The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1882-09-19 00:00:00

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THE DORSET COUNTY EXPRESS AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1882.

Mumma TO SLIM )(natl.—At Holy Trinity
Church on Sunday, the Rev. J. Heigh. Chaplain
In
Portland ands, Preached two sermons, in aid of this
society. •1 be oollections amounted to £7 ea.
lirarmer Twaacsomso SiavlClll.—Teanksgiving
writes were held on Sunday at nearly all the churches
In the town, and the offerings devoted to the Dorset
County Hospital. At St. Peter's, £l4 12a. wma
colirct,d ;at All Sainte', ;at Fordington. 94. ILL ;
Collections were also made at Christ Church.
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would enable them to protect themselves from whet
he saw every day of his Him—entering into
contracts in reference to lend, without knowing
their exact position, not having these facts made
known. The amount of depression in this country was
something fearful to contemplate. Go into whatever
county they liked, they would find an endless quantity
of land occupied by those hitherto regarded as tillers
of the soil, and vast areas with no tenant to he found
at any price. In Shropshire there were 60,000 acres
-'at, for which a tenant could n. .t be found at any
In Norfolk and the eastern counties it was
bad. Ile had seen a letter written by Mr.
than whom no better authority existed on
matters of agriculture—in which they were told there
were tens of thousands of acres sh.ro they could not
find occupiers even there. M cabers of Parliament
were sent to represent their cone item's, who had
given their votes, and who looted 'o their member to
observe what was passing, end who were guided
somewhat ey his obeervationa, and yet when thou
members condescended to visit them in their
several counties, they altogether omitted to make
known to them that such a state of things existed.
Now, that was hot as it should be, and he undertoek
tosay that the time was not fer distant when they would
not permit it to be, for they would come to the con-
clusien that if they placed their trust in thou
individuals they would expect teem to do their duty
as they did theirs. There wee one matter of imp al-
um to which he particularly whited to refer. In
1879 there was • resolution in the House of 00111031.1 Us
for the appointmeutof a Ittlanieter of Agriculture. Now,
it was • most painful thing to the speaker to note*
that when this resolution came oil all these men to
whom they looked to represent their interests were
conspicuous by their absence. Instead of landowners
being at their post, seeing vast coins of money were
loot by that community, there Wee an array of snowy
benchee and Mr. Head was practically the only
representative present who knew auything about it.
Mr. ailings then went on to show, in proof of the
Ufgell,.ne& of such an officer, h the Governmental
departments were mixed up—how matters connected
with drainage went to the office representing the
police, cattle disuse going to the minister who
watched over education, and bridges, reeds, and high-
ways to the Local Government Board, to whom was
devoted the care of peepers. Woat a vest interest
was this of sericulture I No less then 600,000 gentle-
men, persona of education, and having cepital at
stake, were engaged in it in this country, and there
were 500 to 600 millions of money invested, and yet
there was positively no special department in the
Government to enquire into its welfare. How long
the agricultural community would tolerate tel., in
these times, and at a period whea depression exuded
to the extent it did, when they were losing their
capital day by day, it was Impossible for him to say.
Tney all remembered the Agricultural Holdings Ant,
which was heralded by a ourish of trumpet*, and
was going to achieve grend things for the agricultural
interest, Well, they might reuoubly have expected
that the mongers was iu charge of sone.b..ety who
uuderstood all matters COUO, tea with agriculture, but
Instead of that it Was committed t , the care of the First
Led of the Admiralty. The Act had beuetitted
farmers soniewbst—he did not deny that; but it did
not go far enough, or, as a gentleman pointed out to
him, it did not go to the queatieu of compensation to
the tenant. The present &tete of chimp really
necessitated immediate actien on the part of the
agricultural community. They should say—this shall
not be permitted to exist, and my interests shall be
lo iced alter by a special department of the State.
When they fund matters reettiug to tue cattle
plague administered in the cone department as
religion, they would all agree it was a deplorable
state ~f things. It was in 1879 that a motion f e the
appointment of • Minister of Aericulture was intro-
duced, and Won afterward.' there was • motion
addressed to the Crown fer the appointment of •
Special Commision to eequire into the agricultural
distress, and at the time when th letter wan breught
forward, so apathetic was the Hello) that Mr. Head,
who was in charge of the in tin, apolegised that to
was making the House of C .ominous into a farmers'
club. If they were so tr •.•a I in the lines of
Commons he considered it wen quite time they cot
about taking steps for themselves. It wa, true the
Commissien was appointee ami Messrs. Real and
Pell were apt ointed Special Commissioners, and were
sent out te America; but they were not left to the
bent of their own iuclinati ,n. for they heel admin-
istered to them • set of questions that they were to
answer ; so they had ouly to enquire into those
melees, and they founde 1 their report according t
the specific directi no given to them. That shoule
not have been permitted. It was reen by the ferment
in Hereforehrhire that semething was transpiring in
Parliament that needed the atteution of agriculturist.,
and they had—as he considered every county should
de--elected a gentleman named Mr. Duckham, a
tenant farmer, and a practical agriculturist, t
represent them. That wae a step in the right
direction, and it the farmers of this and other cituaties
adopted the course liereferdshire did, then the
agriculturel interest throughout the c sentry would be
properly looked after, and attended to in the House
of Commons. What was the state of things at present
existing in the House of Common,? Mr. Duckbarn
found himself practically alone, but assuming that
every county in Engleuid sent • member to represent
the farmers, they weuld th n command an influence
in the state—influence meant power, and directly they
bad power they would receive attent'eu from the
Government of the day. Whet difficulty was there
in following the course II ereferdshire had adopted?
It simply moult they should find • Mr. Duckham irt
this county, and he would undertake to say they had
many, and so when the time came, as it must come
sooner or later, it would be found that the agricultural
interest was an interest not to be blotted out in the
affair" of the St ite. If they only exerted their power
they would succeed iit effectii g that to which they
were entitled, they wou!d get a h upon the public
mind of the ...yenta, ars i through the public mind a
hold upon the Government ef the day. Ihe fatal
f suit that he had seen was that agriculturists had
frittered away their electoral power instead of resorting
to cue line of action. There was no reasen why the
agricultural c immunity ghoul I give up their mind to
the interests et party. He wool I here beg to say he
was sot the mouth-pieu of any organization, but was
sitoply exeressing ideas of hi. own, having looked
mist closely into the interests of agriculture. He was
quite sure they would come to the conclusion, if they
observed their position closely, that they should
eschew all iidereste .4 perty. For his part, he could
not WM where agriculture be I ever beuefitted by the
interests of party; therefore it beheved the agricul-
turists of this country te eschew for ever all
interests of party, and trona le themselves to the
interests of "grit:utter. only. (Applause.) Upon all
State questious, of course, it was necessary that
egriculturists Amnia thro.v in their weight, but upon
simple questions of agriculture he urged them to
...chew party and hold solely to that only which
effected the agricultural interest mei c onmnuity.
['hey would then exercise • weight in this country
which hel never hitherto been felt, and it would not
club with any other interest. Hr was not desiring to
set them up against the lan '• .wining claw, but the
time hal arrive I when they shoal I t dre some "taps in
their own interest. Daring the lut six years they had
het 120 millions of money ..ut of their own capital.
One-third of their capital WS" g ine, and they w mid
never get it back again; and he thought the time had
arrived when they should have regard to the power in
their hands, and that they should exercise it to the
advancement of their own 'cterest, and not to the
prejudice of any other class. (Applause.) lie was
glad to hear that cheer, because it buoyed him with the
hope that they would see the force and the weight of
this. He beiges.' them not to imagine he was opposed
to the land-owning cease personally. He did not wish
Gum to mieun'tenitand him, but the sooner they under-
stood the 'tete of their power and influence, and
were prepared to rightly exercise it, the better it
would be f.r them. It simply meant they should find
a Mr. Ducklasm here. He especially %treed them te
be careful how they exercised one of their greatest
privilege., the electeeral vote. Farmers from end to
gni of the coantry should say—" I will give my vote
tin no one unless he goes to the House of Commons,
which is • place of business, and f Luthere my interest."
Mr. H. d info found serious fault with the representa-
tive char seder of the Special Commission. There
should have been called red farmers, who could have
given their 'due on what the slide's." arose from ; the
general body of the people would then have known the
truth. (Applause.) lie was bound to eay emphatically
and Joule-sly that the commission had come to con-
clusions not warranted by the evidence, and which he
was bonne to say UP no the face of things was a
misrepresentation. When he compared the evidence
of the tenant farmers, the landowners, and other
;avow; intereeted in it, he found it Mt not telly. All
the °eidetice which was of real value to them had been
prectically euppresseel. It was a g trbled repreeent Alien
anti net fouuded on !sets, contrary to comm n settee
mail the experience of every day life. By it he felt an
insult hal been conveyed to hie mind, and to the mind
of every farmer in the tenantry. Was it, he asked, the
proper way to treat a body of gentlemen engaged in
one of the greatest iuductrise in the country?
(Applause.) It was in his opinion the greatest p mssihie
insult and wrong that could be shown to them. They
said there were not many rack rental. in this country.
Was that true ? They all felt there was senvehing
behind the acne,, and that the whole truth shout'
be made known to them, which would make them very
c ireful how they entered into contract.. Refeering to
the rent questien, he sold they all knew that during
the la-t 20 years rents hail gone up 20 ti 90 per rent.;
labour had also gone up 25 to 30 per cent ; so that One
was not a setoff against the other. The Commissioners
had the COMM.II honesty t allow that it had gone up,
and they amidst that the quality of leheur was not
had been kept quiet for many years- They would
emus' to the increase of 25 per cent. These matters
right themselves in the oemmon order of thine; ; but
sad Ines it to reflect that they would net be righted
until certain events had happened—eventm which they
did rot dear's. Time woubi go on, and hy and bye
there would be a cry out, and then 'setae,' of one-
third there would be a ha'f of the capital g 'nee then
three-quarters, and then the cellapse. Ile saw 00
be ter pro-pert now than at the cemrneneement
of the egricultural depreesion. In conclueion, he
thanked them for the attention they had given him;
he had spoken fearlessly as he hoped. Teem was no
reason why be sheuld not, for he conceived it to be
his duty if Inc mid, nook to peak on the Agricultural
Situation to diesels* it open Ito merits, an I fearlesely.
He 'heel I have other opportunities of speaking to the
farmers of this county, when he hoped to go deeper into
the subject,end unearth even greater 1112,0141UP' than he
had done. He trusted the subject of their political
representation would be earnestly thought over by all
of them. IL mud applause.)
The meeting then broke up.

and another to on came over the bridge. ant when they
saw thetodelenriants began to run sway towards Fordtog-
tOn. Thy foil dyed and stopped Wbitty and Wills
Whitty had • bag to pis beck, which contained six
rabbits. Within' toll him be 'hoold take it from him.
bat he refus-d and reet.tedfbut upon tee witness telling him
if he did mit give it up he should tyke bun to Use
Police-
status, he gave it up. The rahhits were emrin an
to have been recently P.C. Mona secured
Me.l who ho hod • not, which was in • wet coadition, and
appeared to hays ben reernaly used. They let, the men
go, but took the rabbits and net to the Satin. Tao net
was 43 Yards long. The defeudmits hod • dog wits them.
Th., third man they did not each.
P.C. B.one cover rroboretive evidence.
Fined SS each sad Pd. 61. flocs, to default two months,
the nets to be forfeited.
floc Wills asked for Vme to Pay in, but the &posh
refused.

The funeral arrangementa Were in the bands of Mr. IL
Talbot and Mr. I'. kni-on. the we elle cerewontes
being under the dir-otion of 11,0. J A.. Sturreo,
of 'All Souls " Lodge, Weymouth.

the s•Me risme:el leman. Many facts ar• at the
wetent tine concurring to make us think of the
king on of GA," In the mew of Corist's second
e-mint. ar near at hnad• TA, while our L .rd warned
us 01 the danger of attsmotine to imiculati exactly the
times and *twos which the Fsther has put in His own •
power, He aneouregm us to make reedy for His coming by
observing the signs WhiCh He b.c declared as those which
should go before it. One such is the mat irtalism 'of the
present geeeration ; It. absorption in things of the Mown,
if.. satisfactory, without shy thought of • life beyond.
Another such is ' poeitive unbelief, of which there aro
•o ,L •ms, which prove it C./ be such as hm adly before
been known. Macy. naturally, sze just now leatChing
tee shaking of the great Koh amino Power as a fUlfilnient
of prophecy. Bu' witho4t uwellieg ou this, it in well to
lay to heart lbw greet Wain of our text. 0,,r duties le in
audit ••1 ourselves ready ior rim Lode e mtng by tertunal
saoctitieation. It is wita a 'dew to this. More than shy-
Inn( els% that this church has been reamed, to prous3te
the inward life of the worshippers. It must not he
regarded es a rust ar oi taste. but of help towards a f
lie ,tt.m of the true nat.,. of public er,,hip. Dunne the
wenn% eeatury. the spirituat restor.tien of the &Minh
Church ha hese entrusted to nieces .11,5 generatiofl thle
test wea the persoual knoalierlde 0/ Coma as the
deenier, that which eine n xt took it up whet., tte•ir
prone:. se.rs hal 14t it, dud tau4Lt the trot, of t
visible church as Chrtst s hely in eh eh wan, c.,. t, ili
people through the Spirit 1.1. 1. tile •cerA 01 al. +O4 •
able worship, that by It eh, re,lly ..rse, near 1.. the
ascended Christ And tn, was the hop: of the P•oioo ct,
of the preuni roe mot U, of the ,•Liirc,, Th oi‘hts 01
esrthly all et, di Nero miu.l d w th it. eSPOC,elig 10 0110
leteiy t.i.eit to her rent; this did nut enact lie higher
a-p c 0 uoa,ttn draw be warsh•petcm neanK totiud
in C 0..?..
• The hymn after lb, germ in was "Thy life was given
for in-," and the recemional "Como ye faithful,
rai-e toe anthem." The offertory amounted to
• £l7 7s. 41
. At the evening service there tree a crowded coo-
-1 gregation. The church was billitiattly lighted, the
, new lighting_ Arrangements meeting wih minus. bed
7 approval. 'Toe 5 ['vice C ,UlcluaLmed WILLI the WV'
; ousiotial, " Forward be our watchword." the leau.s
r were real by the itemor and the Rev. Mir. Wersii ck.
• The sermon wall pramhed by the Rey. Gamow E.iot (if
• Holy Triuity, Bournrmoutb.)