text:  Shall a man look on while a burglar enters his house ransacks his till let him depart and then in despair leave the door he broke open open still all night for his entrance and then wonder that burglary is vastly on the increase? The wonder I think is that one gate remains; and that wonder will not exist long if government do not do something more than send down _a_ gentleman to ask the Welsh what they please to want? The temptation forced upon the eyes and minds of a poverty-stricken and greedy people by this shocking spectacle of the mastery of anarchy over order in the annihilation of an impost by armed mountain peasants is in itself a great cruelty; for in all Agrarian risings the state has triumphed at last inasmuch as wealth and its resources are an over-match for poverty however furious or savage; hence blood will flow under the sword of justice ultimately which early vigilance on her part might have wholly spared