The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1884-11-04 00:00:00

THE LORDS AND THE PEOPLE.

A public umetbsg ass held at the Isiveth-aquar•
Aaarabl=l:o Monday evening that for the por-
Ens a • political trainee by Mr. Joeepb
HOMO (ad Me sacral Ramo Uoloe, Mambestra)
as ths ":Elistory of Toql.so: • Lemma sad • Warn-
Rig." There was • good atteadanak aad Ohs tornamd,
lags were of • very animated ohmmeter, °maids:table
Issliag Wag aroused by the stirriag Libaral ape:sobs'
deUvered by the Chain:mg Me Rev. T. Nears, sad
the Iseturer.
opeoMe the weetthg, the Onethether e4d •
I /thee amok pleasure in proddisir owe. Ibis awbeilaiii
It Is sot at all ilkely that our sett* to-sight lel
fiel la ' - to solve th• diMoulty as between
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ISa ;,-,-...—erebas42Stallevrtite." wi ha:ro a right
to our =taloa on the question. and I suppose. right
as well as otheroonstitoteclis to =Orem it We an
beat to say that we are entirely on the std• of lir.
Gladstone, and to say further that, as the Liberals of
Dorchester, we are prepared to give him what little
beige we can In oath= this Fran:thin, and of giving
the right of oitliessbip to two million of our fellow
=bloats, who are am much entitled to it me we are and
as well bed to nes it. I hays no Ideation Vides
you the history of the gantlet, still I moat be lowed
to etas MO Or two faots, witlols will help us to see bow
the nutter really Iles. La me remind you this that
Ibis Bill hoe already bees pane I in the lest session of
Parliarneet by large and overwhelming majorities to
the Rouse of Commons. Let me further remind you
that in the Upper Roos* the pet:ldols of the measure
woe likewise soneeded, that the Franchise ought to
bees to the agricultural labourers and to other
working min In our =unties. This =need= ot
principle
on the part of Tod". Is of somewhat late
origin; they bare not always prof eased a erillingsses
to Weed the suffrage to the counties. Still they
have conceded the priaalpio at last, and we seal not
further esquire into its origin, but can only hope that
their late =aversion is sincere Bat aow the question
to," Why do not the agricultural labourers and others
=Joy the Franchise?' If the Bill has owed the
House of Oconmolie, and if the principle has been
oosaided by the Leda, how wise it that the Bill has
not paned to the bade Bock? This is the question
that needs to be easoldered. We have It on the
authority of the Lords that they have not rejected
the Bill. Geetlemem, I most leave it to =horst° explain
how it some to peas that the Lords a= affirm that
they have act rejected the Bill, which they have refused
to pals Into law. It is maliciously suspeated by their
opponents, or some of them, that, with all their
=tWend in the principle of the Bill and
o adrasables the rural population, in their
bark they dread the addition to the sisotorsto of two
miWons of their fellow subjects. Bra, however this
may be, the quangos le—why have they refused to
wades the Bill booed= law? They 00,--" We
must have the whole of your intended measure of
Reform produced before we sea pass a part of li."
Produce, they say to Mr. Gladstone and the Liberal
Pe= yoer Wee= of Redithrlbstios, New. so for
Mama am if this were • fair and legitimate request,
sod ILL Gladstone has offered to meet the Tory
Pee= es far se is aossistent with the rights of the
Hoses of Commas and the eassiioe. Mr.
Olden= promedarlly refers to
_eve to the minority
In the How of 00141110119 behred by the majority of
the How of Lords, who have bonen In this SION
but asms odoce to the Oomervative Party, the
alone belong to the majority of the
tote .of Oommacta I must remind you how Mr.
Gladelose, due* the last seed= of Parliament,
ofered to eater into as sgresseest with the Indere of
ittiTsaumos Party to bring in at the earliest period a
but that agreement was entirely
vekeled. I must likewise remind you how offal
have bees made by the Government to meet the
="Minwishes of the Tories, but that all these
bees Moiled, and now Me dead look Is es
LirdAslisbny, ahead strong man, though • need
= large and splendid ability and faros, has affirmed
short et the prodnalos of the oomph=
ISOORIVO Of Redistribution would meet the require.
mists of the ease, and that ebder so olroutnetaaces
ata one pith of the mew* be supposed to become
low within* the other. Now Mr. Gladstone, who
ersighli Is bow his biases moik better than we mu
MN Mimi them mewed all parties that it would have
kwea bromide for the Government to pies two
=eh insawares simultssionly, *ad that to attempt it
would be be ruin both. Brill SOON at the Tory Party
theemeives bare affirmed that to pass a SW Refs-
tributkes Bill more than one seed= would be needed
Sc, the work. Is It to be suppand that Mr. Glad-
stone would he fool 'sough to throw hinted' into the
heads of the sonar after this faeltioa, and endanger
• greet measure of reform on which he has himself
solids beret Mr. Gladstone could do no such thin',
✓ad it Is as utterly undansabk dewed to make of
hint, and which oaa only be mate by men who are not
•111011 re In their desire to pan a groat tonsures of
eafresokkomeat. Well, now it is perfectly deer that
ewe way out of the difloolty mart be found. It is
ad for us to say bow the difficulty is to be solved.
One thing If certels, that the =Wry is with Mr.
Gladden In this conakt. Speaking for my owe
casstrimin, poor Ignorant Elootlead—Goaehise) —to
• men—well, sot welly so, for there are • few Tarifa
lath is floodaad--dill, the debt wee of the people
sat with Hr. Giodeboae, and I will vistas*
to Alan that at this hour be Is the greatest
Consernitire force In this country, sad by the
Infest of his own plasma liens= has
warded the people, the Book& people most
assuredly, from meat= the question of the Reform of
the Howe of Lords. Here I ant with Mr. Gladstone,.
I have no wish to ester upon the quesedon. lam
sae afraid of the How of Lode. I believe the
someday is perfectly secure in It. oonstitutiosal right,
and sea readily and 'factually defend them. Ido not
=moreover, that there are others in that lipasebaddetheTorlee,
the Tories, and that the beat men sinoorat them,
N the setter imoi bees left to their hands, would have
=d the Bill. Well, if the Lade peroist Is
oppreitins, thee some eolestdon ewe lee lewd,
sod we are quite easiest in Intro Mr. Gladstone to
id It. Hs will solve this difficulty. But Ido not
believe that • solstice will he rwired by kb. Bad
ablithary win of owse, lewd= Is the tkeenewdeed
It dais ao4 fellow that the Lords will
=ab. believe thst the prediction of Zerl
Zogritory NINO to be realked that when the
divides comes some of their Lorshlpe shell have