The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1884-10-14 00:00:00

p, pinmine ily before the peop's of to soma of the geoldensew engin Hooch that be we. as
efl late "`
d. • ealtl there wa• • gin ot 'winning all g, cod a crili'mge player either. WU in Pools (Laugh.
Kull°, country (though he did not think it wee ter.) Yet be was the Port of one whom word was
ak""": ' met to it WIN repremnted by tho • whilst taken end believed in when he said he had known the
rt "to relive) I her.. ea. • great yearning Is Mord for y are, and the house we meet
reilotributior, not of the franchise. hut orderly conduct 4. They moot ant (0,1(4 they bad
0,1.,,,r" guided p merlons of the o iuntry. 41 two teetotd polio men In the force, ad when the
—.O dreams were tdi of the grandeur of the •operinteedent wanted to do what his (,t,. Norton'e)
• the lacd ,bold be pfrcellerl out afreeh, oleo ha I hes . doing prerious'y on th Sundae, he
r 1.7 ,hooirt have ble owir, though he did a, t openly empioyed O o wes tw toetotall. if In phis
sad siv• hem calculstist how much each would clothe , sod they cauglg two men in the fiost bottle
mthtkiiitis we'7. equally divided, neither was it explained . they went to. He would only say thie of the men M the
,get it would not be seMeteot to support the eitisome bead of the police feem—they most have men on their
d It we. not bin pleas to speak about Watch Commities who would d • their duty; let them
„...toity of mob dream.. H. would to God that meet oncea month, and those men and women whom
position§ on the working men were takes •I, he was addressing, if they saw or knew nf anything
:et ihey 000ld be made happier, more 'edema. going on wrothr, let them find out the member of the
go.,re prosperous. with lees anxiety about Watch Committee iu that die rhi, and inform him of
1., their families. Bot line was god* it, ard then when the „„p,,,gt.gdegt cam. b.4„re
thOin tbd tbe dreams of these men were fain.. But ; them, he %engirt he brought f irsesrii ond aokei how hi
Iss actually and folly true ; let these men , allowed theoe things exl•t. A Which C 'enmities
fit Inglaod squally prooperons, j and the idea of such • Watch C enmities as theirs I
matt•
equally wise, and equally healthy— I Why it woe • miot ate (Laughter.) What did they
it would to • long time before they did that watch? Did they watch his int, rest or their., or the
h• told them what they would hays then wee intonate of the ratepayers They knew better I He
or,usegdgh, nay, lot a millionth part of what said if it were necessary that the School C imo
mot • b.d
iHi fe the poesoodo
spiritual Kingdon which Christ had mitts,should meet ill°. a mo.th and 11..
they
through their unpleasant business. sorely it was
es' them n s
neosesary the Weich C immiitee .hold do the .none,
and if there Were drunks ro•• night aft r night
iu certain house. they ehould ask thl superintendent
the r -soon why the idflo.lers were not brought to
juiciest They knew thst in • certain puhlichouee
I,Moight or three week. ago • row t...k ;Los Fled
the offenders been brought t (untie.? Ha I the load.
lord been summoned for all iwing ilrui Ito • al riot ins
conduct on his pretnisea—,ooh that the p dice were
eine! in' N.. Why? &eau*, Its • respectable
boum—(laughter)—and, as iin• guillemot) obi, the
pup oiniendistit woe the boot friend he ever bail, and
of oifuroe be mold not he repute,. How the Watch
Committee en mid allow such thing. to go on when
then knew they wore going on. he could not conesive.
And what he would strongly impress upon them wee
that next November they shduld put In men who
would really and truly watch over their interests.
Although they had • number of men in the force who
I ked their " lotion " pretty well, he believed they
would do their duty be ter if they b d • man at
their bead to guided them properly. He had lately
had a letter from • p ilcemao. who wrote from the
Central P dice Office id the t inn in which he lived,
and in it be skid— "I notice with deep regret the
manner In which or, bsoithers in bin- perform theft I
duties in P0..1r. I Lln gre 417 IlurPrised at the
drunkenness of your polloome, and I think It a
dlogr6i e to any force. (lie •uopfieri till) Watch 0
mittee did not think Well may you have bonne
badly c imiuTted with ouch a set of mon, bet
I am glad all the forces are not et WA as 'Aare."
The writer went on to say that out of a force of
200 pli 'ewe, 76 were total alsatalnere ; they hod got
• free library, had trips every summer, and had a
home for reclaiming young Women. VpplionsK)
Now, he knew at least one man in the Poole fore%
and all honour to that math who could and did go
and sit by the bedside of the sick and of the dyke'
and read and pray to them. Might they sron have
in.gy more nonn men. (Rear, hear.) When they bad
Christian teetotallers, not men " anxioes to set traps,"
as some said he (the speaker) had been, but only
anal us to set the laws in force, then they would
have • purer state of things in Poole. Title he would
say—to excuse what he heel done In the past—lt wss
no use having large meetings in yonder hall if they did
not blast upoo the laws at present up di their &Mute
Books being enforced. Only on Saturday night a
person told him of • boom in Porket ins In which he
had Mien playing cords with policemen for drink ant
money, and when clo.ioic time came they walk-d out
at the front door, and then thoe. who felt ioolloed
walked in at the heck door, mid they put • big
'hotter up at the window and played, be and the
polio., up one or two in the morning for drink and
mon-y. The sem m's said that at • h ,use not
40 yard. from where they were then be hod played
with the ;Aim for drink and money. And if those

things came to his ear.. did they not think there w•-re
derper evils which they had not vet discovered Thry
hs•l recently had s meeting of tha Wat,h Commi.ssa to
snqu.re into tbroondmit ..f Is man whose name be would
pot mina .0, oath. p .or .w wee dead n 3W. nndnit.r
they rmed liven sitting about • quarter of an boor •
member come In, • d pulling out his watch asked
o 'old they not get on with the &rents sod R oads
business. lie had forgotten be war on the Watch
Committee. That wrs a man who talked the londect
in the Town C iuncil and di I the least. (fo.ughter )
Another inatimos, when the case .•1 tbe New Ina c
to. An ..fllorir g.o into the b a and swore ' I bare
00Mplaillt to make,' whereas, If they turned to the
files • I •he papers, they would see that one of the
✓ams name had summontAl cone time previotply the
same landlord. an he wee fin-d 40s. &..d coot.. That
was • 44. 01 things which was to him irosorthuos
horrible, sad c old thee and himself cositiou• to p. 7
thesis m-n out of their hard earning., who winked at
each doing., and for doing on were patted on the back
by tacit Tory fri. lick I applauee.)