The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1885-06-16 00:00:00

WINFSITH.

1.111101.11. Iin:TIN/L-111e illarte •f Winfrith turn.+l
out .0 ewe. on Thursday 1.V.,11111g last to at Wild an
open air meeting' on the green in front of tlie Itt+l
The evening was delightfully fine, and the
proceeding+ wer,• of an enthusiastic and ttiten•sting
eharacter.- -Mr. 11. Lock occupied the chair,
supported by the Rev. T. Nett.% Mr. J. !lowan,
Bowen, and Mr. Mansfield.- The C'hairman briefly
introduced the +peak., l.y refenang to the fall of
Ministry, but expressing faith in ti. • stirsisal
Liberalism notwithstanding. He refern+l with
pleasure to the strength of the Liberal party at
Winfrith, and congratulated them mu having such a
good association, WA,
WhiCh III•
they would sustain those principles at the nest
election. f.tpplaiise.l He then called on the If..
resolution thanking Mr. for having passrd
the Franchise Itill :tad laving given them the
taken the vote fr. WM many .1 the agricultural lisle mien.
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I'llll' if' Iwral
connection with th.• medical relief cans,l ai.s,,,g
on t•. refer to ti,. • fall .4 the Ministry, he exPre.red
the belief Mr. I Iladstone *multi shortly be restoreu tl.
10111ee and power. There s: victories that
wen• to In regretted than defeat +, And this ill all
ionthatality Wo.ll/1 is. tone of them. Mr. Gladstone
iiu'.er stool s. high in the ninuilon of his party than
believed lie never stood so 'ugh in the
est heat ion .4 .tt
all ,rei,ts
it Vl,lll/1 MAY he for the Torieo ele,*r wll.•ther they
I were capable of conducting ti,. • thuerinnent .1 tins
country, and it would be for them to rediee their
criticiein now to practical action, and ..how their
polityboth with reganl t.. home and foreign affairs.
le believed a very short tome of Mice by thrse
gentlemen would speedily pletiatle the country of
their titsfitness 1.. manuge the adain..4 the nation, and
, that li,,n want.) Is. a corresponding appreciation of
Mr. Gladstone's put 'silky, notwithstanding all its
I difficulties. With regard to the immediate fall .4 the
, ministry on the budget, ..ti which the Tory party
sash.+l to Ise, as the friends of the working•inan with
I regard t.. his beer, he ufil he did not wish to y..11..01
I from thelll the fact that he !tumuli was a teetotaler,
I and, thentore, lie heartily sympathised with the
I budget .1 the Chancellor .4 the .tt the
- • time he 1.1.1 no wish, and he did not believe the
I Liberal party had any wish, to interfere in any unjust
' 11141111* with the working-nun. When tlit
remembered it Waa the Liberal party who gave the
orking man cheap hread, it did not consistent
t.. that the Liberal party w• mid
(16110.41 to act unjustly towards the working
Inall r‘eil in the Matter of his beer. (.%).plause..)
Ti.. whole thing, he contended, was simply an effort
Olt the part of th.• t" thr"W dust in the eyes of
the working classes, but the Tories would find that
the working claw-es were not to be wi easily deluded,
for they had eilfficiatt 'ens • to WI that uxation must
Is. raised for the sPecial efilerffencies of the empire,
:slid that the only possible way of raising the taxation
1%1•4 t•ither by pitting it I.n beer or on tea. (Ifear,
hear.) Now, a. a matter .4 fact, the duty on beer
already was something lik.. 20 per cent., and Mr.
Illadstone's additional taxation would only amount to
something like three, making a total of :IA per coat,
whereas tea au taxed son...thing like 40 per cent.,
and the taxation necessary for the tetellla of the
country would raise it to 'thing like 72 per cent.,
or all additional 3.1., upon ••very.pointil of tea. Now
it lutl been held a+ a sound 11100(1111 by financiers that
lwer awl spirit+ were exceptional, and shoithl theref.u.
, bear a+ heat v hi taXatioll tO was consistent with fair
ii,.... Noboay knew this better than the T.wies them.
-else+, although it suited their petition in the twan•
time to pewa.. the steralled friends of the " working
man and his I-.,,." aungliter.) The real attack,
bow., sr, as Mr. Gladstone pointed IMt in his
speech, was not ti.. iaior tle• tit+
property. (Hear, hear.) The death duties, by
whirl, landed po•p•rty was madi• to bear an equal
i.rop.rtion tasat in with iierwinal property,
had iti reality .41411 the Tories, eo that
Sir ichael II iet.s•ltestch, in his speech, de•
mantled that tle• duties should la suspended mad
local reform hint passed, a hich 'vats a mere subta.r•
fug... The only question that rein:tined, therefore,.
Wan that th. raw tuat.lial ii,, taunt ry nitig tatetl
or protective thit 4/1" that Ile- heet et tea
must I wart he burden. 11.J•sliux. tilt ailit.+lly the
country would fear the taxation on the teer and
spirlts, lint that the hreakfast table liind he left a+
free a+ pesible. t.tpplausei. Nfr. Neas.• then lope
til 11W1.11 till, question of T•ryisin and
Liberalism, asking tle• meeting to isuisidet which
I,OIV had inall ii, fa, ir of I.••,,fislat ion for the working-
Glasses. It W.m, la thought, quite minty...wiry Cm
Imo to tell them that tle• Liberal party it.il iii along
hren the friends .4 the labouring classes. and that
111.-y had lwen their especial friends of late in the
gift of the franchise. If they wished to hate
.Icy.l pi ogress and num saw-lit for the flume,
they might r. st assured they would have to depend
lipui th.. Lila cal h•atly. and not njwai the Collak rva•
tis Irony rultadad 1/r.:nre:/.14:-
t.%pplatise.) 11.. alluded to the refontis already
passed, awl the probable progr, • of the future,
dealing fairly with the land question which the
Tories declined al...burly to touch, and although that
was undoubtedly the main question that Is.
dealt n itli, they had observed a discr.....t silence,
when 3, the leaders ..f the Liberal party. including
flre4l.t. threaten, and others had proclaimed the.,,.
Is.- in fo..er .1 the Land Laws, w, that land
InVolle: a Mali.. tal/14. article with other
In- hiit conclueion th.• 11:4. jpait
espre+sed the earnest le.pe they wolthl i.
fo ~,,, I giving dor attention to tr...., imperial
.iiiest ions, and that ti,.'. lA...tali! give t heir
suffrages to the Liberal Lawful:oe. IL/al/1 apillanseA
' .7 .11.. w at. d 11.. w o. mt1“1 the resolution in :411
speech. 11. referred to., and enlarged "11.
some of the prints dealt with It) Mr. Stave, +lowing
them that the Liberal Party had hien the pionteis in
all gsreat popular movements, and it was useless for
the Tries to attempt to delude th.• working classes by
atty proteesioi ef asir interest ill thy louts .41 of the
l'i andante. Mr. Bowen ally plained the working of
the ballot, alid IMoinerl thtm &to, f
vot...—The resoluti•al Vem% plt t., ti's meeting, and
c-u, most enthusiastically. Ilearty cheer+ were
given for Mr. Ulad.totie and the Liberal Party.