The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1883-03-27 00:00:00

BIR FREDERIC JOHNS TONE AND HIS

BUPPORTERB.

The Conservative member for the Borough. Sir Frederic
Johnstone, addreased his Irian& and supporters at the
Atha Hot .l on Wednesday evening list. Mr. C. Mercer,
Ole newly elec:ed preadult. amused to. ehair, eupported
by the Ron. Member, General Baugh, C >tonal S inlay
Sc itt. Colonel O'Donnell, Mr. J. Athenian. Captain
Esau, R.N.. and Mr. C. F. Ardis.. Among those ea the
platform were General Beath, Colonel Sterile, Scott.
not O'Donnell. Mr. J. Rthertsoo, J.P. ,Captain Evans,
R.N., and Mr. C. F. Arden. Among other present were,
Kr. T. B. Groves (non. treasurer), Mr. J B. [vendee (hon.
secretary), Mr. T. Crippe, Mr. Z. Mlllulge. Mr. R. A.
Curtis, Mr. T. Booth, Kr. W. T. Aylesbury, Mr. J.
Vincent, Mr. J. G. It iwe. Mr. G. R. erickmay, Mr. G.
Cricketer, Ito. IV. It Naugle, Mt. A. Grisham, Mr. T.
Abbey, Mr. R.. Thomas, Mr. J. Bsunion, Mr. Percy
Street. Mr. G. a Russell. Mr. L. R red, Mr. F. Gmbh, Dr.
Sintheon Kr. Alfred Pope (Dorchester), Mr. .T. Thresher.
Mr. W. telb it, Lo.
The Passiumm having claimed for Sir Frederic •
patient bear.ng,
The Host. IliKera entered upon • tong dleeouree on
current political topics. Dividing toe ewe of the Govern-
aunt into two parts, their blunders and their crimes, be
nut alluded to toe " lucky blunder," the Egyptian war.
Probably there
neosopary, and therefore more unjust Hs endeavoured to
groo.v.e. this by brief's sketching the eircometthoes from •
vatithlthint of view that led up to the Eigyptlen
War. SUS he rejoiced In the victory attained. Said Sir
Frederic, I am glad of the moths, of the war. When war I.
once deMared I un for my cOnetry.right•r wrong. I then say
I rejoice in the victory attained. I admire the still of the
general, I am proud of the bravely of the troops, but
three this'll, ahould never make us forget the folly and in-
Janice of the war itself ; ebeuld never make no forget the
incapacity of the 'Lula,' in letting the ship of State
drift helpless, without rudder and without compass,
whither it list, till it drifted into war. (Applause.) I say,
when the shouts of victory are over, the war will not be
approved of by the nation. Liberia newspapers may
glorify it. Liberal poets may chant praises of it--history
will condemn it. (Applause.)
"Not 8 aid prase, nor honied lies in rhyme
Can Mason evil deeds or calumets a crime."
Touching on the subject of Sawa, he said daring the six
years the Conservative Government was in office/ the aver.
age expenditure wee £88186,0110, whereas sines Me Glad-
stone had been in once the average wee £81,220.000. an 1
with the supplemenery estimates recently voted the
average expenditure of Kr. Gladstone'. Administratiou
would be more than £5,000.000 a year over and above that
of his predecessors. It might be asked what hae the
Liberal Minietry &meth lighten the burdens of the PeoVe
which thee amused us of inereasthe Will yon be sorptised
to bear that every tax that was in existence when Sir
Stafford N ortheote was in dace remains ; over ant above
the folloeing hum have been wrung from the people :
In 1881: Increase of probate dud., =two modulate
licenue. .C 411.000 : Income Tex. Id. added, £1.430,1100—
total for 1881. £2371,000. In 1282: Arr-iers of Id. on
Income Tax, LIM 000 probate dna,. £205.000 : increase
of dory on beer, £350,900 inethees on pubis:awe licieness,
£432,000; • ljustment of surtax on rum, £lBO 000 ; unfit
adjusthei ta of legacy dillies, .8403 MO—total for Dn.
E 2,465.000 In 1883 : Income Tax, third inere ise for half.
year, £2,2.880; increase on probate data% £f65.000 ;
increase dniy on beer, 4.350.000 . • ircrea e publicans'
scathes, ELM 000 : adjutinent of sortax on run. £lBO,OOO
—t Ad. £3.880.0110 : making • total is three years of
,213,780.000 out of the ponce of Gil papl, Passing
on to souk of the hideou blot On ,he character of the
Prime Minister," the treaty of Kilmsinhein he mid :
When that cam* to the light. Weerover Clsrertar the
Liberal Government bed for honeity or ',Crinkle dis-
solved into thin air. In a word, I say that the whole
misery in Pilau' of the last three years is distinctly
traceable to the Acts of the potent Administration. Mr.
Gladstone and the Irish agitators will be convict-Id at the
ho of history as the author, of VAS erect sorrow in Ire•
land, of the peat harvest ot sedition, eu'rage, and crime
in the Sister Isle. We may say Glad•to PI planted,
Parnell watered, Sheridan gave the inereue." Well, gen-
tlemen. the outcome of the year of Libre sl nolirule seems
ire have been that we have been dropped into • e oily and
unjust war MI Mae of
.the result, of which ii.entangtiax