A MAN OF THE PEOPLE.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1819, 22 November 1888, Page 4

A MAN OF THE PEOPLE.

“ I wish you clever Pressmen would not call me ‘ The Wesh Gold King,’ ” says.Mr Pritchard-Morgan. .“I am a man of the people. If I have made a fortune after thirty years of hard work, I do not wish to be thought a mere representative of money. It is not on account, of that that my old mates of Australia sent me this cablegram. People laughed at my.letter to the Times in which I said I would devote my wealth to national purposes. But if my mines turn out as I expect I hope to astonish the House of 1 Commons some day.; I wish to j leave my children well off. I like to: live well, to give my friends who come to see mo the best of everything; but beyond that I think that no man ought to possess wealth which can only be hoarded and accumulated. I shall devote mine to a specific

GEEAT NATIONAL PURPOSE. I shall not tell you what it is, for I: may never be wealthy enbugh to do i what I hope. But that is my idea: about money and the obligations of wealthy men. My public platform is that I am a

NATIONALIST AND HOME ETJLEE to the spinal marrow of my back-bone. How can a Welshman help being a Nationalist? We have suffered and still suffer in Wales from evils forced on us by English Tories ; from laws made by Parliaments not in sympathy with the 1 people ; from an English Established Church which the majority dissent from: from a system of land tenure which must be altered. JUSTICE TO IRELAND demands that it shall have Home Rule; either Mr Gladstone’s measure or one more advanced. And justice; to Wales and Scotland demands that; Ireland will help us to a thorough system of Local Self-Government when she has got what she wants, If returned, of course I shall support Mr Gladstone or any other statesman who may succeed him in leading the Radical Party.” NEVER CHANGED. “You say I am accused of having once expressed views not so advanced as at present. I have never changed these on Home Rule, which I have always advocated, even when the Liberal party did not do so. As a Welsh Nationalist, I roust be an Irish Nationalist. People down here have been circulating the report' that I had Conservative views, because some of mjrdri&uds in the city and society are Because

Lord Winchelsea is chairman of the Morgan Gold Mining Company, does it follow that I hold any of his political views ? Our fellow-director, Mr Hanbury Eacey, I hope, is a sound Home Ruler. No, Sir, I fight this election out on pure Radical Home Rule lines. The authorities who persecuted Mandeville to death, and who are following up the same course with Dillon, could not be supported by any Australian not a sycophant.”

A WOEKIHG-MAK CANDIDATE. “I will only retire,” contimued Mr Pritchard-Morgan, “in favor of a working-man representative, although I consider I am as much a labor representative as any in the Ho,use. But if the miners choose one of their own class, a a?an from the pit or the foundry, I will retire and support him. I have no fear of being beaten by any of the half-and-half Liberals whose names are mentioned. As a Welsh Nationalist, a Radical and a Home Ruler, I consider that the people will elect me. I will fight this election to the end against all-comers except a Radical Home Rule workingman representative. All my life my aspirations have been with th e. Hen wlad fy nhadau, the land of my fathers, as we say here, and I hope to live to be no unworthy member of a

NATIONAL WELSH PAETT, which, with the Irish and the Scotch Radicals, will control English Tories. Good-by! Glad to see you. Just of! to Dowlais, Cymry am hydd l ”