You
+will save a great deal of money, and probably keep your health up
+better. I wish I had been a total abstainer in my youth. I should have
+saved a great deal of money.
+
+    _Boys' Brigade Inspection, Newport,
+    April 19th, 1894._
+
+
+
+
+AN ANGELIC VISION.
+
+
+There is a phrase about "the happiness of the greatest number." It is
+an expressive phrase, but different people have different opinions of
+happiness. I was hunting in the Midland Counties and I asked, "Where
+is Tom?" The answer was, "He's retired, he's living the life of a
+hangel; he's a-heating, and a-drinking and a-cussing, and a-swearing
+all day long." That may not be your idea of the life of an angel, if
+it was my friend's idea.
+
+    _The Tredegar Show,
+    December 18th, 1872._
+
+[Illustration: "_He's retired, he's living the life of a hangel._"]
+
+
+
+
+CHATS TO AND ABOUT CABBIES.
+
+
+I have had many rides in the cabs of Newport, and have always found
+the cabbies very good drivers, prepared to go the pace according to
+the fare they expected at the end of the journey.
+
+    _Cabmen's Dinner, Newport,
+    November 8th, 1889._
+
+[Illustration: "_Prepared to go the pace according to the fare they
+expected at the end of the journey._"]
+
+[Illustration: "_You try to blow me up on my way to Tredegar House._"]
+
+I wish you had chosen some other Patron Saint than Guy Fawkes, for Guy
+Fawkes tried to blow up the House of Lords, and on each anniversary
+you try to blow me up on my way to Tredegar House. Some persons may
+think that one Conservative Peer more or less does not matter, but I
+prefer that the experiment of blowing up should be tried upon the body
+of a Radical Peer.
+
+    _Cabmen's Dinner, Newport,
+    Nov 5th, 1896._
+
+[Illustration: "_Look here, cut it short guv'nor! I've got the cab by
+the hour._"]
+
+There are very odd traditions about cabmen, and I am certain that
+sometimes they are not deserved. I have been told it is something of a
+tradition that it is the pride of a cabman to be able to whistle
+louder, to hit his horse harder, and to tell a bigger lie than anybody
+else. I believe that to be absolutely untrue, though some of you may
+know better than I do. One of you is supposed to have nearly upset a
+wedding. That was a dreadful thing to do. The bride and bridegroom
+were both at the Altar and just about to have the knot tied nicely.
+The clergyman began to deliver his address, but the bridegroom
+appeared to be in a great hurry, and said to the clergyman, "Look
+here, cut it short, guv'nor! I've got the cab by the hour." That was
+rather natural on the part of the bridegroom but the clergyman became
+very angry, and very nearly threw up the case....
+
+[Illustration: "_Look here, Mr. Huddleston, I call you a thief, a
+blackguard, a scoundrel, and a villain._"]
+
+Cabmen are limited in the language they may use. Judge Huddleston,
+when a barrister, was defending a client against a cabman, who had
+been using very bad language. The advocacy of Huddleston won the case.
+The next day the cabman called upon him and said: "Look here, Mr.
+Huddleston, you told me yesterday that I must not call people so and
+so. What are your charges for telling me what I can call anyone
+without getting into trouble?" Mr. Huddleston named his fee, cabby
+paid the money, and inquired what names he might call a man with
+impunity. Mr. Huddleston referred to his law books, and replied: "This
+is what you may call a man without being had up for libel or
+defamation of character. You may call him a villain, a scoundrel, a
+blackguard, and a thief, always supposing you don't accuse him of
+having stolen anything." The cabby took up his hat and said: "Look
+here, Mr. Huddleston, I call you a thief, a blackguard, a scoundrel
+and a villain; not that I mean to say you ever stole anything. Good
+morning." So you know now exactly what you can call a man if you do
+not like the fare he gives you. At the same time, I do not believe you
+would say such things.
+
+[Illustration: "_That's where Lord Tredegar buried his charger; he
+made that mound himself._"]
+
+Then, again, a cabman is always supposed to be a driving encyclopedia.
+When Newport cabmen are driving along Caerleon Road or Chepstow Road,
+credulous individuals ask them the name of every house and place they
+pass, what it means and what it is. Strangers want to know, and you
+must tell them something. There is an extraordinary tradition about a
+cabman driving along a road, when a lady fare asked him what "that
+mountain was with the tump on the top." "But what is the tump for?"
+persisted the lady. "Oh, that's where Lord Tredegar buried his
+charger; he made that mound himself," was the reply. Such stories are
+very interesting and amusing, but they spoil history, and that is why
+I think we are indebted to cabmen for the extraordinary traditions
+that go about the country.
+
+    _Cabmen's Dinner, Newport,
+    November 5th, 1898._
+
+Cabmen have traditionally bad characters, and are supposed to possess
+a vocabulary which is not taught in the Intermediate Schools. They are
+also supposed to have a special method of calculating distances and
+coin. All those ideas are exploded like nursery rhymes, such as
+"Whittington and his Cat." Cabmen are well looked after. There is the
+Excise Officer and the Cruelty to Animals Society, and, if these are
+not enough, there is the Watch Committee.
+
+    _Cabmen's Dinner, Newport,
+    November 6th, 1899._
+
+[Illustration:
+    "_But the top of a 'bus
+    Is the place for us
+    To see the coves go by._"]
+
+You have to compete with tramcars, motor cars, and all kinds of
+horrible conveyances. Having been interested in nursery rhymes since I
+was very young, I have been looking through some children's books
+during the last few days to see what is provided for the children of
+these days, and I came across the following lines in a book for
+children:--
+
+    The hansom takes you quickest,
+    The growler keeps you dry,
+    But the top of the 'bus
+    Is the place for us
+    To see the coves go by.
+
+I advise you not to give that little book to your children, as it will
+induce them to ride on the top of a 'bus instead of taking a cab.
+
+    _Cabmen's Dinner, Newport,
+    November 8th, 1902._
+
+[Illustration: "_Fast women and slow horses._"]
+
+I have never been able to find out exactly why the cabmen's dinner is
+fixed for Guy Fawkes' Day. I have looked up Guy Fawkes' pedigree, and
+I cannot find that he ever drove a growler or even a hansom cab. Then
+I thought it might have something to do with Inkerman Day, which is
+all upset nowadays, as you know. Inkerman was always called a
+soldiers' battle, because it was so foggy that the generals could not
+see what they were doing. I have an idea that it must have been a
+cabmen's battle, and that it was cabmen who fought at Inkerman or
+commanded at Inkerman. Speaking of cabmen, I think that they are like
+Lord Rosebery's Dukes--poor, but honest. This is not an epoch-making
+dinner; it is not even a record dinner. "Epoch-making" and
+"record-making" are terms which are frequently used now-a-days, and I
+wish people would give them a rest for a time. I remember a young
+gentleman who came into a fortune and very soon got through it because
+his company was very indifferent, he being very fond of racecourses
+and other iniquities of that sort. He went through the Bankruptcy
+Court, and when asked how he accounted for getting rid of his fortune
+so quickly, he replied, "Fast women and slow horses." Now I think
+cabmen would probably make a profit out of fast women and slow horses.
+One of you will take a very fine lady to Caerleon Racecourse next
+week, and, having a slow horse, will take two hours to do the journey,
+and charge a two hours' price. But I always like this society for one
+particular reason, namely, it has no small societies belonging to it.
+There is no Cabmen's Football Club to write and ask you for a
+subscription. So far as I know, there is no cabmen's band, or other
+small institutions of which we have so many in every other circle of
+society. There is no cabmen's congress, and no cabmen's conferences
+and that is a great merit in the society, because I know that when I
+have done one thing, I have done all that I shall be required to do.
+
+    _Cabmen's Dinner,
+    November 5th, 1909._
+
+
+
+
+TALKS TO LICENSED VICTUALLERS.
+
+
+Although the devil is not as black as he is painted, I hope neither I
+nor any other gentleman present bears any resemblance to his Satanic
+Majesty. The Scythians, it is reported, first debated things when
+drunk, and then whilst sober, and perhaps at the end of this gathering
+I may be able to form a better opinion of the members of the Newport
+Corporation.
+
+    _Mayor's Banquet, Newport
+    March 18th, 1886._
+
+A few months ago, in the silly season, "The Times" had about a couple
+of columns of letters from people discussing the uses and abuses of
+drink. I read the letters carefully, and came to the conclusion that
+there was a lot to be said on both sides. An octogenarian of 83 wrote
+to say that his eyesight, hearing, and teeth were all sound, and that
+he had not tasted spirituous liquors in his life. Shortly after,
+another octogenarian of 84, in addition to claiming the healthy
+condition of the previous writer, spoke of intending matrimony. He,
+however, said his memory was not so good as it was, but, so far as he
+could recollect, he had never been to bed sober in his life. After
+reading the first letter, I thought it was a "clincher," and went to
+bed without my usual brandy and soda, saying there would be no more
+licensed victuallers' dinners for me. When, however, I read the second
+letter, I changed my mind about the dinner. It has been said that life
+is not all beer and skittles, but it is a good thing to have something
+to drive away the depression which occasionally visits every one who
+has arrived at manhood.
+
+    _Licensed Victuallers' Dinner, Cardiff,
+    March 15th, 1892._
+
+In the old days barons drank strong ale. The barons would have their
+liquor strong, and local veto at that time would have meant loss of
+licensed victuallers' heads. Some people may wonder why I so
+persistently attend the Licensed Victuallers' Association
+meetings--for I do attend regularly. I will tell you why, in a few
+words, if you will not tell anybody else. There is a clause in the
+family settlements that compels me to do it. I endeavour to act up to
+those settlements.
+
+    _Licensed Victuallers' Dinner, Newport,
+    March 9th, 1892._
+
+I am not surprised that Members of Parliament are rather shy of going
+to licensed victuallers' dinners. They have to be very careful of what
+they say. Words, it has been said, are given to conceal thoughts.
+After dinner, sometimes, thoughts get the mastery of words, and
+Members of Parliament have to think a good deal of the future. They
+have to ponder over the teetotal vote, and they have to be very
+careful that they do not offend the licensed victuallers. The
+difference as regards the members of the House of Lords is this--they
+do not worry themselves about the teetotal vote, and they do not care
+a _darn_ for the licensed victuallers.
+
+A certain number of people think they can arrange everything
+satisfactorily upon an arithmetical principle. The latest fad is "one
+man one vote." If you do not take care it will be one man one glass. I
+would like to know how that could be arranged on arithmetical
+principles satisfactorily. There are a few other burning questions
+which I have never yet seen satisfactorily answered. One is 'What is
+Home Rule?' and the other is 'Have you used Pear's Soap?' Until we can
+find satisfactory answers to these, I think that legislation in regard
+to licensed victuallers will be quiet for a bit. I have never
+considered it necessary to apologise for dining with licensed
+victuallers. If there are any who think that in dining with that
+company I am stepping down from a pedestal on which I ought to remain,
+all I can do is to answer them in the beautiful motto of the Order of
+the Garter, "Honi soit qui mal y pense."
+
+    _Licensed Victuallers' Dinner, Cardiff,
+    February 28th, 1891._
+
+[Illustration: "_If there are any who think that I am stepping down
+from a pedestal._"]
+
+
+
+
+CAKES AND ALE.
+
+
+For my own part, I cannot see how the country could get on without
+Licensed Victuallers. Some years ago when a Frenchman wanted to
+describe an English country gentleman, he said he was one of those
+who, whenever he had nothing to do, suggested to those about him that
+they should go out and kill something.
+
+[Illustration: "_If a time arrived when there were no more cakes and
+ale._"]
+
+There is a type of politician who, whenever he has nothing to do, says
+"Let us go and abolish something." If this type had its way it would
+abolish the Lord Mayor's Show and Barnum's White Elephant. I do not
+think the country would be one whit happier if a time arrived when
+there were no more cakes and ale.
+
+    _Licensed Victuallers' Dinner,
+    January 29th, 1884._
+
+
+
+
+THE GREAT LAND TYRANT.
+
+
+I am now like the old man of the sea--someone you ought to get rid of.
+I am a great land tyrant. If you want a bit of land you can't get it.
+If you want a piece for a recreation ground you can't get it. If you
+want a piece for a Church you can't get it. If you want a piece for a
+school you can't get it. If you want a place for any other amusement
+or for athletic grounds you can't get it. Why? Because it belongs to
+Lord Tredegar. So if you treat me like Jonah, and throw me overboard,
+perhaps it would be much better for you.
+
+    _Conservative Association Meeting, Newport.
+    August 24th, 1910._
+
+
+
+
+TWO LORD TREDEGARS.
+
+
+It appears to me sometimes that there are two Lord Tredegars.... Most
+of you have been children at some time or other, and so most of you, I
+am happy to think, are acquainted with nursery rhymes. There is one
+which, probably, a great many of you have heard of. It is about an old
+lady with a basket who was going to market. She laid down on a bank
+and went to sleep, and a pedlar passing by, for some reason or other,
+cut her petticoats considerably above her knees. When she awoke the
+first thing she said was, "Surely, this is not I." And sometimes, when
+he awoke in the morning, and saw what was said about Lord Tredegar, he
+was inclined to make the same remark, "Surely, this is not I." When I
+read of a Lord Tredegar who is trying to reap what he has not sown,
+who binds his tenants down to covenants which do not exist, and who
+exacts the uttermost farthing from his miserable tenants, I think
+sometimes there must be two Lord Tredegars.
+
+    _Tredegar Show,
+    November 24th, 1888._
+
+[Illustration: "_Surely, this is not I!_"]
+
+
+
+
+THE TRIALS OF BENEFACTORS.
+
+[Illustration: "_I have lately started a store in the village._"]
+
+
+The other day a friend of mine was in much the same position as I am
+to-night. He owned a large estate in the neighbourhood, and he was
+asked to preside at a meeting of the candidate who was going to come
+forward. I asked him afterwards if the meeting was successful. "Oh,
+yes," he replied, "it was fairly successful, but they began to find
+out my failures and shortcomings." I said, "What have they found out
+about you?" The reply was, "I have lately started a store in the
+village, so that the agricultural labourers might have their beef and
+groceries at cost price. I thought that was rather a good thing to do,
+but it was far from a good thing in the opinion of my opponents. All
+the butchers and grocers declared they would make it very hot for me."
+I am in a somewhat similar position, and I told my friend so. "What
+have you done?" asked my friend, and I replied, "I have given a public
+park to the Newport people." "What has that to do with it?" "Well,"
+said I, "they make out that it has increased the rates."
+
+    _Conservative Meeting, Newport,
+    February 2nd, 1894._
+
+
+
+
+WHAT IS A PHILANTHROPIST?
+
+
+There are moments in a man's life when there is a contest between the
+lip and the eye, whether we should smile or cry. I am sure you would
+not like to see me cry just now, but there is a certain amount of
+sentiment in an affair of this sort. For a person in my position it is
+rather trying. I feel very much like the little boy you all knew in
+your nursery stories. The boy had a pie, and "he put in his thumb and
+pulled out a plum and said 'What a good boy am I.'" That is what I
+feel now. I suppose I should feel like a philanthropist. You probably
+all know what a philanthropist is. A philanthropist is an old
+gentleman, probably with a bald head, and he tries to make his
+conscience think he is doing good all the while he is having his
+pocket picked.
+
+    _In reply to a vote of thanks._
+
+
+
+
+"A SPLENDID FELLOW."
+
+[Illustration:"_A philanthropist is an old gentleman, probably with a
+bald head._"]
+
+
+It has been wisely said that there is nothing a man will not believe
+in his own favour. Well, after the way you praise me I believe I am a
+splendid fellow altogether. But one's name is not always spoken of
+with that reverence with which a lord's name ought to be mentioned.
+Still, I suppose there is such a thing as ignorance among men about
+those who do not live in the same station as themselves, and I always
+put it down to that. Some day or other they may come to find out that
+what they say against Lord Tredegar is not all true.
+
+    _St. Mellons' Show,
+    September 29th, 1909._
+
+
+
+
+NATURALLY A CONSERVATIVE.
+
+
+You will not wonder that I am in a graver mood than is usual on these
+occasions. For more than 30 years my lamented father occupied this
+chair, and I believe he was present on every occasion of this kind. In
+that time, the show has been raised from a very small one to be one of
+the most important in the country. My father has left me, amongst
+other possessions, an hereditary trust in the shape of this
+Agricultural Show. If I have given any hope that I shall fill the
+position as my father filled it, I shall feel very much flattered. It
+is not my intention to make great changes. There is no way of showing
+disrespect more than in making great changes, turning everything
+topsy-turvey, as if we knew everything better than those who went
+before us. I am naturally Conservative, and come of a Conservative
+family. I intend to keep to what was good of my late father. I have
+inherited a great trust in this show, and I hope that in future it
+will be seen that the show has not lost its prestige, its popularity
+or its utility.
+
+    _Tredegar Show,
+    December 15th, 1875._
+
+
+
+
+POLITICS ON THE BRAIN.
+
+
+Everybody now has got politics on the brain. We dream of politics and
+we almost drink politics--at least, we have been drinking politics
+to-night. So far as I am concerned, I should like, Rip Van
+Winkle-like, to go to sleep for the next two months and wake up to
+find the general election over; only then I should like to wake up to
+find it had gone the right way.
+
+    _Farmers' Dinner, Bassaleg,
+    October 13th, 1885._
+
+
+
+
+THE UNRULY HOUND.
+
+[Illustration: "_I lick him whenever I have the opportunity._"]
+
+
+It is wrong to introduce politics at this dinner, and, in fact, I have
+no great liking for politics on any occasion, though I do at times
+have a little to do with them. And I have a little way of my own. I
+have a most unruly hound in my pack, which I call "Radical," and I
+lick him whenever I have the opportunity. It does the hound good, and
+at the same time eases my own mind. Though I have no great love of
+politics, I think this is a time, if ever, a member of Parliament
+should feel inclined to speak. There is one subject which must be in
+everybody's mind, and for the consideration of which everyone must
+brace himself in the next session--that is "tenant's right." That is
+a question in which every agriculturist must take a deep interest; and
+for myself I think meetings of this sort much more likely to promote a
+goodly feeling between landlord and tenant than the provisions of any
+Act of Parliament.
+
+    _Tredegar Show,
+    December 14th, 1889._
+
+
+
+
+THE WHOO WHOOPS.
+
+
+I thank you for the way the toast of my health has been received; but
+I do not quite see the propriety of "whoo whoops" at the end. That is
+an expression that sportsmen use only when they are about to kill
+something; I do not see its applicability in the present case. I hope
+that you do not mean all you have expressed.
+
+    _Tredegar Show,
+    December 13th, 1871._
+
+
+
+
+M.P.'S AS BADGERS.
+
+
+During the intervals of pigeon pie and boiled beef, I have had the
+pleasure of a few minutes' conversation with Mr. Cordes, and from that
+conversation I have come to the conclusion that a Member of Parliament
+holds the same position to the human race that a badger does to the
+animal race. Some people think that the only earthly purpose for
+which a badger can have been created was that of being baited, and I
+have an idea that some persons seem to imagine that a member of
+Parliament was created for nothing but that we might bait him. But on
+this occasion we have been brought together not to bait Mr. Cordes,
+but to f�te him.
+
+    _Conservative Banquet, Newport,
+    January 20th, 1876._
+
+
+
+
+THE HONOUR OF BEING M.P.
+
+
+It is a great honour still, I am sure, to be a member of the British
+House of Commons. Lord Rosebery, when he was chairman of the London
+County Council, in a speech that he made--and I dare say many of you
+have been interested in some of Lord Rosebery's speeches because he
+has a fund of humour, and very often one is not quite certain whether
+he is in earnest or in jest--once said that the position of a town
+councillor is much more important than that of a member of Parliament.
+It is quite possible that an individual member of a County Council or
+a Town Council may be more important as an individual than a member of
+the House of Commons, but his vote can only mainly affect the
+locality, whilst the action of a member of the House of Commons may
+not only affect the whole of Great Britain, but the whole of the
+British Empire. So I venture to think the position of a Member of
+Parliament is a little more important than that of a member of a Town
+Council or a County Council.
+
+    _Monmouthshire County Council,
+    February 2nd, 1910._
+
+
+
+
+NELSON'S SAYING.
+
+
+There still exists in the bosoms of our public men the feeling which
+animated Lord Nelson before the battle of the Nile, when he said,
+"To-morrow I shall have either a peerage or Westminster Abbey."
+
+    _Press Dinner, Cardiff,
+    May 9th, 1891._
+
+
+
+
+THE DISADVANTAGES OF THE PEERAGE.
+
+[Illustration: "_Receiving eggs that are not fit for breakfast, and
+cats that have not received honourable interment._"]
+
+
+There are advantages and disadvantages in belonging to the House of
+Lords. The peers are deprived of the right which other citizens have
+of standing on the hustings and receiving eggs that are not fit for
+breakfast and cats that have not received honourable interment. But
+they have the privilege of British citizens of being roundly abused by
+those whose talents lay in that direction.
+
+    _Associated Chambers of Commerce,
+    Newport, Sept. 21st, 1892._
+
+
+
+
+SWEEPS AS PEERS.
+
+[Illustration: "_I am acquainted with some sweeps._"]
+
+
+A certain gentleman who certainly thinks that the constitution of the
+country could be reorganised and set straight at once by a magazine
+article, says that if the House of Lords rejects the Home Rule Bill
+there is a very simple way to remedy the affair. Mr. Gladstone will
+then, he states, collect 70 sweeps and make them peers so as to gain a
+majority. Whether the gentleman intended to insult the sweeps or to
+insult the House of Lords I do not know. I am acquainted with some
+sweeps. I have always looked upon sweeps in the same way as I look
+upon licensed victuallers. They are a body of men who are carrying on
+a very difficult profession with credit to themselves and advantage to
+the country. Moreover, the sweeps with whom I am acquainted are most
+of them Tories, and I shall not be surprised if as soon as those 70
+sweeps are collected and made peers, and have washed their faces and
+put on their coronets and robes, they do immediately range themselves
+on the Opposition side of the House, and do, as most new Gladstonian
+peers do, vote Conservative directly they are created.
+
+    _Newport Licensed Victuallers' Dinner,
+    February 23rd, 1893._
+
+
+
+
+YOU CANNOT PLEASE EVERYBODY.
+
+
+I have no doubt that if the House of Lords were to pass by a large
+majority the disestablishment of the Welsh Church in the next Session,
+the Welsh party would say the hereditary principle was the only one to
+be depended upon. On the other hand, if the Lords were to pass by a
+large majority a Local Veto Bill, I have no doubt the Licensed
+Victuallers would at once go in for the abolition of the House of
+Lords.
+
+    _Cardiff Licensed Victuallers' Dinner,
+    March 28th, 1894._
+
+I am not a landlord myself, but I have strong opinions about the right
+of property, which I hope, in future legislation, will always be
+considered. If ever I become a landlord, I hope the interest which I
+have always felt in the welfare of my respected father's tenants will
+lead them to suppose that I shall never become such a ruffian as some
+people would make landlords out to be.
+
+    _Monmouthshire Chamber of Agriculture,
+    February 25th, 1874._
+
+I confess I was much comforted in reading one of those amiable, kind
+and Christian-like speeches for the total suppression of landlords. I
+looked into the dictionary for the meaning of the word "landlord," and
+I found it was "a keeper of a public-house." When I read that, my soul
+was comforted.
+
+    _Newport Licensed Victuallers' Dinner,
+    January 30th, 1880._
+
+I have always taken great interest in those who live on my property,
+it does not matter whether on agricultural land or in the bowels of
+the earth. A great landowner does not rest on a bed of roses. The loss
+to a landowner who only owns a small agricultural property, in days of
+agricultural depression when tenants cannot pay their rent, generally
+means a few hundred pounds and the reducing of all his expenses. But
+when it comes to great commercial interests, to owning the land on
+which our great ironworks, great tinworks, and collieries are
+situated, and when those interests are depressed, it means not a loss
+of a few hundreds, but the wiping off of several thousands. And it
+means occupying themselves night and day in ascertaining how they can
+help to still carry on those great interests which have employed so
+many hands, and which are so necessary for the welfare of the
+population of the district.... A great ironmaster, Mr. Carnegie, who
+found it to his best interest to carry on his great works in America,
+has enunciated a sentiment which appeals to me, to the effect that it
+is the business of every rich man to die poor. Sometimes I feel that
+will probably be my fate if I go on as I am doing. However, I shall be
+poor in good company.
+
+    _Presentation to Lord Tredegar of Miners' Lamp
+    and Silver Medal at Risca Eisteddfod,
+    October 5th, 1896._
+
+Considerable difficulties attach to the position of a man who happens
+to own land round a large and increasing town. So many demands are
+placed before him. There are demands for building sites and for open
+spaces and public parks. It is difficult, when the land is limited in
+area, to satisfy all requirements. I hope, in a short time, however,
+to be enabled to make a present to the town of Newport of a public
+park, one which will not cost much in laying out for use.
+
+    _Mayoral Dinner, Newport,
+    December 22nd, 1891._
+
+It may possibly happen that if the order to which I belong is swept
+away, I may become a candidate for municipal honours, and perhaps
+aspire to the civic chair. At present, however, I have my own
+responsibilities, for I am deeply troubled with what I may term the
+four R's--Rates, Roads, Royalties, and Rents.
+
+    _Mayor's Banquet,
+    March 18th, 1886._
+
+
+
+
+KEEP US STILL OUR SHORTHORNS.
+
+
+A gentleman who was very fond of writing poetry wrote a couple of
+lines which might be quoted against him although he has long since
+joined the majority. He wrote:--
+
+    Let laws and learning, art and commerce die,
+    But keep us still our old nobility.
+
+The last line can be altered as you like, and you can put anything you
+like for laws and learning, I would say buffaloes or anything else,
+but keep our shorthorns. In breeding shorthorns a pedigree of a long
+line of ancestors is indispensable. Mr. Stratton and myself have tried
+to work on those lines by breeding the nobility of shorthorns.
+
+    _Stock Sale at the Duffryn, Newport,
+    October 7th, 1909._
+
+[Illustration: "_I always find great difficulty in obtaining entrance
+to the dairy competitions._"]
+
+
+
+
+INTEREST IN DAIRYING.
+
+
+My thoughts are at the moment running on ground rents, royalties and
+wayleaves, so if I wander from the subject I hope you will forgive me.
+I cannot regard the subject of dairying without thinking how we would
+have stood now supposing we had taken up the question as we ought to
+have done twenty years ago. We would not now be taking a back seat
+with the foreigners. But I always now find great difficulty in
+obtaining entrance to the dairy competitions, if I go there casually.
+Whether it is the attractions of the pretty dairymaids inside, or the
+coolness of the atmosphere, there is certainly very great interest
+taken in the competitions and that is satisfactory.
+
+    _Monmouthshire Dairy School Prize Distribution,
+    November 5th, 1895._
+
+
+
+
+WHERE ALL CLASSES MEET.
+
+
+Of all meetings which take place in the course of a year, there are
+none attended with such universal good as an agricultural meeting,
+because here all classes can meet, whereas in nearly all other
+meetings the attendances are of a sectional character. For instance,
+race meetings--many people think them wrong and never attend them.
+Then there are Church Extension and Missionary Meetings--a great many
+do not like to attend them. But as to agricultural meetings,
+everybody seems to like to attend them, from the clergy to the racing
+man, the mechanic, the agricultural labourer, and the meetings must,
+therefore, promote a deal of harmony among classes. An agricultural
+meeting is much more effective than the proceedings of Messrs. Bright
+and Cobden, who are going about preaching a war of classes.
+
+    _Tredegar Show,
+    December 15th, 1863._
+
+
+
+
+WHERE THE AGRICULTURIST SHOULD STUDY.
+
+
+Some excursionists were going around the house of either Wordsworth or
+Tennyson--I forget which--and asked a servant where was her master's
+study. She replied, "Here is my master's study, but he studies in the
+fields." That is the lesson to be learnt in respect to agriculture.
+
+    _Agricultural Exhibition, Newport,
+    December 2nd, 1910._
+
+
+
+
+A BLUE BOTTLE AND A BIRD.
+
+
+I hope you won't do what I did last time. It was a day very different
+from this. It was very hot. I saw an animal in the ring that I did
+not care the least about, and just then a great blue-bottle settled on
+my nose. The consequence was that I bought the worst animal at a very
+high price.
+
+    _Stock Sale at the Duffryn, Newport,
+    October 7th, 1909._
+
+
+
+
+A LIMIT EVEN TO SCIENCE.
+
+[Illustration: "_Just then a great blue-bottle settled on my nose._"]
+
+
+In regard to scientific agriculture, I am not sure whether we are not
+rather overdoing things; but there is no doubt that, notwithstanding
+all the science we have, we have never succeeded in making a cow have
+more than one calf in a year, or a sheep more than two lambs. That
+goes to prove that there is a limit even to science in agriculture,
+and it reminds me of the saying, "You may pitchfork Nature out of
+existence, but she is sure to come back to you."
+
+    _Bassaleg Show,
+    October 11th, 1910._
+
+
+
+
+AN EYE FOR A GOOD PAIR OF HORSES.
+
+
+Some men have an eye for one thing and some for another, but I think
+if I have a weakness it is to fancy that I have an eye for a good pair
+of horses, and for a straight line. When I see a line I can judge if
+it has been ploughed straight, and then I can judge whether the
+ploughman has had too much. Of course, that sort of thing never
+happens at a ploughing match, but still it is as well to be on the
+look-out.
+
+    _Farmers' Association, Bassaleg,
+    October 17th, 1876._
+
+
+
+
+AS CATTLE DEALER.
+
+
+Just before I came to the meeting I had put into my hand a small--a
+very small--paper in which I am described as a cattle-dealer. But I am
+not at all ashamed of that.
+
+    _Newport Conservative Meeting,
+    April 5th, 1888._
+
+
+
+
+THE BEST FARMER.
+
+
+It was the late Lord Beaconsfield, I believe, who said that the best
+educated farmer known spent all his life in the open air, and never
+read a book. There is a great deal of truth in that, and although
+science may aid farmers, observation and experience in the proper
+treatment of land and crops will do much more.
+
+    _Tredegar Show,
+    December 26th, 1890._
+
+
+
+
+FOX-HUNTING AND DIPLOMACY.
+
+
+Many people imagine that to be a Master of Foxhounds you have only to
+get a horse--but besides the matter of pounds, shillings and pence,
+you have to create an interest amongst the farmers over whose land you
+hunt, and whose sheep, pigs and lambs you frighten. One, therefore,
+has to use a certain amount of diplomacy.
+
+    _Gelligaer Steeplechases,
+    April 12th, 1910._
+
+Nothing tends to brush away the cobwebs so much as a bracing run with
+the hounds. Fox hunting is an admirable sport, and my neighbours shall
+enjoy it as long as there is a fox to be found on my estate.
+
+    _At Tredegar House,
+    October 30th, 1884._
+
+
+
+
+AT AN ATHLETIC CLUB DINNER.
+
+
+When I came into the room I expected to find one half of the company
+on crutches and the other half in splints. I am not at all certain
+that I am the proper man to be President of this club, because I think
+that the President of an athletic club should measure at least 48
+inches round the chest, and ought to have biceps of 18 inches, and
+scale at least 14 stone 7 lbs. I am afraid all the dumb bells in the
+world would not get me up to that. I am what might be called an old
+fossil, though I cannot boast of the garrulity of old age, and
+therefore I will not tell you that when I played football I was always
+kicking the ball out of the ground into the river; or that when I
+played cricket I always drove the ball into the river. Those are facts
+well known in Newport.
+
+    _First Annual Dinner of the Newport Athletic Club,
+    April 19th, 1890._
+
+
+
+
+HUNTING.
+
+
+I am always delighted to see any member of the Corporation at the meet
+of my hounds. If they came out horrid Radicals they would go back half
+Tories.
+
+[Illustration: "_I am afraid all the dumb bells in the world would not
+get me up to that._"]
+
+"One touch of nature makes the whole world kin," and there is nothing
+like a meet in the open country for setting things right between
+friends and neighbours.
+
+    _Mayor's Banquet, Newport,
+    January 15th, 1884._
+
+A clever satirist has said that nature made the horse and hounds and
+threw in the fox as a connecting link. In my opinion, fox-hounds and
+hunting are the connecting links between the landlord and the tenant
+farmer.
+
+[Illustration: "_'Oh the devil!' I exclaimed. 'No, not the devil,'
+said the farmer, 'but the fox.'_"]
+
+I have made many pleasant acquaintances lately in my hunting
+expeditions, and I hope we shall always remain on the most amicable
+terms. But some have astonished me with their argument. Said one,
+"Beg pardon, Major, I have lost such a sight of poultry." "Dear me,"
+I said. "Yes, we lost forty ducks the other night." "Oh, the devil!" I
+exclaimed. "No, not the devil," said the farmer, "but the fox." I
+asked the farmer how he managed to count so many. "Well," was the
+reply, "I had four ducks sitting on ten eggs each; and that made
+forty." Well, the Chamber of Agriculture has not yet settled the
+knotty point of "compensation for unexhausted improvements." However,
+the argument ended in our parting very good friends, as, said the
+farmer, "I and my landlord have been friends hitherto, and as I hope
+we shall continue to be."
+
+
+
+
+TWO UNPROFITABLE HONOURS.
+
+
+I have the honour to hold two offices which, if I did not enjoy the
+friendship of the farmers, would be very thorny ones. One of them is
+that of being a member of Parliament for an agricultural county. You
+will agree with me that, in such a position, if I were not on good
+terms with the farmer, I would often be on a bed of thorns.
+
+The other office I hold is that of master of a pack of hounds. I think
+also if I were not on good terms with the farmer that would not be a
+very pleasant position. I do not know that there is any similarity
+between the two offices, except that neither of them has any salary. I
+hope and trust that it will be a very long time before the country
+will be unable to find men willing to do the duties in either capacity
+without being paid for them.
+
+    _Tredegar Show,
+    December 19th, 1865._
+
+
+
+
+THE HAPPY FARMER.
+
+
+A great many people fancy that the farmer lives in a beautiful
+cottage, with vines climbing over it, that the cows give milk without
+any milking, that the earth yields forth her fruits spontaneously, and
+that the farmer has nothing to do but sit still and get rich.
+
+    _Tredegar Show,
+    December 16th, 1875._
+
+
+
+
+EQUINE EXPRESSIONS.
+
+
+Our great orators, whenever they want to be more expressive than
+usual, make use of phrases savouring of horses and carriages. When the
+Grand Old Man came into power, it was said he would have an awkward
+team to manage. Again, when a great division was expected some time
+ago, and there were doubts as to which way two gentlemen would go, it
+was said that Mr. Fowler had kicked over the traces and that Mr.
+Saunders would jib. Equine expressions are quite in the fashion.
+
+    _May Horse Show Dinner,
+    May 4th, 1893._
+
+
+
+
+KINDNESS TO ANIMALS.
+
+
+My experience of life is that a man who loves horses is a good member
+of society. A man who is kind to his horses is kind to everyone else.
+I belong to a Four-in-hand Club, two of the leading members, Lord
+Onslow and Lord Carrington, being close personal friends of mine. A
+relative of Lord Onslow once wrote:
+
+    "What can Tommy Onslow do
+    He can drive a coach and two;
+    Can Tommy Onslow do no more
+    Yes, he can drive a coach and four."
+
+Yet Lord Onslow and Lord Carrington are something more than splendid
+whips; they are highly successful governors of British Dependencies.
+
+    _May Day Horse Show Dinner,
+    March 2nd, 1889._
+
+
+
+
+TALKS ON EDUCATION.
+
+
+I have been delighted to hand so many prizes to lady pupil teachers,
+and I recall the philosopher who once said, "All that is necessary is
+that a girl should have the morals of an angel, the manners of a
+kitten, and the mind of a flea." But after this distribution one
+cannot go away with the impression that the female mind is only the
+mind of a flea.
+
+    _Pupil Teachers' Prize Distribution,
+    January 16th, 1903._
+
+We have been informed, to-night of different foreign educational
+systems, the German, the French, and the American, which we are
+generally told in this country we ought to copy. In the French system
+there is too much centralization. Every teacher, whether at a
+university or at a small elementary school, is simply a Government
+Official. The German system is a splendid one, but it is all
+subsidized by Government. The English Government is not generous
+enough to do that for English Schools, so we can hardly hope to copy
+the German system. Then there is the American system. That is also
+certainly splendid, but unfortunately we have no great millionaires in
+England who will help us to copy the American system. It has been
+said that when an Englishman becomes a millionaire, and he feels that
+he is nearing his end, he thinks--to use a sporting expression--that
+it is time to "hedge for a future state." Then he builds a Church. The
+American millionaire founds a university, or leaves large sums of
+money for a training college, and I think he is right.
+
+    _Technical School Prize Distribution, Newport,
+    December 3rd, 1902._
+
+Sir William Preece has said that there were five new elements
+discovered within the last century. There were others undiscovered,
+and it only remained for some student to discover one of them to make
+himself famous, and, like Xenophon, return to find his name writ large
+on the walls of his native town. A celebrated poet once declared--
+
+    "You can live without stars;
+      You can live without books,
+    But civilized man
+      Cannot live without cooks."
+
+Some people may be able to live without books and only with cooks. But
+without science and books we should not have had our Empire. Books
+and science help us to keep up the Empire. It is for these reasons
+that I do what I can to encourage technical and scientific education.
+
+    _School of Science and Art Prize Distribution,
+    December 4th, 1901._
+
+You can be quite certain that no hooligan ever attended an art school.
+The intelligence and refinement of manners brought about by the study
+of sculpture, painting, and architecture have more to do with the
+stopping of drunkenness than any other teaching you could think of....
+The charm of these art schools for me lies in the fact that we are
+always expecting something great, just as a fisherman at a little
+brook, where he has never caught anything much larger than his little
+finger, is always expecting to hook some big monster. In these art
+schools I am always expecting some great artist or sculptor turned
+out--somebody from Newport Schools--not only a credit to himself but
+to any town, somebody who will become a second Millais or a great
+sculptor.
+
+Newport has improved a good deal of late years, and I am sure the
+study of painting and architecture has had much to do with it. In
+looking over some old papers in the Tredegar archives the other day,
+I came across a description by two people who passed from Cardiff
+through Newport about 100 years ago. They said: "We went over a nasty,
+muddy river, on an old rotten wooden bridge, shocking to look at and
+dangerous to pass over. On the whole this is a nasty old town."
+
+    _School of Science and Art Prize Distribution,
+    December 5th, 1900._
+
+Sir John Gorst has made reference to the indisposition of the
+territorial aristocracy to encourage high intellectual attainment. I
+think "territorial aristocracy" is rather an undefinable term, and
+perhaps school children will be asked what it is. I do not think that
+those who own land are as a class opposed to high intellectual
+attainment. The County Councils to some extent are representative of
+territorial aristocracy, and 41 of the 49 County Councils of England
+and Wales have agreed to spend the whole of the Government grant in
+education. That is a sign that the territorial aristocracy are not
+averse to intellectual attainment.
+
+Perhaps Colonel Wallis will ask some of the children in the school
+what the meaning of "territorial aristocracy" is. I read that when a
+child was asked what the meaning of the word Yankee was, the reply
+was that it was an animal bred in Yorkshire.
+
+    _Opening of the School Board Offices, Newport,
+    March 11th, 1898._
+
+Victor Hugo once said that the opening of a school means the closing
+of a prison. That is very true, regarded as an aphorism, and I wish it
+were true in reality, because there would not be any prisons left in
+England.
+
+    _Opening of Intermediate Schools,
+    October 29th, 1896._
+
+I am pleased that technical schools are taking such a firm hold in the
+town. I feel more and more that the teaching of art is doing a great
+deal of good. There is a great improvement in the tastes of the
+people, shown by the architectural beauty of their residences and in
+decorations generally.
+
+I was very much surprised a short time ago at reading a strong article
+by "Ouida"--whose novels I have read with a great deal of interest--on
+the ugliness of our modern life. She certainly took a very pessimistic
+view of the matter and seemed to look only at the workaday part of the
+world--at the making of railways, the knocking down of old houses, and
+the riding of bicycles. I do not see that those things come under the
+title of art. One of the objects of instruction at the art schools is
+to induce students to create ideas of their own. At the same time I do
+not think you could do much better than study the old masters, than
+whose works I do not see anything better amongst modern productions.
+The great silver racing cups given away now, worth from �300 to �500,
+do not compare with the handiwork of Italian and Venetian silver
+workers. I have some pieces of plate in the great cellar under
+Tredegar House which I do not think it possible to improve upon.
+
+    _School of Science and Art Prize Distribution, Newport,
+    January 24th, 1896._
+
+One or two little incidents in my own experience lately shew the value
+of studying some particular trade or science or some form of art. Only
+the other day I met a young lady at a country house. Before I had seen
+her a few minutes she remarked: "I suppose you don't remember me, Lord
+Tredegar?" If I had been young and gallant, it would have been natural
+for me to have replied: "Such a face as yours I am not in the least
+likely to forget." But I thought I was too old for that, and merely
+said that I did not remember at the moment having met her previously.
+The young lady then informed me that she had received a prize at my
+hands at a great school, and that in handing her the prize I had
+remarked, "You have well earned the prize, and it is a branch of art
+that, if continued, will prove very useful in after life." That branch
+of art had enabled her to take the position she then occupied.
+
+The other incident was that of a young man who had been left by his
+parents very poor. He had the greatest difficulty in getting anything
+at all to do, because he had never made himself proficient in any
+particular trade or science. I agree with the man who said one should
+know something about everything and everything about something.
+
+    _School of Science and Art Prize Distribution, Newport,
+    December 17th, 1894._
+
+It has been well said, I forget by whom, but I think it was Dr.
+Johnson, that you can do anything with a Scotsman, if you catch him
+young. I think you can say just the same of the Welshman or the
+Monmouthshire man.
+
+    _Newport Intermediate Boys' School,
+    November 4th, 1910._
+
+One day I accompanied a young lady to her carriage on leaving a public
+function at which I had officiated. The band struck up a martial air,
+and I stepped actively to the time of the music. Remarking to the
+young lady that the martial air appealed to an old soldier, she said,
+"Why, Lord Tredegar, were you ever in the Army?" That is the reason
+why I think we should have memorials and why I shall be very glad to
+have this picture in my house.
+
+    _On the occasion of the presentation of a Portrait of his
+    Lordship's Statue in Cathays Park, Cardiff,
+    September 19th, 1909._
+
+The commander of the French Army said of the Balaclava Charge that it
+was magnificent, but that it was not war. I do not know what the
+French general called war, but my recollection of the charge is that
+it was something very nearly like it. I have to thank the Power above
+for being here now, fifty-five years after the charge took place.
+Whether this statue will commemorate me for a long time or not is of
+little moment, but I know it will commemorate for ever the sculptor,
+Mr. Goscombe John.
+
+    _Unveiling of equestrian statue of Viscount Tredegar in Cathays Park,
+    Cardiff, on 55th Anniversary of the Balaclava Charge,
+    October 25th, 1909_
+
+
+
+
+THE ARCH�OLOGY OF MONMOUTHSHIRE.
+
+
+Anyone who lives in Monmouthshire, a county rich in its old castles,
+churches, camps, and cromlechs, cannot fail to be some sort of an
+arch�ologist, and it is this mild type I represent. I have always had
+a great fancy for history, and anyone who studies the arch�ology of
+Monmouthshire must be well grounded in the history of England. The
+county has held a prominent place in history from the earliest period
+down to the present day, commencing with the Silures, and passing on
+to the Romans, Saxons, and Normans. Some locality or other in the
+county was connected with each of those periods.
+
+One little failing about arch�ology which has always been a sore point
+with me is that it is apt to destroy some of those little illusions
+which we like to keep up. I hope when we go to Caerwent, during the
+next day or two, my illusion concerning King Arthur will not be
+dispelled, for I love to think of King Arthur and his Round Table
+having been at that place. Alexander wept because there were no new
+worlds to conquer, but I hope arch�ologists will not weep because
+there are no new ruins to be discovered. An old stone has been picked
+up on the moors at Caldicot, and scientific men know that the stone
+proves the Marches to have been reclaimed from the sea by the Romans.
+The question of the origin of Roman encampments is one about which
+there is a great deal of doubt, and I hope to hear some new story when
+we inspect the ancient part in Tredegar Park.
+
+    _Fourth Annual Meeting, Cambrian Arch�ological Association,
+    August 24th, 1885._
+
+
+
+
+MONMOUTHSHIRE STILL WELSH.
+
+
+In the reign of Henry VIII, Monmouthshire was annexed to England, and
+therefore we are not now exactly in Wales. But 300 years have not
+eradicated the Welsh language and the Welsh traditions.
+
+    _Farmers' Association Dinner, Bassaleg,
+    October 23rd, 1877._
+
+
+
+
+FREEDOM OF MORGAN BROTHERHOOD.
+
+
+I take my opinion of freedom from Dr. Samuel Johnson, and that is good
+enough for me. Dr. Johnson said that freedom was "to go to bed when
+you wish, to get up when you like, to eat and drink whatever you
+choose, to say whatever occurs to you at the moment, and to earn your
+living as best you may."
+
+[Illustration: "_I talk of Buccaneer Morgan._"]
+
+The Lord Mayor has hoped that he will prove to be a member of the
+Tredegar family. The name of Morgan is a splendid name. You can, with
+that name, get your pedigree from wherever you like. Whenever I talk
+of bishops, I remember to speak of Bishop Morgan. If I speak to a
+football player, I talk of Buccaneer Morgan, and so it goes on in any
+subject you wish. I do not care--even if there is a great murder--a
+Morgan is sure to be in it! I do not wish to detract from the Lord
+Mayor's desire to be in the pedigree, but, at all events, we can all
+belong to a Morgan Brotherhood.
+
+    _Reply to toast of "Our Guest," at City Hall, Cardiff,
+    October 25th, 1909._
+
+When the agitation for the new Technical Institute was going on, I
+daresay most of you heard all sorts of objections to it on the ground
+of expense and of there being no necessity for an institute of this
+description. Some of the agitators went back to Solomon. They said,
+"Solomon was the wisest man who ever lived, and he has told us that
+'He who increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.' So why," said they,
+"do you want to have more knowledge?" Another objector said, "A little
+knowledge is a dangerous thing," and then somebody else said, "Of the
+making of books there is no end," and "Much study is a weariness of
+the flesh."
+
+All those old sayings were trotted out, but there was the other side
+to bring before you. There was the dear old lady who was so proud of
+her son--he was a kind of artist--that she thought he would become a
+second Gainsborough. He got on very well, as she thought, and one day,
+meeting his professor, she said, "Oh, Professor, do you think my son
+will ever learn to draw?" and he replied, "Yes, madam, if you harness
+him to a wagon." Happily, Newport went the right way, and built what I
+fancy is quite one of the most up-to-date technical institutions in
+the country.
+
+    _Technical Institute Prize Distribution, Newport,
+    December 21st, 1910._
+
+It is very difficult to address a mixed school of boys and girls. You
+require totally different things for boys and girls. A learned
+gentleman was once asked his ideal of a girl, and he replied, "Most
+like a boy." Asked his ideal of a boy, he replied, "Only a human boy
+who dislikes learning anything." I was a human boy myself once, about
+70 years ago, and I hated learning anything except running about and
+making myself disagreeable to everyone. My experience of girls is that
+girls want to learn when a boy doesn't. A girl is nearly always
+anxious to learn, whilst a boy only wants to amuse himself.
+
+A great M.P. gave an address about education a week or so ago, and
+said our system was all wrong, that facts were no use, and that
+thinking was what they wanted. I totally disagree with him. Facts are
+wanted, for it is from facts you get on to thinking. One examiner was
+much amused by the notion of a boy who said that what struck him most
+was the toughness of wood, the wetness of water, and the magnificent
+soapiness of soap. That boy was going to get on; he was thinking more
+about facts than anything else.
+
+[Illustration: "_He was what they called 'a devil of a chap to
+jaw.'_"]
+
+Another great school question is with regard to punishment, whether it
+is good to order a boy or girl to write out a certain number of lines
+or learn so many lines of poetry. A well known gentleman of the world,
+politically and otherwise, when at school was what they called "a
+devil of a chap to jaw." That was the expression of a fellow pupil. He
+was constantly in the playground jawing, and they sentenced him to run
+around the ground five times when he spoke for more than three
+minutes. That was supposed to cure him, but it did not. He speaks now
+more than anyone in the House of Commons.
+
+    _Pontywaun School Prize Distribution,
+    March 17th, 1911._
+
+
+
+
+A HYBRID COUNTY.
+
+
+We in Monmouthshire are in a sort of hybrid county. A great many
+people think we are in Wales and a great many people think we are not.
+Cardiff is very jealous of us--jealous because we can get drunk on
+Sundays and they can't. I hope we shall continue to be a county of
+ourselves, and when this great Home Rule question, which is so much
+talked about, is settled we shall, no doubt, have a Parliament at
+Newport-on-Usk, or else at Monmouth-upon-Wye.
+
+    _Newport Athletic Club Dinner,
+    April 27th, 1891._
+
+
+
+
+INTEREST IN EXPLORATION.
+
+
+I wish to renew interest among the people of the neighbourhood in the
+exploration work at Caerwent. The reason, perhaps, why some of the
+interest has fallen off, is the illness and death of the late Vicar of
+Caerwent, who always took the greatest possible delight in explaining
+to visitors the history of the ancient city and the nature of the work
+of excavation.
+
+There is a great deal of fresh ground to be explored. I am glad to
+find that there is an increasing interest in Great Britain in this
+kind of work, and I hope it will continue to increase. If we expect to
+find any interest at all in matters of this kind, it would be in Rome,
+and yet we find that in that city it has been decided recently to pull
+down some of the most valuable remains in the city, the great Roman
+wall, which for so long a period kept out the Goths and the Vandals
+who besieged the city. If that is possible in Rome, any indifference
+to this kind of work in Great Britain is not surprising. There is a
+fascination about the work of exploring, as we are always expecting to
+find something which has not been found before, and which may be very
+useful for historical purposes.
+
+All this part of the world is very interesting, not only Caerwent, but
+Llanvaches, where we find early Christian evidences, and Newport,
+where we have a castle of the Middle Ages. I cannot help thinking,
+when I look at the collection of Roman coins in the Caerwent Museum,
+that it is not absolutely impossible that one of them may be the very
+coin which Our Saviour took and asked whose image it bore. For all we
+know, that very coin may have been in the possession of a Roman
+soldier stationed in Jerusalem at the time of the Crucifixion, and
+brought by him to Caerwent.
+
+    _Newport Town Hall, on the occasion of a Lecture on
+    "The Excavations at Caerwent,"
+    March 24th, 1908._
+
+
+
+
+OLIVER CROMWELL AND NEWPORT.
+
+
+There are few Newportonians in this hall who do not remember perfectly
+well the curious little house, with a low 16th century portico,
+situated at the bottom of Stow Hill. It was regarded with great
+veneration by antiquarians, but was no doubt looked upon as a great
+nuisance by the great body of the people. However, that old portico is
+now treasured at Tredegar House. The house was called "Oliver
+Cromwell's House."
+
+I think you will agree with me when I say that few people slept in so
+many bedrooms as King Charles I. or Oliver Cromwell is said to have
+done. There is a room at Tredegar House called King Charles the
+First's room, but it was not built until ten years after that Monarch
+was beheaded.
+
+With regard to the little house called Oliver Cromwell's House, there
+is some reason to believe that Oliver Cromwell might have occupied
+it. It was, sometime, occupied by the Parliamentary troops, because I
+have at this moment an old fire back, which was found in the cellar
+with the Royal Arms of England and the Crown dated 16-- something
+knocked off. No doubt this was found in the house by Parliamentarians,
+who immediately proceeded to knock off the crown. We know that Oliver
+Cromwell passed that way, because he went to the siege of Pembroke and
+found great difficulty in taking that town.
+
+I have a copy of a letter Cromwell wrote to Colonel Saunders, one of
+his leaders, in which, after congratulating him upon his zeal and
+close attention, he referred to "the malignants--Trevor Williams of
+Llangibby Castle, and one Sir William Morgan, of Tredegar," and
+directed him to seize them at once. That shows that Oliver Cromwell
+knew all about Caerleon, Newport and Tredegar.
+
+    _Opening of Tredegar Hall, Newport,
+    March 14th, 1895._
+
+
+
+
+WELSH PEOPLE EVEN IN CARDIFF.
+
+
+I am glad to find that the Welsh Church movement has been such a
+success. I was asked on one occasion if there were many Welsh people
+in Cardiff, and I confessed there were. When further asked if there
+was a Welsh Church there I had to admit with shame that there was not.
+From that moment I resolved to back up as much as I could the movement
+for providing a Church for the Welsh-speaking inhabitants of Cardiff.
+No one could walk the streets of Cardiff without being impressed with
+the number of Welsh people one met and heard talking in their own
+language. Probably a great number of those simply came into the town
+for the day, but a considerable number must be residents of the town.
+
+I see a great many ladies present, and I would urge them to do what
+they can, for, in the words of a Church magnate, who was, if not an
+archbishop or a bishop, certainly an archdeacon--"mendicity is good,
+but women-dicity is better."
+
+    _Laying of the Foundation Stone of a Welsh Church at Cardiff,
+    July 2nd, 1890._
+
+
+
+
+THE SIEGE OF CAERPHILLY CASTLE.
+
+[Illustration: "_Two hundred tuns of wine! That is better than a
+Temperance Hotel._"]
+
+
+I am impressed by the energy displayed by the agriculturists of the
+district in sending such satisfactory exhibits. At the same time, you
+must not fancy yourselves quite too grand at the present day,
+because, if you read history you will find that during the siege of
+Caerphilly Castle, some 400 or 500 years ago--when the castle was
+taken--there were 2,000 oxen, 12,000 cows, 20,000 sheep, 600 horses,
+2,000 pigs and 200 tuns of wine inside the Castle walls. Two hundred
+tuns of wine! That is better than a Temperance Hotel.... If you walk
+round this show you will not see one single sign of depression. It
+grows larger every year. Cattle grow better, the horses better, the
+women grow prettier, and the men grow fatter.
+
+    _East Glamorgan Agricultural Show, Caerphilly,
+    September 7th, 1899._
+
+
+
+
+GWERN-Y-CLEPPA.
+
+
+The foundations of Gwern-y-Cleppa, the palace of Ivor Hael, have been
+traced around a tree in Cleppa Park. Although it has been termed a
+palace, I think it more likely to have been something of a manor
+house, for Ivor was the younger son of a younger son, and therefore
+not likely to have had very large possessions. Ivor's generous nature
+has been well depicted by his celebrated bard, Dafydd ap Gwilym.
+
+I have read in a book an account of an incident which tradition
+alleges took place near the spot on which we are standing. This was a
+contest between Dafydd and his rival bard, Rhys Meigan. Dafydd's
+shafts of satire overwhelmed his opponent, who fell dead--the victim
+of ridicule.
+
+    _Cardiff Naturalists' Visit to Gwern-y-Cleppa,
+    May 10th, 1893._
+
+
+
+
+IN PRAISE OF EISTEDDFODAU.
+
+
+As long ago as the 15th century an ancestor whom I have been reading
+about lately--Ivor Hael--appears to have been celebrated particularly
+for his support of the Eisteddfodau of that period and of music in
+general. Later on, my grandfather and father always did their best to
+promote the idea of the Eisteddfod, and on several occasions presided
+at those gatherings. I, personally, consider the Eisteddfod a great
+institution.
+
+One of the reasons why many of our English friends do not support
+Eisteddfodau, and are inclined to speak slightingly of them, is
+because of the religious side which commences with the Gorsedd; but I
+think if our friends paid a little more attention to it, and attended
+oftener, they would not be inclined to ridicule the institution.
+
+An Eisteddfod, anywhere, is a very interesting event, but one at
+Pontypridd seems to be of all others the most interesting. Pontypridd
+itself is full of reminiscences of old and modern Wales. On that very
+stone--the Rocking Stone--on the hill where some of us have been
+to-day, some very earnest bards, no doubt, at different times had
+their seats, and it does not require a very vivid imagination to
+picture on that stone one of those unfortunate bards that were left
+after the Massacre of the Bards of Edward.
+
+Then we have not far away the remains of the old monastery of Pen
+Rhys, where tradition says rested Ap Tudor, or at all events to whom
+the monastery was erected. At that very place, that great terror of
+England and of the Normans--Owen Glendower--who was at that time
+residing at Llantrisant, was stated to have presided at an Eisteddfod
+soon after his incursion into Wales. Great bardic addresses were
+delivered there, and one, written to Sir John Morgan of Tredegar, is
+now in the archives of Tredegar.
+
+Coming to later times, we have Cadwgan of the Battleaxe, who was
+supposed to have been sharpening his battleaxe at the time he was
+going down the Rhondda, so that it must have been pretty sharp by the
+time he arrived at his destination.
+
+[Illustration: "_There is at the present moment a wave of music-hall
+melodies passing over the country._"]
+
+There is at the present moment a wave of music-hall melodies passing
+over the country, and I think it is one of the duties of the
+Eisteddfodau to try to counteract the music-hall fancy, now so
+prevalent. Not many days ago, I was reminded of an incident in which a
+lady asked a friend whether he was fond of music, and he replied "Yes,
+if it is not too good." Unfortunately, that is the opinion of about
+one-half of the civilized world.
+
+The aim of the Eisteddfod is to patronise good music which, combined
+with high art, has a tendency, as the Latin poet puts it, to soften
+manners and assuage the natural ruggedness of human nature.
+
+    _Eisteddfod, Pontypridd,
+    July 31st, 1893._
+
+Miniature Eisteddfodau, one of which we are celebrating, are most
+interesting, as being a sort of prelude to the great National
+Eisteddfod which takes place annually. There is something peculiarly
+interesting in these essentially Welsh gatherings, because however
+much we who live on this side of the Rumney may, from legislative
+causes, be considered English, we never hear of an Eisteddfod taking
+place on the other side of Offa's Dyke, which in my opinion is the
+boundary of Wales.
+
+Offa's Dyke was formerly a great mound and ditch erected by King Offa
+somewhere in the year 900 or thereabouts, as a boundary between Wales
+and England, and it ran from the mouth of the Wye to Chepstow. We
+seldom hear of an Eisteddfod taking place on the other side of the
+dyke. It is true there are the great Choral Festivals, but those are
+festivals held in the grand Cathedrals, at which very grand company
+assemble, and where some of the most celebrated singers sing; they are
+not competitive in any sense. Here we have competitions, not so much
+for the prizes as for the honour of the thing, for the honour of the
+Welsh nation, and for the advancement of music and art in Wales.
+
+    _Risca,
+    October 5th, 1896._
+
+
+
+
+TREDEGAR HOUSE.
+
+
+Tredegar House is generally believed to have been designed by Inigo
+Jones, but it was not built until after that architect's death. It was
+built by William Morgan, and finished about 1672. A residence formerly
+stood on the spot, which Leland mentioned as "a fair place of stone."
+Owen Glendower, when he ravaged Wentloog, and destroyed houses,
+churches and Newport Castle, probably destroyed Tredegar House. On an
+inquisition being taken after this period of the value of the
+lordship, the return was _nil_.
+
+    _Cambrian Association Meeting,
+    August 28th, 1885._
+
+
+
+
+A LITTLE FAMILY HISTORY.
+
+[Illustration: "_I have made the discovery that the Morgans were never
+remarkable for very great talent._"]
+
+
+As far as I have been able to read the family history, I have made the
+discovery that the Morgans were never remarkable for very great
+talent; but for many generations we have lived in much the same spot,
+and it has been our motto to make life happy to those around us, and
+to assist those with whom we come in contact. I believe my family have
+lived for this object. There are many days in the history of the
+family that are much treasured by us, but there will be no one day
+more honoured than the memory of this one. When I hand these addresses
+to Lady Tredegar, and express to her the kind sentiments everyone has
+made use of as to the memory of the late Lord Tredegar, we shall one
+and all be thankful, and the memory of this day will live long in the
+heart of every member of the Tredegar family.
+
+    _Tredegar Memorial Corn Exchange, Newport,
+    September 4th, 1878._
+
+The Mayor has spoken of the commercial spirit which, he stated, has
+recently been evinced by the Tredegar family. His Worship in that
+respect erred a little, for several hundred years ago there was a
+gentleman who called himself Merchant Morgan. He sailed on the Spanish
+Main, and brought back with him a great deal of money which he had
+made in trade--or otherwise. From that day to this, the Morgans have
+been very well off. Later, there were ironworks in Tredegar Park,
+carried on by Sir William Morgan. Those works paid also, and when he
+had money enough Sir William Morgan removed them away, restored the
+green fields, and left other people to attend to the works.
+
+    _Mayoral Banquet, Newport,
+    December 15th, 1881._
+
+Sir Henry Morgan played an important part in the stirring drama of
+Empire-building. His name has become a household word, and his daring
+exploits on the Spanish Main in the 17th century rival in song and
+story the heroic adventures of Drake, Frobisher, and Hawkins. It is
+mainly to him that we own the island of Jamaica, the most wealthy of
+our West Indian possessions. He was not a plaster saint, it is true;
+but it is incorrect to call him a pirate, for there is no gainsaying
+the fact that all his actions were justified by instructions he
+received from time to time from his Monarch, Charles II, who
+countenanced every movement of his, and even empowered him to
+commission whatever persons he thought fit, to be partakers with him
+and his Majesty in his various expeditions and enterprises. He was
+cruel in the ordinary sense of cruelty exercised in warfare, no
+doubt, but only when in arms against the blood-thirsty Spaniards. As a
+leader of men he was never surpassed by any captain of the seas, and
+in his glorious conquest of Panama--which the great Sir Francis Drake
+in 1569 had failed to take with 4,000 men when the city was but poorly
+fortified--Sir Henry ransacked it in 1670 when it had become doubly
+fortified, having with him only 1,200 men, and without the aid of any
+pikemen or horsemen.
+
+The charges of cruelty and rapacity levelled against him are beneath
+contempt and criticism. The Spaniards tortured and murdered wholesale,
+and who can wonder that the heroic Welshman made just reprisals, and
+carried out the Biblical adjuration "an eye for an eye, and a tooth
+for a tooth," when punishing the apostles of the Inquisition and
+assassination.
+
+It is due to one John Esquemeling, the author of the first account of
+buccaneers, "The History of the Buccaneers of America," first
+published in 1684, that Sir Henry was designated a "pirate."
+Esquemeling had served under Morgan, and, being dissatisfied with the
+share of prize money allotted to him after the expedition at Panama,
+nursed his revenge until his return to Holland some years after. Sir
+Henry took action against him, and claimed to obtain substantial
+damages from Esquemeling for his malicious and misleading statement.
+
+
+
+
+THE LATE COLONEL MORGAN.
+
+
+The death of my brother, Colonel Morgan, has plunged us into grief,
+and all the neighbourhood felt the death of one whom they all loved,
+almost as much as I did myself. I feel that life can never be the same
+to me again.
+
+    _Servants' Ball,
+    January 11th, 1910._
+
+[Illustration: "_The death of my brother, Colonel Morgan, has plunged
+us into grief._"]
+
+
+
+
+THE MONMOUTHSHIRE TRIBUTE.
+
+[Illustration: "_What have I ever done to deserve this tribute._"]
+
+
+Some 50 years ago two Statesmen were discussing the merits of Mr. Pitt
+and Mr. Fox. The first statesman said the oratory of Mr. Pitt was
+remarkable because he was never at a loss for a word. The other
+statesman replied, "Yes, but Mr. Fox was never at a loss for the right
+word." I, this afternoon, cannot find the right word. I can hardly
+find any word at all to express adequately to you what I feel on this
+occasion. I have put this question to myself many times in the last
+month or so--"What does it all mean? What have I ever done to deserve
+this great tribute?" I thought that my duty was to go back over my
+past life, and I began very early, a very long time ago. I went back
+to the Chartist Riots. I don't suppose there are any of you here who
+know much about them except by hearsay. I was a very little boy at the
+time, spending my holidays at Ruperra Castle, and I was just going
+with my little terrier to hunt a rabbit that had got into the cabbage
+garden, when the post-boy, who had been sent to Newport to bring out
+the letters, rode in, pale and quivering, and flung himself from his
+pony and said that the Chartists were in Newport--"they are lying dead
+all over the street, and the streets were running with blood. He
+passed through a lot of people with swords and pikes, but whether they
+were coming on to Ruperra he did not know." What he effectively did
+was to pose as a great hero among the maid-servants, and I remember
+afterwards going up to the post-boy, saying, "Bother your Chartists;
+come out and help me to catch this rabbit."
+
+That was my first beginning in sport--my first excitement. Then I
+thought a little bit more. I have a distant recollection that very
+soon after, I was gazetted as a Viscount. I saw in a newspaper which
+does not hold the same opinions as I do, the question, "What on earth
+is Lord Tredegar made a Viscount for?" and the answer was, "I suppose
+because he has been Master of the Tredegar Hounds for 30 years." I
+thought, therefore, that I had better leave sport alone for this
+occasion. For some time I have had running in my mind a stanza written
+by one who may be called the Australian bush poet, Mr. L. Gordon, a
+gallant man, who spent most of his time roughing it in the bush. The
+lines are as follows:--
+
+    I've had my share of pastime, I've had my share of toil,
+    It is useless now to trouble. This I know;
+    I'd live the same life over if I had the chance again
+    And the chances are I'd go where most men go.
+
+Mr. Gordon thought he knew where most men go; I don't. I don't pretend
+to know, but I had thought, until lately, that I would not wish to
+live the same life over again. But now, when I am here this afternoon,
+and have received from the hands of so many of my greatest friends
+these magnificent testimonials of their opinion of me, I can hardly go
+wrong if I say I would live the same life over if I had to live
+again.
+
+Well, when I went on with my early history, I found that very, very
+soon I got among tombstones and family vaults, and I thought that the
+less I called to mind those among whom I spent my early life the
+happier it would be for me, certainly on this occasion. But still I
+wonder what it is that I have done, that has caused so many of my
+friends and neighbours to gather together to present me with this
+great tribute of their affection and respect.
+
+It is true that I have had more than my share of this world's goods.
+There is one thing that has always comforted me when this has been
+thrown in my teeth, and that is that it was a young man who went away
+sorrowfully because he had great possessions. I believe I have tried,
+more or less successfully, to help those in difficulties, and to give
+to many comfort and happiness who otherwise would have been in much
+distress and suffering; but I am quite sure that there is no person in
+this hall who would not have done exactly the same under the same
+circumstances. I have no doubt that I shall be able to find a place in
+Tredegar House for this picture. It will, I hope, be a monument in
+Tredegar House to help those who come after me to try and do some
+good in their generation with the wealth which may be at their
+disposal. I thank you from the very bottom of my heart for this great
+tribute you have paid me.
+
+    _This Speech was made in December, 1907, in acknowledgment of
+    Monmouthshire's tribute to Lord Tredegar, which took the
+    form of an oil painting of himself, a gold cup, an album,
+    and �2,000, which his Lordship handed over to various
+    Hospitals._
+
+
+
+
+THE JUBILEE OF QUEEN VICTORIA.
+
+
+We are about to celebrate the Queen's Jubilee, not so much because Her
+Majesty has merely reigned fifty years, but because she has reigned 50
+years in the hearts of her people.
+
+    _County Meeting with reference to Queen Victoria's Jubilee, Newport,
+    February 9th, 1887._
+
+
+
+
+THE LATE QUEEN VICTORIA.
+
+
+The expression of the country's appreciation of the character of her
+late Majesty has been done grandly and well. Statesmen on both
+political sides have told of their experience of her, not merely their
+opinion, but the result of the interviews they have had with her. All
+classes have borne testimony to her goodness and greatness. We, as
+humble subjects of Her Majesty, knew her sympathetic qualities.
+Everybody present has benefitted in some way directly or indirectly
+through her. I think of the line which says--"One touch of nature
+makes the whole world kin." It was the touch of nature in her
+character, and her sympathizing feelings, which have made the whole of
+the civilized world, and much of the uncivilized world, mourn on this
+occasion.
+
+    _Monmouthshire County Council,
+    February 6th, 1901._
+
+
+
+
+THE LATE KING EDWARD.
+
+
+It has been well said by a poet that "Fierce is the light that beats
+upon the throne." Since those words were written the light beating
+upon the throne has become ten times more powerful, but in the case of
+King Edward that fact has only tended to emphasise His Majesty's charm
+of life and of personality, and the power of his will, which have
+benefitted not only this country but the whole civilised world.
+
+    _Usk Quarter Sessions, June 22nd, 1910--in moving a
+    Vote of Condolence on the death of King Edward._
+
+
+
+
+THE PENNY WHISTLE OF REPUBLICANISM.
+
+
+There never was a time when the country was more loyal. The penny
+whistle of republicanism which tried to blow its notes some time ago
+has, I believe, burst itself, for it found no sympathetic echo in the
+heart of the nation. I believe there is no harder worked man in the
+United Kingdom than the Prince of Wales. From morning to night he is
+at the beck and call of somebody or other, and we always find him
+ready to respond to the calls made upon him.
+
+    _Tredegar Show,
+    December 16th, 1875._
+
+
+
+
+ON PRETORIA DAY.
+
+
+We have done our best to publicly recognise the success that has been
+achieved in the occupation of Pretoria, and to do honour to Lord
+Roberts and his gallant army. You can tell the kind of man Lord
+Roberts is by his despatches. You can depend on it that whenever you
+read a despatch from Lord Roberts you are reading what is true,
+complete and accurate. I hope we shall soon see Lord Roberts, who is
+an old and good friend of mine, in Newport again.
+
+    _Pretoria Day,
+    June 7th, 1900._
+
+
+
+
+ADMIRATION FOR AMERICAN SAILORS.
+
+
+I have a great admiration for American sailors and the American people
+generally. When the Crimean War broke out, in the summer of 1854, the
+first soldiers sent out of England were the cavalry regiments, and I
+went with them. At that time England had been at peace for 40 years,
+and when war commenced the authorities knew little about the transport
+of cavalry. We did not go out as a whole regiment in a large liner,
+and arrive at our destination without the loss of a horse, as would be
+the case now. We were sent out in troops of 40 or 50 at a time, in
+small sailing vessels of 500 tons. In the ship in which I sailed the
+horses were packed in the hold, and when they got to the Bay of Biscay
+a violent gale sprang up. In a few hours half a dozen horses broke
+loose and struggled about in the hold. There was only one American
+sailor among the crew, and he went down and "calculated" and uttered
+dreadful oaths. But he had not been down in the hold half an hour
+before he had all the horses tied up again. Ever since then I have had
+the greatest respect for American sailors.
+
+    _Cardiff Eisteddfod,
+    August 4th, 1902._
+
+
+
+
+IMPROVEMENTS IN THE ARMY.
+
+
+I always feel some diffidence in returning thanks for the Army, since
+I am no longer in it; but I may add that I am proud to have belonged
+to it. No gentleman who has been in Her Majesty's Service can look
+back with other than happy feelings to that time. When I first joined
+the Army, it was not in its present state. Many things connected with
+that Service have improved. Among others, the social condition of the
+soldier has been improved. I feel that no individual in this country,
+however high his position may be, need be ashamed of his connection
+with the Army.
+
+At one time, the people of Newport knew more about soldiers than now.
+Some time ago I asked the Duke of Cambridge to send a regiment, or
+part of a regiment, to Newport, and his Grace said, in answer to me,
+that the people would be obliged to stir up a riot in the county if
+they wished to secure the presence of soldiers! I hope such a
+contingency will not arise, living as I do in the county. However, his
+Grace promised to do his best in the matter, and I hope we shall soon
+again have the advantage of a regiment in Newport.
+
+    _Dinner to Lord Tredegar and Alexandra Dock Directors,
+    July 27th, 1865._
+
+
+
+
+THE BOY SCOUT MOVEMENT.
+
+
+The Boy Scout movement instructs the boy just at the time when he is
+between school and a trade, when it would perhaps be better if he
+stayed a bit longer at school, for the time hangs heavy on his hands;
+and that is the time when you catch hold of these boys and give them
+an interest in their country, and an interest in the necessity of
+having somebody to protect the country. The Scouts that I have had any
+experience of are all boys who seem to have improved in their manners,
+their ways, and their education very soon after they have joined the
+Boy Scouts.
+
+    _Meeting in Newport in connection with the Boy Scout Movement,
+    March 14th, 1911._
+
+
+
+
+NOT KNOWN HERE.
+
+
+When the ironworks were started here they received the name of
+Tredegar, and the town itself was also called Tredegar. It is rather
+disagreeable to me at times. I have letters addressed, "Lord Tredegar,
+Tredegar, Monmouthshire." They are sent to Tredegar, where they are
+marked by the postal officials: "Not known here; try Tredegar Park."
+
+
+
+
+LIFE'S TRAGEDY AND COMEDY.
+
+
+Life is said to be a comedy to those who think and a tragedy to those
+who feel, and as we all feel and think we must meet with a good deal
+of comedy and a good deal of tragedy. I hope you all have more comedy
+than tragedy.
+
+    _Presentation to Lord Tredegar of Miner's Lamp and
+    Silver Medal at Risca Eisteddfod,
+    October 5th, 1896._
+
+
+
+
+NEWPORT A SECOND LIVERPOOL
+
+
+I hope the day is not far distant when Newport will be a second
+Liverpool, and Maindee a second Birkenhead.
+
+    _Tredegar Show,
+    December 13th, 1864._
+
+
+
+
+OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE.
+
+
+I have read somewhere that an Oxford man walks about looking as if
+Oxford and the rest of the world belong to him. A Cambridge man, on
+the other hand, walks as if he does not care a--well, does not care
+two straws who the place belongs to.
+
+    _Seventy-fifth Anniversary of St. David's College, Lampeter,
+    October 9th, 1902._
+
+
+
+
+DOCTORS-OLD STYLE AND NEW.
+
+[Illustration: "_The old-fashioned gentleman, who first of all pulled
+out a watch as big as a warming-pan._"]
+
+
+The owning of a hospital is not a very lively proceeding, but I cannot
+help giving a few of my reminiscences in connection with doctors. I
+can go back to the real old-style of doctor; not the present-day smart
+young gentleman with the radium light in his pocket, but the
+old-fashioned gentleman who first of all pulled out a watch as big as
+a warming-pan, and who felt the pulse and asked the patient to put
+out his tongue, and ended up by saying "Haw!" That meant a tremendous
+lot, for he did not tell any more.
+
+I well remember a medical friend of mine saying once that he lived in
+a land flowing with rhubarb, magnesia, and black draughts. That was
+the way we were treated as children, and which possibly enabled us to
+live a long life.
+
+    _Opening of a Hospital at Abertysswg,
+    October 3rd, 1910._
+
+
+
+
+ALL SORTS AND CONDITIONS.
+
+
+I am one of those who like mixing with all sorts and conditions of
+men. I can dine with lords and ladies whenever I like, but I cannot
+always dine with an assembly of working men.
+
+    _May Horse Show Dinner,
+    May 4th, 1893._
+
+[Illustration: "_I can dine with lords and ladies whenever I like, but
+I cannot always dine with an assembly of working men._"]
+
+
+
+
+A CONTRAST IN CORRESPONDENCE.
+
+
+I have a great deal of correspondence of one sort and another. I keep
+no secretary, and my correspondence is with all sorts and conditions
+of men. Only this morning, in the hurried moment before I left, I
+wrote two letters, one to a descendant of Warwick the Kingmaker, and
+the other to a little boy living in the back slums of Newport about a
+football match. That is the sort of correspondence I like, for I like
+to mix with all sorts and conditions of men and do what I can for
+them.
+
+    _Foundation-Stone Laying, Presbyterian Church, Newport,
+    August 27th, 1895._
+
+
+
+
+DREAMS AND TEARS.
+
+
+I never remember to have had a dream that was merry. I never remember
+to have awakened from a dream with a smile or a laugh; but many times
+have I done so with tears on my cheeks.
+
+    _Bazaar at Ystrad Mynach,
+    September 9th, 1909._
+
+
+
+
+THE PRECIPICE OF MATRIMONY.
+
+
+You have heard things said about Matrimony. It is an annual occurrence
+at this dinner, until I have become like a man who can walk along the
+verge of a precipice and look down without falling over. I have
+looked so long without a desire to plunge, that I am able now to look
+over without any danger of falling.
+
+    _The Tredegar Show,
+    December 17th, 1867._
+
+
+
+
+HOW TO LIVE FOR EVER.
+
+
+People who regularly study the newspapers come across advertisements
+of many things calculated to make them doubt whether there is any need
+for a cottage hospital at all. In fact, as far as I can see, judging
+by these advertisements, there is no reason why anybody should die.
+
+    _Pontypridd Cottage Hospital,
+    May 5th, 1910._
+
+
+
+
+PUNCTUALITY "THE THIEF OF TIME."
+
+
+As an old military man, I fully appreciate the value of punctuality.
+Undoubtedly punctuality is the first great duty in this world if we
+wish to carry on business satisfactorily. There are those who say
+punctuality is a great mistake, because a deal of time has to be spent
+in waiting for other people. That is a very pleasant way of looking at
+an unpunctual individual.
+
+    _Intermediate School Prize Distribution,
+    October 19th, 1898._
+
+
+
+
+NO KNOWLEDGE OF KISSES.
+
+[Illustration: "_My brother and I had a fine-looking animal. We used
+to smoke our cigars as we gazed at it._"]
+
+
+There is no prize worth much that does not take some trouble to gain.
+I have heard that kisses, when taken without much trouble, are not
+worth having. Of course I do not know anything about that sort of
+thing. My brother and I had a fine looking animal. We used to smoke
+our cigars as we gazed at it, and think there was nothing like it in
+the world. We thought we would send it to Birmingham; and then, if
+any good, to Smithfield. It was of no use, however. It reminded me of
+a celebrated trainer who used to come into this county, who said: "Oh,
+you've nothing at home to try him with. You think your horse goes very
+fast past trees." I expect it was very much the same thing with our
+ox. It looked very good alongside the cattle trough.
+
+
+
+
+A SMART RETORT.
+
+
+When I had the pleasure of presenting Bedwellty Park to this town
+(Tredegar) one of my critics asked: "Are you quite sure, Lord
+Tredegar, that you have not given the Tredegar people a white
+elephant?" That simile did not trouble me, for I told them I was quite
+sure in a few months the park would be as black as the rest of
+Tredegar.
+
+    _Bazaar at Tredegar,
+    May 23rd, 1902._
+
+
+
+
+THE BUSHRANGER'S METHOD.
+
+[Illustration: "_Young man, this is a two dollar show._"]
+
+
+Just as I came into the hall, I encountered an individual dressed in a
+rather extraordinary garb. I looked him up and down, and saw that he
+was well armed. It reminded me of the case of a minister in the
+backwoods calling on a bushranger to go round with the hat. The latter
+did so, and the first young man he came to dropped in two or three
+cents. The bushranger looked at him in a peculiar way, cocked his
+pistol in a significant manner, and said, "Young man, this is a two
+dollar show." The young man at once dropped in two dollars. I think
+that perhaps my friend might come round with me presently, we might
+frighten some of the gentlemen who have come here with full purses.
+
+    _Congregational Church Bazaar, Newport,
+    October 22nd, 1896._
+
+
+
+
+MAKING THE WAIST PLACES GLAD.
+
+
+I have a little advice to give to you in conclusion. A school-boy was
+being examined in Scripture knowledge, and was asked the meaning of
+the words, "Make the waste places glad." He answered, "Put your arm
+around a lady's waist and make her glad." That, I think, is a very
+good hint for the young men present, and I advise them to make the
+evening as pleasant as they can for the ladies. To the ladies I would
+say this--"Don't put too much faith in the promise of love that may be
+whispered in your ears before the close of the ball."
+
+    _Servants' Ball,
+    January 4th, 1899._
+
+
+
+
+AS OTHERS SEE US.
+
+
+A celebrated philosopher has said there are three different
+personalities about a man. First, there is what God thinks about him;
+secondly, what his friends think about him; and, thirdly, what he
+thinks of himself.... There is another personality to be thought of,
+and that is the opinion of newspapers. It is very difficult to arrange
+those different personalities, because one's own opinion is entirely
+different from other people's. I like a gentleman who proposes my
+health to lay it on thick, as some of it is sure to stick, whether I
+deserve it or not.
+
+    _Opening of the New Hospital, Abergavenny,
+    October 6th, 1902._
+
+
+
+
+THE MIGHTY LORD MAYOR.
+
+
+Many people have the impression that the Lord Mayor of London is the
+greatest man in this kingdom. There is a line or two in an old song
+relating to a lover who did not like to pop the question to his girl.
+He said:--
+
+    "If I were a Lord Mayor,
+      A Marquis or an Earl,
+    Blowed if I wouldn't marry
+      Old Brown's girl."
+
+That represents a great deal of the feeling in this country about the
+magnificence of the position of the Lord Mayor of London.
+
+    _Newport Conservative Meeting,
+    July 25th, 1901._
+
+
+
+
+A DAY OF GREAT JOY.
+
+
+It is a high honour, because it is the greatest that the Lord Mayor
+and Corporation have the power of conferring upon anybody. My only
+drawback is the fear that I cannot be worthy of the others whose names
+are on the roll of Cardiff's freemen. You know that comparisons are
+odious, and when you read the names on that list and compare mine with
+them, I hope you will look with leniency upon me. The Lord Mayor
+promised me just now that he would not be very long in his address and
+in his references to me on this occasion. At one moment I felt very
+much inclined to remind him of his promise, as the great King Henry IV
+did with a Lord Mayor who went on his knees to deliver the keys of the
+city. Without delivering them he rose from his knees and said, "I have
+twelve reasons for not yielding up the keys of the city. The first is
+that there are no keys." The King said, "That is quite enough; we
+don't want any more reasons." I felt inclined to stop the Lord Mayor
+and say, "You have said quite enough about me; I will take the
+remainder for granted."
+
+[Illustration: "_I see no reason why I should not be civil to the
+Members of the Corporation unless they are uncivil to me. I should
+probably do then what other people would do._"]
+
+I see no reason why I should not be civil to the members of the
+Corporation unless they are uncivil to me. I should probably then do
+what other people would do. The Lord Mayor has said that Glamorgan
+could not claim me as a Glamorgan man. Well, I was born in Glamorgan,
+at Ruperra Castle, on this side of the Rumney. I know that if a man is
+born in a stable it doesn't make him a horse, but I always understood
+that the place of your birth had a certain claim upon you.
+
+It is not very long ago that I was discussing with somebody what I was
+going to do in the future, and I quoted the line from Shakespeare: "My
+grief lies onward, but my joy is behind." I think now that I spoke a
+little too soon, this day being one of great joy to me, as you can
+easily understand.
+
+    _Presentation of the Freedom of Cardiff to Viscount Tredegar,
+    October 25th, 1909._
+
+
+
+
+THE GOOD OLD ENGLISH OATH.
+
+
+I never was good at personal abuse. I have got a good old-fashioned
+oath when I am angry--a good old English oath, good enough for most
+people--but that is only when I am very angry. And though we have been
+told that this is the greatest crisis we have ever seen, unfortunately
+I cannot get angry enough about it to abuse other people. But in the
+circumstances, if I am put to it, I think I would quote Falstaff, who
+said, "If any part of a lie will do me grace, I will gild it with the
+heaviest terms I have."
+
+    _South Monmouthshire Conservative Association,
+    December 22nd, 1909._
+
+
+
+
+PRAISE IN BUCKETSFUL.
+
+[Illustration: "_If I live a little longer, I should like it in
+buckets._"]
+
+
+Oliver Wendell Holmes, the celebrated American writer, said that when
+he was young he liked his praises in teaspoonfuls. When he got a
+little older he liked them in tablespoonfuls, and later on in ladles.
+I think I have had a good ladleful this afternoon. If I live a little
+longer, I should like it in buckets.
+
+    _Cardiff,
+    September 14th, 1897._
+
+
+
+
+AN EASY SOLUTION.
+
+[Illustration: "_I should like the suffragettes to marry the passive
+resisters and go away for a long honeymoon._"]
+
+
+I have a notion by which we could be relieved of two wearisome
+questions. I should like the suffragettes to marry the passive
+resisters and go away for a long honeymoon.
+
+    _Servants' Ball,
+    1907._
+
+
+
+
+A READY ANSWER.
+
+
+Four or five years ago I received a letter from the War Office asking
+how many horses I would put at the service of Her Majesty in case of
+emergency. I wrote back and said, "All of them." By return of post I
+received a letter saying that I had given a very patriotic answer, but
+that it did not help them in the least; what they wanted to know was
+how many horses I could put upon the register. I sent back and
+registered eighteen horses. That was the whole of the Tredegar Hunt.
+Well, a couple of days ago I received a notice that all of those
+horses would be wanted. So if the Tredegar Hunt collapses suddenly,
+you will know the cause of it.
+
+    _St. Mellons Ploughing Dinner,
+    October 12th, 1899._
+
+
+
+
+WELCOME.
+
+
+What a beautiful word is the English word "Welcome!" What a world of
+sympathy it expresses! It does not matter whether the welcome comes
+from a father, mother, brother, or sister, or from the girl of your
+own heart. It is always the same. I have arrived at the time of life
+when I can not expect an eye to look brighter when I come, but many
+eyes are brighter when they fall on these volunteers who left their
+homes, not when they thought the war was over, but in the time of
+England's darkest hour. That was the time when our gallant Yeomanry
+and Service Companies went to assist their country in its distress.
+They went to redeem again the honour of England, which at one moment
+looked as if it were rather smirched. They must have seen suffering by
+disease and bullet wounds, and in other ways, and must have been
+brought face to face with all kinds of distress, and witnessed the
+agony of death from disease and bullets. All that tends to make a man
+more sympathetic to those whom at other times he might be inclined to
+blame.
+
+    _Presentation to returned Volunteers (Boer War), Rogerstone,
+    July 26th, 1901._
+
+
+
+
+THE SEVEN AGES.
+
+
+I liken myself to Shakespeare's "Seven ages." I have been the baby,
+the schoolboy, the lover, and the warrior, and I am now the Justice,
+but unlike the poet's justice, I can not boast of "a fair round belly
+with good capon lined." Having disappointed the poet in one thing, I
+hope to disappoint him in another, and not to degenerate into a "lean
+and slippered pantaloon."
+
+    _Servants' Ball,
+    January 10th, 1893._
+
+
+
+
+A DELICATE POINT.
+
+[Illustration: "_Some difficulty might be experienced in getting the
+ladies to wear the costumes of those districts._"]
+
+
+The bazaar may be described as an "European fair," because the stalls
+represent most of the nations of Europe. The reason for that is that
+if we went to Africa or other dark countries, some difficulty might be
+experienced in getting the ladies to wear the costumes of those
+districts.
+
+    _Opening of "World's Fair" Bazaar, Newport,
+    April 29th, 1891._
+
+
+
+
+THE HISTORIC HOUSE OF LORDS.
+
+
+It is in itself no great thing to be a lord; in fact, there used to be
+a saying, "As drunk as a lord." But it is a great thing to sit in the
+House of Lords. That House is an institution which I believe every
+country wishing for constitutional government has, for the last
+hundred years, striven to imitate, but without success, and in my
+opinion they are never likely to succeed, because the House of Lords
+is an institution which, being the growth of centuries, can not be
+imitated in a day. It is recruited from various classes of society,
+and it is simply impossible to create a body similar to it all in a
+moment.
+
+In the old days, some three hundred years ago, King James, being in
+need of money, thought it would be a very good thing to create an
+extra rank, namely, that of baronet, and he sold baronetcies at �1,000
+a piece, which brought him in a goodly sum of money. Anyone applying
+for a baronetcy was required to show a certain amount of pedigree,
+proving that he had had a grandfather or something of that sort. Now,
+if his Sovereign calls him, there is nothing to prevent any one,
+having talent and worth, from entering the House of Lords, even if he
+never had a grandfather. Great divines, great soldiers, great
+statesmen, great lawyers, and great engineers, representatives of all
+the rank and wealth of the country, are to be found in that august
+body; and I think it is a long time since any expression on the part
+of the House of Lords has been adverse to the general opinion of the
+country.
+
+    _Licensed Victuallers' Dinner,
+    January 16th, 1876._
+
+
+FINIS.
+
+
+WESTERN MAIL, LIMITED, PRINTERS, CARDIFF
+
+
+
+
+
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+<h1 class="booktitle smcap">
+Wit and Wisdom<br />
+of<br />
+Lord Tredegar</h1>
+
+<p class="caption smcap">
+western mall, ltd.<br />
+cardiff</p>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<div class="figcenter">
+<img src="images/i002.jpg" width="431" height="568" alt="" />
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+
+<div class="figcenter">
+<img class="border2" src="images/i003.jpg" width="400" height="564" alt="" />
+</div>
+
+<p class="caption">WIT AND WISDOM<br />
+<span class="reduce">OF</span><br />
+LORD TREDEGAR</p>
+
+<p class="h4">1911.<br />
+WESTERN MAIL, LIMITED.<br />
+CARDIFF, NEWPORT, SWANSEA.<br />
+MERTHYR, BRECON AND<br />
+176, FLEET STREET, LONDON</p>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<h2>Table of Contents</h2>
+
+<p>
+<a href="#FOREWORD">FOREWORD.</a><br />
+<a href="#WIT_AND_WISDOM_OF_LORD_TREDEGAR">WIT AND WISDOM OF LORD TREDEGAR.</a><br />
+<a href="#EPIGRAMMATIC_ELOQUENCE">EPIGRAMMATIC ELOQUENCE.</a><br />
+<a href="#MEMORIES_OF_BALACLAVA">MEMORIES OF BALACLAVA.</a><br />
+<a href="#QUIPS_AT_THE_SERVANTS_BALL">QUIPS AT THE SERVANTS' BALL.</a><br />
+<a href="#ON_ARCHBISHOPS_AND_BISHOPS">ON ARCHBISHOPS AND BISHOPS.</a><br />
+<a href="#THE_TRIALS_OF_THE_CLERGY">THE TRIALS OF THE CLERGY.</a><br />
+<a href="#SERMONS_AND_SINNERS">SERMONS AND SINNERS.</a><br />
+<a href="#THE_OLD_PARISH_CHURCH">THE OLD PARISH CHURCH.</a><br />
+<a href="#RELIGIOUS_TOLERANCE">RELIGIOUS TOLERANCE.</a><br />
+<a href="#THE_CRICKETER_CURATE">THE CRICKETER CURATE.</a><br />
+<a href="#THE_BROTHERHOOD_OF_MAN">THE BROTHERHOOD OF MAN.</a><br />
+<a href="#THE_USES_OF_THE_PARISH_ROOM">THE USES OF THE PARISH ROOM.</a><br />
+<a href="#GENTLE_MANNERS">GENTLE MANNERS.</a><br />
+<a href="#REVERENCE_FOR_RELIGION">REVERENCE FOR RELIGION.</a><br />
+<a href="#THE_TEACHING_OF_REFINEMENT">THE TEACHING OF REFINEMENT.</a><br />
+<a href="#IN_PRAISE_OF_HOSPITALS">IN PRAISE OF HOSPITALS.</a><br />
+<a href="#WHEN_IS_A_HOSPITAL_A_SUCCESS">WHEN IS A HOSPITAL A SUCCESS.</a><br />
+<a href="#RECLAIM_THE_STREET_URCHIN">RECLAIM THE STREET URCHIN.</a><br />
+<a href="#THE_INFLUENCE_OF_WOMEN">THE INFLUENCE OF WOMEN.</a><br />
+<a href="#A_FRIEND_FOR_THE_FRIENDLESS">A FRIEND FOR THE FRIENDLESS.</a><br />
+<a href="#THE_BRAVERY_OF_THE_WORKERS">THE BRAVERY OF THE WORKERS.</a><br />
+<a href="#A_TRIBUTE_TO_THE_ENGINE_DRIVER">A TRIBUTE TO THE ENGINE DRIVER.</a><br />
+<a href="#TEMPERANCE_IN_ALL_THINGS">TEMPERANCE "IN ALL THINGS."</a><br />
+<a href="#TOTAL_ABSTINENCE">TOTAL ABSTINENCE.</a><br />
+<a href="#AN_ANGELIC_VISION">AN ANGELIC VISION.</a><br />
+<a href="#CHATS_TO_AND_ABOUT_CABBIES">CHATS TO AND ABOUT CABBIES.</a><br />
+<a href="#TALKS_TO_LICENSED_VICTUALLERS">TALKS TO LICENSED VICTUALLERS.</a><br />
+<a href="#CAKES_AND_ALE">CAKES AND ALE.</a><br />
+<a href="#THE_GREAT_LAND_TYRANT">THE GREAT LAND TYRANT.</a><br />
+<a href="#TWO_LORD_TREDEGARS">TWO LORD TREDEGARS.</a><br />
+<a href="#THE_TRIALS_OF_BENEFACTORS">THE TRIALS OF BENEFACTORS.</a><br />
+<a href="#WHAT_IS_A_PHILANTHROPIST">WHAT IS A PHILANTHROPIST?</a><br />
+<a href="#NATURALLY_A_CONSERVATIVE">NATURALLY A CONSERVATIVE.</a><br />
+<a href="#POLITICS_ON_THE_BRAIN">POLITICS ON THE BRAIN.</a><br />
+<a href="#THE_UNRULY_HOUND">THE UNRULY HOUND.</a><br />
+<a href="#THE_WHOO_WHOOPS">THE WHOO WHOOPS.</a><br />
+<a href="#MPS_AS_BADGERS">M.P.'S AS BADGERS.</a><br />
+<a href="#THE_HONOUR_OF_BEING_MP">THE HONOUR OF BEING M.P.</a><br />
+<a href="#NELSONS_SAYING">NELSON'S SAYING.</a><br />
+<a href="#THE_DISADVANTAGES_OF_THE_PEERAGE">THE DISADVANTAGES OF THE PEERAGE.</a><br />
+<a href="#SWEEPS_AS_PEERS">SWEEPS AS PEERS.</a><br />
+<a href="#YOU_CANNOT_PLEASE_EVERYBODY">YOU CANNOT PLEASE EVERYBODY.</a><br />
+<a href="#KEEP_US_STILL_OUR_SHORTHORNS">KEEP US STILL OUR SHORTHORNS.</a><br />
+<a href="#INTEREST_IN_DAIRYING">INTEREST IN DAIRYING.</a><br />
+<a href="#WHERE_ALL_CLASSES_MEET">WHERE ALL CLASSES MEET.</a><br />
+<a href="#WHERE_THE_AGRICULTURIST_SHOULD_STUDY">WHERE THE AGRICULTURIST SHOULD STUDY.</a><br />
+<a href="#A_BLUE_BOTTLE_AND_A_BIRD">A BLUE BOTTLE AND A BIRD.</a><br />
+<a href="#A_LIMIT_EVEN_TO_SCIENCE">A LIMIT EVEN TO SCIENCE.</a><br />
+<a href="#AN_EYE_FOR_A_GOOD_PAIR_OF_HORSES">AN EYE FOR A GOOD PAIR OF HORSES.</a><br />
+<a href="#AS_CATTLE_DEALER">AS CATTLE DEALER.</a><br />
+<a href="#THE_BEST_FARMER">THE BEST FARMER.</a><br />
+<a href="#FOX-HUNTING_AND_DIPLOMACY">FOX-HUNTING AND DIPLOMACY.</a><br />
+<a href="#AT_AN_ATHLETIC_CLUB_DINNER">AT AN ATHLETIC CLUB DINNER.</a><br />
+<a href="#HUNTING">HUNTING.</a><br />
+<a href="#TWO_UNPROFITABLE_HONOURS">TWO UNPROFITABLE HONOURS.</a><br />
+<a href="#THE_HAPPY_FARMER">THE HAPPY FARMER.</a><br />
+<a href="#EQUINE_EXPRESSIONS">EQUINE EXPRESSIONS.</a><br />
+<a href="#KINDNESS_TO_ANIMALS">KINDNESS TO ANIMALS.</a><br />
+<a href="#TALKS_ON_EDUCATION">TALKS ON EDUCATION.</a><br />
+<a href="#THE_ARCHAEOLOGY_OF_MONMOUTHSHIRE">THE ARCH&AElig;OLOGY OF MONMOUTHSHIRE.</a><br />
+<a href="#MONMOUTHSHIRE_STILL_WELSH">MONMOUTHSHIRE STILL WELSH.</a><br />
+<a href="#FREEDOM_OF_MORGAN_BROTHERHOOD">FREEDOM OF MORGAN BROTHERHOOD.</a><br />
+<a href="#A_HYBRID_COUNTY">A HYBRID COUNTY.</a><br />
+<a href="#INTEREST_IN_EXPLORATION">INTEREST IN EXPLORATION.</a><br />
+<a href="#OLIVER_CROMWELL_AND_NEWPORT">OLIVER CROMWELL AND NEWPORT.</a><br />
+<a href="#WELSH_PEOPLE_EVEN_IN_CARDIFF">WELSH PEOPLE EVEN IN CARDIFF.</a><br />
+<a href="#THE_SIEGE_OF_CAERPHILLY_CASTLE">THE SIEGE OF CAERPHILLY CASTLE.</a><br />
+<a href="#GWERN-Y-CLEPPA">GWERN-Y-CLEPPA.</a><br />
+<a href="#IN_PRAISE_OF_EISTEDDFODAU">IN PRAISE OF EISTEDDFODAU.</a><br />
+<a href="#TREDEGAR_HOUSE">TREDEGAR HOUSE.</a><br />
+<a href="#A_LITTLE_FAMILY_HISTORY">A LITTLE FAMILY HISTORY.</a><br />
+<a href="#THE_LATE_COLONEL_MORGAN">THE LATE COLONEL MORGAN.</a><br />
+<a href="#THE_MONMOUTHSHIRE_TRIBUTE">THE MONMOUTHSHIRE TRIBUTE.</a><br />
+<a href="#THE_JUBILEE_OF_QUEEN_VICTORIA">THE JUBILEE OF QUEEN VICTORIA.</a><br />
+<a href="#THE_LATE_QUEEN_VICTORIA">THE LATE QUEEN VICTORIA.</a><br />
+<a href="#THE_LATE_KING_EDWARD">THE LATE KING EDWARD.</a><br />
+<a href="#THE_PENNY_WHISTLE_OF_REPUBLICANISM">THE PENNY WHISTLE OF REPUBLICANISM.</a><br />
+<a href="#ON_PRETORIA_DAY">ON PRETORIA DAY.</a><br />
+<a href="#ADMIRATION_FOR_AMERICAN_SAILORS">ADMIRATION FOR AMERICAN SAILORS.</a><br />
+<a href="#IMPROVEMENTS_IN_THE_ARMY">IMPROVEMENTS IN THE ARMY.</a><br />
+<a href="#THE_BOY_SCOUT_MOVEMENT">THE BOY SCOUT MOVEMENT.</a><br />
+<a href="#NOT_KNOWN_HERE">NOT KNOWN HERE.</a><br />
+<a href="#LIFES_TRAGEDY_AND_COMEDY">LIFE'S TRAGEDY AND COMEDY.</a><br />
+<a href="#NEWPORT_A_SECOND_LIVERPOOL">NEWPORT A SECOND LIVERPOOL</a><br />
+<a href="#OXFORD_AND_CAMBRIDGE">OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE.</a><br />
+<a href="#DOCTORS-OLD_STYLE_AND_NEW">DOCTORS-OLD STYLE AND NEW.</a><br />
+<a href="#ALL_SORTS_AND_CONDITIONS">ALL SORTS AND CONDITIONS.</a><br />
+<a href="#A_CONTRAST_IN_CORRESPONDENCE">A CONTRAST IN CORRESPONDENCE.</a><br />
+<a href="#DREAMS_AND_TEARS">DREAMS AND TEARS.</a><br />
+<a href="#THE_PRECIPICE_OF_MATRIMONY">THE PRECIPICE OF MATRIMONY.</a><br />
+<a href="#HOW_TO_LIVE_FOR_EVER">HOW TO LIVE FOR EVER.</a><br />
+<a href="#PUNCTUALITY_THE_THIEF_OF_TIME">PUNCTUALITY "THE THIEF OF TIME."</a><br />
+<a href="#NO_KNOWLEDGE_OF_KISSES">NO KNOWLEDGE OF KISSES.</a><br />
+<a href="#A_SMART_RETORT">A SMART RETORT.</a><br />
+<a href="#THE_BUSHRANGERS_METHOD">THE BUSHRANGER'S METHOD.</a><br />
+<a href="#MAKING_THE_WAIST_PLACES_GLAD">MAKING THE WAIST PLACES GLAD.</a><br />
+<a href="#AS_OTHERS_SEE_US">AS OTHERS SEE US.</a><br />
+<a href="#THE_MIGHTY_LORD_MAYOR">THE MIGHTY LORD MAYOR.</a><br />
+<a href="#A_DAY_OF_GREAT_JOY">A DAY OF GREAT JOY.</a><br />
+<a href="#THE_GOOD_OLD_ENGLISH_OATH">THE GOOD OLD ENGLISH OATH.</a><br />
+<a href="#PRAISE_IN_BUCKETSFUL">PRAISE IN BUCKETSFUL.</a><br />
+<a href="#AN_EASY_SOLUTION">AN EASY SOLUTION.</a><br />
+<a href="#A_READY_ANSWER">A READY ANSWER.</a><br />
+<a href="#WELCOME">WELCOME.</a><br />
+<a href="#THE_SEVEN_AGES">THE SEVEN AGES.</a><br />
+<a href="#A_DELICATE_POINT">A DELICATE POINT.</a><br />
+<a href="#THE_HISTORIC_HOUSE_OF_LORDS">THE HISTORIC HOUSE OF LORDS.</a><br />
+</p>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_5">5</a></span></p>
+
+<h2><a id="FOREWORD">FOREWORD.</a></h2>
+
+<p>There are a few observations which may be deemed appropriate in
+presenting to the public this collection of extracts from the speeches
+of Godfrey Charles Morgan, first Viscount Tredegar; but it is
+inconceivable that any should be necessary by way of apology. During
+the course of an active and a well-spent life, happily extended beyond
+the allotted span, Lord Tredegar has made hundreds of public
+utterances. Innumerable are the functions he has attended during
+half-a-century and over; and at most of them he has been the central
+figure. But while his high station would always have secured attention
+and respect for his words, this volume may serve to prove to future
+generations what this generation well knows, that Lord Tredegar has
+held his listeners by his humour or by his earnestness, according to
+the occasion, and that, in the homely phrase, he has always had
+"something to say." It is my hope, however, that this little book may
+have a still worthier mission. For<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_6">6</a></span> I think it will be found to reveal
+a noble mind. The simple words of Lord Tredegar have time and again
+struck deep to the hearts of his audience. Collected here, they reveal
+the gentleness of his disposition and the purity of his motives. They
+show the consistency of his life. But they do much more. They appear
+to constitute a great moral force. Not that his lordship ever posed as
+preacher, or constituted himself a Court of Judgment on any class of
+his fellows. There is no trace of a superior tone in his speeches. His
+words show sympathetic insight into the trials and difficulties that
+beset the path of every one of us, and his desire was never to
+censure, but ever to encourage and assist with kindly suggestion and
+cheering thought.</p>
+
+<p>No aspect of these extracts is so interesting as that which enables us
+to observe how faithfully and well Lord Tredegar has discharged his
+promises. Long before he could describe himself as a landowner, he
+said that if ever he came into that position he would give any
+assistance he could to his tenants in the way of improving his land.
+He hoped he would never become "such a ruffian as some people would
+make landlords out to be." Reading later speeches we find Lord
+Tredegar<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_7">7</a></span> undertaking in his turn conscientiously the public duties
+previously discharged by his father. We find him making the
+acquaintance of the farmers and studying their difficulties. We find
+him raising the Tredegar Show to its present pre-eminence in the world
+of agriculture. It is a noble record of honesty of purpose. And
+agriculture, as well we know in Wales and Monmouthshire, is but one of
+Lord Tredegar's many interests. He has spoken wise words on education;
+he has urged the claims of charity. He has led the way in historical
+research, and inspired among many whose interest might not otherwise
+have been aroused a love of our ancient castles and our dear old
+parish churches. He has spoken eloquently of our Welsh heroes and
+bards. Upon the value of Eisteddfodau he loves to expound. But it is
+not these higher interests of his that have made him so beloved. His
+appeals for the ragged urchin of the streets, his appreciation of the
+bravery of the worker, his jokes at bazaars, his quips at the cabmen's
+annual dinners, his love of old customs, his pleasantries at the
+servants' balls, by these and by his transparent sincerity he has won
+the affections of all classes of the people,<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_8">8</a></span> who have found in him a
+leader who can share sorrows as well as joys. His brave words have
+been the consolation of the widow of the humble soldier slain in
+battle, as they have been the encouragement of the boy or girl scholar
+shyly taking from his hand a prize. He has told the boys they will be
+all the better for total abstinence, and he has dined and joked with
+licensed publicans. "Here, at least, is inconsistency," may exclaim
+the stranger into whose hand this book may fall. But Lord Tredegar
+justifies himself by the fact that having licensed houses on his
+estate it is his duty to take an interest in those who conduct them.</p>
+
+<p>Lord Tredegar has never sought to adorn his speeches with rhetoric. He
+has always spoken so that he who heard could understand. And yet he is
+reputed justly to be among the best of after-dinner speakers. If it be
+necessary to delve into the possible secret of his success, one might
+hazard a guess that it is because in his speeches it is the unexpected
+that always happens. The transition from grave to gay or from gay to
+grave is so swift that the mind of the listener is held as it were by
+a spell, and all is over e'er yet one thought it had begun.</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_9">9</a></span></p>
+
+<p>Much of this, however, is in passing. Quite a multitude, at one time
+or another, has listened to the words of Godfrey Charles Morgan. Quite
+a multitude has been influenced by them. That multitude, I am sure,
+will be glad to have those words in permanent form. There may be but a
+sentence chosen from a speech that has been heard, but that sentence
+will be remembered or recollected. And to that greater multitude who
+by the natural force of circumstances cannot have listened to the
+words of Viscount Tredegar, this little collection may serve to show
+forth a figure that, though simple, is great in simplicity, and it
+were strange indeed if some sentences were not found which may help to
+make a crooked way straight.</p>
+
+<p class="author smcap">The Editor.</p>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_11">11</a></span></p>
+
+<h2><a id="WIT_AND_WISDOM_OF_LORD_TREDEGAR">WIT AND WISDOM OF LORD TREDEGAR.</a></h2>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+<h2><a id="EPIGRAMMATIC_ELOQUENCE">EPIGRAMMATIC ELOQUENCE.</a></h2>
+
+<p>I would rather trust and be deceived, than be found to have suspected
+falsely.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>Reduction of Armaments Meeting, Newport,<br />
+March 17th, 1899.</i></p>
+
+<p>Some people will not go across a street to hear an oratorio, though
+they would go many miles to listen to that very entertaining melody,
+"Whoa, Emma!"&mdash;and I'm not sure that I shouldn't be one of them.&mdash;</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>Tredegar Show.<br />
+November 26th, 1879.</i></p>
+
+<p>The other day I was doing a little bit of horse-cropping&mdash;I'm fond of
+that sort of thing&mdash;and went into an Irish dealer's yard, where I saw
+a horse which grunted very much. Looking at the dealer, I said, "The
+horse is a roarer," and the Irishman replied: "Ah, no, me lord, not a
+bit of it. I've 'ad 'im from two years<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_12">12</a></span> ould, an' e' 'ad wunce a most
+desprit froight, an' 'e's 'ad the hiccups ever since!"</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>Tredegar Show,<br />
+November 26th, 1879.</i></p>
+
+<div class="figcenter">
+<img src="images/i012.jpg" width="324" height="226" alt="" />
+</div>
+
+<p class="caption">&quot;<i>&#39;E&#39;s &#39;ad the hiccups ever since!</i>&quot;</p>
+
+<p>I do not think there is a man in England who has more at heart than
+myself the religious education of children. In 1839 the Chartist Riots
+took place at Newport. In the following year National Schools were
+opened, and I believe that had the men who took part in these riots
+received the education imparted at the National Schools they would
+never have decided upon such a misguided course of action.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>Jubilee of Newport National Schools,<br />
+May 16th, 1890.</i></p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_13">13</a></span></p>
+
+<div class="wrapr">
+<img src="images/i013.jpg" width="215" height="226" alt="" />
+<p class="caption">&quot;<i>You need not wear anything.</i>&quot;</p>
+</div>
+
+<p>I was rather alarmed when I received the notice, "Peach Blossom Fancy
+Dress Fair," and I telegraphed at once to a lady who I thought knew
+what was going on and asked, "Am I obliged to come in fancy dress?"
+The answer I got was, "You need not wear anything."</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>Llangibby Church Fete,<br />
+August, 1910.</i></p>
+
+<p>I generally pay great attention to what a clergyman says, but you
+cannot always take the advice of a clergyman. A certain man had a dog,
+and his minister told him that he had better sell the dog and get a
+pig, to which the man replied, "A pretty fool I should look going
+rat-catching with a pig."</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>St. Paul's Garden Fete, Newport,<br />
+June 23rd, 1910.</i></p>
+
+<p>Without some sort of religion no man can be happy.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>St. Paul's Garden Fete, Newport,<br />
+June 23rd, 1910.</i></p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_14">14</a></span></p>
+
+<p>I am not accustomed to begging, being more accustomed to being begged
+of. That is one of the hereditary privileges of members of the House
+of Lords.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>Meeting in connection with the new Infirmary for Newport,<br />
+March 17th, 1897.</i></p>
+
+<p>It appears to me that my good qualities increase in proportion as the
+hair comes off the top of my head, and it is well that in proportion
+as we grow less ornamental we should grow more useful.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>Tredegar Show,<br />
+November 29th, 1876.</i></p>
+
+<p>I really think I must be out of place here. You know I am one of the
+hereditary nonentities. I cannot help the hereditary part of the
+business, and I have tried all my life to avoid the other.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>South Monmouthshire Conservative Association,<br />
+December 22nd, 1909.</i></p>
+
+<div class="wrap2">
+<img src="images/i015a.jpg" width="229" height="218" alt="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>You ought, of course, to learn something about ancient art, or you
+will be like a certain Lord Mayor of whom I have heard. One day he
+received a telegram from some people who were carrying on excavations
+in Greece, and who had discovered a statue by Phidias. They thought,
+in common with most foreigners, that the Lord Mayor was the most
+powerful<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_15">15</a></span> person in the kingdom&mdash;abroad he is supposed to rule the
+country. Anyway, they sent him a telegram saying "Phidias is
+recovered." The Lord Mayor wired back that he was pleased to hear it,
+but that he did not know that Phidias had been unwell.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>Art School Prize Distribution, Newport,<br />
+December 12th, 1899.</i></p>
+
+<div class="wrap clearboth">
+<img src="images/i015b.jpg" width="175" height="175" alt="" />
+<p class="caption">&quot;<i>You can do a man to death<br />
+with a piano.</i>&quot;</p>
+</div>
+
+<p>A noted musician, when asked whether he thought it was right to carry
+out capital punishment, replied: "No; because you can do a man to
+death with a piano."</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>At Llandaff,<br />
+June 26th, 1900.</i></p>
+
+<p>I believe I have laid more foundation stones than any other man in
+England. I have mallets and trowels<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_16">16</a></span> sufficient to supply, I believe,
+every Parish Church in the country. They are very handsome and
+ornamental, and I hope I shall have more of them.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>Foundation Stone Laying, St. John's Church, Cardiff,<br />
+March 12th, 1889.</i></p>
+
+<div class="figcenter">
+<img src="images/i016.jpg" width="430" height="238" alt="" />
+</div>
+
+<p class="caption">&quot;<i>I believe I have laid more foundation stones than any other man in England.</i>&quot;</p>
+
+<p>We (agriculturists) are looked upon as a long-suffering and patient
+race, and some of the manufacturing class think we are fit subjects
+for bleeding. In fact, it has been said that agriculturists are like
+their own sheep, inasmuch as they can bear a close shaving without<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_17">17</a></span> a
+bleat; whereas the manufacturers are like pigs; only touch their
+bristles and they will "holler like the devil."</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>Tredegar Show,<br />
+December 17th, 1867.</i></p>
+
+<p>Lord Rosebery is alternately a menace and a sigh.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>Conservative Dinner, Newport,<br />
+November 15th, 1895.</i></p>
+
+<p>We have had an old-fashioned winter, and I do not care if I never see
+another. The only people, I fancy, who have enjoyed the winter are the
+doctors and the Press.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>Servants' Ball</i>,<br />
+<i>January 16th, 1891.</i></p>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<h2><a id="MEMORIES_OF_BALACLAVA">MEMORIES OF BALACLAVA.</a></h2>
+
+<p>I consider myself one of the most fortunate men in England to have
+been one of those spared out of the 600 about whom so much has been
+said and sung. Although my military career has been brief, I have seen
+a great deal. I have seen war in all its horrors. It is said to be "an
+ill wind that blows nobody good"; so it has been with me. I have
+learned to doubly appreciate home and all its comforts. Before going<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_18">18</a></span>
+out to the Crimea I was accustomed to see, on these occasions, farmers
+looking happy and contented, and I was in the habit of thinking what a
+great nation England was, and how she flourished in all things; but
+since the war commenced I have seen the other side of the picture. I
+have seen an army march into an hostile country, and in the midst of
+farms flowing with milk and honey, and teeming with corn and every
+luxury&mdash;and there, in a few hours, all was desolation, one stone not
+being left on another, and the people made slaves to the invaders. How
+thankful we ought to be that we are not suffering at the hand of an
+invading army. Now that my military career is at an end I am sure that
+a great many of you will sympathise with my father, whose anxiety has
+been very great. We were out during the most dreadful period of the
+war, and it need not be wondered at that I yielded to the most earnest
+entreaties of my father to relinquish my connection with the army lest
+I should bring his grey hairs with sorrow to the grave. My father
+thought that one such action as I have been in was sufficient to prove
+the mettle of his son. I will not further enlarge on the horrors and
+miseries of<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_19">19</a></span> war. May you never see them as I have done, and may we
+all meet at this festive board next year.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>Newport Agricultural Show,<br />
+December 18th, 1855.</i></p>
+
+<p>I do not intend to say much about Balaclava to-day because you have
+heard the old story over and over again, and I am too old now to
+invent stories of Balaclava. On my way down here I stopped to receive
+a telegram worded in these terms:&mdash;"Fifteen survivors of the Balaclava
+Charge send your lordship hearty congratulations and affectionate
+remembrances on this day, the 54th anniversary." Well, recollections
+of a sad event are at any time, of course, unpleasant, but it is
+particularly sad to think that there are now only 15 survivors
+remaining out of the Light Brigade of 600. That attenuated number does
+not include myself, and there are three other officers still alive.
+You may be pretty confident that of these few survivors there were at
+least two or three with whom I conversed within a few hours of the
+Balaclava Charge. You can imagine those conversations. They were not
+very lively ones. They referred probably to some comrade who had been
+killed or to the difficulty of filling the place of some<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_20">20</a></span> officer who
+had fallen; because when we drew up after the Balaclava Charge I was
+the officer in command of the decimated regiment. All my superior
+officers had been either killed or wounded, and I was placed in the
+difficult position to find men suddenly to fill the vacancies. So you
+can imagine the recollections of those survivors. Since that time
+there have been a number of gallant deeds on the part of the British
+army, and I hope that those gallant deeds will be remembered, just as
+the Balaclava Charge is remembered here. I hope the British nation
+will never forget such events as Trafalgar and Waterloo, but will
+always hoist a flag or do something else to commemorate them.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>Balaclava Dinner, Bassaleg,<br />
+October 25th, 1908.</i></p>
+
+<p>My own courage in the memorable charge was small, but the deed of
+daring conferred everlasting credit on the Senior Officers who took
+part in it. I trust that you will keep your offspring fully acquainted
+with the heroic deeds of the British Army, and induce them to display
+similar courage in the hour of their country's danger.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>Balaclava Dinner, Castleton,<br />
+October 25th, 1890.</i></p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_21">21</a></span></p>
+
+<p>When a person gets beyond the allotted age of man there must, I think,
+be in his mind a melancholy thought regarding the possibility of his
+being present on a similar occasion twelve months hence. I am afraid
+that some men of my age would have to limp into a room, probably
+assisted by a crutch. Fortunately, however, I was able to walk into
+the room without a crutch and without assistance, and I am thankful
+for that to the Power above. The term "hero" is a term with which many
+soldiers do not agree. The mention of the word recalls to my mind the
+well-known lines of Rudyard Kipling:</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">"We aren't no thin red 'eroes,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">An' we aren't no blackguards, too,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">But single men in barracks,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Most remarkable like you."<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p>I am sure the soldiers who fought with the Light Cavalry at Balaclava
+did not think themselves greater heroes than others in the Crimea who
+did their duty. Quite recently I read an article in a military
+magazine, it dealt with the question of the advance of cavalry and the
+arms which should be given them&mdash;the lance,<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_22">22</a></span> the sword, and the rifle.
+The article commenced with the statement that it was the business of
+every soldier to go into action with the determination to try and kill
+someone. I suppose that is right in its way, but it was hardly the
+sentiment we went into action with. We went into action to try to
+defeat the enemy, but the fewer we killed the better. I have to
+confess that I tried to kill someone, but to this day I congratulate
+myself on the fact that I do not know whether I succeeded or no. In
+these days of long range guns our consciences are saved a great deal,
+and so far as killing anyone goes I always give myself the benefit of
+the doubt, so that the charge of murder cannot be brought against me.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>Balaclava Dinner, Bassaleg,<br />
+October 29th, 1910.</i></p>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<h2><a id="QUIPS_AT_THE_SERVANTS_BALL">QUIPS AT THE SERVANTS' BALL.</a></h2>
+
+<p>I have arrived at the age when to clasp the waist of one of the
+opposite sex for three hours is not considered the height of human
+happiness. I remember, however, with pleasure, a time in my younger
+days when I thought it was so, and perhaps some of those who can<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_23">23</a></span>
+indulge in a valse without feeling giddy, or a polka without being
+"blown," think so now.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>Servants' Ball,<br />
+January 14th, 1889.</i></p>
+
+<div class="wrapr">
+<img src="images/i023.jpg" width="250" height="362" alt="" />
+<p class="caption">&quot;<i>I remember, however,<br />
+with pleasure,<br />
+a time in my younger days.</i>&quot;</p>
+</div>
+
+<p>I am happy to be able truly and honestly to say that I have not a word
+of difference with any servant of my establishment. Each year as it
+rolls onward finds me stiffer in the joints, shorter in the breath,
+and less able than formerly to perform the double shuffle, but there
+are others coming on&mdash;the younger members of the family&mdash;who will be
+able to kick up their heels as lightly as once I was able to do. As
+each year rolls round, too, there are always saddening<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_24">24</a></span> memories, but
+on an occasion of this sort I will make no allusions to them, ... I
+hope you will stick to old fashions and old ways. You may be told of
+new-fangled ways, and be advised to get rid of the old, but I think it
+will be well if you do not pay too much attention to those advisers.
+England is like old Tredegar House, and you will find that the customs
+now prevailing have been in vogue for over 500 years. You will
+probably be told that the best way to make people happy is to make the
+poor rich and the rich poor; but, in truth, the richer people are, the
+better able they are to help the poor.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>Servants' Ball,<br />
+January 7th, 1910.</i></p>
+
+<p>Many of you waited last night for the old year to go out and the new
+year to come in. I did for one. I listened at the window and I heard
+bells ringing, and noises which I can only describe as hideous. There
+is an invention in this part of the world, which I believe comes from
+America (where they have a great many disagreeable things) called a
+"hooter." When I listened last night it seemed to me that it was
+deliberately hooting out the old year which to so many of<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_25">25</a></span> us had
+painful recollections; and it occurred to me that it was a most
+appropriate thing to do. It was the wettest spring, the coldest
+summer, the windiest autumn that I have ever known.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>Servants' Ball,<br />
+January 1st, 1892.</i></p>
+
+<p>I can imagine the Bassaleg Parish Council rejoicing in a license for
+dancing in the hall, and the teetotallers passing a resolution in
+favour of total abstinence, in which case we should have to obtain our
+refreshments from the village pump.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>Servants' Ball,<br />
+January 9th, 1894.</i></p>
+
+<p>Railways are springing up all round, and, reading the signs of the
+times as I do, I think there will be increased prosperity. If all the
+railways now proposed are constructed, we shall be able to paraphrase
+the poet's lines:&mdash;</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Railways to right of them,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Railways to left of them,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Railways behind them,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Most of them silly 'uns.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Into the lawyer's jaw,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And the Contractor's paw,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Go the eight millions.<br /></span>
+
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_26">26</a></span></div></div>
+
+<div class="wrap2">
+<img src="images/i026.jpg" width="227" height="329" alt="" />
+<p class="caption">&quot;<i>I shall be able<br />
+to convert Tredegar House<br />
+into the &#39;Railway Hotel.&#39;</i>&quot;</p>
+</div>
+
+<p>I shall be able to convert Tredegar House into the "Railway Hotel,"
+join the Licensed Victuallers' Association, and do a good trade&mdash;if I
+can get a license. We have progressed a good deal lately, even in
+dancing. I can remember the minuet being the fashion. It was danced
+with a great deal of bowing and scraping. Then the waltz, quadrille,
+and lancers came. We next had a kitchen lancers, and this year we have
+a barn dance. Next year, perhaps, we shall have a pigstye polka, which
+will no doubt be very amusing.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>Servants' Ball,<br />
+January 8th, 1896.</i></p>
+
+<p>There have been many changes in the manners and customs of the country
+during late years. I am very<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_27">27</a></span> fond of old customs, and I hope this
+old-fashioned Servants' Ball will be kept up by those who come after
+me. I am sure there is no gentleman in England who is blessed with a
+better lot of servants than I have. If sometimes by my manner I do not
+appear pleased, I hope you will make allowance for the business
+anxieties constantly hanging over my head, and which do not always
+conduce to a pleasant expression. I will relate an incident. An
+individual who apparently takes a great deal of interest in me wrote
+to me not so long ago and asked, "Why did you look so proud and
+haughty when you met me the other day?" I have no recollection of
+having been proud and haughty, but I have a very distinct recollection
+of a very tight boot and a very bad corn.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>Servants' Ball,<br />
+January 8th, 1896.</i></p>
+
+<div class="wrap clearboth">
+<img src="images/i028.jpg" width="232" height="197" alt="" />
+<p class="caption">&quot;<i>When your toe begins<br />
+to take a fantastic shape<br />
+it is pretty nearly time<br />
+to give up dancing.</i>&quot;</p>
+</div>
+
+<p>I always sympathise with you in your sorrows and try to join you in
+your pleasures. In this life, unfortunately, for a good many, there
+are more sorrows than pleasures, but I think it is the duty of all who
+have it in their power to try to make those around them have, if
+possible, more pleasures in their lives than sorrows. I congratulate
+myself that I have still a kick left in<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_28">28</a></span> me. You know that Milton, the
+poet, has said in two lines:</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i14">"Come and trip it as you go<br /></span>
+<span class="i14">On the light fantastic toe."<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p>but when your toe begins to take a fantastic shape it is pretty nearly
+time to give up dancing. As my toes are beginning to take that shape,
+I am afraid I shall not have a kick left much longer. I have always
+spoken a few words to you on these occasions&mdash;sometimes of sentiment,
+sometimes of politics, and sometimes of fun. I usually prefer fun,
+because there is generally enough of the other phases around us. I
+will therefore content myself with giving the establishment a little
+bit of advice, or rather a hint. I have found that what I say on these
+occasions has somehow or other found its way into the papers. I<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_29">29</a></span> do
+not know exactly how that is. However, I think it will be more
+impressive in print, because if you forget what I say before the end
+of the evening, you will be able to read it in the Press next day. My
+hint is about fires. There are large fireplaces in Tredegar House,
+which is an old one, full of old oak which is liable to catch fire.
+During the last few weeks some fine old country houses have been
+destroyed by fire. I do not think this has occurred through
+carelessness. I know my servants are not careless. What I want you to
+understand is the difference between a fire and a furnace. Old Welsh
+families&mdash;and my family is really an old Welsh family&mdash;all believe
+that they have very long pedigrees. There are in the strong room at
+Tredegar House a great many old records&mdash;some of which I have read out
+of curiosity. Many of them, no doubt, are mythical, and some are
+accurate, but in all my study of them I have not been able to discover
+that I bear any relationship to Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego. I
+therefore fail to see why the household staff should pile up furnaces,
+especially now that I assure them I am not quite impervious to fire. I
+always like to entertain you a little on these<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_30">30</a></span> occasions. I will
+therefore just sing to you a few lines, and ask Young Charley (the
+huntsman) to come in at the end. I notice that Old Charley (the former
+huntsman) is also present, and he, perhaps, will join in as well. His
+Lordship then sang the following verses to the tune of "Ben Bolt":&mdash;</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">There are soul-stirring sounds in the fiddle and flute<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">When music begins in the hall,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And a goddess in muslin that's likely to suit<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">As the mate of your choice for the ball.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">But the player may strain every finger in vain<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">And the fiddler may resin his bow,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Nor fiddle nor string such rapture shall bring<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">As the sound of the sweet "Tally-ho."<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>Servants' Ball,<br />
+January 11th, 1898.</i></p>
+
+<p>Times have changed, and fashions change very quickly&mdash;so much so that
+I was half afraid you would have petitioned me to allow you to have a
+ping-pong tournament. I am glad to see that you still prefer to stick
+to the old custom of a ball. Of all entertainments a ball is, in my
+opinion, the most harmless. It will always follow that there will be
+some who perhaps<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_31">31</a></span> on the morrow will think that their affections had
+not been quite under control, and that they had spoken words of
+endearment that perhaps they regretted, and the lady might not. And
+perhaps there will always be those whose control over their thirst at
+a ball is not quite so strong as that of others.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>Servants' Ball,<br />
+January 3rd, 1902.</i></p>
+
+<div class="figcenter">
+<img src="images/i031.jpg" width="376" height="216" alt="" />
+</div>
+
+<p class="caption">&quot;<i>Perhaps there will always be those whose control over their thirst at a ball is not quite so strong as that of others.</i>&quot;</p>
+
+<p>I have no doubt that much of what Mr. Perrott has just told you about
+the revels that have taken place in the hall during the last 200 or
+300 years is perfectly true. There may perhaps have been more fun in
+the<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_32">32</a></span> old days&mdash;that is a matter of history. I very much doubt it
+myself, and I have a sort of idea, and I hope and trust that at the
+Servants' Ball which still takes place here annually&mdash;unless there is
+some misfortune to prevent it&mdash;there is as much fun and revelry as has
+ever before taken place in this hall. The old lamp hung over your
+heads belonged to a former Lord Mayor of London&mdash;Sir Edward
+Clark&mdash;from whom I inherited some property and plate. That lamp
+probably hung in the Mansion House in London some two or three hundred
+years ago, and I have no doubt it has seen some peculiar scenes.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>Servants' Ball,<br />
+January 8th, 1903.</i></p>
+
+<p>I also have my little anxieties. I have been hoping and praying that
+the enemy will not come up the Bristol Channel and land somewhere near
+here before I have got my Territorial Army into position. At the
+present moment the Territorial Army in Monmouthshire consists exactly
+of 17 men, all of whom are officers. So that unless the enemy give us
+due notice that they are coming here, I am afraid that we shall have
+to depend principally upon the Tredegar House establishment. I am
+quite certain that you will all answer my<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_33">33</a></span> call, the ladies more
+particularly. I don't care so much about the enemy, whenever he comes,
+so long as I have the ladies with me.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>Servants' Ball,<br />
+Jan. 8th, 1908.</i></p>
+
+<div class="wrap">
+<img src="images/i033.jpg" width="385" height="243" alt="" />
+<p class="caption">&quot;<i>I don&#39;t care so much about the enemy,<br />
+whenever he comes,<br />
+so long as I have the ladies with me.</i>&quot;</p>
+</div>
+
+<p>I take this opportunity of thanking you, and all those in my service
+who have spent this year together with me, for the happy way in which
+we have been enabled to pass the whole year together in our mutual
+admiration for each other. I was going to say affection for each
+other, and I should like to think so. We are&mdash;I propose using a silly
+phrase to express our relations at Tredegar House&mdash;a brotherhood of
+men. We are here as a brotherhood of men, and a sisterhood of women,
+and I should like you to look upon me as one of yourselves. It may be,
+before this time next year,<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_34">34</a></span> if things go on as they are, that I shall
+be calling you Comrade Perrot, and you will be calling me Comrade
+Morgan. Things are going very fast just now, but I think there is a
+right feeling throughout the country that we are going too fast. It
+may be that next year, instead of being summoned to the ball here you
+will be asked to</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">"Come and trip as you go<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">To the light fantastic veto,"<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p>and we shall be invited to dance the Referendum Lancers.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>Servants' Ball,<br />
+January 17th, 1911.</i></p>
+
+<div class="figcenter">
+<img src="images/i034.jpg" width="332" height="240" alt="" />
+</div>
+
+<p class="caption">&quot;<i>I shall be calling you Comrade Perrot, and you will be calling me Comrade Morgan.</i>&quot;</p>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_35">35</a></span></p>
+
+<h2><a id="ON_ARCHBISHOPS_AND_BISHOPS">ON ARCHBISHOPS AND BISHOPS.</a></h2>
+
+<p>It is customary among certain classes to look upon Bishops as men
+living in beautiful palaces, faring sumptuously, and rolling about in
+carriages; but there is no ploughman who does a harder day's work than
+does our Bishop. As to the clergy, many of them labour amongst us for
+a stipend which many an artizan would despise.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>Bassaleg Farmers' Dinner,<br />
+October 13th, 1881.</i></p>
+
+<p>There is a certain class of advanced politicians who never lose an
+opportunity of serving their own ends by impressing upon their hearers
+their particular notions of what a Bishop of the Church of England is
+like. That dignitary is generally pictured as a gentleman who receives
+a large salary, is clothed in purple and fine linen, fares sumptuously
+every day, and lives in luxurious idleness.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>The Opening of the Seamen's Mission Church, Newport,<br />
+January 18th, 1887.</i></p>
+
+<p>We should remember the duties and responsibilities which rest on an
+Archbishop. He has a vast correspondence, in which there is not a
+single letter that he can write without weighing every word. He is not
+like ordinary people, who are able to scribble off their<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_36">36</a></span>
+correspondence; for if a word in a letter from an Archbishop is in the
+wrong place, it may upset a college or cause a revolution. If you
+study the history of the Archbishopric of Canterbury, beginning with
+St. Augustine, then going on to Lanfranc, to Anselm, to Theodore, and
+down to Benson and Temple, you will, I believe, come to the conclusion
+that I have reached&mdash;that whilst many of the men who have gone before
+him have filled great parts in making the history of the nation, there
+is not one whose character, whose powers of speech, and whose
+earnestness in carrying out his duties, exceeded those of the present
+Archbishop (Dr. Temple).</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>Seventy-fifth Anniversary of St. David's College, Lampeter<br />
+October 9th, 1902.</i></p>
+
+<div class="figcenter">
+<img src="images/i036.jpg" width="160" height="184" alt="" />
+<p class="caption">&quot;<i>There is not one whose character, and whose powers of speech exceeded those of the present Archbishop (Dr. Temple).</i>&quot;</p>
+</div>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<h2><a id="THE_TRIALS_OF_THE_CLERGY">THE TRIALS OF THE CLERGY.</a></h2>
+
+<p>Bishops and Clergy have to deal with all sorts of communications from
+parishioners. I remember one case where a clergyman received a letter
+telling him<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_37">37</a></span> he would never do for St. Phillip's because he was
+altogether too quiet in his preaching, and not half sensational
+enough, but that if he would preach in a red coat in the morning, and
+with no coat at all at night, he would be just the man for the job. As
+to the Bishops, they have so much to do that one of them&mdash;Bishop
+Magee, of Peterborough, I believe&mdash;summed up the situation by saying
+that people seemed to have an idea that a Bishop had nothing to do but
+sit in his library with the windows open, so that every jackass might
+put in his head and bray.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>Church Luncheon, Newport,<br />
+May 16th, 1900.</i></p>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<h2><a id="SERMONS_AND_SINNERS">SERMONS AND SINNERS.</a></h2>
+
+<p>If the clergy only preached as well as they might, there ought not to
+be a single sinner in their parishes.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>Licensed Victuallers' Dinner, Newport,<br />
+February 7th, 1889.</i></p>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<h2><a id="THE_OLD_PARISH_CHURCH">THE OLD PARISH CHURCH.</a></h2>
+
+<div class="wrap">
+<img src="images/i038.jpg" width="230" height="344" alt="" />
+<p class="caption clearleft">&quot;<i>Godfrey Charles Morgan<br />
+was baptised here<br />
+on May 4th, 1828.</i>&quot;</p>
+</div>
+
+<p>I believe that all classes, including the Nonconformists, have a real
+love for the old Parish Church and its grey tower, beneath the
+shade of which so many<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_38">38</a></span> of their ancestors are laid. Here at
+Michaelston-y-Vedw we have a fine historic building, erected about
+1130. I may tell you that one of its old parish registers contains an
+interesting entry. It is that "Godfrey Charles Morgan was baptised
+here on May 4th, 1828."</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>Eisteddfod, Cefn-Mably,<br />
+September 15th, 1897.</i></p>
+
+<p>I always take more interest in these historical little rural parish
+churches than I do in a brand new Church erected in some populous
+district. Of course, the Church is really more necessary there than
+among the small Communities; still, there is the sentiment, the old
+association of the old Parish Church and the<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_39">39</a></span> churchyard in which "the
+rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep." Those lines of the poet Gray:</p>
+
+<p class="in2">"The cock's shrill clarion, nor the echoing horn,<br />
+No more shall raise him from his lonely bed,"</p>
+
+<p>often strike me, because the little Church is so closely connected
+with the Llangibby family. The Llangibby and Morgan families have been
+associated very often before in the long vista of history, but you
+have amongst you now a relation of mine, come to live amongst you, and
+who will look after this little Church.</p>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+<h2><a id="RELIGIOUS_TOLERANCE">RELIGIOUS TOLERANCE.</a></h2>
+
+<p>It is possible that I am very tolerant in my religious opinions. But
+seeing that we are now living under perfect tolerance, and that the
+religious wants of the people must be supplied, I think it is the duty
+of those who own property to see that there is accommodation for the
+religious needs of all who live thereon. As science advances there
+must be considerable differences of opinion on religion in a large and
+important town like Cardiff. A great man once said that tolerance<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_40">40</a></span> was
+simply indifference; I do not agree with him. I think it is possible
+to be tolerant without being indifferent to one's own opinions. There
+is a great leaning nowadays towards scientific religion. Education is
+advancing very rapidly, and philosophical men are trying to make
+reasons for every line in Scripture and every line in the Prayer Book.
+That may be useful in a way, but I cannot help thinking that many
+books written lately by men who are very learned, and with very good
+intent, will, if circulated among the young of the country, do a great
+deal of harm. I look forward to an increase of religious feeling
+throughout the country, and I shall be always ready to assist, as far
+as I can, in erecting chapels and other places for religious
+instruction and religious worship.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>Chapel, Cardiff,<br />
+September 14th, 1894.</i></p>
+
+<div class="wrapr">
+<img src="images/i041.jpg" width="190" height="318" alt="" />
+<p class="caption">&quot;<i>But I am afraid that<br />
+some of us would rather<br />
+be seen with our hands in<br />
+somebody else&#39;s pocket<br />
+than kneel down<br />
+and say our prayers<br />
+in the Club-room.</i>&quot;</p>
+</div>
+
+<p>I have never posed as one made of that stuff of which martyrs are
+made&mdash;and perhaps my remarks may offend some, or scandalize others.
+But I would rather see any place of worship in the town than none at
+all, I will go so far as to say I would rather see a Mohammedan mosque
+in the town than no place of worship<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_41">41</a></span> at all. I have the greatest
+possible admiration for faith of any sort. Early in my life I had
+occasion to look with admiration upon the faith even of a Mohammedan.
+I have listened to the minister of the mosque calling the faithful to
+prayers two, three or more times a day, and I have seen the
+Mohammedans in the street go down on their knees and say their prayers
+in front of everybody. I have seen a regiment of Mohammedans on the
+march, and at the hour of sunset every man in the regiment would kneel
+on his carpet and say his prayers. Those were soldiers who were not
+afraid of their faith, though it might have been the wrong one. I have
+watched a poor Italian peasant kneel on the roadside and offer his
+small tribute to the shrine.
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_42">42</a></span>
+He was not afraid of praying before anybody; but I am afraid that some
+of us would rather be seen with our hands in somebody else's pocket
+than kneel down and say our prayers in the Club-room.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>Foundation-stone Laying at Baptist Church, Cardiff,<br />
+June 14th, 1894.</i></p>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<h2><a id="THE_CRICKETER_CURATE">THE CRICKETER CURATE.</a></h2>
+
+<div class="wrapr">
+<img src="images/i042.jpg" width="256" height="320" alt="" />
+<p class="caption">&quot;<i>We don&#39;t care much about the preaching<br />
+but what we want in the Curate<br />
+is a good break to the off.</i>&quot;</p>
+</div>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_43">43</a></span></p>
+
+<p>Cricket is the nicest, best and most gentlemanly exercise in Great
+Britain. How general is the love of cricket is shown by the story of
+some parishioners who, when asked by their Vicar what sort of a Curate
+they would like, said:&mdash;"We don't care much about the preaching, but
+what we want in the Curate is a good break to the off."</p>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<h2><a id="THE_BROTHERHOOD_OF_MAN">THE BROTHERHOOD OF MAN.</a></h2>
+
+<p>I think you are quite right in commencing with a religious service a
+ceremony such as I am about to perform. These institutions are
+established for the welfare of the inhabitants, and we begin with a
+religious service in order to impress on those who are going to use
+the Hall hereafter that, whatever is done inside the Hall should be
+done in a way which is really a Christian way. It will not affect in
+any way the feelings of those who attend for amusement or instruction,
+except to prompt a religious feeling which we all wish to have some
+time or other in our lives. I was very pleased to be able to come
+to-day and perform the opening ceremony. A little pressure was put on
+me because at my time of life you don't recover from any extra
+exertion.</p>
+
+<p>I do like this term of Brotherhood. Those who have arrived at my time
+of life know what it is to have and to value a really sympathising
+brother. I am referring to my own dear brother, who has recently left
+us. Throughout our lives we did not have a single word of difference
+or a thought of difference, and the word<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_44">44</a></span> "Brother" will draw me out
+at any time. It is the idea of universal feeling that everybody is
+trying his or her best in this world in whatever he or she may be
+trying to do&mdash;it is the feeling of Brotherhood which helps us to get
+that feeling.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>Speech at the Victoria Brotherhood, Newport,<br />
+March 4th, 1910.</i></p>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<h2><a id="THE_USES_OF_THE_PARISH_ROOM">THE USES OF THE PARISH ROOM.</a></h2>
+
+<div class="wrapr">
+<img src="images/i045.jpg" width="225" height="329" alt="" />
+<p class="caption">&quot;<i>The Ploughman returning<br />
+from his weary work<br />
+may just scrape<br />
+his boots outside.</i>&quot;</p>
+</div>
+
+<p>In olden days the ordinary village school was the only place available
+for meetings or for general gatherings of the parishioners, and a long
+time ago that did very well. But the advance of education is tending
+to interfere a good deal with our old ideas and places, and it is now
+almost necessary that every Church, or every parish, should have a
+clubroom&mdash;a room where all classes can mix together and improve the
+knowledge they have gained at the various county schools&mdash;intermediate
+or otherwise. We want the Parish Room to be open to everyone. The
+ploughman returning from his weary work may just scrape his boots
+outside, and he will be perfectly welcome any time he likes to come
+in. I am sure there is a great deal of learning<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_45">45</a></span> to be acquired, a
+great deal of good to be done, a great deal of instruction to be
+gathered, in a Church Room of this description, when it is managed in
+the way it ought to be. As you know, there are certain superior people
+who like essays and that sort of thing, and who, are inclined to sneer
+at the village concerts and penny readings and little dances which are
+likely to take place here. But we do not all possess the wisdom of
+Socrates, the dignity of Pliny, or the wit of Horace. Perhaps I shall
+put it more plainly if I say we do not possess the wisdom of
+Shakespeare, the dignity of Wordsworth, or the wit of Byron. But there
+is quite likely to be as much good sense in a humble gathering of an
+evening<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_46">46</a></span> here as amongst those superior people who always try to teach
+us by telling us what we ought to do, what to think about, and what we
+ought to remember. Those are the people who advertise the simple life.
+I fancy most of you are living fairly simple lives, whilst those
+gentlemen who advocate it so much do not know what the simple life
+means. Not very far from us is where "the rude forefathers of the
+hamlet sleep," and in Gray's beautiful Elegy we are told:</p>
+
+<p class="in2">"Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid<br />
+Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire;<br />
+Hands that the rod of Empire might have sway'd,<br />
+Or waked to ecstasy the living lyre."</p>
+
+<p>Might not some of those who are laid in the Churchyard close by, if
+they had enjoyed the advantages we have, have "wakened to ecstasy the
+living lyre," or been great members of either parish councils or
+county councils, or even Members of Parliament! I think that before
+this room has been in existence many years we shall find that some of
+those attending the gatherings which I hope will take place here, have
+done their best to make themselves prominent in life, especially in<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_47">47</a></span>
+trying to keep before the world the truths of that religion which we
+have thought so much of and heard so much of to-day.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>Opening of Church-room at Llanvaches,<br />
+February, 1909.</i></p>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<h2><a id="GENTLE_MANNERS">GENTLE MANNERS.</a></h2>
+
+<p>There is one great thing that will carry you comfortably through life,
+and that is a nice, gentle manner. I see you all have nice, gentle
+manners, and what I ask you to do is to carry them outside the school,
+and retain them when you are on the roads or in the fields, or in your
+own homes. I ask the boys to cultivate the same language outside as
+inside the school, and the girls the same manners.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>School Prize Distribution, Rhiwderin,<br />
+April 24th, 1891.</i></p>
+
+<p>Bad language is unnecessary. Bad words are used by some people in
+every other sentence, without any necessity at all, and they mean
+nothing. If you can only learn to drop those disagreeable words you
+will be much more pleasant members of society. I like to see boys
+lively, spirited, and anxious to amuse themselves whenever they can.
+But they should be kind and<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_48">48</a></span> gentle to their mothers and sisters. It
+is the nature of boys to be tyrannical to the other sex, but they will
+lose nothing by being as kind and gentle as they can be.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>Boys' Brigade Inspection, Newport,<br />
+April 19th, 1894.</i></p>
+
+<div class="figcenter">
+<img src="images/i048.jpg" width="310" height="217" alt="" />
+</div>
+
+<p class="caption">&quot;<i>It is the nature of boys to be tyrannical to the other sex.</i>&quot;</p>
+
+<p>It has been well said that good manners are something to everybody,
+and everything to somebody. Some people will not take anyone into
+employment unless they have good manners. As an old soldier, I know
+the value of <i>esprit de corps</i>. A hundred soldiers with the spirit of
+their corps are worth two hundred who do not care a straw about the
+regiment.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>Pontywain School,<br />
+December 15th, 1909.</i></p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_49">49</a></span></p>
+
+<p>Mr. Labouchere has said he would rather have a gentleman of bad morals
+who voted right, than a gentleman whose morals were right but who
+voted wrong. Well, I would rather have a gentleman whose manners are
+good, even though he votes wrong, than one who votes right and whose
+manners are bad.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>Licensed Victuallers' Dinner,<br />
+July 13th, 1891.</i></p>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<h2><a id="REVERENCE_FOR_RELIGION">REVERENCE FOR RELIGION.</a></h2>
+
+<p>As I grow older I find that the younger people are the less they like
+advice, and the less likely they are to take it. But I hope you will
+henceforth be good citizens of this great country. In your Brigade you
+are taught to have reverence for religion and respect for authority,
+which are great principles to get on with.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>Boys' Brigade Inspection,<br />
+April 4th, 1895.</i></p>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<h2><a id="THE_TEACHING_OF_REFINEMENT">THE TEACHING OF REFINEMENT.</a></h2>
+
+<p>There has been a great deal of talk lately about education. We have
+had board schools and national schools, and we are now going to have
+technical schools. But there is one point we have not yet arrived
+at&mdash;the<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_50">50</a></span> teaching of refinement. I look upon the Eisteddfod as
+encouraging literature and music and art, as one of the great
+institutions for the encouragement of refinement in general life. We
+may become very well educated and very scientific, but unless there is
+refinement among us in general life, we will naturally tend towards
+roughness of manners.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>Brecon Eisteddfod,<br />
+August 18th, 1889.</i></p>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<h2><a id="IN_PRAISE_OF_HOSPITALS">IN PRAISE OF HOSPITALS.</a></h2>
+
+<p>We are met to endeavour to raise sufficient money to erect a hospital
+or infirmary worthy of the town of Newport. There are two statements
+nobody can dispute: Newport is a large and yearly increasing seaport,
+and a town of this magnitude ought not to be without a large and
+splendid hospital. I am afraid that with many people the idea of a
+hospital or infirmary does not go further than a small subscription
+and a few admission tickets to give away. But I wish to explain to the
+public generally the enormous advantages and the necessity of a good
+and well-organized hospital in the town. Whatever subscription you
+give you may be pretty nearly certain that the money will<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_51">51</a></span> be spent in
+the right way. All other charities are more or less liable to some
+sort of imposture, but that is almost impossible with a hospital. I
+remember, as a soldier in the old days, that there was a certain sort
+of complaint we used to call malingering. If a man wanted to shirk any
+duty he pretended to be ill, but was very soon found out by the
+regimental doctor. So in the same way hospital doctors will soon find
+out the malingerer. A hospital is a high school of medicine for young
+doctors, who not only mix with scientific people at the institution,
+but gain a high moral feeling, so that there is no room for small
+petty jealousies amongst the medical practitioners. Then look at the
+injured people carried to the hospital. They have the best of care,
+and in most cases are turned out cured, sound and strong. If it were
+not for the hospital, they would probably be cripples or invalids for
+life. In that way hospitals save the rates. I am sure that hundreds
+are yearly turned out of the infirmary sound in mind and body, able to
+support their families and keep them off the rates.</p>
+
+<p>Then, again, a hospital makes an excellent school for nurses. That is
+one of the greatest benefits possible,<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_52">52</a></span> because the authorities of the
+hospital are always strictly careful that nurses, before they are sent
+out, are thoroughly proficient. I am sure no building ground or house,
+or any other little present I may have given in the course of my life,
+will be more useful than the land I have given for this site. I hope,
+in addition to the land, to be able to give a good sum of money if I
+see it is required.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>Meeting in connection with a new Infirmary for Newport,<br />
+March 11th, 1896.</i></p>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<h2><a id="WHEN_IS_A_HOSPITAL_A_SUCCESS">WHEN IS A HOSPITAL A SUCCESS.</a></h2>
+
+<p>This toast has always appeared to me very difficult to word. I do not
+know whether success to the Infirmary means a full Infirmary with all
+the wards engaged. It reminds me of a celebrated American who, when
+asked what sort of a town he had just left, remarked that it was very
+flourishing, for every hospital was crammed, every workhouse was too
+full, and they were about to build another wing to the gaol.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>Cardiff Infirmary,<br />
+January 25th, 1911.</i></p>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_53">53</a></span></p>
+
+<h2><a id="RECLAIM_THE_STREET_URCHIN">RECLAIM THE STREET URCHIN.</a></h2>
+
+<div class="wrap">
+<img src="images/i053.jpg" width="110" height="307" alt="" />
+<p class="caption">&quot;<i>The stone that is fit<br />
+for the wall should not<br />
+be allowed to lay<br />
+in the way.</i>&quot;</p>
+</div>
+
+<p>The Arabians have a proverb to the effect that "The stone that is fit
+for the wall should not be allowed to lay in the way." Amongst the
+children who wander about the streets there are many who are, so to
+speak, quite "fit for the wall"&mdash;that is to say, they may, through
+being brought under drill and other conditions found in the Brigade,
+be turned into respectable members of Society.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>Bazaar at Cardiff,<br />
+April 13th, 1898.</i></p>
+
+<p class="spacer clearboth">&nbsp;</p>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+<h2><a id="THE_INFLUENCE_OF_WOMEN">THE INFLUENCE OF WOMEN.</a></h2>
+
+<div class="wrapr">
+<img src="images/i054.jpg" width="235" height="255" alt="" />
+<p class="caption">&quot;<i>Broke the engagement off<br />
+because the young man said<br />
+he had never heard<br />
+of Browning.</i>&quot;</p>
+</div>
+
+<p>Women exercise a great deal of influence upon the affairs of the
+country, even without taking part in business, politics, or anything
+of that sort. For all I know, there may be some girls here who will
+affect political and many other movements in connection with the
+welfare of the nation. Girls ought to be made to think that they will
+have<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_54">54</a></span> great power in the future, and to realise that they may be able
+to influence some one for good, not by their great learning so much as
+by the power that a good girl or a good woman exercises over men. I
+heard the other day of a young lady who was engaged to be married, but
+who broke off the engagement because the young man said he had never
+heard of Browning. I am glad to be able to tell you that she thought
+better of it afterwards.... It was said of the great Queen Cleopatra
+that when the Roman Emperor fell in love with her she was the means of
+altering the history of the world. Some say that if Cleopatra's nose
+had been shorter, the face of the world would have been different. The
+fate of some young men may<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_55">55</a></span> depend upon the noses, as well as upon the
+learning, of some of the girls present.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>Re-opening of Howell's School, Llandaff,<br />
+June 26th, 1900.</i></p>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<h2><a id="A_FRIEND_FOR_THE_FRIENDLESS">A FRIEND FOR THE FRIENDLESS.</a></h2>
+
+<p>There cannot possibly be an object in the wide world more worthy of
+sympathy than a girl without a friend. All over the world this Society
+has its habitations, and it has already befriended 4,000 girls. It
+renders assistance when they are penniless, provides friends when they
+are friendless, and religious consolation when they require it.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>Girls' Friendly Society Bazaar, Newport,<br />
+April 24th, 1895.</i></p>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<h2><a id="THE_BRAVERY_OF_THE_WORKERS">THE BRAVERY OF THE WORKERS.</a></h2>
+
+<p>I think it is my duty to allude to the dreadful accident which took
+place in July at the dock extension works. The facts stated in the
+report should be printed and go, not only to the Shareholders, but to
+the country generally, as a record of the heroism and endurance that
+our workers, from the highest engineer to the lowliest navvy, were
+capable of under distressing and<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_56">56</a></span> dreadful circumstances. We hear so
+much of the decadence of the English race nowadays, that I think the
+report of the disaster at the docks is well worthy of being printed.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>Half-yearly Meeting Alexandra (Newport and South Wales)<br />
+Docks and Railway Coy., London,<br />
+August 5th, 1909.</i></p>
+
+<p>I have always admired the working collier, and if British records
+could be printed thousands of colliers would be found as much entitled
+to the Victoria Cross as those soldiers who have performed doughty
+deeds on the battlefield.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>Workmen's Outing at Tredegar Park,<br />
+August 8th, 1885.</i></p>
+
+<p>In the old Town Hall of Newport many great celebrities have received
+testimonials, compliments and honours&mdash;warriors, church dignitaries,
+financiers and great politicians; but I do not think any circumstance
+like the present one has arisen before, and there could not be a more
+interesting ceremony than that which we are about to perform. It is
+necessary to make a slight excuse for the time which has expired since
+the great disaster on July 2nd, 1909. Those who remember the incidents
+know perfectly well that the whole of the<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_57">57</a></span> dock premises and the town
+were in a state of excitement for some considerable period, and a
+large number of unfortunate men were overwhelmed by the disaster,
+while others fortunately escaped. I think the officials have done
+their very best to try and select those who really performed heroic
+efforts. Those who have not received recognition, but think they
+deserve it, will, I feel sure, make all due allowance, and give those
+responsible the credit for having done their best. It is satisfactory
+to the directors to know that they have a body of men around them who
+are ready to do their duty. It is a trait of the educated British
+workman of to-day that, when given something useful to do, he will
+perform his task heroically&mdash;heroism is characteristic of him.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>Presentation of Certificates for Bravery on the occasion<br />
+of the Dock disaster, Newport Town Hall,<br />
+March 14th, 1911.</i></p>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<h2><a id="A_TRIBUTE_TO_THE_ENGINE_DRIVER">A TRIBUTE TO THE ENGINE DRIVER.</a></h2>
+
+<div class="figcenter">
+<img src="images/i059.jpg" width="462" height="330" alt="" />
+</div>
+
+<p class="caption">&quot;<i>The feeling of a Newport cabman when his horse runs away.</i>&quot;</p>
+
+<p>I have the greatest admiration for engine drivers, particularly those
+on the Great Western Railway, on which line I travel most. I have
+often wondered at the admirable manner in which they stop and start<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_58">58</a></span>
+their trains. Mr. Gladstone once said that he could understand the
+mind of a great historian like Gibbon, or of a great poet, like
+Milton, Byron, or Wordsworth, but that he could not understand the
+formation of the mind of a man who wrote poems and plays like
+Shakespeare. Personally, I cannot understand the mind of an engine
+driver on an express train. I have been myself, in some very
+disagreeable positions, and have had some very nasty half minutes. Not
+very long ago I found myself underneath my horse in a muddy ditch and
+the half minutes I spent in waiting for a friendly hand to drag me
+out, and in wondering whether assistance would come before I was
+suffocated, were very unpleasant ones. Only a fortnight ago, too, a
+gentleman was driving me in a light vehicle down a narrow roadway when
+we saw a runaway horse attached to a lorry galloping towards us. It
+seemed as if there was nothing for it but for us to be knocked into
+the proverbial cocked-hat. However, our vehicle was drawn very close
+to the side and the runaway just cleared us. I can understand, too,
+the feeling of a man driving four horses when they run away with him,
+because that has happened to myself; or the feeling<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_59">59</a></span> of a Newport
+cabman when his horse runs away. But I cannot understand the feeling
+of sustained courage on the part of a driver of an express engine with
+his train going at 60 miles an hour through the darkness of the night,
+perhaps in a storm of snow or sleet. To use a pretty strong
+expression, it must be like "hell<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_60">60</a></span> with the lid off." Those who travel
+on railways ought to think more of the responsibilities which rest on
+railway employees.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>Railwaymen's Dinner,<br />
+April 21st, 1908.</i></p>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<h2><a id="TEMPERANCE_IN_ALL_THINGS">TEMPERANCE "IN ALL THINGS."</a></h2>
+
+<div class="wrap2">
+<img src="images/i060.jpg" width="230" height="355" alt="" />
+<p class="caption">&quot;<i>There are many Radicals<br />
+who take a great deal<br />
+more than they can carry.</i>&quot;</p>
+</div>
+
+<p>When I talk of temperance I mean temperance not only in drink, but in
+all things. There is temperance in eating, and temperance in life. In
+the present case there are three sections&mdash;the temperance people, the
+Sunday closing people, and the total abstinence people. I cannot see
+how the question of religion can enter into party politics. I have
+known many<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_61">61</a></span> Tories who were habitual drunkards, and there are many
+Radicals who take a great deal more than they can carry. There is
+always a difficulty in drawing the line between the enthusiast and the
+fanatic. Enthusiastic gentlemen generally get what they require.
+Fanatics, on the other hand, by the way they advocate their
+principles, turn people away.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>Opening of the new Temperance Hall, Newport,<br />
+May 2nd, 1889.</i></p>
+
+<p>I believe that if the medical men of the country published their
+opinions concerning the cases which come under their notice, it would
+be a revelation to the general public how great a proportion of
+illness is due in one way or another to alcoholic drink. I cannot,
+however, help noticing that a great improvement and advance has taken
+place in the cause of temperance. A good many years ago, when there
+was going to be a great family festival&mdash;a wedding or something of
+that sort&mdash;one of the family retainers was asked if he was going to be
+there. "Of course," was his reply, "and won't I just get drunk." That
+seemed to be the prevailing idea of enjoyment&mdash;to get drunk. But that
+attitude has been changed.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>Band of Hope Festival, Newport,<br />
+May 3rd, 1900.</i></p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_62">62</a></span></p>
+
+<div class="wrap clearboth">
+<img src="images/i062.jpg" width="250" height="346" alt="" />
+<p class="caption">&quot;<i>Coming out and making themselves<br />
+disagreeable to their neighbours.</i>&quot;</p>
+</div>
+
+<p>I have no doubt there are several in the hall who, like myself, are
+not total abstainers, but we are all one in our endeavour to promote
+temperance generally. To those who cannot be temperate, we advise
+total abstinence. There is nothing, I am sure, so fruitful of good as
+the advocacy of temperance amongst children. When children are taught
+to advocate a particular cause they do it more effectively than older
+people. But we are sometimes apt to become too much imbued with one
+particular idea, and it is never well to be too much of a bore to
+those around us. A little child was asked not long ago what she knew
+about King John<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_63">63</a></span> and Runnymede. She had evidently been a worker in the
+temperance cause, and replied, "Oh, yes; he's the man they got down to
+Runnymede and made him swear to take the pledge." She had forgotten
+about Magna Charta, and thought of only one kind of pledge. There is
+nothing that disturbs the general happiness and comfort so much as the
+action of those who persist in going into a public house when they
+need not do so, and coming out and making themselves disagreeable to
+their neighbours. I only hope that some of the younger portion of you
+will live to enjoy a Bank Holiday without seeing a single drunken
+person.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>Band of Hope Union, Newport,<br />
+May 29th, 1901.</i></p>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<h2><a id="TOTAL_ABSTINENCE">TOTAL ABSTINENCE.</a></h2>
+
+<p>There is a rule in the Boys' Brigade according to which you are
+supposed to be abstainers from drink. I need not say what a good thing
+that is. You will all be very much better for being abstainers. You
+will save a great deal of money, and probably keep your health up
+better. I wish I had been a total abstainer in my youth. I should have
+saved a great deal of money.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>Boys' Brigade Inspection, Newport,<br />
+April 19th, 1894.</i></p>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_64">64</a></span></p>
+
+<h2><a id="AN_ANGELIC_VISION">AN ANGELIC VISION.</a></h2>
+
+<div class="wrap">
+<img src="images/i064.jpg" width="220" height="309" alt="" />
+<p class="caption">&quot;<i>He&#39;s retired, he&#39;s living the life of a hangel.</i>&quot;</p>
+</div>
+
+<p>There is a phrase about "the happiness of the greatest number." It is
+an expressive phrase, but different people have different opinions of
+happiness. I was hunting in the Midland Counties and I asked, "Where
+is Tom?" The answer was, "He's retired, he's living the life of a
+hangel; he's a-heating, and a-drinking and a-cussing, and a-swearing
+all day long." That may not be your idea of the life of an angel, if
+it was my friend's idea.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>The Tredegar Show,<br />
+December 18th, 1872.</i></p>
+
+<p class="spacer clearboth">&nbsp;</p>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<h2><a id="CHATS_TO_AND_ABOUT_CABBIES">CHATS TO AND ABOUT CABBIES.</a></h2>
+
+<div class="figcenter">
+<img src="images/i065a.jpg" width="395" height="210" alt="" />
+</div>
+
+<p class="caption">&quot;<i>Prepared to go the pace according to the fare they expected at the end of the journey.</i>&quot;</p>
+
+<p>I have had many rides in the cabs of Newport, and have always found
+the cabbies very good drivers,<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_65">65</a></span> prepared to go the pace according to
+the fare they expected at the end of the journey.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>Cabmen's Dinner, Newport,<br />
+November 8th, 1889.</i></p>
+
+<div class="wrapr">
+<img src="images/i065b.jpg" width="215" height="234" alt="" />
+<p class="caption">&quot;<i>You try to blow me up<br />
+on my way to Tredegar House.</i>&quot;</p>
+</div>
+
+<p>I wish you had chosen some other Patron Saint than Guy Fawkes, for Guy
+Fawkes tried to blow up the House of Lords, and on each anniversary
+you try to blow me up on my way<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_66">66</a></span> to Tredegar House. Some persons may
+think that one Conservative Peer more or less does not matter, but I
+prefer that the experiment of blowing up should be tried upon the body
+of a Radical Peer.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>Cabmen's Dinner, Newport,<br />
+Nov 5th, 1896.</i></p>
+
+<div class="wrap">
+<img src="images/i066.jpg" width="308" height="425" alt="" />
+<p class="caption">&quot;<i>Look here, cut it short guv&#39;nor!<br />
+I&#39;ve got the cab by the hour.</i>&quot;</p>
+</div>
+
+<p>There are very odd traditions about cabmen, and I am certain that
+sometimes they are not deserved. I have been told it is something of a
+tradition that it<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_67">67</a></span> is the pride of a cabman to be able to whistle
+louder, to hit his horse harder, and to tell a bigger lie than anybody
+else. I believe that to be absolutely untrue, though some of you may
+know better than I do. One of you is supposed to have nearly upset a
+wedding. That was a dreadful thing to do. The bride and bridegroom
+were both at the Altar and just about to have the knot tied nicely.
+The clergyman began to deliver his address, but the bridegroom
+appeared to be in a great hurry, and said to the clergyman, "Look
+here, cut it short, guv'nor! I've got the cab by the hour." That was
+rather natural on the part of the bridegroom but the clergyman became
+very angry, and very nearly threw up the case....</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter">
+<img src="images/i068.jpg" width="350" height="220" alt="" />
+</div>
+
+<p class="caption">&quot;<i>Look here, Mr. Huddleston, I call you a thief, a blackguard, a scoundrel, and a villain.</i>&quot;</p>
+
+<p>Cabmen are limited in the language they may use. Judge Huddleston,
+when a barrister, was defending a client against a cabman, who had
+been using very bad language. The advocacy of Huddleston won the case.
+The next day the cabman called upon him and said: "Look here, Mr.
+Huddleston, you told me yesterday that I must not call people so and
+so. What are your charges for telling me what I can call anyone
+without getting into trouble?" Mr. Huddleston<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_68">68</a></span> named his fee, cabby
+paid the money, and inquired what names he might call a man with
+impunity. Mr. Huddleston referred to his law books, and replied: "This
+is what you may call a man without being had up for libel or
+defamation of character. You may call him a villain, a scoundrel, a
+blackguard, and a thief, always supposing you don't accuse him of
+having stolen anything." The cabby took up his hat and said: "Look
+here, Mr. Huddleston, I call you a thief, a blackguard, a scoundrel
+and a villain; not that I mean to say you ever stole anything. Good
+morning." So<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_69">69</a></span> you know now exactly what you can call a man if you do
+not like the fare he gives you. At the same time, I do not believe you
+would say such things.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter">
+<img src="images/i069.jpg" width="420" height="285" alt="" />
+</div>
+
+<p class="caption">&quot;<i>That&#39;s where Lord Tredegar buried his charger; he made that mound himself.</i>&quot;</p>
+
+<p>Then, again, a cabman is always supposed to be a driving encyclopedia.
+When Newport cabmen are driving along Caerleon Road or Chepstow Road,
+credulous individuals ask them the name of every house and place they
+pass, what it means and what<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_70">70</a></span> it is. Strangers want to know, and you
+must tell them something. There is an extraordinary tradition about a
+cabman driving along a road, when a lady fare asked him what "that
+mountain was with the tump on the top." "But what is the tump for?"
+persisted the lady. "Oh, that's where Lord Tredegar buried his
+charger; he made that mound himself," was the reply. Such stories are
+very interesting and amusing, but they spoil history, and that is why
+I think we are indebted to cabmen for the extraordinary traditions
+that go about the country.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>Cabmen's Dinner, Newport,<br />
+November 5th, 1898.</i></p>
+
+<p>Cabmen have traditionally bad characters, and are supposed to possess
+a vocabulary which is not taught in the Intermediate Schools. They are
+also supposed to have a special method of calculating distances and
+coin. All those ideas are exploded like nursery rhymes, such as
+"Whittington and his Cat." Cabmen are well looked after. There is the
+Excise Officer and the Cruelty to Animals Society, and, if these are
+not enough, there is the Watch Committee.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>Cabmen's Dinner, Newport,<br />
+November 6th, 1899.</i></p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_71">71</a></span></p>
+
+<div class="figcenter">
+<img src="images/i071.jpg" width="420" height="187" alt="" />
+</div>
+
+<div class="inset14">
+<p><b><i>But the top of a 'bus</i><br />
+<i>Is the place for us</i><br />
+<i>To see the coves go by.</i>"</b></p>
+</div>
+
+<p>You have to compete with tramcars, motor cars, and all kinds of
+horrible conveyances. Having been interested in nursery rhymes since I
+was very young, I have been looking through some children's books
+during the last few days to see what is provided for the children of
+these days, and I came across the following lines in a book for
+children:&mdash;</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">The hansom takes you quickest,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">The growler keeps you dry,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">But the top of the 'bus<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Is the place for us<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">To see the coves go by.<br /></span>
+<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_72">72</a></span></div></div>
+
+<p>I advise you not to give that little book to your children, as it will
+induce them to ride on the top of a 'bus instead of taking a cab.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>Cabmen's Dinner, Newport,<br />
+November 8th, 1902.</i></p>
+
+<div class="wrapr">
+<img src="images/i073.jpg" width="240" height="384" alt="" />
+<p class="caption">&quot;<i>Fast women and slow horses.</i>&quot;</p>
+</div>
+
+<p>I have never been able to find out exactly why the cabmen's dinner is
+fixed for Guy Fawkes' Day. I have looked up Guy Fawkes' pedigree, and
+I cannot find that he ever drove a growler or even a hansom cab. Then
+I thought it might have something to do with Inkerman Day, which is
+all upset nowadays, as you know. Inkerman was always called a
+soldiers' battle, because it was so foggy that the generals could not
+see what they were doing. I have an idea that it must have been a
+cabmen's battle, and that it was cabmen who fought at Inkerman or
+commanded at Inkerman. Speaking of cabmen, I think that they are like
+Lord Rosebery's Dukes&mdash;poor, but honest. This is not an epoch-making
+dinner; it is not even a record dinner. "Epoch-making" and
+"record-making" are terms which are frequently used now-a-days, and I
+wish people would give them a rest for a time. I remember a young
+gentleman who came into a fortune and very soon got through it because
+his company was very indifferent,<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_73">73</a></span> he being very fond of racecourses
+and other iniquities of that sort. He went through the Bankruptcy
+Court, and when asked how he accounted for getting rid of his fortune
+so quickly, he replied, "Fast women and slow horses." Now I think
+cabmen would probably make a profit out of fast women and slow horses.
+One of you will take a very fine lady to Caerleon Racecourse next
+week, and, having a slow horse, will take two hours to do the journey,
+and charge a two hours' price. But I always like this society for one
+particular reason, namely, it has no small societies belonging to it.
+There is no Cabmen's Football Club<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_74">74</a></span> to write and ask you for a
+subscription. So far as I know, there is no cabmen's band, or other
+small institutions of which we have so many in every other circle of
+society. There is no cabmen's congress, and no cabmen's conferences
+and that is a great merit in the society, because I know that when I
+have done one thing, I have done all that I shall be required to do.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>Cabmen's Dinner,<br />
+November 5th, 1909.</i></p>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<h2><a id="TALKS_TO_LICENSED_VICTUALLERS">TALKS TO LICENSED VICTUALLERS.</a></h2>
+
+<p>Although the devil is not as black as he is painted, I hope neither I
+nor any other gentleman present bears any resemblance to his Satanic
+Majesty. The Scythians, it is reported, first debated things when
+drunk, and then whilst sober, and perhaps at the end of this gathering
+I may be able to form a better opinion of the members of the Newport
+Corporation.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>Mayor's Banquet, Newport<br />
+March 18th, 1886.</i></p>
+
+<p>A few months ago, in the silly season, "The Times" had about a couple
+of columns of letters from people discussing the uses and abuses of
+drink. I read the letters carefully, and came to the conclusion that
+there was a lot to be said on both sides. An octogenarian<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_75">75</a></span> of 83 wrote
+to say that his eyesight, hearing, and teeth were all sound, and that
+he had not tasted spirituous liquors in his life. Shortly after,
+another octogenarian of 84, in addition to claiming the healthy
+condition of the previous writer, spoke of intending matrimony. He,
+however, said his memory was not so good as it was, but, so far as he
+could recollect, he had never been to bed sober in his life. After
+reading the first letter, I thought it was a "clincher," and went to
+bed without my usual brandy and soda, saying there would be no more
+licensed victuallers' dinners for me. When, however, I read the second
+letter, I changed my mind about the dinner. It has been said that life
+is not all beer and skittles, but it is a good thing to have something
+to drive away the depression which occasionally visits every one who
+has arrived at manhood.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>Licensed Victuallers' Dinner, Cardiff,<br />
+March 15th, 1892.</i></p>
+
+<p>In the old days barons drank strong ale. The barons would have their
+liquor strong, and local veto at that time would have meant loss of
+licensed victuallers' heads. Some people may wonder why I so
+persistently attend the Licensed Victuallers' Association
+meetings<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_76">76</a></span>&mdash;for I do attend regularly. I will tell you why, in a few
+words, if you will not tell anybody else. There is a clause in the
+family settlements that compels me to do it. I endeavour to act up to
+those settlements.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>Licensed Victuallers' Dinner, Newport,<br />
+March 9th, 1892.</i></p>
+
+<p>I am not surprised that Members of Parliament are rather shy of going
+to licensed victuallers' dinners. They have to be very careful of what
+they say. Words, it has been said, are given to conceal thoughts.
+After dinner, sometimes, thoughts get the mastery of words, and
+Members of Parliament have to think a good deal of the future. They
+have to ponder over the teetotal vote, and they have to be very
+careful that they do not offend the licensed victuallers. The
+difference as regards the members of the House of Lords is this&mdash;they
+do not worry themselves about the teetotal vote, and they do not care
+a <i>darn</i> for the licensed victuallers.</p>
+
+<div class="wrapr">
+<img src="images/i077.jpg" width="225" height="345" alt="" />
+<p class="caption">&quot;<i>If there are any who think<br />
+that I am stepping down<br />
+from a pedestal.</i>&quot;</p>
+</div>
+
+<p>A certain number of people think they can arrange everything
+satisfactorily upon an arithmetical principle. The latest fad is "one
+man one vote." If you do not take care it will be one man one glass. I
+would like to know how that could be arranged on arithmetical
+principles<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_77">77</a></span> satisfactorily. There are a few other burning questions
+which I have never yet seen satisfactorily answered. One is 'What is
+Home Rule?' and the other is 'Have you used Pear's Soap?' Until we can
+find satisfactory answers to these, I think that legislation in regard
+to licensed victuallers will be quiet for a bit. I have never
+considered it necessary to apologise for dining with licensed
+victuallers. If there are any who think that in dining with that
+company I am stepping down from a pedestal on which I ought to remain,
+all I can do is to answer them in the beautiful motto of the Order of
+the Garter, "Honi soit qui mal y pense."</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>Licensed Victuallers' Dinner, Cardiff,<br />
+February 28th, 1891.</i></p>
+
+<p class="spacer clearboth">&nbsp;</p>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_78">78</a></span></p>
+
+<h2><a id="CAKES_AND_ALE">CAKES AND ALE.</a></h2>
+
+<p>For my own part, I cannot see how the country could get on without
+Licensed Victuallers. Some years ago when a Frenchman wanted to
+describe an English country gentleman, he said he was one of those
+who, whenever he had nothing to do, suggested to those about him that
+they should go out and kill something.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter">
+<img src="images/i078.jpg" width="420" height="189" alt="" />
+</div>
+
+<p class="caption">&quot;<i>If a time arrived when there were no more cakes and ale.</i>&quot;</p>
+
+<p>There is a type of politician who, whenever he has nothing to do, says
+"Let us go and abolish something." If this type had its way it would
+abolish the Lord Mayor's Show and Barnum's White Elephant. I do<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_79">79</a></span> not
+think the country would be one whit happier if a time arrived when
+there were no more cakes and ale.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>Licensed Victuallers' Dinner,<br />
+January 29th, 1884.</i></p>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<h2><a id="THE_GREAT_LAND_TYRANT">THE GREAT LAND TYRANT.</a></h2>
+
+<p>I am now like the old man of the sea&mdash;someone you ought to get rid of.
+I am a great land tyrant. If you want a bit of land you can't get it.
+If you want a piece for a recreation ground you can't get it. If you
+want a piece for a Church you can't get it. If you want a piece for a
+school you can't get it. If you want a place for any other amusement
+or for athletic grounds you can't get it. Why? Because it belongs to
+Lord Tredegar. So if you treat me like Jonah, and throw me overboard,
+perhaps it would be much better for you.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>Conservative Association Meeting, Newport.<br />
+August 24th, 1910.</i></p>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<h2><a id="TWO_LORD_TREDEGARS">TWO LORD TREDEGARS.</a></h2>
+
+<div class="wrap">
+<img src="images/i080.jpg" width="240" height="211" alt="" />
+<p class="caption">&quot;<i>Surely, this is not I!</i>&quot;</p>
+</div>
+
+<p>It appears to me sometimes that there are two Lord Tredegars.... Most
+of you have been children at some time or other, and so most of you, I
+am happy to think, are acquainted with nursery rhymes. There<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_80">80</a></span> is one
+which, probably, a great many of you have heard of. It is about an old
+lady with a basket who was going to market. She laid down on a bank
+and went to sleep, and a pedlar passing by, for some reason or other,
+cut her petticoats considerably above her knees. When she awoke the
+first thing she said was, "Surely, this is not I." And sometimes, when
+he awoke in the morning, and saw what was said about Lord Tredegar, he
+was inclined to make the same remark, "Surely, this is not I." When I
+read of a Lord Tredegar who is trying to reap what he has not sown,
+who binds his tenants down to covenants which do not exist, and who
+exacts the uttermost farthing from his miserable tenants, I think
+sometimes there must be two Lord Tredegars.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>Tredegar Show,<br />
+November 24th, 1888.</i></p>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_81">81</a></span></p>
+
+<h2><a id="THE_TRIALS_OF_BENEFACTORS">THE TRIALS OF BENEFACTORS.</a></h2>
+
+<div class="wrapr">
+<img src="images/i081.jpg" width="215" height="377" alt="" />
+<p class="caption">&quot;<i>I have lately started<br />
+a store in the village.</i>&quot;</p>
+</div>
+
+<p>The other day a friend of mine was in much the same position as I am
+to-night. He owned a large estate in the neighbourhood, and he was
+asked to preside at a meeting of the candidate who was going to come
+forward. I asked him afterwards if the meeting was successful. "Oh,
+yes," he replied, "it was fairly successful, but they began to find
+out my failures and shortcomings." I said, "What have they found out
+about you?" The reply was, "I have lately started a store in the
+village, so that the agricultural labourers might have their beef and<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_82">82</a></span>
+groceries at cost price. I thought that was rather a good thing to do,
+but it was far from a good thing in the opinion of my opponents. All
+the butchers and grocers declared they would make it very hot for me."
+I am in a somewhat similar position, and I told my friend so. "What
+have you done?" asked my friend, and I replied, "I have given a public
+park to the Newport people." "What has that to do with it?" "Well,"
+said I, "they make out that it has increased the rates."</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>Conservative Meeting, Newport,<br />
+February 2nd, 1894.</i></p>
+
+<p class="spacer clearboth">&nbsp;</p>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<h2><a id="WHAT_IS_A_PHILANTHROPIST">WHAT IS A PHILANTHROPIST?</a></h2>
+
+<div class="wrapr">
+<img src="images/i083.jpg" width="175" height="388" alt="" />
+<p class="caption">&quot;<i>A philanthropist is an old gentleman,<br />
+probably with a bald head.</i>&quot;</p>
+</div>
+
+<p>There are moments in a man's life when there is a contest between the
+lip and the eye, whether we should smile or cry. I am sure you would
+not like to see me cry just now, but there is a certain amount of
+sentiment in an affair of this sort. For a person in my position it is
+rather trying. I feel very much like the little boy you all knew in
+your nursery stories. The boy had a pie, and "he put in his thumb and
+pulled out a plum and said 'What a good boy am I.'" That is what I
+feel now. I suppose I should feel like<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_83">83</a></span> a philanthropist. You probably
+all know what a philanthropist is. A philanthropist is an old
+gentleman, probably with a bald head, and he tries to make his
+conscience think he is doing good all the while he is having his
+pocket picked.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>St. Mellons' Show,<br />
+September 29th, 1909.</i></p>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<h2><a id="NATURALLY_A_CONSERVATIVE">NATURALLY A CONSERVATIVE.</a></h2>
+
+<p>You will not wonder that I am in a graver mood than is usual on these
+occasions. For more than 30 years my lamented father occupied this
+chair, and I believe he was present on every occasion of this kind. In
+that time, the show has been raised from a very small one to be one of
+the most important in the country. My father has left me, amongst
+other possessions, an hereditary trust in the shape of this
+Agricultural Show. If I have given any hope that I shall fill the
+position as my father filled it, I shall feel very much flattered. It
+is not my intention to make great changes. There is no way of showing
+disrespect more than in making great changes, turning everything
+topsy-turvey, as if we knew everything better than those who went
+before us. I am naturally Conservative, and come of a Conservative
+family. I intend to keep to what was good<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_85">85</a></span> of my late father. I have
+inherited a great trust in this show, and I hope that in future it
+will be seen that the show has not lost its prestige, its popularity
+or its utility.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>Tredegar Show,<br />
+December 15th, 1875.</i></p>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<h2><a id="POLITICS_ON_THE_BRAIN">POLITICS ON THE BRAIN.</a></h2>
+
+<p>Everybody now has got politics on the brain. We dream of politics and
+we almost drink politics&mdash;at least, we have been drinking politics
+to-night. So far as I am concerned, I should like, Rip Van
+Winkle-like, to go to sleep for the next two months and wake up to
+find the general election over; only then I should like to wake up to
+find it had gone the right way.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>Farmers' Dinner, Bassaleg,<br />
+October 13th, 1885.</i></p>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<h2><a id="THE_UNRULY_HOUND">THE UNRULY HOUND.</a></h2>
+
+<div class="figcenter">
+<img src="images/i086.jpg" width="430" height="308" alt="" />
+</div>
+
+<p class="caption">&quot;<i>I lick him whenever I have the opportunity.</i>&quot;</p>
+
+<p>It is wrong to introduce politics at this dinner, and, in fact, I have
+no great liking for politics on any occasion, though I do at times
+have a little to do with them. And I have a little way of my own. I
+have a most unruly hound in my pack, which I call "Radical," and I
+lick him whenever I have the opportunity. It<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_86">86</a></span> does the hound good, and
+at the same time eases my own mind. Though I have no great love of
+politics, I think this is a time, if ever, a member of Parliament
+should feel inclined to speak. There is one subject which must be in
+everybody's mind, and for the consideration of which everyone must
+brace himself in the next session&mdash;that is "tenant's right." That is<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_87">87</a></span>
+a question in which every agriculturist must take a deep interest; and
+for myself I think meetings of this sort much more likely to promote a
+goodly feeling between landlord and tenant than the provisions of any
+Act of Parliament.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>Tredegar Show,<br />
+December 14th, 1889.</i></p>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<h2><a id="THE_WHOO_WHOOPS">THE WHOO WHOOPS.</a></h2>
+
+<p>I thank you for the way the toast of my health has been received; but
+I do not quite see the propriety of "whoo whoops" at the end. That is
+an expression that sportsmen use only when they are about to kill
+something; I do not see its applicability in the present case. I hope
+that you do not mean all you have expressed.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>Tredegar Show,<br />
+December 13th, 1871.</i></p>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<h2><a id="MPS_AS_BADGERS">M.P.'S AS BADGERS.</a></h2>
+
+<p>During the intervals of pigeon pie and boiled beef, I have had the
+pleasure of a few minutes' conversation with Mr. Cordes, and from that
+conversation I have come to the conclusion that a Member of Parliament
+holds the same position to the human race that a badger does to the
+animal race. Some people think that the<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_88">88</a></span> only earthly purpose for
+which a badger can have been created was that of being baited, and I
+have an idea that some persons seem to imagine that a member of
+Parliament was created for nothing but that we might bait him. But on
+this occasion we have been brought together not to bait Mr. Cordes,
+but to f&ecirc;te him.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>Conservative Banquet, Newport,<br />
+January 20th, 1876.</i></p>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<h2><a id="THE_HONOUR_OF_BEING_MP">THE HONOUR OF BEING M.P.</a></h2>
+
+<p>It is a great honour still, I am sure, to be a member of the British
+House of Commons. Lord Rosebery, when he was chairman of the London
+County Council, in a speech that he made&mdash;and I dare say many of you
+have been interested in some of Lord Rosebery's speeches because he
+has a fund of humour, and very often one is not quite certain whether
+he is in earnest or in jest&mdash;once said that the position of a town
+councillor is much more important than that of a member of Parliament.
+It is quite possible that an individual member of a County Council or
+a Town Council may be more important as an individual than a member of
+the House of Commons, but his vote can only mainly<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_89">89</a></span> affect the
+locality, whilst the action of a member of the House of Commons may
+not only affect the whole of Great Britain, but the whole of the
+British Empire. So I venture to think the position of a Member of
+Parliament is a little more important than that of a member of a Town
+Council or a County Council.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>Monmouthshire County Council,<br />
+February 2nd, 1910.</i></p>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<h2><a id="NELSONS_SAYING">NELSON'S SAYING.</a></h2>
+
+<p>There still exists in the bosoms of our public men the feeling which
+animated Lord Nelson before the battle of the Nile, when he said,
+"To-morrow I shall have either a peerage or Westminster Abbey."</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>Press Dinner, Cardiff,<br />
+May 9th, 1891.</i></p>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<h2><a id="THE_DISADVANTAGES_OF_THE_PEERAGE">THE DISADVANTAGES OF THE PEERAGE.</a></h2>
+
+<div class="wrap">
+<img src="images/i090.jpg" width="220" height="334" alt="" />
+<p class="caption">&quot;<i>Receiving eggs that are not fit for breakfast,<br />
+and cats that have not received<br />
+honourable interment.</i>&quot;</p>
+</div>
+
+<p>There are advantages and disadvantages in belonging to the House of
+Lords. The peers are deprived of the right which other citizens have
+of standing on the hustings and receiving eggs that are not fit for
+breakfast<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_90">90</a></span> and cats that have not received honourable interment. But
+they have the privilege of British citizens of being roundly abused by
+those whose talents lay in that direction.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>Associated Chambers of Commerce,<br />
+Newport, Sept. 21st, 1892.</i></p>
+
+<p class="spacer clearboth">&nbsp;</p>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<h2><a id="SWEEPS_AS_PEERS">SWEEPS AS PEERS.</a></h2>
+
+<div class="figcenter">
+<img src="images/i091.jpg" width="370" height="272" alt="" />
+</div>
+
+<p class="caption">&quot;<i>I am acquainted with some sweeps.</i>&quot;</p>
+
+<p>A certain gentleman who certainly thinks that the constitution of the
+country could be reorganised and set straight at once by a magazine
+article, says that if the House of Lords rejects the Home Rule Bill
+there is a very simple way to remedy the affair. Mr. Gladstone will
+then, he states, collect 70 sweeps and make them peers so as to gain a
+majority. Whether the gentleman intended to insult the sweeps or to
+insult<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_91">91</a></span> the House of Lords I do not know. I am acquainted with some
+sweeps. I have always looked upon sweeps in the same way as I look
+upon licensed victuallers. They are a body of men who are carrying on
+a very difficult profession with credit to themselves and advantage to
+the country. Moreover, the sweeps with whom I am acquainted are most
+of them Tories, and I shall not be surprised if as soon as those 70
+sweeps are collected and made peers, and have washed<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_92">92</a></span> their faces and
+put on their coronets and robes, they do immediately range themselves
+on the Opposition side of the House, and do, as most new Gladstonian
+peers do, vote Conservative directly they are created.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>Newport Licensed Victuallers' Dinner,<br />
+February 23rd, 1893.</i></p>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<h2><a id="YOU_CANNOT_PLEASE_EVERYBODY">YOU CANNOT PLEASE EVERYBODY.</a></h2>
+
+<p>I have no doubt that if the House of Lords were to pass by a large
+majority the disestablishment of the Welsh Church in the next Session,
+the Welsh party would say the hereditary principle was the only one to
+be depended upon. On the other hand, if the Lords were to pass by a
+large majority a Local Veto Bill, I have no doubt the Licensed
+Victuallers would at once go in for the abolition of the House of
+Lords.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>Cardiff Licensed Victuallers' Dinner,<br />
+March 28th, 1894.</i></p>
+
+<p>I am not a landlord myself, but I have strong opinions about the right
+of property, which I hope, in future legislation, will always be
+considered. If ever I become a landlord, I hope the interest which I
+have always felt in the welfare of my respected father's tenants will<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_93">93</a></span>
+lead them to suppose that I shall never become such a ruffian as some
+people would make landlords out to be.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>Monmouthshire Chamber of Agriculture,<br />
+February 25th, 1874.</i></p>
+
+<p>I confess I was much comforted in reading one of those amiable, kind
+and Christian-like speeches for the total suppression of landlords. I
+looked into the dictionary for the meaning of the word "landlord," and
+I found it was "a keeper of a public-house." When I read that, my soul
+was comforted.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>Newport Licensed Victuallers' Dinner,<br />
+January 30th, 1880.</i></p>
+
+<p>I have always taken great interest in those who live on my property,
+it does not matter whether on agricultural land or in the bowels of
+the earth. A great landowner does not rest on a bed of roses. The loss
+to a landowner who only owns a small agricultural property, in days of
+agricultural depression when tenants cannot pay their rent, generally
+means a few hundred pounds and the reducing of all his expenses. But
+when it comes to great commercial interests, to owning the land on
+which our great ironworks, great tinworks, and collieries are
+situated, and when those<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_94">94</a></span> interests are depressed, it means not a loss
+of a few hundreds, but the wiping off of several thousands. And it
+means occupying themselves night and day in ascertaining how they can
+help to still carry on those great interests which have employed so
+many hands, and which are so necessary for the welfare of the
+population of the district.... A great ironmaster, Mr. Carnegie, who
+found it to his best interest to carry on his great works in America,
+has enunciated a sentiment which appeals to me, to the effect that it
+is the business of every rich man to die poor. Sometimes I feel that
+will probably be my fate if I go on as I am doing. However, I shall be
+poor in good company.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>Presentation to Lord Tredegar of Miners' Lamp<br />
+and Silver Medal at Risca Eisteddfod,<br />
+October 5th, 1896.</i></p>
+
+<p>Considerable difficulties attach to the position of a man who happens
+to own land round a large and increasing town. So many demands are
+placed before him. There are demands for building sites and for open
+spaces and public parks. It is difficult, when the land is limited in
+area, to satisfy all requirements. I hope, in a short time, however,
+to be enabled to make<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_95">95</a></span> a present to the town of Newport of a public
+park, one which will not cost much in laying out for use.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>Mayoral Dinner, Newport,<br />
+December 22nd, 1891.</i></p>
+
+<p>It may possibly happen that if the order to which I belong is swept
+away, I may become a candidate for municipal honours, and perhaps
+aspire to the civic chair. At present, however, I have my own
+responsibilities, for I am deeply troubled with what I may term the
+four R's&mdash;Rates, Roads, Royalties, and Rents.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>Mayor's Banquet,<br />
+March 18th, 1886.</i></p>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<h2><a id="KEEP_US_STILL_OUR_SHORTHORNS">KEEP US STILL OUR SHORTHORNS.</a></h2>
+
+<p>A gentleman who was very fond of writing poetry wrote a couple of
+lines which might be quoted against him although he has long since
+joined the majority. He wrote:&mdash;</p>
+
+<p class="in2">Let laws and learning, art and commerce die,<br />
+But keep us still our old nobility.</p>
+
+<p>The last line can be altered as you like, and you can put anything you
+like for laws and learning, I would<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_96">96</a></span> say buffaloes or anything else,
+but keep our shorthorns. In breeding shorthorns a pedigree of a long
+line of ancestors is indispensable. Mr. Stratton and myself have tried
+to work on those lines by breeding the nobility of shorthorns.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>Stock Sale at the Duffryn, Newport,<br />
+October 7th, 1909.</i></p>
+
+<div class="figcenter">
+<img src="images/i096.jpg" width="335" height="225" alt="" />
+</div>
+
+<p class="caption">&quot;<i>I always find great difficulty in obtaining entrance to the dairy competitions.</i>&quot;</p>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<h2><a id="INTEREST_IN_DAIRYING">INTEREST IN DAIRYING.</a></h2>
+
+<p>My thoughts are at the moment running on ground rents, royalties and
+wayleaves, so if I wander from the subject I hope you will forgive me.
+I cannot regard<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_97">97</a></span> the subject of dairying without thinking how we would
+have stood now supposing we had taken up the question as we ought to
+have done twenty years ago. We would not now be taking a back seat
+with the foreigners. But I always now find great difficulty in
+obtaining entrance to the dairy competitions, if I go there casually.
+Whether it is the attractions of the pretty dairymaids inside, or the
+coolness of the atmosphere, there is certainly very great interest
+taken in the competitions and that is satisfactory.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>Monmouthshire Dairy School Prize Distribution,<br />
+November 5th, 1895.</i></p>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<h2><a id="WHERE_ALL_CLASSES_MEET">WHERE ALL CLASSES MEET.</a></h2>
+
+<p>Of all meetings which take place in the course of a year, there are
+none attended with such universal good as an agricultural meeting,
+because here all classes can meet, whereas in nearly all other
+meetings the attendances are of a sectional character. For instance,
+race meetings&mdash;many people think them wrong and never attend them.
+Then there are Church Extension and Missionary Meetings&mdash;a great many
+do not like to attend them. But as to agricultural meetings,<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_98">98</a></span>
+everybody seems to like to attend them, from the clergy to the racing
+man, the mechanic, the agricultural labourer, and the meetings must,
+therefore, promote a deal of harmony among classes. An agricultural
+meeting is much more effective than the proceedings of Messrs. Bright
+and Cobden, who are going about preaching a war of classes.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>Tredegar Show,<br />
+December 15th, 1863.</i></p>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<h2><a id="WHERE_THE_AGRICULTURIST_SHOULD_STUDY">WHERE THE AGRICULTURIST SHOULD STUDY.</a></h2>
+
+<p>Some excursionists were going around the house of either Wordsworth or
+Tennyson&mdash;I forget which&mdash;and asked a servant where was her master's
+study. She replied, "Here is my master's study, but he studies in the
+fields." That is the lesson to be learnt in respect to agriculture.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>Agricultural Exhibition, Newport,<br />
+December 2nd, 1910.</i></p>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<h2><a id="A_BLUE_BOTTLE_AND_A_BIRD">A BLUE BOTTLE AND A BIRD.</a></h2>
+
+<div class="wrapr">
+<img src="images/i099.jpg" width="220" height="343" alt="" />
+<p class="caption">&quot;<i>Just then a great blue-bottle<br />
+settled on my nose.</i>&quot;</p>
+</div>
+
+<p>I hope you won't do what I did last time. It was a day very different
+from this. It was very hot. I<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_99">99</a></span> saw an animal in the ring that I did
+not care the least about, and just then a great blue-bottle settled on
+my nose. The consequence was that I bought the worst animal at a very
+high price.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>Stock Sale at the Duffryn, Newport,<br />
+October 7th, 1909.</i></p>
+
+<p class="spacer clearboth">&nbsp;</p>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<h2><a id="A_LIMIT_EVEN_TO_SCIENCE">A LIMIT EVEN TO SCIENCE.</a></h2>
+
+<p>In regard to scientific agriculture, I am not sure whether we are not
+rather overdoing things; but there is no doubt that, notwithstanding
+all the science we have, we have never succeeded in making a cow have
+more than one calf in a year, or a sheep more than two lambs. That
+goes to prove that there is a limit even to science in agriculture,
+and it reminds me of the<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_100">100</a></span> saying, "You may pitchfork Nature out of
+existence, but she is sure to come back to you."</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>Bassaleg Show,<br />
+October 11th, 1910.</i></p>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<h2><a id="AN_EYE_FOR_A_GOOD_PAIR_OF_HORSES">AN EYE FOR A GOOD PAIR OF HORSES.</a></h2>
+
+<p>Some men have an eye for one thing and some for another, but I think
+if I have a weakness it is to fancy that I have an eye for a good pair
+of horses, and for a straight line. When I see a line I can judge if
+it has been ploughed straight, and then I can judge whether the
+ploughman has had too much. Of course, that sort of thing never
+happens at a ploughing match, but still it is as well to be on the
+look-out.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>Farmers' Association, Bassaleg,<br />
+October 17th, 1876.</i></p>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<h2><a id="AS_CATTLE_DEALER">AS CATTLE DEALER.</a></h2>
+
+<p>Just before I came to the meeting I had put into my hand a small&mdash;a
+very small&mdash;paper in which I am described as a cattle-dealer. But I am
+not at all ashamed of that.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>Newport Conservative Meeting,<br />
+April 5th, 1888.</i></p>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_101">101</a></span></p>
+
+<h2><a id="THE_BEST_FARMER">THE BEST FARMER.</a></h2>
+
+<p>It was the late Lord Beaconsfield, I believe, who said that the best
+educated farmer known spent all his life in the open air, and never
+read a book. There is a great deal of truth in that, and although
+science may aid farmers, observation and experience in the proper
+treatment of land and crops will do much more.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>Tredegar Show,<br />
+December 26th, 1890.</i></p>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<h2><a id="FOX-HUNTING_AND_DIPLOMACY">FOX-HUNTING AND DIPLOMACY.</a></h2>
+
+<p>Many people imagine that to be a Master of Foxhounds you have only to
+get a horse&mdash;but besides the matter of pounds, shillings and pence,
+you have to create an interest amongst the farmers over whose land you
+hunt, and whose sheep, pigs and lambs you frighten. One, therefore,
+has to use a certain amount of diplomacy.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>Gelligaer Steeplechases,<br />
+April 12th, 1910.</i></p>
+
+<p>Nothing tends to brush away the cobwebs so much as a bracing run with
+the hounds. Fox hunting is an admirable sport, and my neighbours shall
+enjoy it as long as there is a fox to be found on my estate.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>At Tredegar House,<br />
+October 30th, 1884.</i></p>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_102">102</a></span></p>
+
+<h2><a id="AT_AN_ATHLETIC_CLUB_DINNER">AT AN ATHLETIC CLUB DINNER.</a></h2>
+
+<div class="figcenter">
+<img src="images/i103.jpg" width="415" height="468" alt="" />
+</div>
+
+<p class="caption">&quot;<i>I am afraid all the dumb bells in the world would not get me up to that.</i>&quot;</p>
+
+<p>When I came into the room I expected to find one half of the company
+on crutches and the other half in splints. I am not at all certain
+that I am the proper man to be President of this club, because I think
+that the President of an athletic club should measure at least 48
+inches round the chest, and ought to have biceps of 18 inches, and
+scale at least 14 stone 7 lbs. I am afraid all the dumb bells in the
+world would not get me up to that. I am what might be called an old
+fossil, though I cannot boast of the garrulity of old age, and
+therefore I will not tell you that when I played football I was always
+kicking the ball out of the ground into the river; or that when I
+played cricket I always drove the ball into the river. Those are facts
+well known in Newport.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>First Annual Dinner of the Newport Athletic Club,<br />
+April 19th, 1890.</i></p>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<h2><a id="HUNTING">HUNTING.</a></h2>
+
+<p>I am always delighted to see any member of the Corporation at the meet
+of my hounds. If they came out horrid Radicals they would go back half
+Tories.</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_103">103</a></span></p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_104">104</a></span></p>
+
+<p>"One touch of nature makes the whole world kin," and there is nothing
+like a meet in the open country for setting things right between
+friends and neighbours.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>Mayor's Banquet, Newport,<br />
+January 15th, 1884.</i></p>
+
+<div class="wrapr">
+<img src="images/i104.jpg" width="250" height="330" alt="" />
+<p class="caption">&quot;<i>&#39;Oh the devil!&#39; I exclaimed.<br />
+&#39;No, not the devil,&#39; said the farmer,<br />
+&#39;but the fox.&#39;</i>&quot;</p>
+</div>
+
+<p>A clever satirist has said that nature made the horse and hounds and
+threw in the fox as a connecting link. In my opinion, fox-hounds and
+hunting are the connecting links between the landlord and the tenant
+farmer.</p>
+
+<p>I have made many pleasant acquaintances lately in my hunting
+expeditions, and I hope we shall always remain on the most amicable
+terms. But some have astonished me with their argument. Said one,
+"Beg<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_105">105</a></span> pardon, Major, I have lost such a sight of poultry." "Dear me,"
+I said. "Yes, we lost forty ducks the other night." "Oh, the devil!" I
+exclaimed. "No, not the devil," said the farmer, "but the fox." I
+asked the farmer how he managed to count so many. "Well," was the
+reply, "I had four ducks sitting on ten eggs each; and that made
+forty." Well, the Chamber of Agriculture has not yet settled the
+knotty point of "compensation for unexhausted improvements." However,
+the argument ended in our parting very good friends, as, said the
+farmer, "I and my landlord have been friends hitherto, and as I hope
+we shall continue to be."</p>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+<h2><a id="TWO_UNPROFITABLE_HONOURS">TWO UNPROFITABLE HONOURS.</a></h2>
+
+<p>I have the honour to hold two offices which, if I did not enjoy the
+friendship of the farmers, would be very thorny ones. One of them is
+that of being a member of Parliament for an agricultural county. You
+will agree with me that, in such a position, if I were not on good
+terms with the farmer, I would often be on a bed of thorns.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_106">106</a></span></p>
+
+<p>The other office I hold is that of master of a pack of hounds. I think
+also if I were not on good terms with the farmer that would not be a
+very pleasant position. I do not know that there is any similarity
+between the two offices, except that neither of them has any salary. I
+hope and trust that it will be a very long time before the country
+will be unable to find men willing to do the duties in either capacity
+without being paid for them.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>Tredegar Show,<br />
+December 19th, 1865.</i></p>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<h2><a id="THE_HAPPY_FARMER">THE HAPPY FARMER.</a></h2>
+
+<p>A great many people fancy that the farmer lives in a beautiful
+cottage, with vines climbing over it, that the cows give milk without
+any milking, that the earth yields forth her fruits spontaneously, and
+that the farmer has nothing to do but sit still and get rich.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>Tredegar Show,<br />
+December 16th, 1875.</i></p>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<h2><a id="EQUINE_EXPRESSIONS">EQUINE EXPRESSIONS.</a></h2>
+
+<p>Our great orators, whenever they want to be more expressive than
+usual, make use of phrases savouring of horses and carriages. When the
+Grand Old Man<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_107">107</a></span> came into power, it was said he would have an awkward
+team to manage. Again, when a great division was expected some time
+ago, and there were doubts as to which way two gentlemen would go, it
+was said that Mr. Fowler had kicked over the traces and that Mr.
+Saunders would jib. Equine expressions are quite in the fashion.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>May Horse Show Dinner,<br />
+May 4th, 1893.</i></p>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<h2><a id="KINDNESS_TO_ANIMALS">KINDNESS TO ANIMALS.</a></h2>
+
+<p>My experience of life is that a man who loves horses is a good member
+of society. A man who is kind to his horses is kind to everyone else.
+I belong to a Four-in-hand Club, two of the leading members, Lord
+Onslow and Lord Carrington, being close personal friends of mine. A
+relative of Lord Onslow once wrote:</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">"What can Tommy Onslow do<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">He can drive a coach and two;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Can Tommy Onslow do no more<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Yes, he can drive a coach and four."<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p>Yet Lord Onslow and Lord Carrington are something more than splendid
+whips; they are highly successful governors of British Dependencies.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>May Day Horse Show Dinner,<br />
+March 2nd, 1889.</i></p><hr class="chap" /><p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_108">108</a></span></p>
+
+<h2><a id="TALKS_ON_EDUCATION">TALKS ON EDUCATION.</a></h2>
+
+<p>I have been delighted to hand so many prizes to lady pupil teachers,
+and I recall the philosopher who once said, "All that is necessary is
+that a girl should have the morals of an angel, the manners of a
+kitten, and the mind of a flea." But after this distribution one
+cannot go away with the impression that the female mind is only the
+mind of a flea.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>Pupil Teachers' Prize Distribution,<br />
+January 16th, 1903.</i></p>
+
+<p>We have been informed, to-night of different foreign educational
+systems, the German, the French, and the American, which we are
+generally told in this country we ought to copy. In the French system
+there is too much centralization. Every teacher, whether at a
+university or at a small elementary school, is simply a Government
+Official. The German system is a splendid one, but it is all
+subsidized by Government. The English Government is not generous
+enough to do that for English Schools, so we can hardly hope to copy
+the German system. Then there is the American system. That is also
+certainly splendid, but unfortunately we have no great millionaires in
+England who will help us<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_109">109</a></span> to copy the American system. It has been
+said that when an Englishman becomes a millionaire, and he feels that
+he is nearing his end, he thinks&mdash;to use a sporting expression&mdash;that
+it is time to "hedge for a future state." Then he builds a Church. The
+American millionaire founds a university, or leaves large sums of
+money for a training college, and I think he is right.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>Technical School Prize Distribution, Newport,<br />
+December 3rd, 1902.</i></p>
+
+<p>Sir William Preece has said that there were five new elements
+discovered within the last century. There were others undiscovered,
+and it only remained for some student to discover one of them to make
+himself famous, and, like Xenophon, return to find his name writ large
+on the walls of his native town. A celebrated poet once declared&mdash;</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">"You can live without stars;<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">You can live without books,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">But civilized man<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Cannot live without cooks."<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p>Some people may be able to live without books and only with cooks. But
+without science and books we<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_110">110</a></span> should not have had our Empire. Books
+and science help us to keep up the Empire. It is for these reasons
+that I do what I can to encourage technical and scientific education.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>School of Science and Art Prize Distribution,<br />
+December 4th, 1901.</i></p>
+
+<p>You can be quite certain that no hooligan ever attended an art school.
+The intelligence and refinement of manners brought about by the study
+of sculpture, painting, and architecture have more to do with the
+stopping of drunkenness than any other teaching you could think of....
+The charm of these art schools for me lies in the fact that we are
+always expecting something great, just as a fisherman at a little
+brook, where he has never caught anything much larger than his little
+finger, is always expecting to hook some big monster. In these art
+schools I am always expecting some great artist or sculptor turned
+out&mdash;somebody from Newport Schools&mdash;not only a credit to himself but
+to any town, somebody who will become a second Millais or a great
+sculptor.</p>
+
+<p>Newport has improved a good deal of late years, and I am sure the
+study of painting and architecture has had much to do with it. In
+looking over some old<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_111">111</a></span> papers in the Tredegar archives the other day,
+I came across a description by two people who passed from Cardiff
+through Newport about 100 years ago. They said: "We went over a nasty,
+muddy river, on an old rotten wooden bridge, shocking to look at and
+dangerous to pass over. On the whole this is a nasty old town."</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>School of Science and Art Prize Distribution,<br />
+December 5th, 1900.</i></p>
+
+<p>Sir John Gorst has made reference to the indisposition of the
+territorial aristocracy to encourage high intellectual attainment. I
+think "territorial aristocracy" is rather an undefinable term, and
+perhaps school children will be asked what it is. I do not think that
+those who own land are as a class opposed to high intellectual
+attainment. The County Councils to some extent are representative of
+territorial aristocracy, and 41 of the 49 County Councils of England
+and Wales have agreed to spend the whole of the Government grant in
+education. That is a sign that the territorial aristocracy are not
+averse to intellectual attainment.</p>
+
+<p>Perhaps Colonel Wallis will ask some of the children in the school
+what the meaning of "territorial aristocracy" is. I read that when a
+child was asked<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_112">112</a></span> what the meaning of the word Yankee was, the reply
+was that it was an animal bred in Yorkshire.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>Opening of the School Board Offices, Newport,<br />
+March 11th, 1898.</i></p>
+
+<p>Victor Hugo once said that the opening of a school means the closing
+of a prison. That is very true, regarded as an aphorism, and I wish it
+were true in reality, because there would not be any prisons left in
+England.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>Opening of Intermediate Schools,<br />
+October 29th, 1896.</i></p>
+
+<p>I am pleased that technical schools are taking such a firm hold in the
+town. I feel more and more that the teaching of art is doing a great
+deal of good. There is a great improvement in the tastes of the
+people, shown by the architectural beauty of their residences and in
+decorations generally.</p>
+
+<p>I was very much surprised a short time ago at reading a strong article
+by "Ouida"&mdash;whose novels I have read with a great deal of interest&mdash;on
+the ugliness of our modern life. She certainly took a very pessimistic
+view of the matter and seemed to look only at the workaday part of the
+world&mdash;at the making of railways, the knocking down of old houses, and
+the riding of<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_113">113</a></span> bicycles. I do not see that those things come under the
+title of art. One of the objects of instruction at the art schools is
+to induce students to create ideas of their own. At the same time I do
+not think you could do much better than study the old masters, than
+whose works I do not see anything better amongst modern productions.
+The great silver racing cups given away now, worth from &pound;300 to &pound;500,
+do not compare with the handiwork of Italian and Venetian silver
+workers. I have some pieces of plate in the great cellar under
+Tredegar House which I do not think it possible to improve upon.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>School of Science and Art Prize Distribution, Newport,<br />
+January 24th, 1896.</i></p>
+
+<p>One or two little incidents in my own experience lately shew the value
+of studying some particular trade or science or some form of art. Only
+the other day I met a young lady at a country house. Before I had seen
+her a few minutes she remarked: "I suppose you don't remember me, Lord
+Tredegar?" If I had been young and gallant, it would have been natural
+for me to have replied: "Such a face as yours I am not in the least
+likely to forget." But I thought I was<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_114">114</a></span> too old for that, and merely
+said that I did not remember at the moment having met her previously.
+The young lady then informed me that she had received a prize at my
+hands at a great school, and that in handing her the prize I had
+remarked, "You have well earned the prize, and it is a branch of art
+that, if continued, will prove very useful in after life." That branch
+of art had enabled her to take the position she then occupied.</p>
+
+<p>The other incident was that of a young man who had been left by his
+parents very poor. He had the greatest difficulty in getting anything
+at all to do, because he had never made himself proficient in any
+particular trade or science. I agree with the man who said one should
+know something about everything and everything about something.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>School of Science and Art Prize Distribution, Newport,<br />
+December 17th, 1894.</i></p>
+
+<p>It has been well said, I forget by whom, but I think it was Dr.
+Johnson, that you can do anything with a Scotsman, if you catch him
+young. I think you can say just the same of the Welshman or the
+Monmouthshire man.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>Newport Intermediate Boys' School,<br />
+November 4th, 1910.</i></p><p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_115">115</a></span></p>
+
+<p>One day I accompanied a young lady to her carriage on leaving a public
+function at which I had officiated. The band struck up a martial air,
+and I stepped actively to the time of the music. Remarking to the
+young lady that the martial air appealed to an old soldier, she said,
+"Why, Lord Tredegar, were you ever in the Army?" That is the reason
+why I think we should have memorials and why I shall be very glad to
+have this picture in my house.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>On the occasion of the presentation of a Portrait of his<br />
+Lordship's Statue in Cathays Park, Cardiff,<br />
+September 19th, 1909.</i></p>
+
+<p>The commander of the French Army said of the Balaclava Charge that it
+was magnificent, but that it was not war. I do not know what the
+French general called war, but my recollection of the charge is that
+it was something very nearly like it. I have to thank the Power above
+for being here now, fifty-five years after the charge took place.
+Whether this statue will commemorate me for a long time or not is of
+little moment, but I know it will commemorate for ever the sculptor,
+Mr. Goscombe John.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>Unveiling of equestrian statue of Viscount Tredegar in Cathays Park,<br />
+Cardiff, on 55th Anniversary of the Balaclava Charge,<br />
+October 25th, 1909</i></p>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_116">116</a></span></p>
+
+<h2><a id="THE_ARCHAEOLOGY_OF_MONMOUTHSHIRE">THE ARCH&AElig;OLOGY OF MONMOUTHSHIRE.</a></h2>
+
+<p>Anyone who lives in Monmouthshire, a county rich in its old castles,
+churches, camps, and cromlechs, cannot fail to be some sort of an
+arch&aelig;ologist, and it is this mild type I represent. I have always had
+a great fancy for history, and anyone who studies the arch&aelig;ology of
+Monmouthshire must be well grounded in the history of England. The
+county has held a prominent place in history from the earliest period
+down to the present day, commencing with the Silures, and passing on
+to the Romans, Saxons, and Normans. Some locality or other in the
+county was connected with each of those periods.</p>
+
+<p>One little failing about arch&aelig;ology which has always been a sore point
+with me is that it is apt to destroy some of those little illusions
+which we like to keep up. I hope when we go to Caerwent, during the
+next day or two, my illusion concerning King Arthur will not be
+dispelled, for I love to think of King Arthur and his Round Table
+having been at that place. Alexander wept because there were no new
+worlds to conquer, but I hope arch&aelig;ologists will not weep because
+there are<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_117">117</a></span> no new ruins to be discovered. An old stone has been picked
+up on the moors at Caldicot, and scientific men know that the stone
+proves the Marches to have been reclaimed from the sea by the Romans.
+The question of the origin of Roman encampments is one about which
+there is a great deal of doubt, and I hope to hear some new story when
+we inspect the ancient part in Tredegar Park.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>Fourth Annual Meeting, Cambrian Arch&aelig;ological Association,<br />
+August 24th, 1885.</i></p>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<h2><a id="MONMOUTHSHIRE_STILL_WELSH">MONMOUTHSHIRE STILL WELSH.</a></h2>
+
+<p>In the reign of Henry VIII, Monmouthshire was annexed to England, and
+therefore we are not now exactly in Wales. But 300 years have not
+eradicated the Welsh language and the Welsh traditions.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>Farmers' Association Dinner, Bassaleg,<br />
+October 23rd, 1877.</i></p>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<h2><a id="FREEDOM_OF_MORGAN_BROTHERHOOD">FREEDOM OF MORGAN BROTHERHOOD.</a></h2>
+
+<p>I take my opinion of freedom from Dr. Samuel Johnson, and that is good
+enough for me. Dr. Johnson said that freedom was "to go to bed when
+you wish, to get up when you like, to eat and drink whatever you
+choose, to say whatever occurs to you at the<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_118">118</a></span> moment, and to earn your
+living as best you may."</p>
+
+<div class="wrap">
+<img src="images/i118.jpg" width="220" height="378" alt="" />
+<p class="caption">&quot;<i>I talk of Buccaneer Morgan.</i>&quot;</p>
+</div>
+
+<p>The Lord Mayor has hoped that he will prove to be a member of the
+Tredegar family. The name of Morgan is a splendid name. You can, with
+that name, get your pedigree from wherever you like. Whenever I talk
+of bishops, I remember to speak of Bishop Morgan. If I speak to a
+football player, I talk of Buccaneer Morgan, and so it goes on in any
+subject you wish. I do not care&mdash;even if there is a great murder&mdash;a
+Morgan is sure to be in it! I do not wish to detract from the Lord
+Mayor's desire to be in the pedigree, but, at all events, we can all
+belong to a Morgan Brotherhood.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>Reply to toast of "Our Guest," at City Hall, Cardiff,<br />
+October 25th, 1909.</i></p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_119">119</a></span></p>
+
+<p>When the agitation for the new Technical Institute was going on, I
+daresay most of you heard all sorts of objections to it on the ground
+of expense and of there being no necessity for an institute of this
+description. Some of the agitators went back to Solomon. They said,
+"Solomon was the wisest man who ever lived, and he has told us that
+'He who increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.' So why," said they,
+"do you want to have more knowledge?" Another objector said, "A little
+knowledge is a dangerous thing," and then somebody else said, "Of the
+making of books there is no end," and "Much study is a weariness of
+the flesh."</p>
+
+<p>All those old sayings were trotted out, but there was the other side
+to bring before you. There was the dear old lady who was so proud of
+her son&mdash;he was a kind of artist&mdash;that she thought he would become a
+second Gainsborough. He got on very well, as she thought, and one day,
+meeting his professor, she said, "Oh, Professor, do you think my son
+will ever learn to draw?" and he replied, "Yes, madam, if you harness
+him to a wagon." Happily, Newport went the right way, and built what I
+fancy<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_120">120</a></span> is quite one of the most up-to-date technical institutions in
+the country.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>Technical Institute Prize Distribution, Newport,<br />
+December 21st, 1910.</i></p>
+
+<div class="wrapr">
+<img src="images/i121.jpg" width="214" height="372" alt="" />
+<p class="caption">&quot;<i>He was what they called<br />
+&#39;a devil of a chap to jaw.&#39;</i>&quot;</p>
+</div>
+
+<p>It is very difficult to address a mixed school of boys and girls. You
+require totally different things for boys and girls. A learned
+gentleman was once asked his ideal of a girl, and he replied, "Most
+like a boy." Asked his ideal of a boy, he replied, "Only a human boy
+who dislikes learning anything." I was a human boy myself once, about
+70 years ago, and I hated learning anything except running about and
+making myself disagreeable to everyone. My experience of girls is that
+girls want to learn when a boy doesn't. A girl is nearly always
+anxious to learn, whilst a boy only wants to amuse himself.</p>
+
+<p>A great M.P. gave an address about education a week or so ago, and
+said our system was all wrong, that facts were no use, and that
+thinking was what they wanted. I totally disagree with him. Facts are
+wanted, for it is from facts you get on to thinking. One examiner was
+much amused by the notion of a boy who said that what struck him most
+was the toughness of wood, the wetness of water, and the magnificent<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_121">121</a></span>
+soapiness of soap. That boy was going to get on; he was thinking more
+about facts than anything else.</p>
+
+<p>Another great school question is with regard to punishment, whether it
+is good to order a boy or girl to write out a certain number of lines
+or learn so many lines of poetry. A well known gentleman of the world,
+politically and otherwise, when at school was what they called "a
+devil of a chap to jaw." That was the expression of a fellow pupil. He
+was constantly in the playground jawing, and they sentenced him to run
+around the ground five times when he spoke for more than three
+minutes. That was supposed to cure him, but it did not.<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_122">122</a></span> He speaks now
+more than anyone in the House of Commons.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>Pontywaun School Prize Distribution,<br />
+March 17th, 1911.</i></p>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<h2><a id="A_HYBRID_COUNTY">A HYBRID COUNTY.</a></h2>
+
+<p>We in Monmouthshire are in a sort of hybrid county. A great many
+people think we are in Wales and a great many people think we are not.
+Cardiff is very jealous of us&mdash;jealous because we can get drunk on
+Sundays and they can't. I hope we shall continue to be a county of
+ourselves, and when this great Home Rule question, which is so much
+talked about, is settled we shall, no doubt, have a Parliament at
+Newport-on-Usk, or else at Monmouth-upon-Wye.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>Newport Athletic Club Dinner,<br />
+April 27th, 1891.</i></p>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<h2><a id="INTEREST_IN_EXPLORATION">INTEREST IN EXPLORATION.</a></h2>
+
+<p>I wish to renew interest among the people of the neighbourhood in the
+exploration work at Caerwent. The reason, perhaps, why some of the
+interest has fallen off, is the illness and death of the late Vicar of
+Caerwent, who always took the greatest possible delight in explaining
+to visitors the history of the ancient city and the nature of the work
+of excavation.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_123">123</a></span></p>
+
+<p>There is a great deal of fresh ground to be explored. I am glad to
+find that there is an increasing interest in Great Britain in this
+kind of work, and I hope it will continue to increase. If we expect to
+find any interest at all in matters of this kind, it would be in Rome,
+and yet we find that in that city it has been decided recently to pull
+down some of the most valuable remains in the city, the great Roman
+wall, which for so long a period kept out the Goths and the Vandals
+who besieged the city. If that is possible in Rome, any indifference
+to this kind of work in Great Britain is not surprising. There is a
+fascination about the work of exploring, as we are always expecting to
+find something which has not been found before, and which may be very
+useful for historical purposes.</p>
+
+<p>All this part of the world is very interesting, not only Caerwent, but
+Llanvaches, where we find early Christian evidences, and Newport,
+where we have a castle of the Middle Ages. I cannot help thinking,
+when I look at the collection of Roman coins in the Caerwent Museum,
+that it is not absolutely impossible that one of them may be the very
+coin which Our Saviour took and asked whose image it bore. For all<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_124">124</a></span> we
+know, that very coin may have been in the possession of a Roman
+soldier stationed in Jerusalem at the time of the Crucifixion, and
+brought by him to Caerwent.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>Newport Town Hall, on the occasion of a Lecture on<br />
+"The Excavations at Caerwent,"<br />
+March 24th, 1908.</i></p>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<h2><a id="OLIVER_CROMWELL_AND_NEWPORT">OLIVER CROMWELL AND NEWPORT.</a></h2>
+
+<p>There are few Newportonians in this hall who do not remember perfectly
+well the curious little house, with a low 16th century portico,
+situated at the bottom of Stow Hill. It was regarded with great
+veneration by antiquarians, but was no doubt looked upon as a great
+nuisance by the great body of the people. However, that old portico is
+now treasured at Tredegar House. The house was called "Oliver
+Cromwell's House."</p>
+
+<p>I think you will agree with me when I say that few people slept in so
+many bedrooms as King Charles I. or Oliver Cromwell is said to have
+done. There is a room at Tredegar House called King Charles the
+First's room, but it was not built until ten years after that Monarch
+was beheaded.</p>
+
+<p>With regard to the little house called Oliver Cromwell's House, there
+is some reason to believe that Oliver<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_125">125</a></span> Cromwell might have occupied
+it. It was, sometime, occupied by the Parliamentary troops, because I
+have at this moment an old fire back, which was found in the cellar
+with the Royal Arms of England and the Crown dated 16&mdash; something
+knocked off. No doubt this was found in the house by Parliamentarians,
+who immediately proceeded to knock off the crown. We know that Oliver
+Cromwell passed that way, because he went to the siege of Pembroke and
+found great difficulty in taking that town.</p>
+
+<p>I have a copy of a letter Cromwell wrote to Colonel Saunders, one of
+his leaders, in which, after congratulating him upon his zeal and
+close attention, he referred to "the malignants&mdash;Trevor Williams of
+Llangibby Castle, and one Sir William Morgan, of Tredegar," and
+directed him to seize them at once. That shows that Oliver Cromwell
+knew all about Caerleon, Newport and Tredegar.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>Opening of Tredegar Hall, Newport,<br />
+March 14th, 1895.</i></p>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<h2><a id="WELSH_PEOPLE_EVEN_IN_CARDIFF">WELSH PEOPLE EVEN IN CARDIFF.</a></h2>
+
+<p>I am glad to find that the Welsh Church movement has been such a
+success. I was asked on one occasion if there were many Welsh people
+in Cardiff, and I<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_126">126</a></span> confessed there were. When further asked if there
+was a Welsh Church there I had to admit with shame that there was not.
+From that moment I resolved to back up as much as I could the movement
+for providing a Church for the Welsh-speaking inhabitants of Cardiff.
+No one could walk the streets of Cardiff without being impressed with
+the number of Welsh people one met and heard talking in their own
+language. Probably a great number of those simply came into the town
+for the day, but a considerable number must be residents of the town.</p>
+
+<p>I see a great many ladies present, and I would urge them to do what
+they can, for, in the words of a Church magnate, who was, if not an
+archbishop or a bishop, certainly an archdeacon&mdash;"mendicity is good,
+but women-dicity is better."</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>Laying of the Foundation Stone of a Welsh Church at Cardiff,<br />
+July 2nd, 1890.</i></p>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<h2><a id="THE_SIEGE_OF_CAERPHILLY_CASTLE">THE SIEGE OF CAERPHILLY CASTLE.</a></h2>
+
+<div class="wrapr">
+<img src="images/i127.jpg" width="270" height="410" alt="" />
+<p class="caption">&quot;<i>Two hundred tuns of wine!<br />
+That is better than a Temperance Hotel.</i>&quot;</p>
+</div>
+
+<p>I am impressed by the energy displayed by the agriculturists of the
+district in sending such satisfactory exhibits. At the same time, you
+must not fancy yourselves quite too grand at the present day,
+because,<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_127">127</a></span> if you read history you will find that during the siege of
+Caerphilly Castle, some 400 or 500 years ago&mdash;when the castle was
+taken&mdash;there were 2,000 oxen, 12,000 cows, 20,000 sheep, 600 horses,
+2,000 pigs and 200 tuns of wine inside the Castle walls. Two hundred
+tuns of wine! That is better than a Temperance Hotel.... If you walk
+round this show you will not see one single sign of depression. It
+grows larger every year. Cattle grow better, the horses better, the
+women grow prettier, and the men grow fatter.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>East Glamorgan Agricultural Show, Caerphilly,<br />
+September 7th, 1899.</i></p>
+
+<p class="clearboth spacer">&nbsp;</p>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_128">128</a></span></p>
+
+<h2><a id="GWERN-Y-CLEPPA">GWERN-Y-CLEPPA.</a></h2>
+
+<p>The foundations of Gwern-y-Cleppa, the palace of Ivor Hael, have been
+traced around a tree in Cleppa Park. Although it has been termed a
+palace, I think it more likely to have been something of a manor
+house, for Ivor was the younger son of a younger son, and therefore
+not likely to have had very large possessions. Ivor's generous nature
+has been well depicted by his celebrated bard, Dafydd ap Gwilym.</p>
+
+<p>I have read in a book an account of an incident which tradition
+alleges took place near the spot on which we are standing. This was a
+contest between Dafydd and his rival bard, Rhys Meigan. Dafydd's
+shafts of satire overwhelmed his opponent, who fell dead&mdash;the victim
+of ridicule.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>Cardiff Naturalists' Visit to Gwern-y-Cleppa,<br />
+May 10th, 1893.</i></p>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<h2><a id="IN_PRAISE_OF_EISTEDDFODAU">IN PRAISE OF EISTEDDFODAU.</a></h2>
+
+<p>As long ago as the 15th century an ancestor whom I have been reading
+about lately&mdash;Ivor Hael&mdash;appears to have been celebrated particularly
+for his support of the Eisteddfodau of that period and of music in
+general. Later on, my grandfather and father always did their<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_129">129</a></span> best to
+promote the idea of the Eisteddfod, and on several occasions presided
+at those gatherings. I, personally, consider the Eisteddfod a great
+institution.</p>
+
+<p>One of the reasons why many of our English friends do not support
+Eisteddfodau, and are inclined to speak slightingly of them, is
+because of the religious side which commences with the Gorsedd; but I
+think if our friends paid a little more attention to it, and attended
+oftener, they would not be inclined to ridicule the institution.</p>
+
+<p>An Eisteddfod, anywhere, is a very interesting event, but one at
+Pontypridd seems to be of all others the most interesting. Pontypridd
+itself is full of reminiscences of old and modern Wales. On that very
+stone&mdash;the Rocking Stone&mdash;on the hill where some of us have been
+to-day, some very earnest bards, no doubt, at different times had
+their seats, and it does not require a very vivid imagination to
+picture on that stone one of those unfortunate bards that were left
+after the Massacre of the Bards of Edward.</p>
+
+<div class="wrap">
+<img src="images/i130.jpg" width="200" height="328" alt="" />
+<p class="caption">&quot;<i>There is at the present moment<br />
+a wave of music-hall melodies<br />
+passing over the country.</i>&quot;</p>
+</div>
+
+<p>Then we have not far away the remains of the old monastery of Pen
+Rhys, where tradition says rested Ap Tudor, or at all events to whom
+the monastery was<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_130">130</a></span> erected. At that very place, that great terror of
+England and of the Normans&mdash;Owen Glendower&mdash;who was at that time
+residing at Llantrisant, was stated to have presided at an Eisteddfod
+soon after his incursion into Wales. Great bardic addresses were
+delivered there, and one, written to Sir John Morgan of Tredegar, is
+now in the archives of Tredegar.</p>
+
+<p>Coming to later times, we have Cadwgan of the Battleaxe, who was
+supposed to have been sharpening his battleaxe at the time he was
+going down the Rhondda, so that it must have been pretty sharp by the
+time he arrived at his destination.</p>
+
+<p>There is at the present moment a wave of music-hall melodies passing
+over the country, and I think it is one<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_131">131</a></span> of the duties of the
+Eisteddfodau to try to counteract the music-hall fancy, now so
+prevalent. Not many days ago, I was reminded of an incident in which a
+lady asked a friend whether he was fond of music, and he replied "Yes,
+if it is not too good." Unfortunately, that is the opinion of about
+one-half of the civilized world.</p>
+
+<p>The aim of the Eisteddfod is to patronise good music which, combined
+with high art, has a tendency, as the Latin poet puts it, to soften
+manners and assuage the natural ruggedness of human nature.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>Eisteddfod, Pontypridd,<br />
+July 31st, 1893.</i></p>
+
+<p>Miniature Eisteddfodau, one of which we are celebrating, are most
+interesting, as being a sort of prelude to the great National
+Eisteddfod which takes place annually. There is something peculiarly
+interesting in these essentially Welsh gatherings, because however
+much we who live on this side of the Rumney may, from legislative
+causes, be considered English, we never hear of an Eisteddfod taking
+place on the other side of Offa's Dyke, which in my opinion is the
+boundary of Wales.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_132">132</a></span></p>
+
+<p>Offa's Dyke was formerly a great mound and ditch erected by King Offa
+somewhere in the year 900 or thereabouts, as a boundary between Wales
+and England, and it ran from the mouth of the Wye to Chepstow. We
+seldom hear of an Eisteddfod taking place on the other side of the
+dyke. It is true there are the great Choral Festivals, but those are
+festivals held in the grand Cathedrals, at which very grand company
+assemble, and where some of the most celebrated singers sing; they are
+not competitive in any sense. Here we have competitions, not so much
+for the prizes as for the honour of the thing, for the honour of the
+Welsh nation, and for the advancement of music and art in Wales.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>Risca,<br />
+October 5th, 1896.</i></p>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<h2><a id="TREDEGAR_HOUSE">TREDEGAR HOUSE.</a></h2>
+
+<p>Tredegar House is generally believed to have been designed by Inigo
+Jones, but it was not built until after that architect's death. It was
+built by William Morgan, and finished about 1672. A residence formerly
+stood on the spot, which Leland mentioned as "a fair place of stone."
+Owen Glendower, when he ravaged Wentloog, and destroyed houses,
+churches and Newport<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_133">133</a></span> Castle, probably destroyed Tredegar House. On an
+inquisition being taken after this period of the value of the
+lordship, the return was <i>nil</i>.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>Cambrian Association Meeting,<br />
+August 28th, 1885.</i></p>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<h2><a id="A_LITTLE_FAMILY_HISTORY">A LITTLE FAMILY HISTORY.</a></h2>
+
+<div class="figcenter">
+<img src="images/i133.jpg" width="430" height="289" alt="" />
+</div>
+
+<p class="caption">&quot;<i>I have made the discovery that the Morgans were never remarkable for very great talent.</i>&quot;</p>
+
+<p>As far as I have been able to read the family history, I have made the
+discovery that the Morgans were never remarkable for very great
+talent; but for many<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_134">134</a></span> generations we have lived in much the same spot,
+and it has been our motto to make life happy to those around us, and
+to assist those with whom we come in contact. I believe my family have
+lived for this object. There are many days in the history of the
+family that are much treasured by us, but there will be no one day
+more honoured than the memory of this one. When I hand these addresses
+to Lady Tredegar, and express to her the kind sentiments everyone has
+made use of as to the memory of the late Lord Tredegar, we shall one
+and all be thankful, and the memory of this day will live long in the
+heart of every member of the Tredegar family.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>Tredegar Memorial Corn Exchange, Newport,<br />
+September 4th, 1878.</i></p>
+
+<p>The Mayor has spoken of the commercial spirit which, he stated, has
+recently been evinced by the Tredegar family. His Worship in that
+respect erred a little, for several hundred years ago there was a
+gentleman who called himself Merchant Morgan. He sailed on the Spanish
+Main, and brought back with him a great deal of money which he had
+made in trade&mdash;or otherwise. From that day to this, the Morgans have
+been very well off. Later, there were ironworks in<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_135">135</a></span> Tredegar Park,
+carried on by Sir William Morgan. Those works paid also, and when he
+had money enough Sir William Morgan removed them away, restored the
+green fields, and left other people to attend to the works.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>Mayoral Banquet, Newport,<br />
+December 15th, 1881.</i></p>
+
+<p>Sir Henry Morgan played an important part in the stirring drama of
+Empire-building. His name has become a household word, and his daring
+exploits on the Spanish Main in the 17th century rival in song and
+story the heroic adventures of Drake, Frobisher, and Hawkins. It is
+mainly to him that we own the island of Jamaica, the most wealthy of
+our West Indian possessions. He was not a plaster saint, it is true;
+but it is incorrect to call him a pirate, for there is no gainsaying
+the fact that all his actions were justified by instructions he
+received from time to time from his Monarch, Charles II, who
+countenanced every movement of his, and even empowered him to
+commission whatever persons he thought fit, to be partakers with him
+and his Majesty in his various expeditions and enterprises. He was
+cruel in the ordinary sense of cruelty exercised in warfare, no<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_136">136</a></span>
+doubt, but only when in arms against the blood-thirsty Spaniards. As a
+leader of men he was never surpassed by any captain of the seas, and
+in his glorious conquest of Panama&mdash;which the great Sir Francis Drake
+in 1569 had failed to take with 4,000 men when the city was but poorly
+fortified&mdash;Sir Henry ransacked it in 1670 when it had become doubly
+fortified, having with him only 1,200 men, and without the aid of any
+pikemen or horsemen.</p>
+
+<p>The charges of cruelty and rapacity levelled against him are beneath
+contempt and criticism. The Spaniards tortured and murdered wholesale,
+and who can wonder that the heroic Welshman made just reprisals, and
+carried out the Biblical adjuration "an eye for an eye, and a tooth
+for a tooth," when punishing the apostles of the Inquisition and
+assassination.</p>
+
+<p>It is due to one John Esquemeling, the author of the first account of
+buccaneers, "The History of the Buccaneers of America," first
+published in 1684, that Sir Henry was designated a "pirate."
+Esquemeling had served under Morgan, and, being dissatisfied with the
+share of prize money allotted to him after the expedition at Panama,
+nursed his revenge until his<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_137">137</a></span> return to Holland some years after. Sir
+Henry took action against him, and claimed to obtain substantial
+damages from Esquemeling for his malicious and misleading statement.</p>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<h2><a id="THE_LATE_COLONEL_MORGAN">THE LATE COLONEL MORGAN.</a></h2>
+
+<div class="wrapr">
+<img src="images/i137.jpg" width="220" height="330" alt="" />
+<p class="caption">&quot;<i>The death of my brother, Colonel Morgan,<br />
+has plunged us into grief.</i>&quot;</p>
+</div>
+
+<p>The death of my brother, Colonel Morgan, has plunged us into grief,
+and all the neighbourhood felt the death of one whom they all loved,
+almost as much as I did myself. I feel that life can never be the same
+to me again.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>Servants' Ball,<br />
+January 11th, 1910.</i></p>
+
+<p class="clearboth spacer">&nbsp;</p>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<h2><a id="THE_MONMOUTHSHIRE_TRIBUTE">THE MONMOUTHSHIRE TRIBUTE.</a></h2>
+
+<div class="wrap">
+<img src="images/i138.jpg" width="245" height="382" alt="" />
+<p class="caption">&quot;<i>What have I ever done<br />
+to deserve this tribute.</i>&quot;</p>
+</div>
+
+<p>Some 50 years ago two Statesmen were discussing the merits of Mr. Pitt
+and Mr. Fox. The first statesman<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_138">138</a></span> said the oratory of Mr. Pitt was
+remarkable because he was never at a loss for a word. The other
+statesman replied, "Yes, but Mr. Fox was never at a loss for the right
+word." I, this afternoon, cannot find the right word. I can hardly
+find any word at all to express adequately to you what I feel on this
+occasion. I have put this question to myself many times in the last
+month or so&mdash;"What does it all mean? What have I ever done to deserve
+this great tribute?" I thought that my duty was to go back over my
+past life, and I began very<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_139">139</a></span> early, a very long time ago. I went back
+to the Chartist Riots. I don't suppose there are any of you here who
+know much about them except by hearsay. I was a very little boy at the
+time, spending my holidays at Ruperra Castle, and I was just going
+with my little terrier to hunt a rabbit that had got into the cabbage
+garden, when the post-boy, who had been sent to Newport to bring out
+the letters, rode in, pale and quivering, and flung himself from his
+pony and said that the Chartists were in Newport&mdash;"they are lying dead
+all over the street, and the streets were running with blood. He
+passed through a lot of people with swords and pikes, but whether they
+were coming on to Ruperra he did not know." What he effectively did
+was to pose as a great hero among the maid-servants, and I remember
+afterwards going up to the post-boy, saying, "Bother your Chartists;
+come out and help me to catch this rabbit."</p>
+
+<p>That was my first beginning in sport&mdash;my first excitement. Then I
+thought a little bit more. I have a distant recollection that very
+soon after, I was gazetted as a Viscount. I saw in a newspaper which
+does not hold the same opinions as I do, the question,<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_140">140</a></span> "What on earth
+is Lord Tredegar made a Viscount for?" and the answer was, "I suppose
+because he has been Master of the Tredegar Hounds for 30 years." I
+thought, therefore, that I had better leave sport alone for this
+occasion. For some time I have had running in my mind a stanza written
+by one who may be called the Australian bush poet, Mr. L. Gordon, a
+gallant man, who spent most of his time roughing it in the bush. The
+lines are as follows:&mdash;</p>
+
+<p class="in2">I've had my share of pastime, I've had my share of toil,<br />
+It is useless now to trouble. This I know;<br />
+I'd live the same life over if I had the chance again<br />
+And the chances are I'd go where most men go.</p>
+
+<p>Mr. Gordon thought he knew where most men go; I don't. I don't pretend
+to know, but I had thought, until lately, that I would not wish to
+live the same life over again. But now, when I am here this afternoon,
+and have received from the hands of so many of my greatest friends
+these magnificent testimonials of their opinion of me, I can hardly go
+wrong if I say I would live the same life over if I had to live
+again.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_141">141</a></span></p>
+
+<p>Well, when I went on with my early history, I found that very, very
+soon I got among tombstones and family vaults, and I thought that the
+less I called to mind those among whom I spent my early life the
+happier it would be for me, certainly on this occasion. But still I
+wonder what it is that I have done, that has caused so many of my
+friends and neighbours to gather together to present me with this
+great tribute of their affection and respect.</p>
+
+<p>It is true that I have had more than my share of this world's goods.
+There is one thing that has always comforted me when this has been
+thrown in my teeth, and that is that it was a young man who went away
+sorrowfully because he had great possessions. I believe I have tried,
+more or less successfully, to help those in difficulties, and to give
+to many comfort and happiness who otherwise would have been in much
+distress and suffering; but I am quite sure that there is no person in
+this hall who would not have done exactly the same under the same
+circumstances. I have no doubt that I shall be able to find a place in
+Tredegar House for this picture. It will, I hope, be a monument in
+Tredegar House to help those who come after me to try and do<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_142">142</a></span> some
+good in their generation with the wealth which may be at their
+disposal. I thank you from the very bottom of my heart for this great
+tribute you have paid me.</p>
+
+<p class="in2">
+<i>This Speech was made in December, 1907, in acknowledgment of<br />
+Monmouthshire's tribute to Lord Tredegar, which took the<br />
+form of an oil painting of himself, a gold cup, an album,<br />
+and &pound;2,000, which his Lordship handed over to various<br />
+Hospitals.</i></p>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<h2><a id="THE_JUBILEE_OF_QUEEN_VICTORIA">THE JUBILEE OF QUEEN VICTORIA.</a></h2>
+
+<p>We are about to celebrate the Queen's Jubilee, not so much because Her
+Majesty has merely reigned fifty years, but because she has reigned 50
+years in the hearts of her people.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>County Meeting with reference to Queen Victoria's Jubilee, Newport,<br />
+February 9th, 1887.</i></p>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<h2><a id="THE_LATE_QUEEN_VICTORIA">THE LATE QUEEN VICTORIA.</a></h2>
+
+<p>The expression of the country's appreciation of the character of her
+late Majesty has been done grandly and well. Statesmen on both
+political sides have told of their experience of her, not merely their
+opinion, but the result of the interviews they have had with her. All
+classes have borne testimony to her goodness and greatness. We, as
+humble subjects of Her Majesty, knew her sympathetic qualities.
+Everybody present<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_143">143</a></span> has benefitted in some way directly or indirectly
+through her. I think of the line which says&mdash;"One touch of nature
+makes the whole world kin." It was the touch of nature in her
+character, and her sympathizing feelings, which have made the whole of
+the civilized world, and much of the uncivilized world, mourn on this
+occasion.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>Monmouthshire County Council,<br />
+February 6th, 1901.</i></p>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<h2><a id="THE_LATE_KING_EDWARD">THE LATE KING EDWARD.</a></h2>
+
+<p>It has been well said by a poet that "Fierce is the light that beats
+upon the throne." Since those words were written the light beating
+upon the throne has become ten times more powerful, but in the case of
+King Edward that fact has only tended to emphasise His Majesty's charm
+of life and of personality, and the power of his will, which have
+benefitted not only this country but the whole civilised world.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>Usk Quarter Sessions, June 22nd, 1910&mdash;in moving a<br />
+Vote of Condolence on the death of King Edward.</i></p>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<h2><a id="THE_PENNY_WHISTLE_OF_REPUBLICANISM">THE PENNY WHISTLE OF REPUBLICANISM.</a></h2>
+
+<p>There never was a time when the country was more loyal. The penny
+whistle of republicanism which<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_144">144</a></span> tried to blow its notes some time ago
+has, I believe, burst itself, for it found no sympathetic echo in the
+heart of the nation. I believe there is no harder worked man in the
+United Kingdom than the Prince of Wales. From morning to night he is
+at the beck and call of somebody or other, and we always find him
+ready to respond to the calls made upon him.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>Tredegar Show,<br />
+December 16th, 1875.</i></p>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<h2><a id="ON_PRETORIA_DAY">ON PRETORIA DAY.</a></h2>
+
+<p>We have done our best to publicly recognise the success that has been
+achieved in the occupation of Pretoria, and to do honour to Lord
+Roberts and his gallant army. You can tell the kind of man Lord
+Roberts is by his despatches. You can depend on it that whenever you
+read a despatch from Lord Roberts you are reading what is true,
+complete and accurate. I hope we shall soon see Lord Roberts, who is
+an old and good friend of mine, in Newport again.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>Pretoria Day,<br />
+June 7th, 1900.</i></p><hr class="chap" />
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_145">145</a></span></p>
+
+<h2><a id="ADMIRATION_FOR_AMERICAN_SAILORS">ADMIRATION FOR AMERICAN SAILORS.</a></h2>
+
+<p>I have a great admiration for American sailors and the American people
+generally. When the Crimean War broke out, in the summer of 1854, the
+first soldiers sent out of England were the cavalry regiments, and I
+went with them. At that time England had been at peace for 40 years,
+and when war commenced the authorities knew little about the transport
+of cavalry. We did not go out as a whole regiment in a large liner,
+and arrive at our destination without the loss of a horse, as would be
+the case now. We were sent out in troops of 40 or 50 at a time, in
+small sailing vessels of 500 tons. In the ship in which I sailed the
+horses were packed in the hold, and when they got to the Bay of Biscay
+a violent gale sprang up. In a few hours half a dozen horses broke
+loose and struggled about in the hold. There was only one American
+sailor among the crew, and he went down and "calculated" and uttered
+dreadful oaths. But he had not been down in the hold half an hour
+before he had all the horses tied up again. Ever since then I have had
+the greatest respect for American sailors.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>Cardiff Eisteddfod,<br />
+August 4th, 1902.</i></p>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_146">146</a></span></p>
+
+<h2><a id="IMPROVEMENTS_IN_THE_ARMY">IMPROVEMENTS IN THE ARMY.</a></h2>
+
+<p>I always feel some diffidence in returning thanks for the Army, since
+I am no longer in it; but I may add that I am proud to have belonged
+to it. No gentleman who has been in Her Majesty's Service can look
+back with other than happy feelings to that time. When I first joined
+the Army, it was not in its present state. Many things connected with
+that Service have improved. Among others, the social condition of the
+soldier has been improved. I feel that no individual in this country,
+however high his position may be, need be ashamed of his connection
+with the Army.</p>
+
+<p>At one time, the people of Newport knew more about soldiers than now.
+Some time ago I asked the Duke of Cambridge to send a regiment, or
+part of a regiment, to Newport, and his Grace said, in answer to me,
+that the people would be obliged to stir up a riot in the county if
+they wished to secure the presence of soldiers! I hope such a
+contingency will not arise, living as I do in the county. However, his
+Grace promised to do his best in the matter, and I hope we shall soon
+again have the advantage of a regiment in Newport.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>Dinner to Lord Tredegar and Alexandra Dock Directors,<br />
+July 27th, 1865.</i></p>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_147">147</a></span></p>
+
+<h2><a id="THE_BOY_SCOUT_MOVEMENT">THE BOY SCOUT MOVEMENT.</a></h2>
+
+<p>The Boy Scout movement instructs the boy just at the time when he is
+between school and a trade, when it would perhaps be better if he
+stayed a bit longer at school, for the time hangs heavy on his hands;
+and that is the time when you catch hold of these boys and give them
+an interest in their country, and an interest in the necessity of
+having somebody to protect the country. The Scouts that I have had any
+experience of are all boys who seem to have improved in their manners,
+their ways, and their education very soon after they have joined the
+Boy Scouts.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>Meeting in Newport in connection with the Boy Scout Movement,<br />
+March 14th, 1911.</i></p>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<h2><a id="NOT_KNOWN_HERE">NOT KNOWN HERE.</a></h2>
+
+<p>When the ironworks were started here they received the name of
+Tredegar, and the town itself was also called Tredegar. It is rather
+disagreeable to me at times. I have letters addressed, "Lord Tredegar,
+Tredegar, Monmouthshire." They are sent to Tredegar, where they are
+marked by the postal officials: "Not known here; try Tredegar Park."</p>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_148">148</a></span></p>
+
+<h2><a id="LIFES_TRAGEDY_AND_COMEDY">LIFE'S TRAGEDY AND COMEDY.</a></h2>
+
+<p>Life is said to be a comedy to those who think and a tragedy to those
+who feel, and as we all feel and think we must meet with a good deal
+of comedy and a good deal of tragedy. I hope you all have more comedy
+than tragedy.</p>
+
+<p class="in2">
+<i>Presentation to Lord Tredegar of Miner's Lamp and<br />
+Silver Medal at Risca Eisteddfod,<br />
+October 5th, 1896.</i></p>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<h2><a id="NEWPORT_A_SECOND_LIVERPOOL">NEWPORT A SECOND LIVERPOOL</a></h2>
+
+<p>I hope the day is not far distant when Newport will be a second
+Liverpool, and Maindee a second Birkenhead.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>Tredegar Show,<br />
+December 13th, 1864.</i></p>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<h2><a id="OXFORD_AND_CAMBRIDGE">OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE.</a></h2>
+
+<p>I have read somewhere that an Oxford man walks about looking as if
+Oxford and the rest of the world belong to him. A Cambridge man, on
+the other hand, walks as if he does not care a&mdash;well, does not care
+two straws who the place belongs to.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>Seventy-fifth Anniversary of St. David's College, Lampeter,<br />
+October 9th, 1902.</i></p>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_149">149</a></span></p>
+
+<h2><a id="DOCTORS-OLD_STYLE_AND_NEW">DOCTORS-OLD STYLE AND NEW.</a></h2>
+
+<div class="wrapr">
+<img src="images/i149.jpg" width="285" height="393" alt="" />
+<p class="caption">&quot;<i>The old-fashioned gentleman, who first of all<br />
+pulled out a watch as big as a warming-pan.</i>&quot;</p>
+</div>
+
+<p>The owning of a hospital is not a very lively proceeding, but I cannot
+help giving a few of my reminiscences in connection with doctors. I
+can go back to the real old-style of doctor; not the present-day smart
+young gentleman with the radium light in his pocket, but the
+old-fashioned gentleman who first of all pulled out a watch as big as
+a warming-pan, and who felt the pulse and asked the patient to<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_150">150</a></span> put
+out his tongue, and ended up by saying "Haw!" That meant a tremendous
+lot, for he did not tell any more.</p>
+
+<p>I well remember a medical friend of mine saying once that he lived in
+a land flowing with rhubarb, magnesia, and black draughts. That was
+the way we were treated as children, and which possibly enabled us to
+live a long life.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>Opening of a Hospital at Abertysswg,<br />
+October 3rd, 1910.</i></p>
+
+<p class="spacer clearboth">&nbsp;</p>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<h2><a id="ALL_SORTS_AND_CONDITIONS">ALL SORTS AND CONDITIONS.</a></h2>
+
+<p>I am one of those who like mixing with all sorts and conditions of
+men. I can dine with lords and ladies whenever I like, but I cannot
+always dine with an assembly of working men.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>May Horse Show Dinner,<br />
+May 4th, 1893.</i></p>
+
+<div class="figcenter">
+<img src="images/i150.jpg" width="425" height="157" alt="" />
+</div>
+
+<p class="caption">&quot;<i>I can dine with lords and ladies whenever I like, but I cannot always dine with an assembly of working men.</i>&quot;</p>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_151">151</a></span></p>
+
+<h2><a id="A_CONTRAST_IN_CORRESPONDENCE">A CONTRAST IN CORRESPONDENCE.</a></h2>
+
+<p>I have a great deal of correspondence of one sort and another. I keep
+no secretary, and my correspondence is with all sorts and conditions
+of men. Only this morning, in the hurried moment before I left, I
+wrote two letters, one to a descendant of Warwick the Kingmaker, and
+the other to a little boy living in the back slums of Newport about a
+football match. That is the sort of correspondence I like, for I like
+to mix with all sorts and conditions of men and do what I can for
+them.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>Foundation-Stone Laying, Presbyterian Church, Newport,<br />
+August 27th, 1895.</i></p>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<h2><a id="DREAMS_AND_TEARS">DREAMS AND TEARS.</a></h2>
+
+<p>I never remember to have had a dream that was merry. I never remember
+to have awakened from a dream with a smile or a laugh; but many times
+have I done so with tears on my cheeks.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>Bazaar at Ystrad Mynach,<br />
+September 9th, 1909.</i></p>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<h2><a id="THE_PRECIPICE_OF_MATRIMONY">THE PRECIPICE OF MATRIMONY.</a></h2>
+
+<p>You have heard things said about Matrimony. It is an annual occurrence
+at this dinner, until I have become like a man who can walk along the
+verge of<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_152">152</a></span> a precipice and look down without falling over. I have
+looked so long without a desire to plunge, that I am able now to look
+over without any danger of falling.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>The Tredegar Show,<br />
+December 17th, 1867.</i></p>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<h2><a id="HOW_TO_LIVE_FOR_EVER">HOW TO LIVE FOR EVER.</a></h2>
+
+<p>People who regularly study the newspapers come across advertisements
+of many things calculated to make them doubt whether there is any need
+for a cottage hospital at all. In fact, as far as I can see, judging
+by these advertisements, there is no reason why anybody should die.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>Pontypridd Cottage Hospital,<br />
+May 5th, 1910.</i></p>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<h2><a id="PUNCTUALITY_THE_THIEF_OF_TIME">PUNCTUALITY "THE THIEF OF TIME."</a></h2>
+
+<p>As an old military man, I fully appreciate the value of punctuality.
+Undoubtedly punctuality is the first great duty in this world if we
+wish to carry on business satisfactorily. There are those who say
+punctuality is a great mistake, because a deal of time has to be spent
+in waiting for other people. That is a very pleasant way of looking at
+an unpunctual individual.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>Intermediate School Prize Distribution,<br />
+October 19th, 1898.</i></p>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_153">153</a></span></p>
+
+<h2><a id="NO_KNOWLEDGE_OF_KISSES">NO KNOWLEDGE OF KISSES.</a></h2>
+
+<div class="figcenter">
+<img src="images/i153.jpg" width="410" height="275" alt="" />
+</div>
+
+<p class="caption">&quot;<i>My brother and I had a fine-looking animal. We used to smoke our cigars as we gazed at it.</i>&quot;</p>
+
+<p>There is no prize worth much that does not take some trouble to gain.
+I have heard that kisses, when taken without much trouble, are not
+worth having. Of course I do not know anything about that sort of
+thing. My brother and I had a fine looking animal. We used to smoke
+our cigars as we gazed at it, and think there was nothing like it in
+the world. We<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_154">154</a></span> thought we would send it to Birmingham; and then, if
+any good, to Smithfield. It was of no use, however. It reminded me of
+a celebrated trainer who used to come into this county, who said: "Oh,
+you've nothing at home to try him with. You think your horse goes very
+fast past trees." I expect it was very much the same thing with our
+ox. It looked very good alongside the cattle trough.</p>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<h2><a id="A_SMART_RETORT">A SMART RETORT.</a></h2>
+
+<p>When I had the pleasure of presenting Bedwellty Park to this town
+(Tredegar) one of my critics asked: "Are you quite sure, Lord
+Tredegar, that you have not given the Tredegar people a white
+elephant?" That simile did not trouble me, for I told them I was quite
+sure in a few months the park would be as black as the rest of
+Tredegar.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>Bazaar at Tredegar,<br />
+May 23rd, 1902.</i></p>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<h2><a id="THE_BUSHRANGERS_METHOD">THE BUSHRANGER'S METHOD.</a></h2>
+
+<div class="wrapr">
+<img src="images/i155.jpg" width="275" height="400" alt="" />
+<p class="caption">&quot;<i>Young man, this is a two dollar show.</i>&quot;</p>
+</div>
+
+<p>Just as I came into the hall, I encountered an individual dressed in a
+rather extraordinary garb. I looked him up and down, and saw that he
+was well<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_155">155</a></span> armed. It reminded me of the case of a minister in the
+backwoods calling on a bushranger to go round with the hat. The latter
+did so, and the first young man he came to dropped in two or three
+cents. The bushranger looked at him in a peculiar way, cocked his
+pistol in a significant manner, and said, "Young man, this is a two
+dollar show." The young man at once dropped in two dollars. I think
+that perhaps my friend might come round with me<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_156">156</a></span> presently, we might
+frighten some of the gentlemen who have come here with full purses.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>Congregational Church Bazaar, Newport,<br />
+October 22nd, 1896.</i></p>
+
+<p class="clearboth spacer">&nbsp;</p>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<h2><a id="MAKING_THE_WAIST_PLACES_GLAD">MAKING THE WAIST PLACES GLAD.</a></h2>
+
+<p>I have a little advice to give to you in conclusion. A school-boy was
+being examined in Scripture knowledge, and was asked the meaning of
+the words, "Make the waste places glad." He answered, "Put your arm
+around a lady's waist and make her glad." That, I think, is a very
+good hint for the young men present, and I advise them to make the
+evening as pleasant as they can for the ladies. To the ladies I would
+say this&mdash;"Don't put too much faith in the promise of love that may be
+whispered in your ears before the close of the ball."</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>Servants' Ball,<br />
+January 4th, 1899.</i></p>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<h2><a id="AS_OTHERS_SEE_US">AS OTHERS SEE US.</a></h2>
+
+<p>A celebrated philosopher has said there are three different
+personalities about a man. First, there is what God thinks about him;
+secondly, what his friends think about him; and, thirdly, what he
+thinks<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_157">157</a></span> of himself.... There is another personality to be thought of,
+and that is the opinion of newspapers. It is very difficult to arrange
+those different personalities, because one's own opinion is entirely
+different from other people's. I like a gentleman who proposes my
+health to lay it on thick, as some of it is sure to stick, whether I
+deserve it or not.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>Opening of the New Hospital, Abergavenny,<br />
+October 6th, 1902.</i></p>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<h2><a id="THE_MIGHTY_LORD_MAYOR">THE MIGHTY LORD MAYOR.</a></h2>
+
+<p>Many people have the impression that the Lord Mayor of London is the
+greatest man in this kingdom. There is a line or two in an old song
+relating to a lover who did not like to pop the question to his girl.
+He said:&mdash;</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">"If I were a Lord Mayor,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">A Marquis or an Earl,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Blowed if I wouldn't marry<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Old Brown's girl."<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p>That represents a great deal of the feeling in this country about the
+magnificence of the position of the Lord Mayor of London.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>Newport Conservative Meeting,<br />
+July 25th, 1901.</i></p>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_158">158</a></span></p>
+
+<h2><a id="A_DAY_OF_GREAT_JOY">A DAY OF GREAT JOY.</a></h2>
+
+<p>It is a high honour, because it is the greatest that the Lord Mayor
+and Corporation have the power of conferring upon anybody. My only
+drawback is the fear that I cannot be worthy of the others whose names
+are on the roll of Cardiff's freemen. You know that comparisons are
+odious, and when you read the names on that list and compare mine with
+them, I hope you will look with leniency upon me. The Lord Mayor
+promised me just now that he would not be very long in his address and
+in his references to me on this occasion. At one moment I felt very
+much inclined to remind him of his promise, as the great King Henry IV
+did with a Lord Mayor who went on his knees to deliver the keys of the
+city. Without delivering them he rose from his knees and said, "I have
+twelve reasons for not yielding up the keys of the city. The first is
+that there are no keys." The King said, "That is quite enough; we
+don't want any more reasons." I felt inclined to stop the Lord Mayor
+and say, "You have said quite enough about me; I will take the
+remainder for granted."</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_159">159</a></span></p>
+
+<div class="figcenter">
+<img src="images/i159.jpg" width="350" height="389" alt="" />
+</div>
+
+<p class="caption">&quot;<i>I see no reason why I should not be civil to the Members of the Corporation unless they are uncivil to me. I should probably do then what other people would do.</i>&quot;</p>
+
+<p>I see no reason why I should not be civil to the members of the
+Corporation unless they are uncivil to me. I should probably then do
+what other people<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_160">160</a></span> would do. The Lord Mayor has said that Glamorgan
+could not claim me as a Glamorgan man. Well, I was born in Glamorgan,
+at Ruperra Castle, on this side of the Rumney. I know that if a man is
+born in a stable it doesn't make him a horse, but I always understood
+that the place of your birth had a certain claim upon you.</p>
+
+<p>It is not very long ago that I was discussing with somebody what I was
+going to do in the future, and I quoted the line from Shakespeare: "My
+grief lies onward, but my joy is behind." I think now that I spoke a
+little too soon, this day being one of great joy to me, as you can
+easily understand.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>Presentation of the Freedom of Cardiff to Viscount Tredegar,<br />
+October 25th, 1909.</i></p>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<h2><a id="THE_GOOD_OLD_ENGLISH_OATH">THE GOOD OLD ENGLISH OATH.</a></h2>
+
+<p>I never was good at personal abuse. I have got a good old-fashioned
+oath when I am angry&mdash;a good old English oath, good enough for most
+people&mdash;but that is only when I am very angry. And though we have been
+told that this is the greatest crisis we have ever seen, unfortunately
+I cannot get angry enough about<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_161">161</a></span> it to abuse other people. But in the
+circumstances, if I am put to it, I think I would quote Falstaff, who
+said, "If any part of a lie will do me grace, I will gild it with the
+heaviest terms I have."</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>South Monmouthshire Conservative Association,<br />
+December 22nd, 1909.</i></p>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<h2><a id="PRAISE_IN_BUCKETSFUL">PRAISE IN BUCKETSFUL.</a></h2>
+
+<div class="wrapr">
+<img src="images/i161.jpg" width="235" height="328" alt="" />
+<p class="caption">&quot;<i>If I live a little longer,<br />
+I should like it in buckets.</i>&quot;</p>
+</div>
+
+<p>Oliver Wendell Holmes, the celebrated American writer, said that when
+he was young he liked his praises in teaspoonfuls. When he got a
+little older he liked them in tablespoonfuls, and later on in ladles.
+I think I have had a good ladleful this afternoon. If I live a little
+longer, I should like it in buckets.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>Cardiff,<br />
+September 14th, 1897.</i></p>
+
+<p class="clearboth spacer">&nbsp;</p>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_162">162</a></span></p>
+
+<h2><a id="AN_EASY_SOLUTION">AN EASY SOLUTION.</a></h2>
+
+<div class="figcenter">
+<img src="images/i162.jpg" width="280" height="434" alt="" />
+</div>
+
+<p class="caption">&quot;<i>I should like the suffragettes to marry the passive resisters and go away for a long honeymoon.</i>&quot;</p>
+
+<p>I have a notion by which we could be relieved of two wearisome
+questions. I should like the suffragettes to marry the passive
+resisters and go away for a long honeymoon.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>Servants' Ball,<br />
+1907.</i></p>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<h2><a id="A_READY_ANSWER">A READY ANSWER.</a></h2>
+
+<p>Four or five years ago I received a letter from the War Office asking
+how many horses I would put at the service of Her Majesty in case of
+emergency. I wrote back and said, "All of them." By return of<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_163">163</a></span> post I
+received a letter saying that I had given a very patriotic answer, but
+that it did not help them in the least; what they wanted to know was
+how many horses I could put upon the register. I sent back and
+registered eighteen horses. That was the whole of the Tredegar Hunt.
+Well, a couple of days ago I received a notice that all of those
+horses would be wanted. So if the Tredegar Hunt collapses suddenly,
+you will know the cause of it.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>St. Mellons Ploughing Dinner,<br />
+October 12th, 1899.</i></p>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<h2><a id="WELCOME">WELCOME.</a></h2>
+
+<p>What a beautiful word is the English word "Welcome!" What a world of
+sympathy it expresses! It does not matter whether the welcome comes
+from a father, mother, brother, or sister, or from the girl of your
+own heart. It is always the same. I have arrived at the time of life
+when I can not expect an eye to look brighter when I come, but many
+eyes are brighter when they fall on these volunteers who left their
+homes, not when they thought the war was over, but in the time of
+England's darkest hour. That was the time when our gallant Yeomanry
+and Service<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_164">164</a></span> Companies went to assist their country in its distress.
+They went to redeem again the honour of England, which at one moment
+looked as if it were rather smirched. They must have seen suffering by
+disease and bullet wounds, and in other ways, and must have been
+brought face to face with all kinds of distress, and witnessed the
+agony of death from disease and bullets. All that tends to make a man
+more sympathetic to those whom at other times he might be inclined to
+blame.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>Presentation to returned Volunteers (Boer War), Rogerstone,<br />
+July 26th, 1901.</i></p>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<h2><a id="THE_SEVEN_AGES">THE SEVEN AGES.</a></h2>
+
+<p>I liken myself to Shakespeare's "Seven ages." I have been the baby,
+the schoolboy, the lover, and the warrior, and I am now the Justice,
+but unlike the poet's justice, I can not boast of "a fair round belly
+with good capon lined." Having disappointed the poet in one thing, I
+hope to disappoint him in another, and not to degenerate into a "lean
+and slippered pantaloon."</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>Servants' Ball,<br />
+January 10th, 1893.</i></p>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_165">165</a></span></p>
+
+<h2><a id="A_DELICATE_POINT">A DELICATE POINT.</a></h2>
+
+<div class="figcenter">
+<img src="images/i165.jpg" width="240" height="407" alt="" />
+</div>
+
+<p class="caption">&quot;<i>Some difficulty might be experienced in getting the ladies to wear the costumes of those districts.</i>&quot;</p>
+
+<p>The bazaar may be described as an "European fair," because the stalls
+represent most of the nations of Europe. The reason for that is that
+if we went to Africa or other dark countries, some difficulty might be
+experienced in getting the ladies to wear the costumes of those
+districts.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>Opening of "World's Fair" Bazaar, Newport,<br />
+April 29th, 1891.</i></p>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<h2><a id="THE_HISTORIC_HOUSE_OF_LORDS">THE HISTORIC HOUSE OF LORDS.</a></h2>
+
+<p>It is in itself no great thing to be a lord; in fact, there used to be
+a saying, "As drunk as a lord." But it is a great thing to sit in the
+House of Lords. That<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_166">166</a></span> House is an institution which I believe every
+country wishing for constitutional government has, for the last
+hundred years, striven to imitate, but without success, and in my
+opinion they are never likely to succeed, because the House of Lords
+is an institution which, being the growth of centuries, can not be
+imitated in a day. It is recruited from various classes of society,
+and it is simply impossible to create a body similar to it all in a
+moment.</p>
+
+<p>In the old days, some three hundred years ago, King James, being in
+need of money, thought it would be a very good thing to create an
+extra rank, namely, that of baronet, and he sold baronetcies at &pound;1,000
+a piece, which brought him in a goodly sum of money. Anyone applying
+for a baronetcy was required to show a certain amount of pedigree,
+proving that he had had a grandfather or something of that sort. Now,
+if his Sovereign calls him, there is nothing to prevent any one,
+having talent and worth, from entering the House of Lords, even if he
+never had a grandfather. Great divines, great soldiers, great
+statesmen, great lawyers, and great engineers, representatives of all
+the rank and wealth of the country, are to be found in that august<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_167">167</a></span>
+body; and I think it is a long time since any expression on the part
+of the House of Lords has been adverse to the general opinion of the
+country.</p>
+
+<p class="in2"><i>Licensed Victuallers' Dinner,<br />
+January 16th, 1876.</i></p>
+
+<div class="figcenter">
+<img src="images/i167.jpg" width="175" height="112" alt="" />
+</div>
+
+<p class="caption">FINIS</p>
+
+<p class="spacer">&nbsp;</p>
+
+<p class="h4">WESTERN MAIL, LIMITED, PRINTERS, CARDIFF</p>
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+<pre>
+
+
+
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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of Wit and Wisdom of Lord Tredegar, by
+Godfrey Charles Morgan
+
+This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
+almost no restrictions whatsoever.  You may copy it, give it away or
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+Title: Wit and Wisdom of Lord Tredegar
+
+Author: Godfrey Charles Morgan
+
+Release Date: May 26, 2012 [EBook #39808]
+
+Language: English
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+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK WIT AND WISDOM OF LORD TREDEGAR ***
+
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+Produced by sp1nd, Matthew Wheaton and the Online
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+
+    WIT AND WISDOM
+    OF
+    LORD TREDEGAR
+
+    [Illustration: Tredegar]
+
+
+    WIT AND WISDOM
+    OF
+    LORD TREDEGAR
+
+
+    1911.
+
+    WESTERN MAIL, LIMITED,
+    CARDIFF, NEWPORT, SWANSEA,
+    MERTHYR, BRECON AND
+    176, FLEET STREET, LONDON.
+
+
+
+
+FOREWORD.
+
+
+There are a few observations which may be deemed appropriate in
+presenting to the public this collection of extracts from the speeches
+of Godfrey Charles Morgan, first Viscount Tredegar; but it is
+inconceivable that any should be necessary by way of apology. During
+the course of an active and a well-spent life, happily extended beyond
+the allotted span, Lord Tredegar has made hundreds of public
+utterances. Innumerable are the functions he has attended during
+half-a-century and over; and at most of them he has been the central
+figure. But while his high station would always have secured attention
+and respect for his words, this volume may serve to prove to future
+generations what this generation well knows, that Lord Tredegar has
+held his listeners by his humour or by his earnestness, according to
+the occasion, and that, in the homely phrase, he has always had
+"something to say." It is my hope, however, that this little book may
+have a still worthier mission. For I think it will be found to reveal
+a noble mind. The simple words of Lord Tredegar have time and again
+struck deep to the hearts of his audience. Collected here, they reveal
+the gentleness of his disposition and the purity of his motives. They
+show the consistency of his life. But they do much more. They appear
+to constitute a great moral force. Not that his lordship ever posed as
+preacher, or constituted himself a Court of Judgment on any class of
+his fellows. There is no trace of a superior tone in his speeches. His
+words show sympathetic insight into the trials and difficulties that
+beset the path of every one of us, and his desire was never to
+censure, but ever to encourage and assist with kindly suggestion and
+cheering thought.
+
+No aspect of these extracts is so interesting as that which enables us
+to observe how faithfully and well Lord Tredegar has discharged his
+promises. Long before he could describe himself as a landowner, he
+said that if ever he came into that position he would give any
+assistance he could to his tenants in the way of improving his land.
+He hoped he would never become "such a ruffian as some people would
+make landlords out to be." Reading later speeches we find Lord
+Tredegar undertaking in his turn conscientiously the public duties
+previously discharged by his father. We find him making the
+acquaintance of the farmers and studying their difficulties. We find
+him raising the Tredegar Show to its present pre-eminence in the world
+of agriculture. It is a noble record of honesty of purpose. And
+agriculture, as well we know in Wales and Monmouthshire, is but one of
+Lord Tredegar's many interests. He has spoken wise words on education;
+he has urged the claims of charity. He has led the way in historical
+research, and inspired among many whose interest might not otherwise
+have been aroused a love of our ancient castles and our dear old
+parish churches. He has spoken eloquently of our Welsh heroes and
+bards. Upon the value of Eisteddfodau he loves to expound. But it is
+not these higher interests of his that have made him so beloved. His
+appeals for the ragged urchin of the streets, his appreciation of the
+bravery of the worker, his jokes at bazaars, his quips at the cabmen's
+annual dinners, his love of old customs, his pleasantries at the
+servants' balls, by these and by his transparent sincerity he has won
+the affections of all classes of the people, who have found in him a
+leader who can share sorrows as well as joys. His brave words have
+been the consolation of the widow of the humble soldier slain in
+battle, as they have been the encouragement of the boy or girl scholar
+shyly taking from his hand a prize. He has told the boys they will be
+all the better for total abstinence, and he has dined and joked with
+licensed publicans. "Here, at least, is inconsistency," may exclaim
+the stranger into whose hand this book may fall. But Lord Tredegar
+justifies himself by the fact that having licensed houses on his
+estate it is his duty to take an interest in those who conduct them.
+
+Lord Tredegar has never sought to adorn his speeches with rhetoric. He
+has always spoken so that he who heard could understand. And yet he is
+reputed justly to be among the best of after-dinner speakers. If it be
+necessary to delve into the possible secret of his success, one might
+hazard a guess that it is because in his speeches it is the unexpected
+that always happens. The transition from grave to gay or from gay to
+grave is so swift that the mind of the listener is held as it were by
+a spell, and all is over e'er yet one thought it had begun.
+
+Much of this, however, is in passing. Quite a multitude, at one time
+or another, has listened to the words of Godfrey Charles Morgan. Quite
+a multitude has been influenced by them. That multitude, I am sure,
+will be glad to have those words in permanent form. There may be but a
+sentence chosen from a speech that has been heard, but that sentence
+will be remembered or recollected. And to that greater multitude who
+by the natural force of circumstances cannot have listened to the
+words of Viscount Tredegar, this little collection may serve to show
+forth a figure that, though simple, is great in simplicity, and it
+were strange indeed if some sentences were not found which may help to
+make a crooked way straight.
+
+    THE EDITOR.
+
+
+
+
+WIT AND WISDOM OF LORD TREDEGAR.
+
+
+
+
+EPIGRAMMATIC ELOQUENCE.
+
+
+I would rather trust and be deceived, than be found to have suspected
+falsely.
+
+    _Reduction of Armaments Meeting, Newport,
+    March 17th, 1899._
+
+Some people will not go across a street to hear an oratorio, though
+they would go many miles to listen to that very entertaining melody,
+"Whoa, Emma!"--and I'm not sure that I shouldn't be one of them.--
+
+    _Tredegar Show.
+    November 26th, 1879._
+
+The other day I was doing a little bit of horse-cropping--I'm fond of
+that sort of thing--and went into an Irish dealer's yard, where I saw
+a horse which grunted very much. Looking at the dealer, I said, "The
+horse is a roarer," and the Irishman replied: "Ah, no, me lord, not a
+bit of it. I've 'ad 'im from two years ould, an' e' 'ad wunce a most
+desprit froight, an' 'e's 'ad the hiccups ever since!"
+
+    _Tredegar Show,
+    November 26th, 1879._
+
+[Illustration: "_'E's 'ad the hiccups ever since!_"]
+
+I do not think there is a man in England who has more at heart than
+myself the religious education of children. In 1839 the Chartist Riots
+took place at Newport. In the following year National Schools were
+opened, and I believe that had the men who took part in these riots
+received the education imparted at the National Schools they would
+never have decided upon such a misguided course of action.
+
+    _Jubilee of Newport National Schools,
+    May 16th, 1890._
+
+I was rather alarmed when I received the notice, "Peach Blossom Fancy
+Dress Fair," and I telegraphed at once to a lady who I thought knew
+what was going on and asked, "Am I obliged to come in fancy dress?"
+The answer I got was, "You need not wear anything."
+
+    _Llangibby Church Fete,
+    August, 1910._
+
+[Illustration: "_You need not wear anything._"]
+
+I generally pay great attention to what a clergyman says, but you
+cannot always take the advice of a clergyman. A certain man had a dog,
+and his minister told him that he had better sell the dog and get a
+pig, to which the man replied, "A pretty fool I should look going
+rat-catching with a pig."
+
+    _St. Paul's Garden Fete, Newport,
+    June 23rd, 1910._
+
+Without some sort of religion no man can be happy.
+
+    _St. Paul's Garden Fete, Newport,
+    June 23rd, 1910._
+
+I am not accustomed to begging, being more accustomed to being begged
+of. That is one of the hereditary privileges of members of the House
+of Lords.
+
+    _Meeting in connection with the new Infirmary for Newport,
+    March 17th, 1897._
+
+It appears to me that my good qualities increase in proportion as the
+hair comes off the top of my head, and it is well that in proportion
+as we grow less ornamental we should grow more useful.
+
+    _Tredegar Show,
+    November 29th, 1876._
+
+I really think I must be out of place here. You know I am one of the
+hereditary nonentities. I cannot help the hereditary part of the
+business, and I have tried all my life to avoid the other.
+
+    _South Monmouthshire Conservative Association,
+    December 22nd, 1909._
+
+You ought, of course, to learn something about ancient art, or you
+will be like a certain Lord Mayor of whom I have heard. One day he
+received a telegram from some people who were carrying on excavations
+in Greece, and who had discovered a statue by Phidias. They thought,
+in common with most foreigners, that the Lord Mayor was the most
+powerful person in the kingdom--abroad he is supposed to rule the
+country. Anyway, they sent him a telegram saying "Phidias is
+recovered." The Lord Mayor wired back that he was pleased to hear it,
+but that he did not know that Phidias had been unwell.
+
+    _Art School Prize Distribution, Newport,
+    December 12th, 1899._
+
+A noted musician, when asked whether he thought it was right to carry
+out capital punishment, replied: "No; because you can do a man to
+death with a piano."
+
+    _At Llandaff,
+    June 26th, 1900._
+
+[Illustration: "_You can do a man to death with a piano._"]
+
+I believe I have laid more foundation stones than any other man in
+England. I have mallets and trowels sufficient to supply, I believe,
+every Parish Church in the country. They are very handsome and
+ornamental, and I hope I shall have more of them.
+
+    _Foundation Stone Laying, St. John's Church, Cardiff,
+    March 12th, 1889._
+
+[Illustration: "_I believe I have laid more foundation stones than any
+other man in England._"]
+
+We (agriculturists) are looked upon as a long-suffering and patient
+race, and some of the manufacturing class think we are fit subjects
+for bleeding. In fact, it has been said that agriculturists are like
+their own sheep, inasmuch as they can bear a close shaving without a
+bleat; whereas the manufacturers are like pigs; only touch their
+bristles and they will "holler like the devil."
+
+    _Tredegar Show,
+    December 17th, 1867._
+
+Lord Rosebery is alternately a menace and a sigh.
+
+    _Conservative Dinner, Newport,
+    November 15th, 1895._
+
+We have had an old-fashioned winter, and I do not care if I never see
+another. The only people, I fancy, who have enjoyed the winter are the
+doctors and the Press.
+
+    _Servants' Ball_,
+    _January 16th, 1891._
+
+
+
+
+MEMORIES OF BALACLAVA.
+
+
+I consider myself one of the most fortunate men in England to have
+been one of those spared out of the 600 about whom so much has been
+said and sung. Although my military career has been brief, I have seen
+a great deal. I have seen war in all its horrors. It is said to be "an
+ill wind that blows nobody good"; so it has been with me. I have
+learned to doubly appreciate home and all its comforts. Before going
+out to the Crimea I was accustomed to see, on these occasions, farmers
+looking happy and contented, and I was in the habit of thinking what a
+great nation England was, and how she flourished in all things; but
+since the war commenced I have seen the other side of the picture. I
+have seen an army march into an hostile country, and in the midst of
+farms flowing with milk and honey, and teeming with corn and every
+luxury--and there, in a few hours, all was desolation, one stone not
+being left on another, and the people made slaves to the invaders. How
+thankful we ought to be that we are not suffering at the hand of an
+invading army. Now that my military career is at an end I am sure that
+a great many of you will sympathise with my father, whose anxiety has
+been very great. We were out during the most dreadful period of the
+war, and it need not be wondered at that I yielded to the most earnest
+entreaties of my father to relinquish my connection with the army lest
+I should bring his grey hairs with sorrow to the grave. My father
+thought that one such action as I have been in was sufficient to prove
+the mettle of his son. I will not further enlarge on the horrors and
+miseries of war. May you never see them as I have done, and may we
+all meet at this festive board next year.
+
+    _Newport Agricultural Show,
+    December 18th, 1855._
+
+I do not intend to say much about Balaclava to-day because you have
+heard the old story over and over again, and I am too old now to
+invent stories of Balaclava. On my way down here I stopped to receive
+a telegram worded in these terms:--"Fifteen survivors of the Balaclava
+Charge send your lordship hearty congratulations and affectionate
+remembrances on this day, the 54th anniversary." Well, recollections
+of a sad event are at any time, of course, unpleasant, but it is
+particularly sad to think that there are now only 15 survivors
+remaining out of the Light Brigade of 600. That attenuated number does
+not include myself, and there are three other officers still alive.
+You may be pretty confident that of these few survivors there were at
+least two or three with whom I conversed within a few hours of the
+Balaclava Charge. You can imagine those conversations. They were not
+very lively ones. They referred probably to some comrade who had been
+killed or to the difficulty of filling the place of some officer who
+had fallen; because when we drew up after the Balaclava Charge I was
+the officer in command of the decimated regiment. All my superior
+officers had been either killed or wounded, and I was placed in the
+difficult position to find men suddenly to fill the vacancies. So you
+can imagine the recollections of those survivors. Since that time
+there have been a number of gallant deeds on the part of the British
+army, and I hope that those gallant deeds will be remembered, just as
+the Balaclava Charge is remembered here. I hope the British nation
+will never forget such events as Trafalgar and Waterloo, but will
+always hoist a flag or do something else to commemorate them.
+
+    _Balaclava Dinner, Bassaleg,
+    October 25th, 1908._
+
+My own courage in the memorable charge was small, but the deed of
+daring conferred everlasting credit on the Senior Officers who took
+part in it. I trust that you will keep your offspring fully acquainted
+with the heroic deeds of the British Army, and induce them to display
+similar courage in the hour of their country's danger.
+
+    _Balaclava Dinner, Castleton,
+    October 25th, 1890._
+
+When a person gets beyond the allotted age of man there must, I think,
+be in his mind a melancholy thought regarding the possibility of his
+being present on a similar occasion twelve months hence. I am afraid
+that some men of my age would have to limp into a room, probably
+assisted by a crutch. Fortunately, however, I was able to walk into
+the room without a crutch and without assistance, and I am thankful
+for that to the Power above. The term "hero" is a term with which many
+soldiers do not agree. The mention of the word recalls to my mind the
+well-known lines of Rudyard Kipling:
+
+    "We aren't no thin red 'eroes,
+      An' we aren't no blackguards, too,
+    But single men in barracks,
+      Most remarkable like you."
+
+I am sure the soldiers who fought with the Light Cavalry at Balaclava
+did not think themselves greater heroes than others in the Crimea who
+did their duty. Quite recently I read an article in a military
+magazine, it dealt with the question of the advance of cavalry and the
+arms which should be given them--the lance, the sword, and the rifle.
+The article commenced with the statement that it was the business of
+every soldier to go into action with the determination to try and kill
+someone. I suppose that is right in its way, but it was hardly the
+sentiment we went into action with. We went into action to try to
+defeat the enemy, but the fewer we killed the better. I have to
+confess that I tried to kill someone, but to this day I congratulate
+myself on the fact that I do not know whether I succeeded or no. In
+these days of long range guns our consciences are saved a great deal,
+and so far as killing anyone goes I always give myself the benefit of
+the doubt, so that the charge of murder cannot be brought against me.
+
+    _Balaclava Dinner, Bassaleg,
+    October 29th, 1910._
+
+
+
+
+QUIPS AT THE SERVANTS' BALL.
+
+
+I have arrived at the age when to clasp the waist of one of the
+opposite sex for three hours is not considered the height of human
+happiness. I remember, however, with pleasure, a time in my younger
+days when I thought it was so, and perhaps some of those who can
+indulge in a valse without feeling giddy, or a polka without being
+"blown," think so now.
+
+    _Servants' Ball,
+    January 14th, 1889._
+
+[Illustration: "_I remember, however, with pleasure, a time in my
+younger days._"]
+
+I am happy to be able truly and honestly to say that I have not a word
+of difference with any servant of my establishment. Each year as it
+rolls onward finds me stiffer in the joints, shorter in the breath,
+and less able than formerly to perform the double shuffle, but there
+are others coming on--the younger members of the family--who will be
+able to kick up their heels as lightly as once I was able to do. As
+each year rolls round, too, there are always saddening memories, but
+on an occasion of this sort I will make no allusions to them, ... I
+hope you will stick to old fashions and old ways. You may be told of
+new-fangled ways, and be advised to get rid of the old, but I think it
+will be well if you do not pay too much attention to those advisers.
+England is like old Tredegar House, and you will find that the customs
+now prevailing have been in vogue for over 500 years. You will
+probably be told that the best way to make people happy is to make the
+poor rich and the rich poor; but, in truth, the richer people are, the
+better able they are to help the poor.
+
+    _Servants' Ball,
+    January 7th, 1910._
+
+Many of you waited last night for the old year to go out and the new
+year to come in. I did for one. I listened at the window and I heard
+bells ringing, and noises which I can only describe as hideous. There
+is an invention in this part of the world, which I believe comes from
+America (where they have a great many disagreeable things) called a
+"hooter." When I listened last night it seemed to me that it was
+deliberately hooting out the old year which to so many of us had
+painful recollections; and it occurred to me that it was a most
+appropriate thing to do. It was the wettest spring, the coldest
+summer, the windiest autumn that I have ever known.
+
+    _Servants' Ball,
+    January 1st, 1892._
+
+I can imagine the Bassaleg Parish Council rejoicing in a license for
+dancing in the hall, and the teetotallers passing a resolution in
+favour of total abstinence, in which case we should have to obtain our
+refreshments from the village pump.
+
+    _Servants' Ball,
+    January 9th, 1894._
+
+Railways are springing up all round, and, reading the signs of the
+times as I do, I think there will be increased prosperity. If all the
+railways now proposed are constructed, we shall be able to paraphrase
+the poet's lines:--
+
+    Railways to right of them,
+    Railways to left of them,
+    Railways behind them,
+      Most of them silly 'uns.
+    Into the lawyer's jaw,
+    And the Contractor's paw,
+      Go the eight millions.
+
+I shall be able to convert Tredegar House into the "Railway Hotel,"
+join the Licensed Victuallers' Association, and do a good trade--if I
+can get a license. We have progressed a good deal lately, even in
+dancing. I can remember the minuet being the fashion. It was danced
+with a great deal of bowing and scraping. Then the waltz, quadrille,
+and lancers came. We next had a kitchen lancers, and this year we have
+a barn dance. Next year, perhaps, we shall have a pigstye polka, which
+will no doubt be very amusing.
+
+    _Servants' Ball,
+    January 8th, 1896._
+
+[Illustration: "_I shall be able to convert Tredegar House into the
+'Railway Hotel.'_"]
+
+There have been many changes in the manners and customs of the country
+during late years. I am very fond of old customs, and I hope this
+old-fashioned Servants' Ball will be kept up by those who come after
+me. I am sure there is no gentleman in England who is blessed with a
+better lot of servants than I have. If sometimes by my manner I do not
+appear pleased, I hope you will make allowance for the business
+anxieties constantly hanging over my head, and which do not always
+conduce to a pleasant expression. I will relate an incident. An
+individual who apparently takes a great deal of interest in me wrote
+to me not so long ago and asked, "Why did you look so proud and
+haughty when you met me the other day?" I have no recollection of
+having been proud and haughty, but I have a very distinct recollection
+of a very tight boot and a very bad corn.
+
+    _Servants' Ball,
+    January 8th, 1896._
+
+[Illustration: "_When your toe begins to take a fantastic shape it is
+pretty nearly time to give up dancing._"]
+
+I always sympathise with you in your sorrows and try to join you in
+your pleasures. In this life, unfortunately, for a good many, there
+are more sorrows than pleasures, but I think it is the duty of all who
+have it in their power to try to make those around them have, if
+possible, more pleasures in their lives than sorrows. I congratulate
+myself that I have still a kick left in me. You know that Milton, the
+poet, has said in two lines:
+
+    "Come and trip it as you go
+    On the light fantastic toe."
+
+but when your toe begins to take a fantastic shape it is pretty nearly
+time to give up dancing. As my toes are beginning to take that shape,
+I am afraid I shall not have a kick left much longer. I have always
+spoken a few words to you on these occasions--sometimes of sentiment,
+sometimes of politics, and sometimes of fun. I usually prefer fun,
+because there is generally enough of the other phases around us. I
+will therefore content myself with giving the establishment a little
+bit of advice, or rather a hint. I have found that what I say on these
+occasions has somehow or other found its way into the papers. I do
+not know exactly how that is. However, I think it will be more
+impressive in print, because if you forget what I say before the end
+of the evening, you will be able to read it in the Press next day. My
+hint is about fires. There are large fireplaces in Tredegar House,
+which is an old one, full of old oak which is liable to catch fire.
+During the last few weeks some fine old country houses have been
+destroyed by fire. I do not think this has occurred through
+carelessness. I know my servants are not careless. What I want you to
+understand is the difference between a fire and a furnace. Old Welsh
+families--and my family is really an old Welsh family--all believe
+that they have very long pedigrees. There are in the strong room at
+Tredegar House a great many old records--some of which I have read out
+of curiosity. Many of them, no doubt, are mythical, and some are
+accurate, but in all my study of them I have not been able to discover
+that I bear any relationship to Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego. I
+therefore fail to see why the household staff should pile up furnaces,
+especially now that I assure them I am not quite impervious to fire. I
+always like to entertain you a little on these occasions. I will
+therefore just sing to you a few lines, and ask Young Charley (the
+huntsman) to come in at the end. I notice that Old Charley (the former
+huntsman) is also present, and he, perhaps, will join in as well. His
+Lordship then sang the following verses to the tune of "Ben Bolt":--
+
+    There are soul-stirring sounds in the fiddle and flute
+      When music begins in the hall,
+    And a goddess in muslin that's likely to suit
+      As the mate of your choice for the ball.
+    But the player may strain every finger in vain
+      And the fiddler may resin his bow,
+    Nor fiddle nor string such rapture shall bring
+      As the sound of the sweet "Tally-ho."
+
+    _Servants' Ball,
+    January 11th, 1898._
+
+Times have changed, and fashions change very quickly--so much so that
+I was half afraid you would have petitioned me to allow you to have a
+ping-pong tournament. I am glad to see that you still prefer to stick
+to the old custom of a ball. Of all entertainments a ball is, in my
+opinion, the most harmless. It will always follow that there will be
+some who perhaps on the morrow will think that their affections had
+not been quite under control, and that they had spoken words of
+endearment that perhaps they regretted, and the lady might not. And
+perhaps there will always be those whose control over their thirst at
+a ball is not quite so strong as that of others.
+
+    _Servants' Ball,
+    January 3rd, 1902._
+
+[Illustration: "_Perhaps there will always be those whose control over
+their thirst at a ball is not quite so strong as that of others._"]
+
+I have no doubt that much of what Mr. Perrott has just told you about
+the revels that have taken place in the hall during the last 200 or
+300 years is perfectly true. There may perhaps have been more fun in
+the old days--that is a matter of history. I very much doubt it
+myself, and I have a sort of idea, and I hope and trust that at the
+Servants' Ball which still takes place here annually--unless there is
+some misfortune to prevent it--there is as much fun and revelry as has
+ever before taken place in this hall. The old lamp hung over your
+heads belonged to a former Lord Mayor of London--Sir Edward
+Clark--from whom I inherited some property and plate. That lamp
+probably hung in the Mansion House in London some two or three hundred
+years ago, and I have no doubt it has seen some peculiar scenes.
+
+    _Servants' Ball,
+    January 8th, 1903._
+
+I also have my little anxieties. I have been hoping and praying that
+the enemy will not come up the Bristol Channel and land somewhere near
+here before I have got my Territorial Army into position. At the
+present moment the Territorial Army in Monmouthshire consists exactly
+of 17 men, all of whom are officers. So that unless the enemy give us
+due notice that they are coming here, I am afraid that we shall have
+to depend principally upon the Tredegar House establishment. I am
+quite certain that you will all answer my call, the ladies more
+particularly. I don't care so much about the enemy, whenever he comes,
+so long as I have the ladies with me.
+
+    _Servants' Ball,
+    Jan. 8th, 1908._
+
+[Illustration: "_I don't care so much about the enemy, whenever he
+comes, so long as I have the ladies with me._"]
+
+I take this opportunity of thanking you, and all those in my service
+who have spent this year together with me, for the happy way in which
+we have been enabled to pass the whole year together in our mutual
+admiration for each other. I was going to say affection for each
+other, and I should like to think so. We are--I propose using a silly
+phrase to express our relations at Tredegar House--a brotherhood of
+men. We are here as a brotherhood of men, and a sisterhood of women,
+and I should like you to look upon me as one of yourselves. It may be,
+before this time next year, if things go on as they are, that I shall
+be calling you Comrade Perrot, and you will be calling me Comrade
+Morgan. Things are going very fast just now, but I think there is a
+right feeling throughout the country that we are going too fast. It
+may be that next year, instead of being summoned to the ball here you
+will be asked to
+
+    "Come and trip as you go
+      To the light fantastic veto,"
+
+and we shall be invited to dance the Referendum Lancers.
+
+    _Servants' Ball,
+    January 17th, 1911._
+
+[Illustration: "_I shall be calling you Comrade Perrot, and you will
+be calling me Comrade Morgan._"]
+
+
+
+
+ON ARCHBISHOPS AND BISHOPS.
+
+
+It is customary among certain classes to look upon Bishops as men
+living in beautiful palaces, faring sumptuously, and rolling about in
+carriages; but there is no ploughman who does a harder day's work than
+does our Bishop. As to the clergy, many of them labour amongst us for
+a stipend which many an artizan would despise.
+
+    _Bassaleg Farmers' Dinner,
+    October 13th, 1881._
+
+There is a certain class of advanced politicians who never lose an
+opportunity of serving their own ends by impressing upon their hearers
+their particular notions of what a Bishop of the Church of England is
+like. That dignitary is generally pictured as a gentleman who receives
+a large salary, is clothed in purple and fine linen, fares sumptuously
+every day, and lives in luxurious idleness.
+
+    _The Opening of the Seamen's Mission Church, Newport,
+    January 18th, 1887._
+
+We should remember the duties and responsibilities which rest on an
+Archbishop. He has a vast correspondence, in which there is not a
+single letter that he can write without weighing every word. He is not
+like ordinary people, who are able to scribble off their
+correspondence; for if a word in a letter from an Archbishop is in the
+wrong place, it may upset a college or cause a revolution. If you
+study the history of the Archbishopric of Canterbury, beginning with
+St. Augustine, then going on to Lanfranc, to Anselm, to Theodore, and
+down to Benson and Temple, you will, I believe, come to the conclusion
+that I have reached--that whilst many of the men who have gone before
+him have filled great parts in making the history of the nation, there
+is not one whose character, whose powers of speech, and whose
+earnestness in carrying out his duties, exceeded those of the present
+Archbishop (Dr. Temple).
+
+    _Seventy-fifth Anniversary of St. David's College, Lampeter
+    October 9th, 1902._
+
+[Illustration: "_There is not one whose character, and whose powers of
+speech exceeded those of the present Archbishop (Dr. Temple)._"]
+
+
+
+
+THE TRIALS OF THE CLERGY.
+
+
+Bishops and Clergy have to deal with all sorts of communications from
+parishioners. I remember one case where a clergyman received a letter
+telling him he would never do for St. Phillip's because he was
+altogether too quiet in his preaching, and not half sensational
+enough, but that if he would preach in a red coat in the morning, and
+with no coat at all at night, he would be just the man for the job. As
+to the Bishops, they have so much to do that one of them--Bishop
+Magee, of Peterborough, I believe--summed up the situation by saying
+that people seemed to have an idea that a Bishop had nothing to do but
+sit in his library with the windows open, so that every jackass might
+put in his head and bray.
+
+    _Church Luncheon, Newport,
+    May 16th, 1900._
+
+
+
+
+SERMONS AND SINNERS.
+
+
+If the clergy only preached as well as they might, there ought not to
+be a single sinner in their parishes.
+
+    _Licensed Victuallers' Dinner, Newport,
+    February 7th, 1889._
+
+
+
+
+THE OLD PARISH CHURCH.
+
+
+I believe that all classes, including the Nonconformists, have a real
+love for the old Parish Church and its grey tower, beneath the
+shade of which so many of their ancestors are laid. Here at
+Michaelston-y-Vedw we have a fine historic building, erected about
+1130. I may tell you that one of its old parish registers contains an
+interesting entry. It is that "Godfrey Charles Morgan was baptised
+here on May 4th, 1828."
+
+    _Eisteddfod, Cefn-Mably,
+    September 15th, 1897._
+
+[Illustration: "_Godfrey Charles Morgan was baptised here on May 4th,
+1828._"]
+
+I always take more interest in these historical little rural parish
+churches than I do in a brand new Church erected in some populous
+district. Of course, the Church is really more necessary there than
+among the small Communities; still, there is the sentiment, the old
+association of the old Parish Church and the churchyard in which "the
+rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep." Those lines of the poet Gray:
+
+    "The cock's shrill clarion, nor the echoing horn,
+    No more shall raise him from his lonely bed,"
+
+often strike me, because the little Church is so closely connected
+with the Llangibby family. The Llangibby and Morgan families have been
+associated very often before in the long vista of history, but you
+have amongst you now a relation of mine, come to live amongst you, and
+who will look after this little Church.
+
+
+
+
+RELIGIOUS TOLERANCE.
+
+
+It is possible that I am very tolerant in my religious opinions. But
+seeing that we are now living under perfect tolerance, and that the
+religious wants of the people must be supplied, I think it is the duty
+of those who own property to see that there is accommodation for the
+religious needs of all who live thereon. As science advances there
+must be considerable differences of opinion on religion in a large and
+important town like Cardiff. A great man once said that tolerance was
+simply indifference; I do not agree with him. I think it is possible
+to be tolerant without being indifferent to one's own opinions. There
+is a great leaning nowadays towards scientific religion. Education is
+advancing very rapidly, and philosophical men are trying to make
+reasons for every line in Scripture and every line in the Prayer Book.
+That may be useful in a way, but I cannot help thinking that many
+books written lately by men who are very learned, and with very good
+intent, will, if circulated among the young of the country, do a great
+deal of harm. I look forward to an increase of religious feeling
+throughout the country, and I shall be always ready to assist, as far
+as I can, in erecting chapels and other places for religious
+instruction and religious worship.
+
+    _Chapel, Cardiff,
+    September 14th, 1894._
+
+I have never posed as one made of that stuff of which martyrs are
+made--and perhaps my remarks may offend some, or scandalize others.
+But I would rather see any place of worship in the town than none at
+all, I will go so far as to say I would rather see a Mohammedan mosque
+in the town than no place of worship at all. I have the greatest
+possible admiration for faith of any sort. Early in my life I had
+occasion to look with admiration upon the faith even of a Mohammedan.
+I have listened to the minister of the mosque calling the faithful to
+prayers two, three or more times a day, and I have seen the
+Mohammedans in the street go down on their knees and say their prayers
+in front of everybody. I have seen a regiment of Mohammedans on the
+march, and at the hour of sunset every man in the regiment would kneel
+on his carpet and say his prayers. Those were soldiers who were not
+afraid of their faith, though it might have been the wrong one. I have
+watched a poor Italian peasant kneel on the roadside and offer his
+small tribute to the shrine. He was not afraid of praying before
+anybody; but I am afraid that some of us would rather be seen with our
+hands in somebody else's pocket than kneel down and say our prayers in
+the Club-room.
+
+    _Foundation-stone Laying at Baptist Church, Cardiff,
+    June 14th, 1894._
+
+[Illustration: "_But I am afraid that some of us would rather be seen
+with our hands in somebody else's pocket than kneel down and say our
+prayers in the Club-room._"]
+
+
+
+
+THE CRICKETER CURATE.
+
+
+Cricket is the nicest, best and most gentlemanly exercise in Great
+Britain. How general is the love of cricket is shown by the story of
+some parishioners who, when asked by their Vicar what sort of a Curate
+they would like, said:--"We don't care much about the preaching, but
+what we want in the Curate is a good break to the off."
+
+[Illustration: "_We don't care much about the preaching but what we
+want in the Curate is a good break to the off._"]
+
+
+
+
+THE BROTHERHOOD OF MAN.
+
+
+I think you are quite right in commencing with a religious service a
+ceremony such as I am about to perform. These institutions are
+established for the welfare of the inhabitants, and we begin with a
+religious service in order to impress on those who are going to use
+the Hall hereafter that, whatever is done inside the Hall should be
+done in a way which is really a Christian way. It will not affect in
+any way the feelings of those who attend for amusement or instruction,
+except to prompt a religious feeling which we all wish to have some
+time or other in our lives. I was very pleased to be able to come
+to-day and perform the opening ceremony. A little pressure was put on
+me because at my time of life you don't recover from any extra
+exertion.
+
+I do like this term of Brotherhood. Those who have arrived at my time
+of life know what it is to have and to value a really sympathising
+brother. I am referring to my own dear brother, who has recently left
+us. Throughout our lives we did not have a single word of difference
+or a thought of difference, and the word "Brother" will draw me out
+at any time. It is the idea of universal feeling that everybody is
+trying his or her best in this world in whatever he or she may be
+trying to do--it is the feeling of Brotherhood which helps us to get
+that feeling.
+
+    _Speech at the Victoria Brotherhood, Newport,
+    March 4th, 1910._
+
+
+
+
+THE USES OF THE PARISH ROOM.
+
+[Illustration: "_The Ploughman returning from his weary work may just
+scrape his boots outside._"]
+
+
+In olden days the ordinary village school was the only place available
+for meetings or for general gatherings of the parishioners, and a long
+time ago that did very well. But the advance of education is tending
+to interfere a good deal with our old ideas and places, and it is now
+almost necessary that every Church, or every parish, should have a
+clubroom--a room where all classes can mix together and improve the
+knowledge they have gained at the various county schools--intermediate
+or otherwise. We want the Parish Room to be open to everyone. The
+ploughman returning from his weary work may just scrape his boots
+outside, and he will be perfectly welcome any time he likes to come
+in. I am sure there is a great deal of learning to be acquired, a
+great deal of good to be done, a great deal of instruction to be
+gathered, in a Church Room of this description, when it is managed in
+the way it ought to be. As you know, there are certain superior people
+who like essays and that sort of thing, and who, are inclined to sneer
+at the village concerts and penny readings and little dances which are
+likely to take place here. But we do not all possess the wisdom of
+Socrates, the dignity of Pliny, or the wit of Horace. Perhaps I shall
+put it more plainly if I say we do not possess the wisdom of
+Shakespeare, the dignity of Wordsworth, or the wit of Byron. But there
+is quite likely to be as much good sense in a humble gathering of an
+evening here as amongst those superior people who always try to teach
+us by telling us what we ought to do, what to think about, and what we
+ought to remember. Those are the people who advertise the simple life.
+I fancy most of you are living fairly simple lives, whilst those
+gentlemen who advocate it so much do not know what the simple life
+means. Not very far from us is where "the rude forefathers of the
+hamlet sleep," and in Gray's beautiful Elegy we are told:
+
+    "Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid
+    Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire;
+    Hands that the rod of Empire might have sway'd,
+    Or waked to ecstasy the living lyre."
+
+Might not some of those who are laid in the Churchyard close by, if
+they had enjoyed the advantages we have, have "wakened to ecstasy the
+living lyre," or been great members of either parish councils or
+county councils, or even Members of Parliament! I think that before
+this room has been in existence many years we shall find that some of
+those attending the gatherings which I hope will take place here, have
+done their best to make themselves prominent in life, especially in
+trying to keep before the world the truths of that religion which we
+have thought so much of and heard so much of to-day.
+
+    _Opening of Church-room at Llanvaches,
+    February, 1909._
+
+
+
+
+GENTLE MANNERS.
+
+
+There is one great thing that will carry you comfortably through life,
+and that is a nice, gentle manner. I see you all have nice, gentle
+manners, and what I ask you to do is to carry them outside the school,
+and retain them when you are on the roads or in the fields, or in your
+own homes. I ask the boys to cultivate the same language outside as
+inside the school, and the girls the same manners.
+
+    _School Prize Distribution, Rhiwderin,
+    April 24th, 1891._
+
+Bad language is unnecessary. Bad words are used by some people in
+every other sentence, without any necessity at all, and they mean
+nothing. If you can only learn to drop those disagreeable words you
+will be much more pleasant members of society. I like to see boys
+lively, spirited, and anxious to amuse themselves whenever they can.
+But they should be kind and gentle to their mothers and sisters. It
+is the nature of boys to be tyrannical to the other sex, but they will
+lose nothing by being as kind and gentle as they can be.
+
+    _Boys' Brigade Inspection, Newport,
+    April 19th, 1894._
+
+[Illustration: "_It is the nature of boys to be tyrannical to the
+other sex._"]
+
+It has been well said that good manners are something to everybody,
+and everything to somebody. Some people will not take anyone into
+employment unless they have good manners. As an old soldier, I know
+the value of _esprit de corps_. A hundred soldiers with the spirit of
+their corps are worth two hundred who do not care a straw about the
+regiment.
+
+    _Pontywain School,
+    December 15th, 1909._
+
+Mr. Labouchere has said he would rather have a gentleman of bad morals
+who voted right, than a gentleman whose morals were right but who
+voted wrong. Well, I would rather have a gentleman whose manners are
+good, even though he votes wrong, than one who votes right and whose
+manners are bad.
+
+    _Licensed Victuallers' Dinner,
+    July 13th, 1891._
+
+
+
+
+REVERENCE FOR RELIGION.
+
+
+As I grow older I find that the younger people are the less they like
+advice, and the less likely they are to take it. But I hope you will
+henceforth be good citizens of this great country. In your Brigade you
+are taught to have reverence for religion and respect for authority,
+which are great principles to get on with.
+
+    _Boys' Brigade Inspection,
+    April 4th, 1895._
+
+
+
+
+THE TEACHING OF REFINEMENT.
+
+
+There has been a great deal of talk lately about education. We have
+had board schools and national schools, and we are now going to have
+technical schools. But there is one point we have not yet arrived
+at--the teaching of refinement. I look upon the Eisteddfod as
+encouraging literature and music and art, as one of the great
+institutions for the encouragement of refinement in general life. We
+may become very well educated and very scientific, but unless there is
+refinement among us in general life, we will naturally tend towards
+roughness of manners.
+
+    _Brecon Eisteddfod,
+    August 18th, 1889._
+
+
+
+
+IN PRAISE OF HOSPITALS.
+
+
+We are met to endeavour to raise sufficient money to erect a hospital
+or infirmary worthy of the town of Newport. There are two statements
+nobody can dispute: Newport is a large and yearly increasing seaport,
+and a town of this magnitude ought not to be without a large and
+splendid hospital. I am afraid that with many people the idea of a
+hospital or infirmary does not go further than a small subscription
+and a few admission tickets to give away. But I wish to explain to the
+public generally the enormous advantages and the necessity of a good
+and well-organized hospital in the town. Whatever subscription you
+give you may be pretty nearly certain that the money will be spent in
+the right way. All other charities are more or less liable to some
+sort of imposture, but that is almost impossible with a hospital. I
+remember, as a soldier in the old days, that there was a certain sort
+of complaint we used to call malingering. If a man wanted to shirk any
+duty he pretended to be ill, but was very soon found out by the
+regimental doctor. So in the same way hospital doctors will soon find
+out the malingerer. A hospital is a high school of medicine for young
+doctors, who not only mix with scientific people at the institution,
+but gain a high moral feeling, so that there is no room for small
+petty jealousies amongst the medical practitioners. Then look at the
+injured people carried to the hospital. They have the best of care,
+and in most cases are turned out cured, sound and strong. If it were
+not for the hospital, they would probably be cripples or invalids for
+life. In that way hospitals save the rates. I am sure that hundreds
+are yearly turned out of the infirmary sound in mind and body, able to
+support their families and keep them off the rates.
+
+Then, again, a hospital makes an excellent school for nurses. That is
+one of the greatest benefits possible, because the authorities of the
+hospital are always strictly careful that nurses, before they are sent
+out, are thoroughly proficient. I am sure no building ground or house,
+or any other little present I may have given in the course of my life,
+will be more useful than the land I have given for this site. I hope,
+in addition to the land, to be able to give a good sum of money if I
+see it is required.
+
+    _Meeting in connection with a new Infirmary for Newport,
+    March 11th, 1896._
+
+
+
+
+WHEN IS A HOSPITAL A SUCCESS.
+
+
+This toast has always appeared to me very difficult to word. I do not
+know whether success to the Infirmary means a full Infirmary with all
+the wards engaged. It reminds me of a celebrated American who, when
+asked what sort of a town he had just left, remarked that it was very
+flourishing, for every hospital was crammed, every workhouse was too
+full, and they were about to build another wing to the gaol.
+
+    _Cardiff Infirmary,
+    January 25th, 1911._
+
+
+
+
+RECLAIM THE STREET URCHIN.
+
+
+The Arabians have a proverb to the effect that "The stone that is fit
+for the wall should not be allowed to lay in the way." Amongst the
+children who wander about the streets there are many who are, so to
+speak, quite "fit for the wall"--that is to say, they may, through
+being brought under drill and other conditions found in the Brigade,
+be turned into respectable members of Society.
+
+    _Bazaar at Cardiff,
+    April 13th, 1898._
+
+[Illustration: "_The stone that is fit for the wall should not be
+allowed to lay in the way._"]
+
+
+
+
+THE INFLUENCE OF WOMEN.
+
+[Illustration: "_Broke the engagement off because the young man said
+he had never heard of Browning._"]
+
+
+Women exercise a great deal of influence upon the affairs of the
+country, even without taking part in business, politics, or anything
+of that sort. For all I know, there may be some girls here who will
+affect political and many other movements in connection with the
+welfare of the nation. Girls ought to be made to think that they will
+have great power in the future, and to realise that they may be able
+to influence some one for good, not by their great learning so much as
+by the power that a good girl or a good woman exercises over men. I
+heard the other day of a young lady who was engaged to be married, but
+who broke off the engagement because the young man said he had never
+heard of Browning. I am glad to be able to tell you that she thought
+better of it afterwards.... It was said of the great Queen Cleopatra
+that when the Roman Emperor fell in love with her she was the means of
+altering the history of the world. Some say that if Cleopatra's nose
+had been shorter, the face of the world would have been different. The
+fate of some young men may depend upon the noses, as well as upon the
+learning, of some of the girls present.
+
+    _Re-opening of Howell's School, Llandaff,
+    June 26th, 1900._
+
+
+
+
+A FRIEND FOR THE FRIENDLESS.
+
+
+There cannot possibly be an object in the wide world more worthy of
+sympathy than a girl without a friend. All over the world this Society
+has its habitations, and it has already befriended 4,000 girls. It
+renders assistance when they are penniless, provides friends when they
+are friendless, and religious consolation when they require it.
+
+    _Girls' Friendly Society Bazaar, Newport,
+    April 24th, 1895._
+
+
+
+
+THE BRAVERY OF THE WORKERS.
+
+
+I think it is my duty to allude to the dreadful accident which took
+place in July at the dock extension works. The facts stated in the
+report should be printed and go, not only to the Shareholders, but to
+the country generally, as a record of the heroism and endurance that
+our workers, from the highest engineer to the lowliest navvy, were
+capable of under distressing and dreadful circumstances. We hear so
+much of the decadence of the English race nowadays, that I think the
+report of the disaster at the docks is well worthy of being printed.
+
+    _Half-yearly Meeting Alexandra (Newport and South Wales)
+    Docks and Railway Coy., London,
+    August 5th, 1909._
+
+I have always admired the working collier, and if British records
+could be printed thousands of colliers would be found as much entitled
+to the Victoria Cross as those soldiers who have performed doughty
+deeds on the battlefield.
+
+    _Workmen's Outing at Tredegar Park,
+    August 8th, 1885._
+
+In the old Town Hall of Newport many great celebrities have received
+testimonials, compliments and honours--warriors, church dignitaries,
+financiers and great politicians; but I do not think any circumstance
+like the present one has arisen before, and there could not be a more
+interesting ceremony than that which we are about to perform. It is
+necessary to make a slight excuse for the time which has expired since
+the great disaster on July 2nd, 1909. Those who remember the incidents
+know perfectly well that the whole of the dock premises and the town
+were in a state of excitement for some considerable period, and a
+large number of unfortunate men were overwhelmed by the disaster,
+while others fortunately escaped. I think the officials have done
+their very best to try and select those who really performed heroic
+efforts. Those who have not received recognition, but think they
+deserve it, will, I feel sure, make all due allowance, and give those
+responsible the credit for having done their best. It is satisfactory
+to the directors to know that they have a body of men around them who
+are ready to do their duty. It is a trait of the educated British
+workman of to-day that, when given something useful to do, he will
+perform his task heroically--heroism is characteristic of him.
+
+    _Presentation of Certificates for Bravery on the occasion
+    of the Dock disaster, Newport Town Hall,
+    March 14th, 1911._
+
+
+
+
+A TRIBUTE TO THE ENGINE DRIVER.
+
+[Illustration: "_The feeling of a Newport cabman when his horse runs
+away._"]
+
+
+I have the greatest admiration for engine drivers, particularly those
+on the Great Western Railway, on which line I travel most. I have
+often wondered at the admirable manner in which they stop and start
+their trains. Mr. Gladstone once said that he could understand the
+mind of a great historian like Gibbon, or of a great poet, like
+Milton, Byron, or Wordsworth, but that he could not understand the
+formation of the mind of a man who wrote poems and plays like
+Shakespeare. Personally, I cannot understand the mind of an engine
+driver on an express train. I have been myself, in some very
+disagreeable positions, and have had some very nasty half minutes. Not
+very long ago I found myself underneath my horse in a muddy ditch and
+the half minutes I spent in waiting for a friendly hand to drag me
+out, and in wondering whether assistance would come before I was
+suffocated, were very unpleasant ones. Only a fortnight ago, too, a
+gentleman was driving me in a light vehicle down a narrow roadway when
+we saw a runaway horse attached to a lorry galloping towards us. It
+seemed as if there was nothing for it but for us to be knocked into
+the proverbial cocked-hat. However, our vehicle was drawn very close
+to the side and the runaway just cleared us. I can understand, too,
+the feeling of a man driving four horses when they run away with him,
+because that has happened to myself; or the feeling of a Newport
+cabman when his horse runs away. But I cannot understand the feeling
+of sustained courage on the part of a driver of an express engine with
+his train going at 60 miles an hour through the darkness of the night,
+perhaps in a storm of snow or sleet. To use a pretty strong
+expression, it must be like "hell with the lid off." Those who travel
+on railways ought to think more of the responsibilities which rest on
+railway employees.
+
+    _Railwaymen's Dinner,
+    April 21st, 1908._
+
+
+
+
+TEMPERANCE "IN ALL THINGS."
+
+[Illustration: "_There are many Radicals who take a great deal more
+than they can carry._"]
+
+
+When I talk of temperance I mean temperance not only in drink, but in
+all things. There is temperance in eating, and temperance in life. In
+the present case there are three sections--the temperance people, the
+Sunday closing people, and the total abstinence people. I cannot see
+how the question of religion can enter into party politics. I have
+known many Tories who were habitual drunkards, and there are many
+Radicals who take a great deal more than they can carry. There is
+always a difficulty in drawing the line between the enthusiast and the
+fanatic. Enthusiastic gentlemen generally get what they require.
+Fanatics, on the other hand, by the way they advocate their
+principles, turn people away.
+
+    _Opening of the new Temperance Hall, Newport,
+    May 2nd, 1889._
+
+I believe that if the medical men of the country published their
+opinions concerning the cases which come under their notice, it would
+be a revelation to the general public how great a proportion of
+illness is due in one way or another to alcoholic drink. I cannot,
+however, help noticing that a great improvement and advance has taken
+place in the cause of temperance. A good many years ago, when there
+was going to be a great family festival--a wedding or something of
+that sort--one of the family retainers was asked if he was going to be
+there. "Of course," was his reply, "and won't I just get drunk." That
+seemed to be the prevailing idea of enjoyment--to get drunk. But that
+attitude has been changed.
+
+    _Band of Hope Festival, Newport,
+    May 3rd, 1900._
+
+[Illustration: "_Coming out and making themselves disagreeable to
+their neighbours._"]
+
+I have no doubt there are several in the hall who, like myself, are
+not total abstainers, but we are all one in our endeavour to promote
+temperance generally. To those who cannot be temperate, we advise
+total abstinence. There is nothing, I am sure, so fruitful of good as
+the advocacy of temperance amongst children. When children are taught
+to advocate a particular cause they do it more effectively than older
+people. But we are sometimes apt to become too much imbued with one
+particular idea, and it is never well to be too much of a bore to
+those around us. A little child was asked not long ago what she knew
+about King John and Runnymede. She had evidently been a worker in the
+temperance cause, and replied, "Oh, yes; he's the man they got down to
+Runnymede and made him swear to take the pledge." She had forgotten
+about Magna Charta, and thought of only one kind of pledge. There is
+nothing that disturbs the general happiness and comfort so much as the
+action of those who persist in going into a public house when they
+need not do so, and coming out and making themselves disagreeable to
+their neighbours. I only hope that some of the younger portion of you
+will live to enjoy a Bank Holiday without seeing a single drunken
+person.
+
+    _Band of Hope Union, Newport,
+    May 29th, 1901._
+
+
+
+
+TOTAL ABSTINENCE.
+
+
+There is a rule in the Boys' Brigade according to which you are
+supposed to be abstainers from drink. I need not say what a good thing
+that is. You will all be very much better for being abstainers. You
+will save a great deal of money, and probably keep your health up
+better. I wish I had been a total abstainer in my youth. I should have
+saved a great deal of money.
+
+    _Boys' Brigade Inspection, Newport,
+    April 19th, 1894._
+
+
+
+
+AN ANGELIC VISION.
+
+
+There is a phrase about "the happiness of the greatest number." It is
+an expressive phrase, but different people have different opinions of
+happiness. I was hunting in the Midland Counties and I asked, "Where
+is Tom?" The answer was, "He's retired, he's living the life of a
+hangel; he's a-heating, and a-drinking and a-cussing, and a-swearing
+all day long." That may not be your idea of the life of an angel, if
+it was my friend's idea.
+
+    _The Tredegar Show,
+    December 18th, 1872._
+
+[Illustration: "_He's retired, he's living the life of a hangel._"]
+
+
+
+
+CHATS TO AND ABOUT CABBIES.
+
+
+I have had many rides in the cabs of Newport, and have always found
+the cabbies very good drivers, prepared to go the pace according to
+the fare they expected at the end of the journey.
+
+    _Cabmen's Dinner, Newport,
+    November 8th, 1889._
+
+[Illustration: "_Prepared to go the pace according to the fare they
+expected at the end of the journey._"]
+
+[Illustration: "_You try to blow me up on my way to Tredegar House._"]
+
+I wish you had chosen some other Patron Saint than Guy Fawkes, for Guy
+Fawkes tried to blow up the House of Lords, and on each anniversary
+you try to blow me up on my way to Tredegar House. Some persons may
+think that one Conservative Peer more or less does not matter, but I
+prefer that the experiment of blowing up should be tried upon the body
+of a Radical Peer.
+
+    _Cabmen's Dinner, Newport,
+    Nov 5th, 1896._
+
+[Illustration: "_Look here, cut it short guv'nor! I've got the cab by
+the hour._"]
+
+There are very odd traditions about cabmen, and I am certain that
+sometimes they are not deserved. I have been told it is something of a
+tradition that it is the pride of a cabman to be able to whistle
+louder, to hit his horse harder, and to tell a bigger lie than anybody
+else. I believe that to be absolutely untrue, though some of you may
+know better than I do. One of you is supposed to have nearly upset a
+wedding. That was a dreadful thing to do. The bride and bridegroom
+were both at the Altar and just about to have the knot tied nicely.
+The clergyman began to deliver his address, but the bridegroom
+appeared to be in a great hurry, and said to the clergyman, "Look
+here, cut it short, guv'nor! I've got the cab by the hour." That was
+rather natural on the part of the bridegroom but the clergyman became
+very angry, and very nearly threw up the case....
+
+[Illustration: "_Look here, Mr. Huddleston, I call you a thief, a
+blackguard, a scoundrel, and a villain._"]
+
+Cabmen are limited in the language they may use. Judge Huddleston,
+when a barrister, was defending a client against a cabman, who had
+been using very bad language. The advocacy of Huddleston won the case.
+The next day the cabman called upon him and said: "Look here, Mr.
+Huddleston, you told me yesterday that I must not call people so and
+so. What are your charges for telling me what I can call anyone
+without getting into trouble?" Mr. Huddleston named his fee, cabby
+paid the money, and inquired what names he might call a man with
+impunity. Mr. Huddleston referred to his law books, and replied: "This
+is what you may call a man without being had up for libel or
+defamation of character. You may call him a villain, a scoundrel, a
+blackguard, and a thief, always supposing you don't accuse him of
+having stolen anything." The cabby took up his hat and said: "Look
+here, Mr. Huddleston, I call you a thief, a blackguard, a scoundrel
+and a villain; not that I mean to say you ever stole anything. Good
+morning." So you know now exactly what you can call a man if you do
+not like the fare he gives you. At the same time, I do not believe you
+would say such things.
+
+[Illustration: "_That's where Lord Tredegar buried his charger; he
+made that mound himself._"]
+
+Then, again, a cabman is always supposed to be a driving encyclopedia.
+When Newport cabmen are driving along Caerleon Road or Chepstow Road,
+credulous individuals ask them the name of every house and place they
+pass, what it means and what it is. Strangers want to know, and you
+must tell them something. There is an extraordinary tradition about a
+cabman driving along a road, when a lady fare asked him what "that
+mountain was with the tump on the top." "But what is the tump for?"
+persisted the lady. "Oh, that's where Lord Tredegar buried his
+charger; he made that mound himself," was the reply. Such stories are
+very interesting and amusing, but they spoil history, and that is why
+I think we are indebted to cabmen for the extraordinary traditions
+that go about the country.
+
+    _Cabmen's Dinner, Newport,
+    November 5th, 1898._
+
+Cabmen have traditionally bad characters, and are supposed to possess
+a vocabulary which is not taught in the Intermediate Schools. They are
+also supposed to have a special method of calculating distances and
+coin. All those ideas are exploded like nursery rhymes, such as
+"Whittington and his Cat." Cabmen are well looked after. There is the
+Excise Officer and the Cruelty to Animals Society, and, if these are
+not enough, there is the Watch Committee.
+
+    _Cabmen's Dinner, Newport,
+    November 6th, 1899._
+
+[Illustration:
+    "_But the top of a 'bus
+    Is the place for us
+    To see the coves go by._"]
+
+You have to compete with tramcars, motor cars, and all kinds of
+horrible conveyances. Having been interested in nursery rhymes since I
+was very young, I have been looking through some children's books
+during the last few days to see what is provided for the children of
+these days, and I came across the following lines in a book for
+children:--
+
+    The hansom takes you quickest,
+    The growler keeps you dry,
+    But the top of the 'bus
+    Is the place for us
+    To see the coves go by.
+
+I advise you not to give that little book to your children, as it will
+induce them to ride on the top of a 'bus instead of taking a cab.
+
+    _Cabmen's Dinner, Newport,
+    November 8th, 1902._
+
+[Illustration: "_Fast women and slow horses._"]
+
+I have never been able to find out exactly why the cabmen's dinner is
+fixed for Guy Fawkes' Day. I have looked up Guy Fawkes' pedigree, and
+I cannot find that he ever drove a growler or even a hansom cab. Then
+I thought it might have something to do with Inkerman Day, which is
+all upset nowadays, as you know. Inkerman was always called a
+soldiers' battle, because it was so foggy that the generals could not
+see what they were doing. I have an idea that it must have been a
+cabmen's battle, and that it was cabmen who fought at Inkerman or
+commanded at Inkerman. Speaking of cabmen, I think that they are like
+Lord Rosebery's Dukes--poor, but honest. This is not an epoch-making
+dinner; it is not even a record dinner. "Epoch-making" and
+"record-making" are terms which are frequently used now-a-days, and I
+wish people would give them a rest for a time. I remember a young
+gentleman who came into a fortune and very soon got through it because
+his company was very indifferent, he being very fond of racecourses
+and other iniquities of that sort. He went through the Bankruptcy
+Court, and when asked how he accounted for getting rid of his fortune
+so quickly, he replied, "Fast women and slow horses." Now I think
+cabmen would probably make a profit out of fast women and slow horses.
+One of you will take a very fine lady to Caerleon Racecourse next
+week, and, having a slow horse, will take two hours to do the journey,
+and charge a two hours' price. But I always like this society for one
+particular reason, namely, it has no small societies belonging to it.
+There is no Cabmen's Football Club to write and ask you for a
+subscription. So far as I know, there is no cabmen's band, or other
+small institutions of which we have so many in every other circle of
+society. There is no cabmen's congress, and no cabmen's conferences
+and that is a great merit in the society, because I know that when I
+have done one thing, I have done all that I shall be required to do.
+
+    _Cabmen's Dinner,
+    November 5th, 1909._
+
+
+
+
+TALKS TO LICENSED VICTUALLERS.
+
+
+Although the devil is not as black as he is painted, I hope neither I
+nor any other gentleman present bears any resemblance to his Satanic
+Majesty. The Scythians, it is reported, first debated things when
+drunk, and then whilst sober, and perhaps at the end of this gathering
+I may be able to form a better opinion of the members of the Newport
+Corporation.
+
+    _Mayor's Banquet, Newport
+    March 18th, 1886._
+
+A few months ago, in the silly season, "The Times" had about a couple
+of columns of letters from people discussing the uses and abuses of
+drink. I read the letters carefully, and came to the conclusion that
+there was a lot to be said on both sides. An octogenarian of 83 wrote
+to say that his eyesight, hearing, and teeth were all sound, and that
+he had not tasted spirituous liquors in his life. Shortly after,
+another octogenarian of 84, in addition to claiming the healthy
+condition of the previous writer, spoke of intending matrimony. He,
+however, said his memory was not so good as it was, but, so far as he
+could recollect, he had never been to bed sober in his life. After
+reading the first letter, I thought it was a "clincher," and went to
+bed without my usual brandy and soda, saying there would be no more
+licensed victuallers' dinners for me. When, however, I read the second
+letter, I changed my mind about the dinner. It has been said that life
+is not all beer and skittles, but it is a good thing to have something
+to drive away the depression which occasionally visits every one who
+has arrived at manhood.
+
+    _Licensed Victuallers' Dinner, Cardiff,
+    March 15th, 1892._
+
+In the old days barons drank strong ale. The barons would have their
+liquor strong, and local veto at that time would have meant loss of
+licensed victuallers' heads. Some people may wonder why I so
+persistently attend the Licensed Victuallers' Association
+meetings--for I do attend regularly. I will tell you why, in a few
+words, if you will not tell anybody else. There is a clause in the
+family settlements that compels me to do it. I endeavour to act up to
+those settlements.
+
+    _Licensed Victuallers' Dinner, Newport,
+    March 9th, 1892._
+
+I am not surprised that Members of Parliament are rather shy of going
+to licensed victuallers' dinners. They have to be very careful of what
+they say. Words, it has been said, are given to conceal thoughts.
+After dinner, sometimes, thoughts get the mastery of words, and
+Members of Parliament have to think a good deal of the future. They
+have to ponder over the teetotal vote, and they have to be very
+careful that they do not offend the licensed victuallers. The
+difference as regards the members of the House of Lords is this--they
+do not worry themselves about the teetotal vote, and they do not care
+a _darn_ for the licensed victuallers.
+
+A certain number of people think they can arrange everything
+satisfactorily upon an arithmetical principle. The latest fad is "one
+man one vote." If you do not take care it will be one man one glass. I
+would like to know how that could be arranged on arithmetical
+principles satisfactorily. There are a few other burning questions
+which I have never yet seen satisfactorily answered. One is 'What is
+Home Rule?' and the other is 'Have you used Pear's Soap?' Until we can
+find satisfactory answers to these, I think that legislation in regard
+to licensed victuallers will be quiet for a bit. I have never
+considered it necessary to apologise for dining with licensed
+victuallers. If there are any who think that in dining with that
+company I am stepping down from a pedestal on which I ought to remain,
+all I can do is to answer them in the beautiful motto of the Order of
+the Garter, "Honi soit qui mal y pense."
+
+    _Licensed Victuallers' Dinner, Cardiff,
+    February 28th, 1891._
+
+[Illustration: "_If there are any who think that I am stepping down
+from a pedestal._"]
+
+
+
+
+CAKES AND ALE.
+
+
+For my own part, I cannot see how the country could get on without
+Licensed Victuallers. Some years ago when a Frenchman wanted to
+describe an English country gentleman, he said he was one of those
+who, whenever he had nothing to do, suggested to those about him that
+they should go out and kill something.
+
+[Illustration: "_If a time arrived when there were no more cakes and
+ale._"]
+
+There is a type of politician who, whenever he has nothing to do, says
+"Let us go and abolish something." If this type had its way it would
+abolish the Lord Mayor's Show and Barnum's White Elephant. I do not
+think the country would be one whit happier if a time arrived when
+there were no more cakes and ale.
+
+    _Licensed Victuallers' Dinner,
+    January 29th, 1884._
+
+
+
+
+THE GREAT LAND TYRANT.
+
+
+I am now like the old man of the sea--someone you ought to get rid of.
+I am a great land tyrant. If you want a bit of land you can't get it.
+If you want a piece for a recreation ground you can't get it. If you
+want a piece for a Church you can't get it. If you want a piece for a
+school you can't get it. If you want a place for any other amusement
+or for athletic grounds you can't get it. Why? Because it belongs to
+Lord Tredegar. So if you treat me like Jonah, and throw me overboard,
+perhaps it would be much better for you.
+
+    _Conservative Association Meeting, Newport.
+    August 24th, 1910._
+
+
+
+
+TWO LORD TREDEGARS.
+
+
+It appears to me sometimes that there are two Lord Tredegars.... Most
+of you have been children at some time or other, and so most of you, I
+am happy to think, are acquainted with nursery rhymes. There is one
+which, probably, a great many of you have heard of. It is about an old
+lady with a basket who was going to market. She laid down on a bank
+and went to sleep, and a pedlar passing by, for some reason or other,
+cut her petticoats considerably above her knees. When she awoke the
+first thing she said was, "Surely, this is not I." And sometimes, when
+he awoke in the morning, and saw what was said about Lord Tredegar, he
+was inclined to make the same remark, "Surely, this is not I." When I
+read of a Lord Tredegar who is trying to reap what he has not sown,
+who binds his tenants down to covenants which do not exist, and who
+exacts the uttermost farthing from his miserable tenants, I think
+sometimes there must be two Lord Tredegars.
+
+    _Tredegar Show,
+    November 24th, 1888._
+
+[Illustration: "_Surely, this is not I!_"]
+
+
+
+
+THE TRIALS OF BENEFACTORS.
+
+[Illustration: "_I have lately started a store in the village._"]
+
+
+The other day a friend of mine was in much the same position as I am
+to-night. He owned a large estate in the neighbourhood, and he was
+asked to preside at a meeting of the candidate who was going to come
+forward. I asked him afterwards if the meeting was successful. "Oh,
+yes," he replied, "it was fairly successful, but they began to find
+out my failures and shortcomings." I said, "What have they found out
+about you?" The reply was, "I have lately started a store in the
+village, so that the agricultural labourers might have their beef and
+groceries at cost price. I thought that was rather a good thing to do,
+but it was far from a good thing in the opinion of my opponents. All
+the butchers and grocers declared they would make it very hot for me."
+I am in a somewhat similar position, and I told my friend so. "What
+have you done?" asked my friend, and I replied, "I have given a public
+park to the Newport people." "What has that to do with it?" "Well,"
+said I, "they make out that it has increased the rates."
+
+    _Conservative Meeting, Newport,
+    February 2nd, 1894._
+
+
+
+
+WHAT IS A PHILANTHROPIST?
+
+
+There are moments in a man's life when there is a contest between the
+lip and the eye, whether we should smile or cry. I am sure you would
+not like to see me cry just now, but there is a certain amount of
+sentiment in an affair of this sort. For a person in my position it is
+rather trying. I feel very much like the little boy you all knew in
+your nursery stories. The boy had a pie, and "he put in his thumb and
+pulled out a plum and said 'What a good boy am I.'" That is what I
+feel now. I suppose I should feel like a philanthropist. You probably
+all know what a philanthropist is. A philanthropist is an old
+gentleman, probably with a bald head, and he tries to make his
+conscience think he is doing good all the while he is having his
+pocket picked.
+
+    _In reply to a vote of thanks._
+
+
+
+
+"A SPLENDID FELLOW."
+
+[Illustration:"_A philanthropist is an old gentleman, probably with a
+bald head._"]
+
+
+It has been wisely said that there is nothing a man will not believe
+in his own favour. Well, after the way you praise me I believe I am a
+splendid fellow altogether. But one's name is not always spoken of
+with that reverence with which a lord's name ought to be mentioned.
+Still, I suppose there is such a thing as ignorance among men about
+those who do not live in the same station as themselves, and I always
+put it down to that. Some day or other they may come to find out that
+what they say against Lord Tredegar is not all true.
+
+    _St. Mellons' Show,
+    September 29th, 1909._
+
+
+
+
+NATURALLY A CONSERVATIVE.
+
+
+You will not wonder that I am in a graver mood than is usual on these
+occasions. For more than 30 years my lamented father occupied this
+chair, and I believe he was present on every occasion of this kind. In
+that time, the show has been raised from a very small one to be one of
+the most important in the country. My father has left me, amongst
+other possessions, an hereditary trust in the shape of this
+Agricultural Show. If I have given any hope that I shall fill the
+position as my father filled it, I shall feel very much flattered. It
+is not my intention to make great changes. There is no way of showing
+disrespect more than in making great changes, turning everything
+topsy-turvey, as if we knew everything better than those who went
+before us. I am naturally Conservative, and come of a Conservative
+family. I intend to keep to what was good of my late father. I have
+inherited a great trust in this show, and I hope that in future it
+will be seen that the show has not lost its prestige, its popularity
+or its utility.
+
+    _Tredegar Show,
+    December 15th, 1875._
+
+
+
+
+POLITICS ON THE BRAIN.
+
+
+Everybody now has got politics on the brain. We dream of politics and
+we almost drink politics--at least, we have been drinking politics
+to-night. So far as I am concerned, I should like, Rip Van
+Winkle-like, to go to sleep for the next two months and wake up to
+find the general election over; only then I should like to wake up to
+find it had gone the right way.
+
+    _Farmers' Dinner, Bassaleg,
+    October 13th, 1885._
+
+
+
+
+THE UNRULY HOUND.
+
+[Illustration: "_I lick him whenever I have the opportunity._"]
+
+
+It is wrong to introduce politics at this dinner, and, in fact, I have
+no great liking for politics on any occasion, though I do at times
+have a little to do with them. And I have a little way of my own. I
+have a most unruly hound in my pack, which I call "Radical," and I
+lick him whenever I have the opportunity. It does the hound good, and
+at the same time eases my own mind. Though I have no great love of
+politics, I think this is a time, if ever, a member of Parliament
+should feel inclined to speak. There is one subject which must be in
+everybody's mind, and for the consideration of which everyone must
+brace himself in the next session--that is "tenant's right." That is
+a question in which every agriculturist must take a deep interest; and
+for myself I think meetings of this sort much more likely to promote a
+goodly feeling between landlord and tenant than the provisions of any
+Act of Parliament.
+
+    _Tredegar Show,
+    December 14th, 1889._
+
+
+
+
+THE WHOO WHOOPS.
+
+
+I thank you for the way the toast of my health has been received; but
+I do not quite see the propriety of "whoo whoops" at the end. That is
+an expression that sportsmen use only when they are about to kill
+something; I do not see its applicability in the present case. I hope
+that you do not mean all you have expressed.
+
+    _Tredegar Show,
+    December 13th, 1871._
+
+
+
+
+M.P.'S AS BADGERS.
+
+
+During the intervals of pigeon pie and boiled beef, I have had the
+pleasure of a few minutes' conversation with Mr. Cordes, and from that
+conversation I have come to the conclusion that a Member of Parliament
+holds the same position to the human race that a badger does to the
+animal race. Some people think that the only earthly purpose for
+which a badger can have been created was that of being baited, and I
+have an idea that some persons seem to imagine that a member of
+Parliament was created for nothing but that we might bait him. But on
+this occasion we have been brought together not to bait Mr. Cordes,
+but to fete him.
+
+    _Conservative Banquet, Newport,
+    January 20th, 1876._
+
+
+
+
+THE HONOUR OF BEING M.P.
+
+
+It is a great honour still, I am sure, to be a member of the British
+House of Commons. Lord Rosebery, when he was chairman of the London
+County Council, in a speech that he made--and I dare say many of you
+have been interested in some of Lord Rosebery's speeches because he
+has a fund of humour, and very often one is not quite certain whether
+he is in earnest or in jest--once said that the position of a town
+councillor is much more important than that of a member of Parliament.
+It is quite possible that an individual member of a County Council or
+a Town Council may be more important as an individual than a member of
+the House of Commons, but his vote can only mainly affect the
+locality, whilst the action of a member of the House of Commons may
+not only affect the whole of Great Britain, but the whole of the
+British Empire. So I venture to think the position of a Member of
+Parliament is a little more important than that of a member of a Town
+Council or a County Council.
+
+    _Monmouthshire County Council,
+    February 2nd, 1910._
+
+
+
+
+NELSON'S SAYING.
+
+
+There still exists in the bosoms of our public men the feeling which
+animated Lord Nelson before the battle of the Nile, when he said,
+"To-morrow I shall have either a peerage or Westminster Abbey."
+
+    _Press Dinner, Cardiff,
+    May 9th, 1891._
+
+
+
+
+THE DISADVANTAGES OF THE PEERAGE.
+
+[Illustration: "_Receiving eggs that are not fit for breakfast, and
+cats that have not received honourable interment._"]
+
+
+There are advantages and disadvantages in belonging to the House of
+Lords. The peers are deprived of the right which other citizens have
+of standing on the hustings and receiving eggs that are not fit for
+breakfast and cats that have not received honourable interment. But
+they have the privilege of British citizens of being roundly abused by
+those whose talents lay in that direction.
+
+    _Associated Chambers of Commerce,
+    Newport, Sept. 21st, 1892._
+
+
+
+
+SWEEPS AS PEERS.
+
+[Illustration: "_I am acquainted with some sweeps._"]
+
+
+A certain gentleman who certainly thinks that the constitution of the
+country could be reorganised and set straight at once by a magazine
+article, says that if the House of Lords rejects the Home Rule Bill
+there is a very simple way to remedy the affair. Mr. Gladstone will
+then, he states, collect 70 sweeps and make them peers so as to gain a
+majority. Whether the gentleman intended to insult the sweeps or to
+insult the House of Lords I do not know. I am acquainted with some
+sweeps. I have always looked upon sweeps in the same way as I look
+upon licensed victuallers. They are a body of men who are carrying on
+a very difficult profession with credit to themselves and advantage to
+the country. Moreover, the sweeps with whom I am acquainted are most
+of them Tories, and I shall not be surprised if as soon as those 70
+sweeps are collected and made peers, and have washed their faces and
+put on their coronets and robes, they do immediately range themselves
+on the Opposition side of the House, and do, as most new Gladstonian
+peers do, vote Conservative directly they are created.
+
+    _Newport Licensed Victuallers' Dinner,
+    February 23rd, 1893._
+
+
+
+
+YOU CANNOT PLEASE EVERYBODY.
+
+
+I have no doubt that if the House of Lords were to pass by a large
+majority the disestablishment of the Welsh Church in the next Session,
+the Welsh party would say the hereditary principle was the only one to
+be depended upon. On the other hand, if the Lords were to pass by a
+large majority a Local Veto Bill, I have no doubt the Licensed
+Victuallers would at once go in for the abolition of the House of
+Lords.
+
+    _Cardiff Licensed Victuallers' Dinner,
+    March 28th, 1894._
+
+I am not a landlord myself, but I have strong opinions about the right
+of property, which I hope, in future legislation, will always be
+considered. If ever I become a landlord, I hope the interest which I
+have always felt in the welfare of my respected father's tenants will
+lead them to suppose that I shall never become such a ruffian as some
+people would make landlords out to be.
+
+    _Monmouthshire Chamber of Agriculture,
+    February 25th, 1874._
+
+I confess I was much comforted in reading one of those amiable, kind
+and Christian-like speeches for the total suppression of landlords. I
+looked into the dictionary for the meaning of the word "landlord," and
+I found it was "a keeper of a public-house." When I read that, my soul
+was comforted.
+
+    _Newport Licensed Victuallers' Dinner,
+    January 30th, 1880._
+
+I have always taken great interest in those who live on my property,
+it does not matter whether on agricultural land or in the bowels of
+the earth. A great landowner does not rest on a bed of roses. The loss
+to a landowner who only owns a small agricultural property, in days of
+agricultural depression when tenants cannot pay their rent, generally
+means a few hundred pounds and the reducing of all his expenses. But
+when it comes to great commercial interests, to owning the land on
+which our great ironworks, great tinworks, and collieries are
+situated, and when those interests are depressed, it means not a loss
+of a few hundreds, but the wiping off of several thousands. And it
+means occupying themselves night and day in ascertaining how they can
+help to still carry on those great interests which have employed so
+many hands, and which are so necessary for the welfare of the
+population of the district.... A great ironmaster, Mr. Carnegie, who
+found it to his best interest to carry on his great works in America,
+has enunciated a sentiment which appeals to me, to the effect that it
+is the business of every rich man to die poor. Sometimes I feel that
+will probably be my fate if I go on as I am doing. However, I shall be
+poor in good company.
+
+    _Presentation to Lord Tredegar of Miners' Lamp
+    and Silver Medal at Risca Eisteddfod,
+    October 5th, 1896._
+
+Considerable difficulties attach to the position of a man who happens
+to own land round a large and increasing town. So many demands are
+placed before him. There are demands for building sites and for open
+spaces and public parks. It is difficult, when the land is limited in
+area, to satisfy all requirements. I hope, in a short time, however,
+to be enabled to make a present to the town of Newport of a public
+park, one which will not cost much in laying out for use.
+
+    _Mayoral Dinner, Newport,
+    December 22nd, 1891._
+
+It may possibly happen that if the order to which I belong is swept
+away, I may become a candidate for municipal honours, and perhaps
+aspire to the civic chair. At present, however, I have my own
+responsibilities, for I am deeply troubled with what I may term the
+four R's--Rates, Roads, Royalties, and Rents.
+
+    _Mayor's Banquet,
+    March 18th, 1886._
+
+
+
+
+KEEP US STILL OUR SHORTHORNS.
+
+
+A gentleman who was very fond of writing poetry wrote a couple of
+lines which might be quoted against him although he has long since
+joined the majority. He wrote:--
+
+    Let laws and learning, art and commerce die,
+    But keep us still our old nobility.
+
+The last line can be altered as you like, and you can put anything you
+like for laws and learning, I would say buffaloes or anything else,
+but keep our shorthorns. In breeding shorthorns a pedigree of a long
+line of ancestors is indispensable. Mr. Stratton and myself have tried
+to work on those lines by breeding the nobility of shorthorns.
+
+    _Stock Sale at the Duffryn, Newport,
+    October 7th, 1909._
+
+[Illustration: "_I always find great difficulty in obtaining entrance
+to the dairy competitions._"]
+
+
+
+
+INTEREST IN DAIRYING.
+
+
+My thoughts are at the moment running on ground rents, royalties and
+wayleaves, so if I wander from the subject I hope you will forgive me.
+I cannot regard the subject of dairying without thinking how we would
+have stood now supposing we had taken up the question as we ought to
+have done twenty years ago. We would not now be taking a back seat
+with the foreigners. But I always now find great difficulty in
+obtaining entrance to the dairy competitions, if I go there casually.
+Whether it is the attractions of the pretty dairymaids inside, or the
+coolness of the atmosphere, there is certainly very great interest
+taken in the competitions and that is satisfactory.
+
+    _Monmouthshire Dairy School Prize Distribution,
+    November 5th, 1895._
+
+
+
+
+WHERE ALL CLASSES MEET.
+
+
+Of all meetings which take place in the course of a year, there are
+none attended with such universal good as an agricultural meeting,
+because here all classes can meet, whereas in nearly all other
+meetings the attendances are of a sectional character. For instance,
+race meetings--many people think them wrong and never attend them.
+Then there are Church Extension and Missionary Meetings--a great many
+do not like to attend them. But as to agricultural meetings,
+everybody seems to like to attend them, from the clergy to the racing
+man, the mechanic, the agricultural labourer, and the meetings must,
+therefore, promote a deal of harmony among classes. An agricultural
+meeting is much more effective than the proceedings of Messrs. Bright
+and Cobden, who are going about preaching a war of classes.
+
+    _Tredegar Show,
+    December 15th, 1863._
+
+
+
+
+WHERE THE AGRICULTURIST SHOULD STUDY.
+
+
+Some excursionists were going around the house of either Wordsworth or
+Tennyson--I forget which--and asked a servant where was her master's
+study. She replied, "Here is my master's study, but he studies in the
+fields." That is the lesson to be learnt in respect to agriculture.
+
+    _Agricultural Exhibition, Newport,
+    December 2nd, 1910._
+
+
+
+
+A BLUE BOTTLE AND A BIRD.
+
+
+I hope you won't do what I did last time. It was a day very different
+from this. It was very hot. I saw an animal in the ring that I did
+not care the least about, and just then a great blue-bottle settled on
+my nose. The consequence was that I bought the worst animal at a very
+high price.
+
+    _Stock Sale at the Duffryn, Newport,
+    October 7th, 1909._
+
+
+
+
+A LIMIT EVEN TO SCIENCE.
+
+[Illustration: "_Just then a great blue-bottle settled on my nose._"]
+
+
+In regard to scientific agriculture, I am not sure whether we are not
+rather overdoing things; but there is no doubt that, notwithstanding
+all the science we have, we have never succeeded in making a cow have
+more than one calf in a year, or a sheep more than two lambs. That
+goes to prove that there is a limit even to science in agriculture,
+and it reminds me of the saying, "You may pitchfork Nature out of
+existence, but she is sure to come back to you."
+
+    _Bassaleg Show,
+    October 11th, 1910._
+
+
+
+
+AN EYE FOR A GOOD PAIR OF HORSES.
+
+
+Some men have an eye for one thing and some for another, but I think
+if I have a weakness it is to fancy that I have an eye for a good pair
+of horses, and for a straight line. When I see a line I can judge if
+it has been ploughed straight, and then I can judge whether the
+ploughman has had too much. Of course, that sort of thing never
+happens at a ploughing match, but still it is as well to be on the
+look-out.
+
+    _Farmers' Association, Bassaleg,
+    October 17th, 1876._
+
+
+
+
+AS CATTLE DEALER.
+
+
+Just before I came to the meeting I had put into my hand a small--a
+very small--paper in which I am described as a cattle-dealer. But I am
+not at all ashamed of that.
+
+    _Newport Conservative Meeting,
+    April 5th, 1888._
+
+
+
+
+THE BEST FARMER.
+
+
+It was the late Lord Beaconsfield, I believe, who said that the best
+educated farmer known spent all his life in the open air, and never
+read a book. There is a great deal of truth in that, and although
+science may aid farmers, observation and experience in the proper
+treatment of land and crops will do much more.
+
+    _Tredegar Show,
+    December 26th, 1890._
+
+
+
+
+FOX-HUNTING AND DIPLOMACY.
+
+
+Many people imagine that to be a Master of Foxhounds you have only to
+get a horse--but besides the matter of pounds, shillings and pence,
+you have to create an interest amongst the farmers over whose land you
+hunt, and whose sheep, pigs and lambs you frighten. One, therefore,
+has to use a certain amount of diplomacy.
+
+    _Gelligaer Steeplechases,
+    April 12th, 1910._
+
+Nothing tends to brush away the cobwebs so much as a bracing run with
+the hounds. Fox hunting is an admirable sport, and my neighbours shall
+enjoy it as long as there is a fox to be found on my estate.
+
+    _At Tredegar House,
+    October 30th, 1884._
+
+
+
+
+AT AN ATHLETIC CLUB DINNER.
+
+
+When I came into the room I expected to find one half of the company
+on crutches and the other half in splints. I am not at all certain
+that I am the proper man to be President of this club, because I think
+that the President of an athletic club should measure at least 48
+inches round the chest, and ought to have biceps of 18 inches, and
+scale at least 14 stone 7 lbs. I am afraid all the dumb bells in the
+world would not get me up to that. I am what might be called an old
+fossil, though I cannot boast of the garrulity of old age, and
+therefore I will not tell you that when I played football I was always
+kicking the ball out of the ground into the river; or that when I
+played cricket I always drove the ball into the river. Those are facts
+well known in Newport.
+
+    _First Annual Dinner of the Newport Athletic Club,
+    April 19th, 1890._
+
+
+
+
+HUNTING.
+
+
+I am always delighted to see any member of the Corporation at the meet
+of my hounds. If they came out horrid Radicals they would go back half
+Tories.
+
+[Illustration: "_I am afraid all the dumb bells in the world would not
+get me up to that._"]
+
+"One touch of nature makes the whole world kin," and there is nothing
+like a meet in the open country for setting things right between
+friends and neighbours.
+
+    _Mayor's Banquet, Newport,
+    January 15th, 1884._
+
+A clever satirist has said that nature made the horse and hounds and
+threw in the fox as a connecting link. In my opinion, fox-hounds and
+hunting are the connecting links between the landlord and the tenant
+farmer.
+
+[Illustration: "_'Oh the devil!' I exclaimed. 'No, not the devil,'
+said the farmer, 'but the fox.'_"]
+
+I have made many pleasant acquaintances lately in my hunting
+expeditions, and I hope we shall always remain on the most amicable
+terms. But some have astonished me with their argument. Said one,
+"Beg pardon, Major, I have lost such a sight of poultry." "Dear me,"
+I said. "Yes, we lost forty ducks the other night." "Oh, the devil!" I
+exclaimed. "No, not the devil," said the farmer, "but the fox." I
+asked the farmer how he managed to count so many. "Well," was the
+reply, "I had four ducks sitting on ten eggs each; and that made
+forty." Well, the Chamber of Agriculture has not yet settled the
+knotty point of "compensation for unexhausted improvements." However,
+the argument ended in our parting very good friends, as, said the
+farmer, "I and my landlord have been friends hitherto, and as I hope
+we shall continue to be."
+
+
+
+
+TWO UNPROFITABLE HONOURS.
+
+
+I have the honour to hold two offices which, if I did not enjoy the
+friendship of the farmers, would be very thorny ones. One of them is
+that of being a member of Parliament for an agricultural county. You
+will agree with me that, in such a position, if I were not on good
+terms with the farmer, I would often be on a bed of thorns.
+
+The other office I hold is that of master of a pack of hounds. I think
+also if I were not on good terms with the farmer that would not be a
+very pleasant position. I do not know that there is any similarity
+between the two offices, except that neither of them has any salary. I
+hope and trust that it will be a very long time before the country
+will be unable to find men willing to do the duties in either capacity
+without being paid for them.
+
+    _Tredegar Show,
+    December 19th, 1865._
+
+
+
+
+THE HAPPY FARMER.
+
+
+A great many people fancy that the farmer lives in a beautiful
+cottage, with vines climbing over it, that the cows give milk without
+any milking, that the earth yields forth her fruits spontaneously, and
+that the farmer has nothing to do but sit still and get rich.
+
+    _Tredegar Show,
+    December 16th, 1875._
+
+
+
+
+EQUINE EXPRESSIONS.
+
+
+Our great orators, whenever they want to be more expressive than
+usual, make use of phrases savouring of horses and carriages. When the
+Grand Old Man came into power, it was said he would have an awkward
+team to manage. Again, when a great division was expected some time
+ago, and there were doubts as to which way two gentlemen would go, it
+was said that Mr. Fowler had kicked over the traces and that Mr.
+Saunders would jib. Equine expressions are quite in the fashion.
+
+    _May Horse Show Dinner,
+    May 4th, 1893._
+
+
+
+
+KINDNESS TO ANIMALS.
+
+
+My experience of life is that a man who loves horses is a good member
+of society. A man who is kind to his horses is kind to everyone else.
+I belong to a Four-in-hand Club, two of the leading members, Lord
+Onslow and Lord Carrington, being close personal friends of mine. A
+relative of Lord Onslow once wrote:
+
+    "What can Tommy Onslow do
+    He can drive a coach and two;
+    Can Tommy Onslow do no more
+    Yes, he can drive a coach and four."
+
+Yet Lord Onslow and Lord Carrington are something more than splendid
+whips; they are highly successful governors of British Dependencies.
+
+    _May Day Horse Show Dinner,
+    March 2nd, 1889._
+
+
+
+
+TALKS ON EDUCATION.
+
+
+I have been delighted to hand so many prizes to lady pupil teachers,
+and I recall the philosopher who once said, "All that is necessary is
+that a girl should have the morals of an angel, the manners of a
+kitten, and the mind of a flea." But after this distribution one
+cannot go away with the impression that the female mind is only the
+mind of a flea.
+
+    _Pupil Teachers' Prize Distribution,
+    January 16th, 1903._
+
+We have been informed, to-night of different foreign educational
+systems, the German, the French, and the American, which we are
+generally told in this country we ought to copy. In the French system
+there is too much centralization. Every teacher, whether at a
+university or at a small elementary school, is simply a Government
+Official. The German system is a splendid one, but it is all
+subsidized by Government. The English Government is not generous
+enough to do that for English Schools, so we can hardly hope to copy
+the German system. Then there is the American system. That is also
+certainly splendid, but unfortunately we have no great millionaires in
+England who will help us to copy the American system. It has been
+said that when an Englishman becomes a millionaire, and he feels that
+he is nearing his end, he thinks--to use a sporting expression--that
+it is time to "hedge for a future state." Then he builds a Church. The
+American millionaire founds a university, or leaves large sums of
+money for a training college, and I think he is right.
+
+    _Technical School Prize Distribution, Newport,
+    December 3rd, 1902._
+
+Sir William Preece has said that there were five new elements
+discovered within the last century. There were others undiscovered,
+and it only remained for some student to discover one of them to make
+himself famous, and, like Xenophon, return to find his name writ large
+on the walls of his native town. A celebrated poet once declared--
+
+    "You can live without stars;
+      You can live without books,
+    But civilized man
+      Cannot live without cooks."
+
+Some people may be able to live without books and only with cooks. But
+without science and books we should not have had our Empire. Books
+and science help us to keep up the Empire. It is for these reasons
+that I do what I can to encourage technical and scientific education.
+
+    _School of Science and Art Prize Distribution,
+    December 4th, 1901._
+
+You can be quite certain that no hooligan ever attended an art school.
+The intelligence and refinement of manners brought about by the study
+of sculpture, painting, and architecture have more to do with the
+stopping of drunkenness than any other teaching you could think of....
+The charm of these art schools for me lies in the fact that we are
+always expecting something great, just as a fisherman at a little
+brook, where he has never caught anything much larger than his little
+finger, is always expecting to hook some big monster. In these art
+schools I am always expecting some great artist or sculptor turned
+out--somebody from Newport Schools--not only a credit to himself but
+to any town, somebody who will become a second Millais or a great
+sculptor.
+
+Newport has improved a good deal of late years, and I am sure the
+study of painting and architecture has had much to do with it. In
+looking over some old papers in the Tredegar archives the other day,
+I came across a description by two people who passed from Cardiff
+through Newport about 100 years ago. They said: "We went over a nasty,
+muddy river, on an old rotten wooden bridge, shocking to look at and
+dangerous to pass over. On the whole this is a nasty old town."
+
+    _School of Science and Art Prize Distribution,
+    December 5th, 1900._
+
+Sir John Gorst has made reference to the indisposition of the
+territorial aristocracy to encourage high intellectual attainment. I
+think "territorial aristocracy" is rather an undefinable term, and
+perhaps school children will be asked what it is. I do not think that
+those who own land are as a class opposed to high intellectual
+attainment. The County Councils to some extent are representative of
+territorial aristocracy, and 41 of the 49 County Councils of England
+and Wales have agreed to spend the whole of the Government grant in
+education. That is a sign that the territorial aristocracy are not
+averse to intellectual attainment.
+
+Perhaps Colonel Wallis will ask some of the children in the school
+what the meaning of "territorial aristocracy" is. I read that when a
+child was asked what the meaning of the word Yankee was, the reply
+was that it was an animal bred in Yorkshire.
+
+    _Opening of the School Board Offices, Newport,
+    March 11th, 1898._
+
+Victor Hugo once said that the opening of a school means the closing
+of a prison. That is very true, regarded as an aphorism, and I wish it
+were true in reality, because there would not be any prisons left in
+England.
+
+    _Opening of Intermediate Schools,
+    October 29th, 1896._
+
+I am pleased that technical schools are taking such a firm hold in the
+town. I feel more and more that the teaching of art is doing a great
+deal of good. There is a great improvement in the tastes of the
+people, shown by the architectural beauty of their residences and in
+decorations generally.
+
+I was very much surprised a short time ago at reading a strong article
+by "Ouida"--whose novels I have read with a great deal of interest--on
+the ugliness of our modern life. She certainly took a very pessimistic
+view of the matter and seemed to look only at the workaday part of the
+world--at the making of railways, the knocking down of old houses, and
+the riding of bicycles. I do not see that those things come under the
+title of art. One of the objects of instruction at the art schools is
+to induce students to create ideas of their own. At the same time I do
+not think you could do much better than study the old masters, than
+whose works I do not see anything better amongst modern productions.
+The great silver racing cups given away now, worth from L300 to L500,
+do not compare with the handiwork of Italian and Venetian silver
+workers. I have some pieces of plate in the great cellar under
+Tredegar House which I do not think it possible to improve upon.
+
+    _School of Science and Art Prize Distribution, Newport,
+    January 24th, 1896._
+
+One or two little incidents in my own experience lately shew the value
+of studying some particular trade or science or some form of art. Only
+the other day I met a young lady at a country house. Before I had seen
+her a few minutes she remarked: "I suppose you don't remember me, Lord
+Tredegar?" If I had been young and gallant, it would have been natural
+for me to have replied: "Such a face as yours I am not in the least
+likely to forget." But I thought I was too old for that, and merely
+said that I did not remember at the moment having met her previously.
+The young lady then informed me that she had received a prize at my
+hands at a great school, and that in handing her the prize I had
+remarked, "You have well earned the prize, and it is a branch of art
+that, if continued, will prove very useful in after life." That branch
+of art had enabled her to take the position she then occupied.
+
+The other incident was that of a young man who had been left by his
+parents very poor. He had the greatest difficulty in getting anything
+at all to do, because he had never made himself proficient in any
+particular trade or science. I agree with the man who said one should
+know something about everything and everything about something.
+
+    _School of Science and Art Prize Distribution, Newport,
+    December 17th, 1894._
+
+It has been well said, I forget by whom, but I think it was Dr.
+Johnson, that you can do anything with a Scotsman, if you catch him
+young. I think you can say just the same of the Welshman or the
+Monmouthshire man.
+
+    _Newport Intermediate Boys' School,
+    November 4th, 1910._
+
+One day I accompanied a young lady to her carriage on leaving a public
+function at which I had officiated. The band struck up a martial air,
+and I stepped actively to the time of the music. Remarking to the
+young lady that the martial air appealed to an old soldier, she said,
+"Why, Lord Tredegar, were you ever in the Army?" That is the reason
+why I think we should have memorials and why I shall be very glad to
+have this picture in my house.
+
+    _On the occasion of the presentation of a Portrait of his
+    Lordship's Statue in Cathays Park, Cardiff,
+    September 19th, 1909._
+
+The commander of the French Army said of the Balaclava Charge that it
+was magnificent, but that it was not war. I do not know what the
+French general called war, but my recollection of the charge is that
+it was something very nearly like it. I have to thank the Power above
+for being here now, fifty-five years after the charge took place.
+Whether this statue will commemorate me for a long time or not is of
+little moment, but I know it will commemorate for ever the sculptor,
+Mr. Goscombe John.
+
+    _Unveiling of equestrian statue of Viscount Tredegar in Cathays Park,
+    Cardiff, on 55th Anniversary of the Balaclava Charge,
+    October 25th, 1909_
+
+
+
+
+THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF MONMOUTHSHIRE.
+
+
+Anyone who lives in Monmouthshire, a county rich in its old castles,
+churches, camps, and cromlechs, cannot fail to be some sort of an
+archaeologist, and it is this mild type I represent. I have always had
+a great fancy for history, and anyone who studies the archaeology of
+Monmouthshire must be well grounded in the history of England. The
+county has held a prominent place in history from the earliest period
+down to the present day, commencing with the Silures, and passing on
+to the Romans, Saxons, and Normans. Some locality or other in the
+county was connected with each of those periods.
+
+One little failing about archaeology which has always been a sore point
+with me is that it is apt to destroy some of those little illusions
+which we like to keep up. I hope when we go to Caerwent, during the
+next day or two, my illusion concerning King Arthur will not be
+dispelled, for I love to think of King Arthur and his Round Table
+having been at that place. Alexander wept because there were no new
+worlds to conquer, but I hope archaeologists will not weep because
+there are no new ruins to be discovered. An old stone has been picked
+up on the moors at Caldicot, and scientific men know that the stone
+proves the Marches to have been reclaimed from the sea by the Romans.
+The question of the origin of Roman encampments is one about which
+there is a great deal of doubt, and I hope to hear some new story when
+we inspect the ancient part in Tredegar Park.
+
+    _Fourth Annual Meeting, Cambrian Archaeological Association,
+    August 24th, 1885._
+
+
+
+
+MONMOUTHSHIRE STILL WELSH.
+
+
+In the reign of Henry VIII, Monmouthshire was annexed to England, and
+therefore we are not now exactly in Wales. But 300 years have not
+eradicated the Welsh language and the Welsh traditions.
+
+    _Farmers' Association Dinner, Bassaleg,
+    October 23rd, 1877._
+
+
+
+
+FREEDOM OF MORGAN BROTHERHOOD.
+
+
+I take my opinion of freedom from Dr. Samuel Johnson, and that is good
+enough for me. Dr. Johnson said that freedom was "to go to bed when
+you wish, to get up when you like, to eat and drink whatever you
+choose, to say whatever occurs to you at the moment, and to earn your
+living as best you may."
+
+[Illustration: "_I talk of Buccaneer Morgan._"]
+
+The Lord Mayor has hoped that he will prove to be a member of the
+Tredegar family. The name of Morgan is a splendid name. You can, with
+that name, get your pedigree from wherever you like. Whenever I talk
+of bishops, I remember to speak of Bishop Morgan. If I speak to a
+football player, I talk of Buccaneer Morgan, and so it goes on in any
+subject you wish. I do not care--even if there is a great murder--a
+Morgan is sure to be in it! I do not wish to detract from the Lord
+Mayor's desire to be in the pedigree, but, at all events, we can all
+belong to a Morgan Brotherhood.
+
+    _Reply to toast of "Our Guest," at City Hall, Cardiff,
+    October 25th, 1909._
+
+When the agitation for the new Technical Institute was going on, I
+daresay most of you heard all sorts of objections to it on the ground
+of expense and of there being no necessity for an institute of this
+description. Some of the agitators went back to Solomon. They said,
+"Solomon was the wisest man who ever lived, and he has told us that
+'He who increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.' So why," said they,
+"do you want to have more knowledge?" Another objector said, "A little
+knowledge is a dangerous thing," and then somebody else said, "Of the
+making of books there is no end," and "Much study is a weariness of
+the flesh."
+
+All those old sayings were trotted out, but there was the other side
+to bring before you. There was the dear old lady who was so proud of
+her son--he was a kind of artist--that she thought he would become a
+second Gainsborough. He got on very well, as she thought, and one day,
+meeting his professor, she said, "Oh, Professor, do you think my son
+will ever learn to draw?" and he replied, "Yes, madam, if you harness
+him to a wagon." Happily, Newport went the right way, and built what I
+fancy is quite one of the most up-to-date technical institutions in
+the country.
+
+    _Technical Institute Prize Distribution, Newport,
+    December 21st, 1910._
+
+It is very difficult to address a mixed school of boys and girls. You
+require totally different things for boys and girls. A learned
+gentleman was once asked his ideal of a girl, and he replied, "Most
+like a boy." Asked his ideal of a boy, he replied, "Only a human boy
+who dislikes learning anything." I was a human boy myself once, about
+70 years ago, and I hated learning anything except running about and
+making myself disagreeable to everyone. My experience of girls is that
+girls want to learn when a boy doesn't. A girl is nearly always
+anxious to learn, whilst a boy only wants to amuse himself.
+
+A great M.P. gave an address about education a week or so ago, and
+said our system was all wrong, that facts were no use, and that
+thinking was what they wanted. I totally disagree with him. Facts are
+wanted, for it is from facts you get on to thinking. One examiner was
+much amused by the notion of a boy who said that what struck him most
+was the toughness of wood, the wetness of water, and the magnificent
+soapiness of soap. That boy was going to get on; he was thinking more
+about facts than anything else.
+
+[Illustration: "_He was what they called 'a devil of a chap to
+jaw.'_"]
+
+Another great school question is with regard to punishment, whether it
+is good to order a boy or girl to write out a certain number of lines
+or learn so many lines of poetry. A well known gentleman of the world,
+politically and otherwise, when at school was what they called "a
+devil of a chap to jaw." That was the expression of a fellow pupil. He
+was constantly in the playground jawing, and they sentenced him to run
+around the ground five times when he spoke for more than three
+minutes. That was supposed to cure him, but it did not. He speaks now
+more than anyone in the House of Commons.
+
+    _Pontywaun School Prize Distribution,
+    March 17th, 1911._
+
+
+
+
+A HYBRID COUNTY.
+
+
+We in Monmouthshire are in a sort of hybrid county. A great many
+people think we are in Wales and a great many people think we are not.
+Cardiff is very jealous of us--jealous because we can get drunk on
+Sundays and they can't. I hope we shall continue to be a county of
+ourselves, and when this great Home Rule question, which is so much
+talked about, is settled we shall, no doubt, have a Parliament at
+Newport-on-Usk, or else at Monmouth-upon-Wye.
+
+    _Newport Athletic Club Dinner,
+    April 27th, 1891._
+
+
+
+
+INTEREST IN EXPLORATION.
+
+
+I wish to renew interest among the people of the neighbourhood in the
+exploration work at Caerwent. The reason, perhaps, why some of the
+interest has fallen off, is the illness and death of the late Vicar of
+Caerwent, who always took the greatest possible delight in explaining
+to visitors the history of the ancient city and the nature of the work
+of excavation.
+
+There is a great deal of fresh ground to be explored. I am glad to
+find that there is an increasing interest in Great Britain in this
+kind of work, and I hope it will continue to increase. If we expect to
+find any interest at all in matters of this kind, it would be in Rome,
+and yet we find that in that city it has been decided recently to pull
+down some of the most valuable remains in the city, the great Roman
+wall, which for so long a period kept out the Goths and the Vandals
+who besieged the city. If that is possible in Rome, any indifference
+to this kind of work in Great Britain is not surprising. There is a
+fascination about the work of exploring, as we are always expecting to
+find something which has not been found before, and which may be very
+useful for historical purposes.
+
+All this part of the world is very interesting, not only Caerwent, but
+Llanvaches, where we find early Christian evidences, and Newport,
+where we have a castle of the Middle Ages. I cannot help thinking,
+when I look at the collection of Roman coins in the Caerwent Museum,
+that it is not absolutely impossible that one of them may be the very
+coin which Our Saviour took and asked whose image it bore. For all we
+know, that very coin may have been in the possession of a Roman
+soldier stationed in Jerusalem at the time of the Crucifixion, and
+brought by him to Caerwent.
+
+    _Newport Town Hall, on the occasion of a Lecture on
+    "The Excavations at Caerwent,"
+    March 24th, 1908._
+
+
+
+
+OLIVER CROMWELL AND NEWPORT.
+
+
+There are few Newportonians in this hall who do not remember perfectly
+well the curious little house, with a low 16th century portico,
+situated at the bottom of Stow Hill. It was regarded with great
+veneration by antiquarians, but was no doubt looked upon as a great
+nuisance by the great body of the people. However, that old portico is
+now treasured at Tredegar House. The house was called "Oliver
+Cromwell's House."
+
+I think you will agree with me when I say that few people slept in so
+many bedrooms as King Charles I. or Oliver Cromwell is said to have
+done. There is a room at Tredegar House called King Charles the
+First's room, but it was not built until ten years after that Monarch
+was beheaded.
+
+With regard to the little house called Oliver Cromwell's House, there
+is some reason to believe that Oliver Cromwell might have occupied
+it. It was, sometime, occupied by the Parliamentary troops, because I
+have at this moment an old fire back, which was found in the cellar
+with the Royal Arms of England and the Crown dated 16-- something
+knocked off. No doubt this was found in the house by Parliamentarians,
+who immediately proceeded to knock off the crown. We know that Oliver
+Cromwell passed that way, because he went to the siege of Pembroke and
+found great difficulty in taking that town.
+
+I have a copy of a letter Cromwell wrote to Colonel Saunders, one of
+his leaders, in which, after congratulating him upon his zeal and
+close attention, he referred to "the malignants--Trevor Williams of
+Llangibby Castle, and one Sir William Morgan, of Tredegar," and
+directed him to seize them at once. That shows that Oliver Cromwell
+knew all about Caerleon, Newport and Tredegar.
+
+    _Opening of Tredegar Hall, Newport,
+    March 14th, 1895._
+
+
+
+
+WELSH PEOPLE EVEN IN CARDIFF.
+
+
+I am glad to find that the Welsh Church movement has been such a
+success. I was asked on one occasion if there were many Welsh people
+in Cardiff, and I confessed there were. When further asked if there
+was a Welsh Church there I had to admit with shame that there was not.
+From that moment I resolved to back up as much as I could the movement
+for providing a Church for the Welsh-speaking inhabitants of Cardiff.
+No one could walk the streets of Cardiff without being impressed with
+the number of Welsh people one met and heard talking in their own
+language. Probably a great number of those simply came into the town
+for the day, but a considerable number must be residents of the town.
+
+I see a great many ladies present, and I would urge them to do what
+they can, for, in the words of a Church magnate, who was, if not an
+archbishop or a bishop, certainly an archdeacon--"mendicity is good,
+but women-dicity is better."
+
+    _Laying of the Foundation Stone of a Welsh Church at Cardiff,
+    July 2nd, 1890._
+
+
+
+
+THE SIEGE OF CAERPHILLY CASTLE.
+
+[Illustration: "_Two hundred tuns of wine! That is better than a
+Temperance Hotel._"]
+
+
+I am impressed by the energy displayed by the agriculturists of the
+district in sending such satisfactory exhibits. At the same time, you
+must not fancy yourselves quite too grand at the present day,
+because, if you read history you will find that during the siege of
+Caerphilly Castle, some 400 or 500 years ago--when the castle was
+taken--there were 2,000 oxen, 12,000 cows, 20,000 sheep, 600 horses,
+2,000 pigs and 200 tuns of wine inside the Castle walls. Two hundred
+tuns of wine! That is better than a Temperance Hotel.... If you walk
+round this show you will not see one single sign of depression. It
+grows larger every year. Cattle grow better, the horses better, the
+women grow prettier, and the men grow fatter.
+
+    _East Glamorgan Agricultural Show, Caerphilly,
+    September 7th, 1899._
+
+
+
+
+GWERN-Y-CLEPPA.
+
+
+The foundations of Gwern-y-Cleppa, the palace of Ivor Hael, have been
+traced around a tree in Cleppa Park. Although it has been termed a
+palace, I think it more likely to have been something of a manor
+house, for Ivor was the younger son of a younger son, and therefore
+not likely to have had very large possessions. Ivor's generous nature
+has been well depicted by his celebrated bard, Dafydd ap Gwilym.
+
+I have read in a book an account of an incident which tradition
+alleges took place near the spot on which we are standing. This was a
+contest between Dafydd and his rival bard, Rhys Meigan. Dafydd's
+shafts of satire overwhelmed his opponent, who fell dead--the victim
+of ridicule.
+
+    _Cardiff Naturalists' Visit to Gwern-y-Cleppa,
+    May 10th, 1893._
+
+
+
+
+IN PRAISE OF EISTEDDFODAU.
+
+
+As long ago as the 15th century an ancestor whom I have been reading
+about lately--Ivor Hael--appears to have been celebrated particularly
+for his support of the Eisteddfodau of that period and of music in
+general. Later on, my grandfather and father always did their best to
+promote the idea of the Eisteddfod, and on several occasions presided
+at those gatherings. I, personally, consider the Eisteddfod a great
+institution.
+
+One of the reasons why many of our English friends do not support
+Eisteddfodau, and are inclined to speak slightingly of them, is
+because of the religious side which commences with the Gorsedd; but I
+think if our friends paid a little more attention to it, and attended
+oftener, they would not be inclined to ridicule the institution.
+
+An Eisteddfod, anywhere, is a very interesting event, but one at
+Pontypridd seems to be of all others the most interesting. Pontypridd
+itself is full of reminiscences of old and modern Wales. On that very
+stone--the Rocking Stone--on the hill where some of us have been
+to-day, some very earnest bards, no doubt, at different times had
+their seats, and it does not require a very vivid imagination to
+picture on that stone one of those unfortunate bards that were left
+after the Massacre of the Bards of Edward.
+
+Then we have not far away the remains of the old monastery of Pen
+Rhys, where tradition says rested Ap Tudor, or at all events to whom
+the monastery was erected. At that very place, that great terror of
+England and of the Normans--Owen Glendower--who was at that time
+residing at Llantrisant, was stated to have presided at an Eisteddfod
+soon after his incursion into Wales. Great bardic addresses were
+delivered there, and one, written to Sir John Morgan of Tredegar, is
+now in the archives of Tredegar.
+
+Coming to later times, we have Cadwgan of the Battleaxe, who was
+supposed to have been sharpening his battleaxe at the time he was
+going down the Rhondda, so that it must have been pretty sharp by the
+time he arrived at his destination.
+
+[Illustration: "_There is at the present moment a wave of music-hall
+melodies passing over the country._"]
+
+There is at the present moment a wave of music-hall melodies passing
+over the country, and I think it is one of the duties of the
+Eisteddfodau to try to counteract the music-hall fancy, now so
+prevalent. Not many days ago, I was reminded of an incident in which a
+lady asked a friend whether he was fond of music, and he replied "Yes,
+if it is not too good." Unfortunately, that is the opinion of about
+one-half of the civilized world.
+
+The aim of the Eisteddfod is to patronise good music which, combined
+with high art, has a tendency, as the Latin poet puts it, to soften
+manners and assuage the natural ruggedness of human nature.
+
+    _Eisteddfod, Pontypridd,
+    July 31st, 1893._
+
+Miniature Eisteddfodau, one of which we are celebrating, are most
+interesting, as being a sort of prelude to the great National
+Eisteddfod which takes place annually. There is something peculiarly
+interesting in these essentially Welsh gatherings, because however
+much we who live on this side of the Rumney may, from legislative
+causes, be considered English, we never hear of an Eisteddfod taking
+place on the other side of Offa's Dyke, which in my opinion is the
+boundary of Wales.
+
+Offa's Dyke was formerly a great mound and ditch erected by King Offa
+somewhere in the year 900 or thereabouts, as a boundary between Wales
+and England, and it ran from the mouth of the Wye to Chepstow. We
+seldom hear of an Eisteddfod taking place on the other side of the
+dyke. It is true there are the great Choral Festivals, but those are
+festivals held in the grand Cathedrals, at which very grand company
+assemble, and where some of the most celebrated singers sing; they are
+not competitive in any sense. Here we have competitions, not so much
+for the prizes as for the honour of the thing, for the honour of the
+Welsh nation, and for the advancement of music and art in Wales.
+
+    _Risca,
+    October 5th, 1896._
+
+
+
+
+TREDEGAR HOUSE.
+
+
+Tredegar House is generally believed to have been designed by Inigo
+Jones, but it was not built until after that architect's death. It was
+built by William Morgan, and finished about 1672. A residence formerly
+stood on the spot, which Leland mentioned as "a fair place of stone."
+Owen Glendower, when he ravaged Wentloog, and destroyed houses,
+churches and Newport Castle, probably destroyed Tredegar House. On an
+inquisition being taken after this period of the value of the
+lordship, the return was _nil_.
+
+    _Cambrian Association Meeting,
+    August 28th, 1885._
+
+
+
+
+A LITTLE FAMILY HISTORY.
+
+[Illustration: "_I have made the discovery that the Morgans were never
+remarkable for very great talent._"]
+
+
+As far as I have been able to read the family history, I have made the
+discovery that the Morgans were never remarkable for very great
+talent; but for many generations we have lived in much the same spot,
+and it has been our motto to make life happy to those around us, and
+to assist those with whom we come in contact. I believe my family have
+lived for this object. There are many days in the history of the
+family that are much treasured by us, but there will be no one day
+more honoured than the memory of this one. When I hand these addresses
+to Lady Tredegar, and express to her the kind sentiments everyone has
+made use of as to the memory of the late Lord Tredegar, we shall one
+and all be thankful, and the memory of this day will live long in the
+heart of every member of the Tredegar family.
+
+    _Tredegar Memorial Corn Exchange, Newport,
+    September 4th, 1878._
+
+The Mayor has spoken of the commercial spirit which, he stated, has
+recently been evinced by the Tredegar family. His Worship in that
+respect erred a little, for several hundred years ago there was a
+gentleman who called himself Merchant Morgan. He sailed on the Spanish
+Main, and brought back with him a great deal of money which he had
+made in trade--or otherwise. From that day to this, the Morgans have
+been very well off. Later, there were ironworks in Tredegar Park,
+carried on by Sir William Morgan. Those works paid also, and when he
+had money enough Sir William Morgan removed them away, restored the
+green fields, and left other people to attend to the works.
+
+    _Mayoral Banquet, Newport,
+    December 15th, 1881._
+
+Sir Henry Morgan played an important part in the stirring drama of
+Empire-building. His name has become a household word, and his daring
+exploits on the Spanish Main in the 17th century rival in song and
+story the heroic adventures of Drake, Frobisher, and Hawkins. It is
+mainly to him that we own the island of Jamaica, the most wealthy of
+our West Indian possessions. He was not a plaster saint, it is true;
+but it is incorrect to call him a pirate, for there is no gainsaying
+the fact that all his actions were justified by instructions he
+received from time to time from his Monarch, Charles II, who
+countenanced every movement of his, and even empowered him to
+commission whatever persons he thought fit, to be partakers with him
+and his Majesty in his various expeditions and enterprises. He was
+cruel in the ordinary sense of cruelty exercised in warfare, no
+doubt, but only when in arms against the blood-thirsty Spaniards. As a
+leader of men he was never surpassed by any captain of the seas, and
+in his glorious conquest of Panama--which the great Sir Francis Drake
+in 1569 had failed to take with 4,000 men when the city was but poorly
+fortified--Sir Henry ransacked it in 1670 when it had become doubly
+fortified, having with him only 1,200 men, and without the aid of any
+pikemen or horsemen.
+
+The charges of cruelty and rapacity levelled against him are beneath
+contempt and criticism. The Spaniards tortured and murdered wholesale,
+and who can wonder that the heroic Welshman made just reprisals, and
+carried out the Biblical adjuration "an eye for an eye, and a tooth
+for a tooth," when punishing the apostles of the Inquisition and
+assassination.
+
+It is due to one John Esquemeling, the author of the first account of
+buccaneers, "The History of the Buccaneers of America," first
+published in 1684, that Sir Henry was designated a "pirate."
+Esquemeling had served under Morgan, and, being dissatisfied with the
+share of prize money allotted to him after the expedition at Panama,
+nursed his revenge until his return to Holland some years after. Sir
+Henry took action against him, and claimed to obtain substantial
+damages from Esquemeling for his malicious and misleading statement.
+
+
+
+
+THE LATE COLONEL MORGAN.
+
+
+The death of my brother, Colonel Morgan, has plunged us into grief,
+and all the neighbourhood felt the death of one whom they all loved,
+almost as much as I did myself. I feel that life can never be the same
+to me again.
+
+    _Servants' Ball,
+    January 11th, 1910._
+
+[Illustration: "_The death of my brother, Colonel Morgan, has plunged
+us into grief._"]
+
+
+
+
+THE MONMOUTHSHIRE TRIBUTE.
+
+[Illustration: "_What have I ever done to deserve this tribute._"]
+
+
+Some 50 years ago two Statesmen were discussing the merits of Mr. Pitt
+and Mr. Fox. The first statesman said the oratory of Mr. Pitt was
+remarkable because he was never at a loss for a word. The other
+statesman replied, "Yes, but Mr. Fox was never at a loss for the right
+word." I, this afternoon, cannot find the right word. I can hardly
+find any word at all to express adequately to you what I feel on this
+occasion. I have put this question to myself many times in the last
+month or so--"What does it all mean? What have I ever done to deserve
+this great tribute?" I thought that my duty was to go back over my
+past life, and I began very early, a very long time ago. I went back
+to the Chartist Riots. I don't suppose there are any of you here who
+know much about them except by hearsay. I was a very little boy at the
+time, spending my holidays at Ruperra Castle, and I was just going
+with my little terrier to hunt a rabbit that had got into the cabbage
+garden, when the post-boy, who had been sent to Newport to bring out
+the letters, rode in, pale and quivering, and flung himself from his
+pony and said that the Chartists were in Newport--"they are lying dead
+all over the street, and the streets were running with blood. He
+passed through a lot of people with swords and pikes, but whether they
+were coming on to Ruperra he did not know." What he effectively did
+was to pose as a great hero among the maid-servants, and I remember
+afterwards going up to the post-boy, saying, "Bother your Chartists;
+come out and help me to catch this rabbit."
+
+That was my first beginning in sport--my first excitement. Then I
+thought a little bit more. I have a distant recollection that very
+soon after, I was gazetted as a Viscount. I saw in a newspaper which
+does not hold the same opinions as I do, the question, "What on earth
+is Lord Tredegar made a Viscount for?" and the answer was, "I suppose
+because he has been Master of the Tredegar Hounds for 30 years." I
+thought, therefore, that I had better leave sport alone for this
+occasion. For some time I have had running in my mind a stanza written
+by one who may be called the Australian bush poet, Mr. L. Gordon, a
+gallant man, who spent most of his time roughing it in the bush. The
+lines are as follows:--
+
+    I've had my share of pastime, I've had my share of toil,
+    It is useless now to trouble. This I know;
+    I'd live the same life over if I had the chance again
+    And the chances are I'd go where most men go.
+
+Mr. Gordon thought he knew where most men go; I don't. I don't pretend
+to know, but I had thought, until lately, that I would not wish to
+live the same life over again. But now, when I am here this afternoon,
+and have received from the hands of so many of my greatest friends
+these magnificent testimonials of their opinion of me, I can hardly go
+wrong if I say I would live the same life over if I had to live
+again.
+
+Well, when I went on with my early history, I found that very, very
+soon I got among tombstones and family vaults, and I thought that the
+less I called to mind those among whom I spent my early life the
+happier it would be for me, certainly on this occasion. But still I
+wonder what it is that I have done, that has caused so many of my
+friends and neighbours to gather together to present me with this
+great tribute of their affection and respect.
+
+It is true that I have had more than my share of this world's goods.
+There is one thing that has always comforted me when this has been
+thrown in my teeth, and that is that it was a young man who went away
+sorrowfully because he had great possessions. I believe I have tried,
+more or less successfully, to help those in difficulties, and to give
+to many comfort and happiness who otherwise would have been in much
+distress and suffering; but I am quite sure that there is no person in
+this hall who would not have done exactly the same under the same
+circumstances. I have no doubt that I shall be able to find a place in
+Tredegar House for this picture. It will, I hope, be a monument in
+Tredegar House to help those who come after me to try and do some
+good in their generation with the wealth which may be at their
+disposal. I thank you from the very bottom of my heart for this great
+tribute you have paid me.
+
+    _This Speech was made in December, 1907, in acknowledgment of
+    Monmouthshire's tribute to Lord Tredegar, which took the
+    form of an oil painting of himself, a gold cup, an album,
+    and L2,000, which his Lordship handed over to various
+    Hospitals._
+
+
+
+
+THE JUBILEE OF QUEEN VICTORIA.
+
+
+We are about to celebrate the Queen's Jubilee, not so much because Her
+Majesty has merely reigned fifty years, but because she has reigned 50
+years in the hearts of her people.
+
+    _County Meeting with reference to Queen Victoria's Jubilee, Newport,
+    February 9th, 1887._
+
+
+
+
+THE LATE QUEEN VICTORIA.
+
+
+The expression of the country's appreciation of the character of her
+late Majesty has been done grandly and well. Statesmen on both
+political sides have told of their experience of her, not merely their
+opinion, but the result of the interviews they have had with her. All
+classes have borne testimony to her goodness and greatness. We, as
+humble subjects of Her Majesty, knew her sympathetic qualities.
+Everybody present has benefitted in some way directly or indirectly
+through her. I think of the line which says--"One touch of nature
+makes the whole world kin." It was the touch of nature in her
+character, and her sympathizing feelings, which have made the whole of
+the civilized world, and much of the uncivilized world, mourn on this
+occasion.
+
+    _Monmouthshire County Council,
+    February 6th, 1901._
+
+
+
+
+THE LATE KING EDWARD.
+
+
+It has been well said by a poet that "Fierce is the light that beats
+upon the throne." Since those words were written the light beating
+upon the throne has become ten times more powerful, but in the case of
+King Edward that fact has only tended to emphasise His Majesty's charm
+of life and of personality, and the power of his will, which have
+benefitted not only this country but the whole civilised world.
+
+    _Usk Quarter Sessions, June 22nd, 1910--in moving a
+    Vote of Condolence on the death of King Edward._
+
+
+
+
+THE PENNY WHISTLE OF REPUBLICANISM.
+
+
+There never was a time when the country was more loyal. The penny
+whistle of republicanism which tried to blow its notes some time ago
+has, I believe, burst itself, for it found no sympathetic echo in the
+heart of the nation. I believe there is no harder worked man in the
+United Kingdom than the Prince of Wales. From morning to night he is
+at the beck and call of somebody or other, and we always find him
+ready to respond to the calls made upon him.
+
+    _Tredegar Show,
+    December 16th, 1875._
+
+
+
+
+ON PRETORIA DAY.
+
+
+We have done our best to publicly recognise the success that has been
+achieved in the occupation of Pretoria, and to do honour to Lord
+Roberts and his gallant army. You can tell the kind of man Lord
+Roberts is by his despatches. You can depend on it that whenever you
+read a despatch from Lord Roberts you are reading what is true,
+complete and accurate. I hope we shall soon see Lord Roberts, who is
+an old and good friend of mine, in Newport again.
+
+    _Pretoria Day,
+    June 7th, 1900._
+
+
+
+
+ADMIRATION FOR AMERICAN SAILORS.
+
+
+I have a great admiration for American sailors and the American people
+generally. When the Crimean War broke out, in the summer of 1854, the
+first soldiers sent out of England were the cavalry regiments, and I
+went with them. At that time England had been at peace for 40 years,
+and when war commenced the authorities knew little about the transport
+of cavalry. We did not go out as a whole regiment in a large liner,
+and arrive at our destination without the loss of a horse, as would be
+the case now. We were sent out in troops of 40 or 50 at a time, in
+small sailing vessels of 500 tons. In the ship in which I sailed the
+horses were packed in the hold, and when they got to the Bay of Biscay
+a violent gale sprang up. In a few hours half a dozen horses broke
+loose and struggled about in the hold. There was only one American
+sailor among the crew, and he went down and "calculated" and uttered
+dreadful oaths. But he had not been down in the hold half an hour
+before he had all the horses tied up again. Ever since then I have had
+the greatest respect for American sailors.
+
+    _Cardiff Eisteddfod,
+    August 4th, 1902._
+
+
+
+
+IMPROVEMENTS IN THE ARMY.
+
+
+I always feel some diffidence in returning thanks for the Army, since
+I am no longer in it; but I may add that I am proud to have belonged
+to it. No gentleman who has been in Her Majesty's Service can look
+back with other than happy feelings to that time. When I first joined
+the Army, it was not in its present state. Many things connected with
+that Service have improved. Among others, the social condition of the
+soldier has been improved. I feel that no individual in this country,
+however high his position may be, need be ashamed of his connection
+with the Army.
+
+At one time, the people of Newport knew more about soldiers than now.
+Some time ago I asked the Duke of Cambridge to send a regiment, or
+part of a regiment, to Newport, and his Grace said, in answer to me,
+that the people would be obliged to stir up a riot in the county if
+they wished to secure the presence of soldiers! I hope such a
+contingency will not arise, living as I do in the county. However, his
+Grace promised to do his best in the matter, and I hope we shall soon
+again have the advantage of a regiment in Newport.
+
+    _Dinner to Lord Tredegar and Alexandra Dock Directors,
+    July 27th, 1865._
+
+
+
+
+THE BOY SCOUT MOVEMENT.
+
+
+The Boy Scout movement instructs the boy just at the time when he is
+between school and a trade, when it would perhaps be better if he
+stayed a bit longer at school, for the time hangs heavy on his hands;
+and that is the time when you catch hold of these boys and give them
+an interest in their country, and an interest in the necessity of
+having somebody to protect the country. The Scouts that I have had any
+experience of are all boys who seem to have improved in their manners,
+their ways, and their education very soon after they have joined the
+Boy Scouts.
+
+    _Meeting in Newport in connection with the Boy Scout Movement,
+    March 14th, 1911._
+
+
+
+
+NOT KNOWN HERE.
+
+
+When the ironworks were started here they received the name of
+Tredegar, and the town itself was also called Tredegar. It is rather
+disagreeable to me at times. I have letters addressed, "Lord Tredegar,
+Tredegar, Monmouthshire." They are sent to Tredegar, where they are
+marked by the postal officials: "Not known here; try Tredegar Park."
+
+
+
+
+LIFE'S TRAGEDY AND COMEDY.
+
+
+Life is said to be a comedy to those who think and a tragedy to those
+who feel, and as we all feel and think we must meet with a good deal
+of comedy and a good deal of tragedy. I hope you all have more comedy
+than tragedy.
+
+    _Presentation to Lord Tredegar of Miner's Lamp and
+    Silver Medal at Risca Eisteddfod,
+    October 5th, 1896._
+
+
+
+
+NEWPORT A SECOND LIVERPOOL
+
+
+I hope the day is not far distant when Newport will be a second
+Liverpool, and Maindee a second Birkenhead.
+
+    _Tredegar Show,
+    December 13th, 1864._
+
+
+
+
+OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE.
+
+
+I have read somewhere that an Oxford man walks about looking as if
+Oxford and the rest of the world belong to him. A Cambridge man, on
+the other hand, walks as if he does not care a--well, does not care
+two straws who the place belongs to.
+
+    _Seventy-fifth Anniversary of St. David's College, Lampeter,
+    October 9th, 1902._
+
+
+
+
+DOCTORS-OLD STYLE AND NEW.
+
+[Illustration: "_The old-fashioned gentleman, who first of all pulled
+out a watch as big as a warming-pan._"]
+
+
+The owning of a hospital is not a very lively proceeding, but I cannot
+help giving a few of my reminiscences in connection with doctors. I
+can go back to the real old-style of doctor; not the present-day smart
+young gentleman with the radium light in his pocket, but the
+old-fashioned gentleman who first of all pulled out a watch as big as
+a warming-pan, and who felt the pulse and asked the patient to put
+out his tongue, and ended up by saying "Haw!" That meant a tremendous
+lot, for he did not tell any more.
+
+I well remember a medical friend of mine saying once that he lived in
+a land flowing with rhubarb, magnesia, and black draughts. That was
+the way we were treated as children, and which possibly enabled us to
+live a long life.
+
+    _Opening of a Hospital at Abertysswg,
+    October 3rd, 1910._
+
+
+
+
+ALL SORTS AND CONDITIONS.
+
+
+I am one of those who like mixing with all sorts and conditions of
+men. I can dine with lords and ladies whenever I like, but I cannot
+always dine with an assembly of working men.
+
+    _May Horse Show Dinner,
+    May 4th, 1893._
+
+[Illustration: "_I can dine with lords and ladies whenever I like, but
+I cannot always dine with an assembly of working men._"]
+
+
+
+
+A CONTRAST IN CORRESPONDENCE.
+
+
+I have a great deal of correspondence of one sort and another. I keep
+no secretary, and my correspondence is with all sorts and conditions
+of men. Only this morning, in the hurried moment before I left, I
+wrote two letters, one to a descendant of Warwick the Kingmaker, and
+the other to a little boy living in the back slums of Newport about a
+football match. That is the sort of correspondence I like, for I like
+to mix with all sorts and conditions of men and do what I can for
+them.
+
+    _Foundation-Stone Laying, Presbyterian Church, Newport,
+    August 27th, 1895._
+
+
+
+
+DREAMS AND TEARS.
+
+
+I never remember to have had a dream that was merry. I never remember
+to have awakened from a dream with a smile or a laugh; but many times
+have I done so with tears on my cheeks.
+
+    _Bazaar at Ystrad Mynach,
+    September 9th, 1909._
+
+
+
+
+THE PRECIPICE OF MATRIMONY.
+
+
+You have heard things said about Matrimony. It is an annual occurrence
+at this dinner, until I have become like a man who can walk along the
+verge of a precipice and look down without falling over. I have
+looked so long without a desire to plunge, that I am able now to look
+over without any danger of falling.
+
+    _The Tredegar Show,
+    December 17th, 1867._
+
+
+
+
+HOW TO LIVE FOR EVER.
+
+
+People who regularly study the newspapers come across advertisements
+of many things calculated to make them doubt whether there is any need
+for a cottage hospital at all. In fact, as far as I can see, judging
+by these advertisements, there is no reason why anybody should die.
+
+    _Pontypridd Cottage Hospital,
+    May 5th, 1910._
+
+
+
+
+PUNCTUALITY "THE THIEF OF TIME."
+
+
+As an old military man, I fully appreciate the value of punctuality.
+Undoubtedly punctuality is the first great duty in this world if we
+wish to carry on business satisfactorily. There are those who say
+punctuality is a great mistake, because a deal of time has to be spent
+in waiting for other people. That is a very pleasant way of looking at
+an unpunctual individual.
+
+    _Intermediate School Prize Distribution,
+    October 19th, 1898._
+
+
+
+
+NO KNOWLEDGE OF KISSES.
+
+[Illustration: "_My brother and I had a fine-looking animal. We used
+to smoke our cigars as we gazed at it._"]
+
+
+There is no prize worth much that does not take some trouble to gain.
+I have heard that kisses, when taken without much trouble, are not
+worth having. Of course I do not know anything about that sort of
+thing. My brother and I had a fine looking animal. We used to smoke
+our cigars as we gazed at it, and think there was nothing like it in
+the world. We thought we would send it to Birmingham; and then, if
+any good, to Smithfield. It was of no use, however. It reminded me of
+a celebrated trainer who used to come into this county, who said: "Oh,
+you've nothing at home to try him with. You think your horse goes very
+fast past trees." I expect it was very much the same thing with our
+ox. It looked very good alongside the cattle trough.
+
+
+
+
+A SMART RETORT.
+
+
+When I had the pleasure of presenting Bedwellty Park to this town
+(Tredegar) one of my critics asked: "Are you quite sure, Lord
+Tredegar, that you have not given the Tredegar people a white
+elephant?" That simile did not trouble me, for I told them I was quite
+sure in a few months the park would be as black as the rest of
+Tredegar.
+
+    _Bazaar at Tredegar,
+    May 23rd, 1902._
+
+
+
+
+THE BUSHRANGER'S METHOD.
+
+[Illustration: "_Young man, this is a two dollar show._"]
+
+
+Just as I came into the hall, I encountered an individual dressed in a
+rather extraordinary garb. I looked him up and down, and saw that he
+was well armed. It reminded me of the case of a minister in the
+backwoods calling on a bushranger to go round with the hat. The latter
+did so, and the first young man he came to dropped in two or three
+cents. The bushranger looked at him in a peculiar way, cocked his
+pistol in a significant manner, and said, "Young man, this is a two
+dollar show." The young man at once dropped in two dollars. I think
+that perhaps my friend might come round with me presently, we might
+frighten some of the gentlemen who have come here with full purses.
+
+    _Congregational Church Bazaar, Newport,
+    October 22nd, 1896._
+
+
+
+
+MAKING THE WAIST PLACES GLAD.
+
+
+I have a little advice to give to you in conclusion. A school-boy was
+being examined in Scripture knowledge, and was asked the meaning of
+the words, "Make the waste places glad." He answered, "Put your arm
+around a lady's waist and make her glad." That, I think, is a very
+good hint for the young men present, and I advise them to make the
+evening as pleasant as they can for the ladies. To the ladies I would
+say this--"Don't put too much faith in the promise of love that may be
+whispered in your ears before the close of the ball."
+
+    _Servants' Ball,
+    January 4th, 1899._
+
+
+
+
+AS OTHERS SEE US.
+
+
+A celebrated philosopher has said there are three different
+personalities about a man. First, there is what God thinks about him;
+secondly, what his friends think about him; and, thirdly, what he
+thinks of himself.... There is another personality to be thought of,
+and that is the opinion of newspapers. It is very difficult to arrange
+those different personalities, because one's own opinion is entirely
+different from other people's. I like a gentleman who proposes my
+health to lay it on thick, as some of it is sure to stick, whether I
+deserve it or not.
+
+    _Opening of the New Hospital, Abergavenny,
+    October 6th, 1902._
+
+
+
+
+THE MIGHTY LORD MAYOR.
+
+
+Many people have the impression that the Lord Mayor of London is the
+greatest man in this kingdom. There is a line or two in an old song
+relating to a lover who did not like to pop the question to his girl.
+He said:--
+
+    "If I were a Lord Mayor,
+      A Marquis or an Earl,
+    Blowed if I wouldn't marry
+      Old Brown's girl."
+
+That represents a great deal of the feeling in this country about the
+magnificence of the position of the Lord Mayor of London.
+
+    _Newport Conservative Meeting,
+    July 25th, 1901._
+
+
+
+
+A DAY OF GREAT JOY.
+
+
+It is a high honour, because it is the greatest that the Lord Mayor
+and Corporation have the power of conferring upon anybody. My only
+drawback is the fear that I cannot be worthy of the others whose names
+are on the roll of Cardiff's freemen. You know that comparisons are
+odious, and when you read the names on that list and compare mine with
+them, I hope you will look with leniency upon me. The Lord Mayor
+promised me just now that he would not be very long in his address and
+in his references to me on this occasion. At one moment I felt very
+much inclined to remind him of his promise, as the great King Henry IV
+did with a Lord Mayor who went on his knees to deliver the keys of the
+city. Without delivering them he rose from his knees and said, "I have
+twelve reasons for not yielding up the keys of the city. The first is
+that there are no keys." The King said, "That is quite enough; we
+don't want any more reasons." I felt inclined to stop the Lord Mayor
+and say, "You have said quite enough about me; I will take the
+remainder for granted."
+
+[Illustration: "_I see no reason why I should not be civil to the
+Members of the Corporation unless they are uncivil to me. I should
+probably do then what other people would do._"]
+
+I see no reason why I should not be civil to the members of the
+Corporation unless they are uncivil to me. I should probably then do
+what other people would do. The Lord Mayor has said that Glamorgan
+could not claim me as a Glamorgan man. Well, I was born in Glamorgan,
+at Ruperra Castle, on this side of the Rumney. I know that if a man is
+born in a stable it doesn't make him a horse, but I always understood
+that the place of your birth had a certain claim upon you.
+
+It is not very long ago that I was discussing with somebody what I was
+going to do in the future, and I quoted the line from Shakespeare: "My
+grief lies onward, but my joy is behind." I think now that I spoke a
+little too soon, this day being one of great joy to me, as you can
+easily understand.
+
+    _Presentation of the Freedom of Cardiff to Viscount Tredegar,
+    October 25th, 1909._
+
+
+
+
+THE GOOD OLD ENGLISH OATH.
+
+
+I never was good at personal abuse. I have got a good old-fashioned
+oath when I am angry--a good old English oath, good enough for most
+people--but that is only when I am very angry. And though we have been
+told that this is the greatest crisis we have ever seen, unfortunately
+I cannot get angry enough about it to abuse other people. But in the
+circumstances, if I am put to it, I think I would quote Falstaff, who
+said, "If any part of a lie will do me grace, I will gild it with the
+heaviest terms I have."
+
+    _South Monmouthshire Conservative Association,
+    December 22nd, 1909._
+
+
+
+
+PRAISE IN BUCKETSFUL.
+
+[Illustration: "_If I live a little longer, I should like it in
+buckets._"]
+
+
+Oliver Wendell Holmes, the celebrated American writer, said that when
+he was young he liked his praises in teaspoonfuls. When he got a
+little older he liked them in tablespoonfuls, and later on in ladles.
+I think I have had a good ladleful this afternoon. If I live a little
+longer, I should like it in buckets.
+
+    _Cardiff,
+    September 14th, 1897._
+
+
+
+
+AN EASY SOLUTION.
+
+[Illustration: "_I should like the suffragettes to marry the passive
+resisters and go away for a long honeymoon._"]
+
+
+I have a notion by which we could be relieved of two wearisome
+questions. I should like the suffragettes to marry the passive
+resisters and go away for a long honeymoon.
+
+    _Servants' Ball,
+    1907._
+
+
+
+
+A READY ANSWER.
+
+
+Four or five years ago I received a letter from the War Office asking
+how many horses I would put at the service of Her Majesty in case of
+emergency. I wrote back and said, "All of them." By return of post I
+received a letter saying that I had given a very patriotic answer, but
+that it did not help them in the least; what they wanted to know was
+how many horses I could put upon the register. I sent back and
+registered eighteen horses. That was the whole of the Tredegar Hunt.
+Well, a couple of days ago I received a notice that all of those
+horses would be wanted. So if the Tredegar Hunt collapses suddenly,
+you will know the cause of it.
+
+    _St. Mellons Ploughing Dinner,
+    October 12th, 1899._
+
+
+
+
+WELCOME.
+
+
+What a beautiful word is the English word "Welcome!" What a world of
+sympathy it expresses! It does not matter whether the welcome comes
+from a father, mother, brother, or sister, or from the girl of your
+own heart. It is always the same. I have arrived at the time of life
+when I can not expect an eye to look brighter when I come, but many
+eyes are brighter when they fall on these volunteers who left their
+homes, not when they thought the war was over, but in the time of
+England's darkest hour. That was the time when our gallant Yeomanry
+and Service Companies went to assist their country in its distress.
+They went to redeem again the honour of England, which at one moment
+looked as if it were rather smirched. They must have seen suffering by
+disease and bullet wounds, and in other ways, and must have been
+brought face to face with all kinds of distress, and witnessed the
+agony of death from disease and bullets. All that tends to make a man
+more sympathetic to those whom at other times he might be inclined to
+blame.
+
+    _Presentation to returned Volunteers (Boer War), Rogerstone,
+    July 26th, 1901._
+
+
+
+
+THE SEVEN AGES.
+
+
+I liken myself to Shakespeare's "Seven ages." I have been the baby,
+the schoolboy, the lover, and the warrior, and I am now the Justice,
+but unlike the poet's justice, I can not boast of "a fair round belly
+with good capon lined." Having disappointed the poet in one thing, I
+hope to disappoint him in another, and not to degenerate into a "lean
+and slippered pantaloon."
+
+    _Servants' Ball,
+    January 10th, 1893._
+
+
+
+
+A DELICATE POINT.
+
+[Illustration: "_Some difficulty might be experienced in getting the
+ladies to wear the costumes of those districts._"]
+
+
+The bazaar may be described as an "European fair," because the stalls
+represent most of the nations of Europe. The reason for that is that
+if we went to Africa or other dark countries, some difficulty might be
+experienced in getting the ladies to wear the costumes of those
+districts.
+
+    _Opening of "World's Fair" Bazaar, Newport,
+    April 29th, 1891._
+
+
+
+
+THE HISTORIC HOUSE OF LORDS.
+
+
+It is in itself no great thing to be a lord; in fact, there used to be
+a saying, "As drunk as a lord." But it is a great thing to sit in the
+House of Lords. That House is an institution which I believe every
+country wishing for constitutional government has, for the last
+hundred years, striven to imitate, but without success, and in my
+opinion they are never likely to succeed, because the House of Lords
+is an institution which, being the growth of centuries, can not be
+imitated in a day. It is recruited from various classes of society,
+and it is simply impossible to create a body similar to it all in a
+moment.
+
+In the old days, some three hundred years ago, King James, being in
+need of money, thought it would be a very good thing to create an
+extra rank, namely, that of baronet, and he sold baronetcies at L1,000
+a piece, which brought him in a goodly sum of money. Anyone applying
+for a baronetcy was required to show a certain amount of pedigree,
+proving that he had had a grandfather or something of that sort. Now,
+if his Sovereign calls him, there is nothing to prevent any one,
+having talent and worth, from entering the House of Lords, even if he
+never had a grandfather. Great divines, great soldiers, great
+statesmen, great lawyers, and great engineers, representatives of all
+the rank and wealth of the country, are to be found in that august
+body; and I think it is a long time since any expression on the part
+of the House of Lords has been adverse to the general opinion of the
+country.
+
+    _Licensed Victuallers' Dinner,
+    January 16th, 1876._
+
+
+FINIS.
+
+
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+
+
+
+
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