The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1878-05-28 00:00:00

To the Editor.

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In common wilh many other of your readers I was
eac,edinalr ',teamed to i.e the able manner in whit+
your last week's contrihutors set forth the benedts to be
derived from certain changes as there sugzested in the
police arrangements as now is operation in this borough.
That the proposed alteration would certainly result in
material sawing to the puhlie funds seems now to le a
generdly Itreept.l forl an I hope the Council, if they
really are desirous of studying the tree interests of the
rotepayers, will giso the matter their attentive and elm-
fel considered.° lit the esrliest ritesilde opportunity, in
order thst such a de-iro,,le result might become •n
acroluldialled fart, an lit. ratepayers afford.] some little
relief, no 100,...1. nit trifling, from the alrealy °permits
taxation. wi ich ti;q,. art to grow more weighty and
intolerello each oriege,ding year.
The adoption of such a ne lire would. I feel sore, he
hailed with very get, at beliega of sstisfsction by the
whole tot PYfIZ rimimity of norchcat r, end at th.,
same time str.uld corn for the promoters of tho scheme the
grateful thanks and worm arereciation cti their eon'
stittients..

Thooot Posetf.le o jections to be urged aftainet *itch *
pe,popti are on the grounti of ugurpation of local rights
but oitzlit c,,nniferaa.or curb as these to be arowed to
outweigh the tar !wire port tnt Anil practirti benefits
which Lisp reasonably be expected to accrue in the matter
of docres.ed ttx.ttion

The Council, I maintait. have clear ditty to perform
se regards the question at issue. and. rotting aside their
oven personal feelings on the subject, they ought, in
Justice to the inhabitant,. to give the scheme a fair trial
0 such I considerable saving—which is pot even que-tioned
—is to I, effected 14 some of your correspott I,uts seem to

-4-trrelvemonth, I believe, would he found ample time
to thoroughly test the working of the new arrangement
16. suggested, in cvery particular; and, should this tend
to confirm the itent•ral °Onion as to the sahstaatial
benefits to be derived therefrom, I maintain it
would be incumbent on the C until to make the arrange-
ment • permanent one. If. on the other hand, only a
trifling advantage reunited, the Council, having given the
scheme • fair trial, would he justified in putting an end
to the arnsticontent—which it terminable, I understand,
by xis months n 41o• on either side—and reverting to the
System as prlvino-ly in force.
But only let tho arrangement have • fair test, and I
have no fear as to the result.
The clan-trait cry that any such alteestion would be •
serious infringement of the rights of the people la St,
utterly illogical and thoroughly absurd as to require no
lamer.

Th-I;.now a generally recognited rule that everything
must anrcumb to the public tool; then why should the
Council r 1111( 90 tenaciondy to • system fraught with so
msny disalyantsg (net the least of which is its expellee),
awl which hutes its claim to public consideration on the
sole ground of its antiquity
I have been looking forward somewhat expectantly to
kern shlt "'Xither " had to say on the subject, but,
after the ominous silence which has been ”bsereed la this
quarter, I think it tuay reasonably be concluded that even
the staunchest slvecsies of the present system are now
thoroughly convinced of its inieleuuibalitv, and have
satisfied themselves that nwhinz tnoy could nrgn
be a sufficient fool ltcst,nLer its further continuance.
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If thi not tb„,0%.”1.by should they hesl'ate to cows
forward awl pis°, public exposition of their views on •
question which is now the subject of so much controversy
in the town,

AXOTHILII OF TIM OVIZTLXID.
Sruth-street, Dorchester, May 27, 1878.