The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1882-03-28 00:00:00

THE EXTENSION OF THE FRANCHISE.

At the well attended rosettes of tn Bedpost Liberal
A...dation on Wed eddy eight • I. ctur. was delivered
by the R v. E. Frauds " Tuir Extension of the
Franchise to adulate, and Itr.dietribution of Siete" The
crier vs. nen at elf oc 0.. n. by his Worship the Mayor
(Cantles Eimunla.
After giving a cursory and rapid glance down the
history ot the questi m until the time woes Mr. Disrmilis
Reform Bill b can. law the rev. lecturer remarked that
wen were stoat !none y and iolu.tice in the pissed
draogemritt, wow., mud not foil to to manifest to any.
ono who wit. Like (tie doubts Li loom down the 114 of the
coustituende% sod their grid. num.,nc•l di ..... cc:. Mr.
Fracas then quoted number. of borough., of very iimited
voting power. nutting to the Holier teu member,, whilst
men), of tadmitude bed the power to send but on. repro-
ernettee. re, county wer not fairly rept...mid. (Air
phuse.) The unmoor for illerlburough has to. am. power
of voting as tactic of the members for Bi.miognoi,
Gldgow, or Ldobeili, and our iriustrio member, with
LUSO voters bottled him, can girt up in his place and block
• menore that tens co. thomanda ere calling fox (Hear.
toed.) Doing away with dun ridiculously email cos.
etltueociee would practichily toil the knell of bribery,
—(.ppiatioe).—sod also exclude the pos•ibility of undid
otiticitdiotte It wouid give a better dem ot men, and
tome men would have more weigh& In be. Rouse. become
of the Larger intermtr they would seermeot It would
also cher sway LAO Let remnants of Me pocket-borough
ninms. men would be unit to Parliament because
they were men, and not Monad they belonged to
certain families. ((Awn) N 4 doubt there would be an
objection need tint many person' Ink. country w.uld
not bays the discernment for taking part la the affairo of
that. onatry. One ia somatintes not • little morel.
though in reality more disgusted at the way the peasantry
are referred to by some of those who reams thetnaled
their superiors. No one wines to deny that then are
odisidarablis ed need's connected with what diddled good
birth and breeliog. is. to come at ea hogioorabie and di.-
"inward andistry. sad to be well-teamed Ins baby•
, hood in MI the snout refitment@ of society. Though in
truth some of the noblest of Um sons of moo kayo tied
the advantage of neither, but whose blood—lake that of
Burn's—as far no can Ise trend ha. bopped through clod-
hoppers since the Flood. There any be soonik ag in the
old dos blood, but it is soindurnes probtemst oJ, and
should not be rolled too enrol,. Anyhow, on is
inclined to think that Hodge had rather the best of it ia
be. discussion with the Spare. Bmll the Bemire loftily,
"My ancestors came one with the Ouidooror." Bold
Hodge, " Asd when they coinedd they need min here'
(Leo/OWL) raring on to disease this important negation,
the lecturer in Colieloofoa, mid sarither objection t) the
re-OlitribilLon was be it the lower clams will always to on
the aide of war, and extravagant expediters. To answer
this on hes only t pint to toe exhibition of war fever
during the last adeniostratioe. Woo made the suggestion
that if dun we. not se excuse foe war on should be
masufsetured I A Peer. And who mdisfactured the
none and wasted no mid of blood and tremors! Al's.:.
Misname,
_as class. wee most red, to id slip th• doge
of wart Toe nobility. Wad chins most heartily
support the party whin is the mist prone
to wart The nobility, the brewers, and the clergy.
What pap-rrs are most gine to hounding on public opinion
ta the direction at watt Tans very pagan which sr. moat
In loner with the higher classes. Oh? No, the common
people Sr. not so fond of war. the reveres la darer the
truth, at any rota an fm as regards the peasantry. Who
supplies most of our soldiers I Tise pmentry . , aad the
war butchery who suffers the greater paned sotb The
pedantry, and in the deprodid width dually follows an
epidemic of ex dawned expeaditure and reckless war,
who suffers mod! The peasantry. Is t likely thee that
they will be os the side of extravagane and war. Such
en
objection Is not found in reams or in fact. In the
name of memos Justice, then, in the name of the lot Melt
psidotem, as you len your ocriantry and prise the true
eery of your nation, for the sake of holy freedom sad in
te name of sacred din, let the peasantry heed remolded.
let the Mgt faint trace of serfdom be erased, sad the lad
relic of (*add tyranny be abolished. Zonate your
pioriliery. WWI theta to break away frost &hods. assmont
of probable paundion: let them feel that they are •
pnrer in the Btotri, give them • chases of bodies their
ands erect in the proud conciouseed that the_ y
bled
a part
of the British Constitution Their sous hese bled tattoo
wetly • wolloought fkki, ria= tiewril••• will
booms • buttress of nooses.