The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1885-02-17 00:00:00

Correspoltbriut.
To Oa Edttor.

Sir,—lt may pr.,vo iutereatieg in thie
learn that thi r.o ccici II couple reeld,g %Youn-
t:tem, (natives ul tti• Wan I), tinsel It ben 113 I 44111
Stowe, wh.) sza nal respectively 63 cod 82 ',we,
They hare beau worried 60 year., and are now
enjoying
apace tor this iu your c dun)l of Pntl6nki now., you
will greatly oblige, yours truly,
Portland, February 9th 1485.

Xcaxti.

POOLE.
A CANDIDATI FOR LAST D012.111T.

Mr. Elward 11. Hummt, wiu has been talked of
1111 • c indidate before. met the elector,' for the first
time under the aleidcse u! the P de Lib real Aeaota-
tion, on Friday night, at the Temper moe•hali and
notwithstanding the Melamine, of the night, sal the
riff 'supper. which wag taking pl we elsewhere, a very
good muster of both town and o,untry Toter. turned
out.—Alderman Curtis was voted to the chair.

I lba CHAIIIIII4I la introducing Mr. Me:knout t the
alemore, esi I. although Mr. Hartmorit baring spent •
great many years la forsigu commie*. in all peril of
tbe world, might seem t 3 hare • little forelda accent
I. hie speech he was Devertbolese • thorough Naglish-
man, born of Eailieh payout', sad bra on English soil
(loud cheers.)

•
Mr. HeIITMONT said : I have known some of you
many months ; in fact, I Sal in,itol some eight or
ten months ago to for myiself iss a candidats at the
next Pa-liamentary election to save this b trough, if
it was your will, from represent it ion, or nals-represene
tation by the Tory "Fair " Trader. (Laughter, and
hear, hear.) One of the first things which this
Parliament will have to do, it being the first time for
many years • l'eople's Parliament, will be to make
up the &Man of home legirletion which have been
accumulating for a great many yeara —in fact, ever
since Mr. Gladstone resigned the le4errhip in 1874
home legislation, with the excepti ,13 of come law. for
Ireland and mere odic'sl and routine bill.. has WOO
practically at a standstill. (Haar, bear.) We had six
years of Tory government, during which our attention
was directed to Zululand, Afghwidtao, lloarnania, and
FOULS, la, and alinoete very country in the world except
our own. (Cheers and laughter.) During that time
tintlstatute b. oh was, bat for routine ensctmente,
almost a blank, and eines the electi .n of ths present
Government, its time has necessarily been largely
taken up in undoing, an far as possible, the mi.-
'Mayon' work of its predecessors, and disentangling
this country from the complicatiom with other
powers into with:3h the Tory Government so
recklessly involved as. The calm of this
country has been perpetually disturbed by aff sirs
in South Africa, in I..:gypt, in Turkey, in Greece—
everywhere. Them matters have arisen. /and bays
taken up the attention of this Government. It was
no doubt necessary that they be in some way dea3
with ty this country, for if we did not deal with them
other powers would, and probably to our pejo lice
(Hear. hear). Then, again, you are ewers that Mr.
Gledstone's Government has met with persistent and
unscrupulous obstruction at the hands of the Tories
awl other opponents (Hear, hear). The first thing
which it will be necessary for the new Parliament to
take in hand will be the question—the question of
questions I Gall it—which has been so long airquieting
the mind of England, the question of the Land Laws.
(Cheers) Agriculture in this country is undoubtedly
In a very bad state. A very large portion of the avli
has, in consequence, gone out of cultivation.
Part of this depression in this great in-
dustry of the country is unquestionably due
to bad seacine, with which we carom t deal, hut,
perhepe, even more of it is due to bad lend lass,
with which we can deal. (Loud cheers.) The land
laws of this country have been made from generation
to generation by the landlorda, whom elm has been to
get and keep lime estates in their It lads, whether
iron pride or interest, or the .'esir of territorial
Influence and p)litical ',serer, I cannot say, but the
result of whose legislation hss been to bur leo the
land and agriculta. e with restriction and oppresion
while onn3entratiok t oe asides in the hand. of them-
selves, in cultivation or out of it, by entail settlements
and other provisions, from g lion to generation, for
ever and ever and a day. (1 u.l cheer.) You Ire,
of onus-, aware thst at the present time if you want
to buy a piece of land, you must go to your lawyer,
who goes to the st..ndor'slswier, who perhaps goer to
counsel. Before the land Is yours, you are called upon
to pay, in addition to the pric3 of the laud, a
lawyer's bill, which To ars no Inconsiderable pro-
Portion to its value. (Great laughter and cheers),
The neater insisted on Fixity of Te tura
and Fair Beet., and with reference to the
agricultural labourer said : we do not exactly let
them starve, we provide the Union workhouse for
them; but I ask you whether this is tb destiny—the
natural destiny—the U d-gi Yen des'iny of two trillion
human beings, two million men in England (loud
shouts of "No" and cheers.) I cannot h. I p thinking
that it would bean immense adr inters to the tenant
farmer* in many parts of England if they were to
turn their attention to something else--something for
which th. no is a demand and which they could grow
at a lotto r profit than their present crops. (Hear,
hear.) I am convioced that theist/nen in many pa i t
Drretehire could grow beetro..t with great advent see.
(Hew, hear.) I have had the soil of Dorretahhe
analyeed and compared with the roil of districts in
counttiea where beet root is erown,, and it Mends
In the necessary riiialitiee, and there is no reason why
a large portion of 1/oracle:hire shoulil not be d v
to beetroot with excellent result, all round. Now,
gentlemen, many of us are antler tbr impression that
we, as a nation, are absolute Free Traders. (Hear,
hear.) England levies more custom dntl, e than any
other country in the world. (Hear, hear.) We levy
19 millions • year on our people in indirect taxation
on their Import,. There rhould be on all incomes a
graduated income-tax. What is • fairer proposal
than that the rich man should pay • rich inan's tax.
and the psor men ghoul I ple • poor m sn'el
Cheering renewed.)