The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1878-02-26 00:00:00

MR. CHARLES WARING ON FRIENDLY

SOCIETIES AN I) TRADE AND INDUSTRY.
M. Co ales Waring presid.ol at the annual dinner of,
Court "Unity " of the Aocient Order of Foresters last '
%eel:, and in proposing "So-cots to Court Unity " made ;
an able and hartructise speech on the shore aiitdoets. Usi
said he was 'dread be w a coy unworthy member of
that coot. lout lie bait attendol Its !Revlon every time
he be loon asked to do 4444. Although be felt that be was ;
a negligent member of the (aunty, yet he deemed it •
great honor to presido at that eery cheerful and moat ;
p00105y..... ....Ong tine in, Instituti ne whieh had for '
their boas iiii ity, mutual support, said frieudobip must
monand the sympir hy ii every thinking man, and ,
In-n he mid they commanded his heartfelt sympathy he '
spoke hut the common truth. ll' was greatly impressed "
with the ohjecte of those institutions, and he said that
osietiee which oxlsted for the warpage of furnishing to,
the young, the active, and the byalthy. encouragement,
connote, aiol aolf reliance, and proved to the infirm end
sick n ennsmati -ii and aupport, sten, hi be commended by
et( lioni-t loan. lio said this with a firm conviction ;
that every moodier conferring a great hapset on himself
ant his family, and was rendering. an important service
to e, ,ntY. for he regardol %woe institutions soot natio.' ,
impotence (hear. bear.) It .11.1 not think a person saps 1
entered otiose institution of that k•nd cold understand
the ro:•11 with.oit becoming a super i -rand a more wealth .
Producing citizen of the oupire, and he thold understand
cheor• elnesa witli which rich • onion alter attending
Cot meelihstr of the moiety, weir bone, because he bad
tie ulnae of good wok done ano d•ity performed. When
be sant that thus.° iimtitutiona diminished pautoriaut in
the hunt lie woo id also like hoses th,•ir influence extended
far beyond the circle of their present operations—so ex- .
tended that the raheiple of aelf help and support should ,
destroy that direaw of modern society, pauperistn. (hero.
hear.) It wee nit merely that poor's rates would
theappear if that moonier was destroyed, hut if snekty
itoelt eould tot,' its bawl it. destruction the working
man w.. 41,1 saiD ouch,a pn•itent as wnuld piace him on an
equality with the greatest capitalists in the land. The
thing was psseible and its accomplish ntent depended solely
upon the efforts ..f the lover and middle classes of this .
country. The greater part of the rates were poll by the
I middle and w is king clssoes,, awl if they would substitute
for poor rates and pauperism self support and mutuality,
pauperism would be at an end. Ile, for ono thought the
great war of modern society .should be against pauperi-m,
and he WAS certain there *mild never be what he might
call moral equality between the rinser' until that monster
, Lad loon moony. d (apelause.) Although he rarely
atteuded their courts, yet he knew something of the
legislation atlecting them: since he isa. invited to attend
. that meeting he had looked into the subject, and he
' thought recout legislation relating to friendly societies
was generally of • satisfactory character. lio should, how-
ever, like to see one or two nrodificoti MR. Ho found that
there war • charge of one shilling mule upon • widow for
• airtifie ite ot her husband's death, before she could he
entitle.' to her pertioo of the funds .51 the society. Ile
thought it would be quite suMeient if the court, being
&oldiesi as to the death of the husband, ebould pay her
the money without putting her to the expenee of obtaining
• certificate. (lieu, how.) As to pauper lunatics, he
thought an alteration might be made, end that the family
of a man so unfortunate as to Inc one • pauper lunatic
ought to benefit by the funds of the society of which he
: was formerly • member. (Hear, hear.) Ile knew the
• leaders of this institution were of opinion that it might be
' passible to create • superannuation fund, to serve as a
Pension for the very old members of the fraternity. He
thought. if it omdd be accomplished, it would be an
r excellent modification of the rules of the society; and if
, the different courts could empower their secretaries to set
ethic a small sum for Institute* it Wool.' be a great coin.
fort to members in their extreme mill .ige. It was astonish-
ing what a small sum ass suMcient for superannuation If
they granted it at a very advanced age. (Hear. hear.) He
had no other observations to offer in reference to that
institution, but he would say that he had the greatest
possible pleasure in knowing that the Ancient Order of
Foresters was prospering, and as Mr. Mate bad informed
them, inc greater degree in Poole than in any other town
in the kingdom. Ile believed Poole wee unparalleled in
that respect, it having about • thousand Oidfellowe and
900 Forgotten, which was, be believed, a greater numlser In
proportion to p,pulation than in any other town, and it
was moat signiticent than so large • sum as 411.4,000 should
have been invested by the working men of the town.
(Cheers) Ile should like, if they would permit him, to
say a few words with regini to trade and industry. There
was at thia Moment a deprewion of trade throughout the
country which had not been equalled during his recollec-
tion. It had lasted three years, and he feared that the
greater industries were being carriesl on at this moment
at very small profit whilst some had been carried on for a
lengthened in-nut without any profit, but he was happy
I to say that t..de and indostry continued to be carried on,
ustwith•oiniing the. cir,stostan.,. Ile WM delighted
, to °lucre' that, whereas formerly when trade was bad
and an profit. were Mole, working Men were reduced to
abject uil soy, no ...ugh thing occurred now. (Hear, hear.)
The depression of trade Lad lasted loager than be ewer
, before recollected, lot, notwithstanding this, there was no
! actual distress in the comitry. There sae no such thing
1 as abject want in the groat mitre, of industry ; this
' showed that enonnoin progress hod been made, and that
Working men hail been so prodeot as to lay by enough
..gainst the evil day, when it mote, even though trade
, were Lad for years. (Hear, beard Now as to foreign
competitism. He had always advocated the distinct right
I of the labourer to chtain by negotiation, and preoeure if
need be, his fair ohms ^f the pr Alta of industry': and
whets there were contentions in relation to the division of
profits they always led to bitterness if they were not well
conducted, and an Mb...trial warfare was the natural end
of a diderence eetwea-n labour cod capital which could
got be adjusted by negoriation. 'laving advocated that
propmitloth he was aiw.l, rather vexed when he heard,
as los bad board very frequently of late, that the
dilSculties wbi.li workmeu made, and their strikes, were
driving the trade 4 211!. ronntry abroad. He was happy
to my that wu not the lacy. Ile took it to be • law of
iudustry that wherever tho material necessary for the
...mixture in any ml,, trial was tuoil:ty whatever could
be °bumped and prodoc .51 at the smallest co:at of human
labour successfully a ith such an In lustry C oupetation
saga aloolutely imp-0i15!... He would speak of me
induidry. ant perhopa the most important one, namely
iron. N>ture bad so pieced the material for making Iron
that it waull he impowibie for her to put it in • more
c .mm 0411004 situation th .11 it occupied In this country.
That being so it (oho eed that unless the English work- I
man •a• lees *Latta, lem able, or less disposed to work i
than th" fwidifiger, irrn lie prodii mil at as g-nail • i
price in Mogi oat as in inc country In the world. (Hear.
hoir ) He put it forth as an axiom; taid he knew it wag I
true, and, if f icts were against him, he should say "So
much the worse for facta" because the truth of has pro-
position remained the Aline. But he WM delighted to
°hoary., that the facts or,: all in his favour. He recently
bad th pleasure of reading • lecture delivered at West- ,
loy a friend of his. Mr. Bramey. Mr. Brumley was
u.u.lt to he commended for the statement be had made as
to the iith ow. He was a mat Industrious collector of
st titbit Ica, and a moot able eXpmi tor of the qoeetion affects
inc eronomical toiecose. In that lecture Mr.. Brass.,
quoted Lowe, which tonged distinctly that foreign coins I
Petition was not ("eosin: the induatry of England to
• transoort itself to other countries. Reproved distinctly I
that England was more than maintainini bar own, and
more than doing what she had before one, end that,'
although we were experiencing much depredate", there I
was still greater depression in the testa of inchutry
abroad. He knew of Lis own knowledge tomething about
the question 44 ironworks, And be made. it his
boaineee to make import... of friend. connecte.l. with other
ctel:t pr .ye that Mt promote.: sm •oPlaid
to other nolintlftellre, ttyl.len that of iron, Au to
machinery. he aahl the other day to • person who was •
manufechirer of all kinds of implements. "HoW le it 4111
Os--mans best >ou r Ile urplisil 'They can't" I said,
"They my so." but he answered. 'Oh no, I will give you
• an illustration.' I know of a manorsofora at lgo,j,leoLuya.
cooducted by an Ithaliesuan, with German labour.
wanted to see what was lociag dons, and I observed when
walking %brooch the factory, "You have no lads a*
work." ll* said, "Ne., I can't have them because
they are always at ge,iool.` " Stit," I said, "I don't see
any you men." "No," be said, "they are always
, employed in the armr." The fart was the greater part of
theinhour woo done bY •.1.1 men, and I said, " The
sooner eau abut up the letter," and the (act is that the
, factory is closed at the present moment." The Choirs
I man proceeded to my that we need not tsar foreign
. eampolitlon; trade was not WM drivel from. covatri, ma the geeetices mild-' isbrz

VS timilfested by Ohs depression of Undo, (Hof. bile.)
He was delighted to observe that the relations between
melba and labour had greatly improved within the last
few ream. Strikes were now eeeee embittered be that
111-feeling that formerly existed ; ernelneem and em-
',loved were beginning to meet on equal terms and
down.o queet ions in a friend', spirit. It was • fact that,
whereas in 1873 the employers and employe." in 8 'nth
.—Wa,"."er• on such ler./ that they could not Inset It
tam smolt curb qotationa. now he knew 1 an instance
were at least 4,000 or 5000 iron workero had imp)e
krward and ,onintmly tunic an .4 ter „f tire per cent.
reduction in their wages in oiler tt nseet the depressed
stat, of teaele, although they had • ids months engagement
running +tate price they act-to then receiving. (Aelobsum.)
An instance like that spoke volume,, and ho anew also
that the relations between workmen themseive• Itnd
imoroved in in*ny re.perfa They warmly heard of
intimidation, po ketins, or c.wreion. H. was aware that
there Pere 'Mali eic..ptiOns in the recent strikes between
1i,,, masons In Lomion, owing to the introdurtion of
fortdiat labour, lei', as a rule, picketing, intouiestion and
coarcinn bad Croaaed 1.8 to features in strike*. That uam
a great gain, and all workmen had to congratulate
themselves .0 thie fact The I trialature had Oared
them on • footing of aboolote equality with the cap-
italist; there were no restriction that he knew of,
prejudicially affeettng labour, and, indeed, all legislation
of recent times had been directed mainly in favour of
workmen. The extension of the districts of relief was a
feature most favourable to them, thus enabling • man to
go about with perfect freedom, without affecting his
settlement, and to soli his labour in the dearest market.
The network of railways through the country, and the
low price at which people were carried, were circum-
stances extremely favourable to labour, as enabling work-
men to pass fr rip on. part of the country to another,
as as Is, tabs advantage of the cleared market
Such facts as these placed all labour on a
totter footing than that upon which it stood
Wore, and he would also say that the moral and
aortal Camlition of labour was greatly improved. He
looked forward to the tints when people would rather lone
to be handicraftsmen. It was • fact that the rich and
well boobs people, .eito were not obliged to work, engaged
In labour a. a pastime ; he knew of no games out of doors
which did not *nears • greet deal of physical labour, and
h- thought it was owing to this (me that the greet enertn
of 'bode games existed for Englishmen. He did not see
why people •hould not like to be workers with their
bond., as well as workers with their bed. He was
convinced that the states of the handicraftsman would
he greet', benefitted by national education ;the workmen
would be as well educated as the penman, and in his (Mr.
Waring's opinion) his work would bebetter paid. Literary
attainments ere rare, and they were paid for very
largely, hut as regarded the ordinary penman—the
raligraphist—if he had • Non respecting whom be had to
choose whether be should make him a clerk or an artisan,
he would unhesitatingly prefer that he should be the
lath,. He knew that his life would be more happy, he
would be much more prosperous and enabled to kml) his
family far better. He expected and hoped to else the day
come when it would be desired by people loan ordinary
class of life that their children abotild beconse ertisans
rather than clerks (spplawie.) Ile believed in this
country much mischief was done by what was called
the ambition of the working claws They were matti-
bons that their children should not have to wort with
their hands, and '.ncolosted on them the desire to
wear black cloth and keep their hand. clean. They
thought this was • more honourable position than that
In which they use of tools was required, lie maintained
that no greater error could enter into the mind of •
parent People came to him very frequently, and
said, ..Cannot you find something for rsy sea to do I—he
I. now about 17 or 18 years of ages" He (the chairman)
asked. "What does be want to do r and the an. •or
um. *. lie will do anythin, that • gentleman can accept **
He had taken to my to these people." If your son has
money enough to Iles without work, he need not &MAY
to um ; if it is necomary that he should earn his daily
bread, let him use his hands to earn it, and if, hereafter,
hit beams and intelligence will enable bins to lay aside the
tool and keep uptbe pen with more profit, he will Carel
out of his own career; hut do not placed him in a position
where be will be more mime under anlohligation to smelt,
for his liveihood, and where he will not have the mem,
of commanding in an ind p odent manner the price of
bit labour" (spplame) He (the Chairmen) knew that his
•perch had not hero an &wising one, but he hoped it had
nt rev uninatruetive. He vrtuld conclude by @grim
that he had iwref idly ahetained from any political allusion
whatever, because he knew in that auiembly there were
many who were not, politically, of the same way of
thinking as himself. Therefore, he not only abstained
front politico on their account, but in order that the unity
and frinedahip which should exist in all the courts of that
ancient order should not he disturbed, and, moreover, be
had abstained from doing this because he believed politics
were excluded by the ruled of their society (applause).