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Merthyr-D. A. Thomas (1888). (See above.) W. Pritchard Morgan (1898). J. Keir Hardie (1900). Edgar R. Jones (191O)-Knighthood, Head of Priority C. B. Stanton (1915). Rhondda-W. Abraham (1885)— Privy Councillor. Gower-David Randell (1888). J. Aeron Thomas (1900). John Williams (1906). Swansea District-D. Brynmor Jones (1895)— Recorder of Merthyr, County Court Judge, Privy Coun- Mid-Glamorgan-Samuel T. Evans (1890)— Recorder of Swansea, Privy Councillor, Solicitor General, President South Glamorgan-Major Wyndham Quin (1895)— Commander of the Bath. East Glamorgan-Alfred Thomas (1885)-Knighthood, Peerage. A. Clement Edwards (1910). Monmouthshire- Monmouth Boroughs-Albert Spicer (1892)-Knighthood. Joseph Lawrence (1901) — Knighthood. West Monmouth-Sir William Harcourt (1900). South Monmouth-Hon. F. C. Morgan (1874-1906). North Monmouth-Reginald M'Kenna (1895)— Financial Sec- retary to the Treasury, "President of The foregoing list, incomplete though it is, is a formid- able one, and in the writer's opinion at any rate satisfac- torily explains the neglect with which Wales has been treated by Parliament in the past. Both Ireland and Wales for many years have supported the Liberal Party, but the attitude of the Irish M.P.'s and the Welsh M.P.'s has widely differed. The Irish Nationalists placed Ireland first She sleeps above the bay. We pace the shore, Hearing in every wave that laughs and leaps, Her voice. 0 can it be that evermore Laurels, white lilies, roses in crimson heaps, These and a wreathed harp we fondly store, As though against her waking when dawn peeps. Land of her dream, she had come to wander o'er, Most ancient Gower, that now the sea-wind sweeps With hopeless moan, here at thy fatal door She sleeps. Department of Ministry of Munitions. cillor. Member of various Royal Com- missions, Knighthood, Commissioner in Lunacy. T. Jeremiah Williams (1915). of Divorce Court, Knighthood. F. W. Gibbins. J. Hugh Edwards (1910). William Brace (1906)-Privy Councillor, Par- liamentary Secretary to the Home Office. Lewis Haslam (1906). Thomas Richards (1904) — Privy Councillor. Ivor Herbert (1906)— Baronetcy, Peerage, Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire. Dr. A. Garrod Thomas-Knighthood. Board of Education, Home Secretary, First Lord of the Admiralty, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Privy Councillor. A WREATH OF RONDEAUX." (For Morfydd Owen). I. She sleeps? and themselves last; the Welsh Liberals placed them- selves first and Wales last. Ireland has received from the British Government a long series of Acts of Parliament of a beneficial character to Ireland; its Parliamentary representatives have not only not sought but have declined all favours for themselves. Wales has little to show for its unswerving loyalty to Liberalism on its members, how- ever, has been heaped a shoal of honours and appoint- ments. Wales has been betrayed by its leaders. The time is ripe for a change. The Welsh Party is referred to in terms of scorn wherever earnest Welshmen congregate together. Throughout Wales arises a strong demand for legislation that will be appropriate to Welsh conditions and needs, and it is generally realised that such legislation can best be enacted in a Welsh Parliament. But a Welsh Parliament cannot be established without the sanction of the Imperial Parliament, and the Imperial Parliament will not consider this proposal until forced to do so by the members representing Welsh constituencies. Welsh members, however, will not exercise the necessary pressure by reason of the fact that they aspire to further honours and appointments which the Government that controls Imperial Parliament have it in their power to bestow. What is to be done in the matter ? Obviously, the first step is to awaken public opinion in Wales on behalf of Home Rule to such an extent that the Fear of Electoral Defeat will become a stronger motive than the Hope of Govern- ment Patronage. Substitute one selfish motive for another selfish motive, for the average Welsh parliamentarian seems incapable of unselfish service in the interests of the Welsh nation. Let each reader of the Welsh Outlook constitute himself a propagandist on behalf of Welsh autonomy. Let him voice the need for Home Rule in Press and on platform and by conversation let him at the same time shower on his local member letters and resolutions all directed to- wards the realisation of the Welsh demand for autonomy, and the day will not be far-distant when Welsh par- liamentarians will place the interests of the nation before personal interests, and the great obstacles to the Better Government of Wales will thereby be removed. II. Her songs illume our inward vigil drear So did they rise above dark city throngs, Starlike, when sad Welsh hearts beat high to hear Her songs. Wistful are they, as the dim dream that longs For lovely Avalon, where fell no fear Of sudden knell amid slow-wafted songs. They cling to us, they thrill us with their clear, Ethereal joy. Alas, dumb grief but wrongs The shrine where fervent memories revere Her songs. P.M.J.