The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1879-12-16 00:00:00

GREAT LIBERAL MEETING AT
PARKSTONE.

Mr. Waring addressed a largo meeting of the
electors at Parkstonacc Vireintoplay evening under a
spacious marquee, which hal been erected on the
common near the Sloop Inn. Mr. Waring a. rival at
Parkvtone by ths 6.48 train, and WAS jut at the
strtion by several bands aul a large crowd, who
accompanied him to the plac of meeting. There
were on the platform the Mayor (Councillor (I. Cu. is),
the ex-Mayor 'ouncillor W. N. Western), Coun-
cillors J. S. Hudson, N. P. Phllputs, li. T. Treranio..,
and J. Gifford; Messrs. G. Huey, It. P. Aylc., H.
Richardson, W. Brlitort, J. T. Curtis, A. K. Hurls,
llcFaul, and others.
Upon the proposition of Mr. W. ii %LAT Is, secon-
ded by Mr. 11. RictiAafts ,z 4 the Mayor took the
chair.
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The MAToll. having opened the meeting with an
appropriate speech, called upon

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Mr. WADANO, who on coming for ward was received
with loud che ging,and said he V ought it WO a happy
areanseikkent to bold aineetisig in Parkin's', (Jo had not
perhaps visited Parkstune s , often as Le 'eight to have
done, bat they bad cow part way from Poole to meet the
people of Parkstene in the NW, way that the people
of Pe:hater went half way to meet the people of Poole.
He had memo to Maw from exp. riven, that Parke...no
wag • good hunting groend for le bend sportsmen, and he
had found large prowess over title part of the manor—
(latighter)—mni he knew that there he bad " bagged- •
large number of rot. et Therefore, he WIN proud to
appear before them again in the intoreat of that Llborol
canoe which thsy were veered to light in this lammed&
There was Another real ta why he 1. It extremely
glad to come to Parkstone. and that WU that he ft It it
warn • kind of tiosy to his and their treat Mr. Hutleon,
who did what he o aid to ferther the Gllte, that he
should come and makes few oleervatienp, so it were at
his door. (Hoar, heir.) He agate referred et, the recent
visit if Ur. Cavendish Boutieek 411 hl,l colleague L ird
Bury, and said it we. probably few the fact mat the
Conservatives felt afraid, that too tnemb ors of the Govern-
ment had been rut down to endeavour to thwart his (Mr.
Warinie) object. in this borough. lle had no idea that
he was considered of so much importance, or that the
action and vote of the borough of Poole was so trouble-
some to the Ministry that they should send down two
members of their own body to oppose Mao. Mr. Coven.
dish Boutin.* occupied a post which had a very compli-
cated title, and for which he receive] £2OOO per annum ;
and that title was the Judge advocate tleueraL It was,
es he had • kid before, • very complicated title, an much so
that he had never been able quito to make out what the
duties were, nor Low the tide had been created. Ha
thought it wee • title which had been created to cover
every capacity ; but, confound it, they did not catch
his friend, Kr. Cavendish Bentinck, because he was
neither judge, advocate, nor general. (Hear, bear, and
lauehter. ) He believed the Government knew very
well that Mr. Boatiack possessed none of these quid*.
ties and had no real Mike to be possessed of either
of their titles. But *ere was one thing they
could expect for hint (Mt. Bentinek)—be had great
comic talent. Well, there wr nothing so monotonous as
continual Moaner • ' All work and no play makes Jack
• dull boy ; " and in theatrical and other performanoes, it
wets found they could get on hetes( with &comic interlude.
The G teerninent evidently thought that Mr. Cavendish
Bentinck would perform this comic part well, and they
were quite right, Their friend Mr. Cevendieh Dentin
bed comic talent, and he only committed • mistake when
he tried to do anything serious. (Hear, hear, and laughter).
Mr. Bentinck had nod "Mr. Waring wanta to become
member of Parliament for Poole, in order ti disfranchiee
the borough." That was very much ma though he (the
speaker) were to say that the right bin, George Cavendiab
Dentin& had become Judge Advocate General in order to
show how extremely easily that office could be abolished.
(lauehter)—and, by the way, be believed such event might
possibly come to par if that gentleman continued lung to
hold the office. (Hear, Lear, and applause). Again, Mr.
Bentinck had paid "I do not know the least in the world
what claim Mr. Waring hes to represent Poole except it
I. that he has spent • great deal of money in the borough."
At all events he (the speaker) would never have to accuse
Mr. Bontinek of following his example (laughter and
cheers). If Mr. Bentiock had merely said that, he (the
speaker) would be content to leave him there, for
he did not care to tat:table hii comtituents tio much
with these personal matter,; but unfortunately Mr.
Bentinck, for the moment, abandoned his comical
part to make some serious observations, which,
howevor, would not Lave signified the Iret in the world if
they had not appeared in print. Mr. Cavendish Bentinck
had inainuatod that the part be (Mr. Waring) played in
the construction of the Somerset and Dorset railway, bad
been the means of ruining a number of poor and other
men in the counties of S ouereet and Dorset Now he (the
speaker) wanted tort everybody right on this subject. The
Somerset and Dorset railway was prejected and con-
structed to it, e tnclusion. by • Board of Direction mainly
formed of Somerset anal Dorset squires. He (the speaker)
had nothing whatever to do with that direction un•.il that
railway hot been opened, and had become absolutely bank'
rept and administered to in the Court of Chancery. Al
that time some of them had neatly ruined themselves
completely, having involved thounelves ma great deal of
loss. The Lord of the Manor of Conford was one of tbo, •
directors. In thii condition they sent to biro (Me Wa• Mg/
saying be wee • rail way mon and that they were only aquires
and did not understand the business, and asked whether
he would take the direction of affair& luau evil moment,
although he was one of Um victims, be undertook the vet y
arduous duty of seeing to this busineas, and he worked at
it foe • !great nutulor of years. It wee through his (Mr.
Waring s) efforts that a bill waa obtained in Parliament—
through his credit mei lois money and the money of his
family —by which the S moaner and Doreet rail .ay became
connected with the Mdland Railway. That was success-
ful, and he afterwards obtained • lease in pm petesty to
the Midland It di way Company rod the Lan lon and S tells
Western Company, and he was the meets of restoring to
those squires upwards of one million sterling of the money
they had lost. Oise of those ae ires—he would not :muse
him—had been compelled to live in • cottage on his
estates • but owing to the fact of his haying received the
money its (Mr. Waring) recovered back for lolua, he now
lived at the hall he had been obliged to quit when his
calamity came upon him. Amonest the gentlemen in.
voiced in the losses was Sir Ivor Guest; but like • wW
man he (Sir Ivor) seeing the directors were making •
personal sacrillas—and not caring to make much personal
sacrifice himself—he retired rather early from that direc-
tion. Now the exact amount recovered for Sir Ivor Guest
—and he (the speaker) wished them to know this—was
£8.990 10.. 51., and it was paid to Sir Ivor
Guest in June, 187 d. Hawing made these explana-
tions he hoped he should have done with thaw
railway questions for ester. But he w oild not pass by
those questions without mentioning one tall way by which
they had come from Poole to Padget...ls that evening.
That railway (which runs on to Bounennonth) had rot
been iu vie with any poor person.' mon g, but at the li•k
of and with the money of the family of Mr Charles
Waring, who always, and at the preaent time, held
the whole of the shares and the whole of the ilehenteres
imf th it railway ; and, therefore, he thought that neither
Mr. &attack nor anybody else would come forward and
pretend to say that he (Mr. Waring) hail made paupers of
anybody Ig that railway. lAppruse.) He eared no more
for the in.inuations of the C &Mord people than he did for
the taking of a pinch of snud, lie only wowed to atand
in • right light with the potpie of the borough of Poole,
but When he found falachood represented its fact, he took
the opportunity afforded him of denying it. As for the
opinions of those gentlemen to whom he had alluded, or
the effect produced by anything they could say, why, he
would laugh it to scorn. But enough of personal matters.
He wanted them now to bear with him for a little while
on matters affecting the welfare of the nation, and he
would ask them to say what had been the effect of Tory
rule Puce the last election! ((tear, hear.) He might
charseteriee the foreign policy of the Government by •
very expressive American term —" Spread-epeeists."
(Laughter.) He then referred to the desire of the Con-
servative, to extend the BOUM Empire, and the responsi-
Maio, their foreign policy had involved, and said the ,
Liberals were as well able to do what was calculated
• to bring honour and prosperity to the nation as
, the Coneervatives were. After speaking of the conmeti.
, Pon in American core, be touched again on the effects of
the Tory ad ministretioa, and sale there was now • Sating
debt of .4:28,000,000, and it would before the end of the
! year amount to C 10,000,000. Although he was of opinion
that the general community would profit by • modified.
tion of the land laws, the landowners and other
classes who cultivated the land would! profit a
treat deal more. The Conservatives had endea-
voured to explain away his (Hr. Waring•e) conduct
by inuendes. insinuations, and varioua suggestion& But
all these inuendos, in hia opinion, meant nothing more
than that it bad been his good fortune to contribute some-
thing towards the great prosperity which had come to
that town, and in which he greatly rejoiced. (Cheers.) He
believed that to that extent there was some truth in what
the Conservatives said • but they mired the real reason
of his popularity in that borough—(bear, hear)—ond he
would tell them what that reel reason we.; it was that
he was to represent the spirit of opposition to the
tyranny and dictation of Canford. (Loud cheers.) There
were friends surrounding him who were determined that
their franchise should not be filched from them by any
blandishments of that family, and they were resolved
that it should not be torn from them by any
violence. (Hear, hear.) It was because of that that
he was ready to stand before them, and he would
make bold to say of the Cluaford people that
their day was over, and that they must loosen their
grasp on the borough, for one could not obtain it. (Loud
cheers.) There were people before and behind him who
I were determined that the fetters of Centred should not be
fastened round the political independence of that borough
, of Poole. (Applause.) It was because of that great support
that he had determined to fight for the independence of
that borough- (Hoar, hear.) If there were fifty Canfords
and fifty Branksees—(langhtez)—to fight against him, he
would still be ready to come forward in detour° of his
party and wags the political battle of Poole. (Applause.)
In conclusion he added—if we ars united we shall
succeed and shall have the satisfaction of saying to all
generations—we are the persons that conquered for the
politicol liberty of Poole, and prevented it from becoming
the appeaser and slave of that family. (Loud and pro-
longed cheering.)
Mr. FaLTST, who was Well received, delivered a telling
speech. He described the Government's •or of dodgera,
who were waiting, like Mr. Micawber, for something to
turn up, and concluded belaying that it was all England to
a China orange on Mr. Waring being placed triumphantly
at the bead of the poll at the next election.
The Ex•Moroa proposed, and Dr. PHILPOTS seconded,
a ere of confidenee in Mr. Waring as a candidate for the
representation of the borough, and the motion was
enthusiastically carried.
Mr. WeILING having returned thanks,
Dr. PIIILPOTS, in resew.) to numerous calls, gave an
original mug to the air of "Hold the Fort and the
audience heartily joined lathe chorus.
A vote of thanks WY accorded to the Chairman, on
the motion of Mr. WIRING, seconded by Mr. Anus, and
thuymeeting terminated with alma f the lion, Evelyn
, the sitting member.
At the conclusion of the meeting there wee a grand
torchlight procession to Poole, and Yr. Waring was
trltunently drawn by ropes attached to hie carriage into
the town. The procession pared through Mount-lane,
round the Quay and up Highatreet to the London Hotel,
where Mr. Waring and Mr. 'Falvey briefly aldremed the
largo crowd assembled.

MR. GLADSTONE ON LAND LAW REFORM.
"1 want to re-make the government of the land, and
by the government I mean the InstitnWes of the
land." Those words, uttered by Mr. Gladstone last
Monday in one of the shorter speeches with which he
wound up his wonderful oratorical tour in Midlothian,
are likely to be misinterpreted by those critics who
are anxious to falsely represent bun as a d
revolutionist ; hut they will be welcomed by .If •17us
to,
apprehending their true meaning, are anxious to follow
his leadership in effecting at least some of tb• reforms
that are urgently needed in order that the country
may have its fair chance of development.
The institutions of the land that Mr. Gladstone
desires to help in re-making comprise much more than
the obnoxious systems of lend distribution and land
monopoly that have come down to us from feudal and
tyrannical time.; but it is satisfactory to know that
thaw bays a prominent place in the =tory. They
were fully dealt with in two of his
In NOM [MOM, It may I" Kr. Gladstoo•ehs
not it

1 favour of such sweeping reforms as we alsoam
„dr. &denote ; but be ia in I& our of quite ei change se the most zealous reformer coold et 44
even wish to me effected in the Cow_ of ibt'sct
generathm or two, and, if all he approves of
.......
aone, we in" well be satisfied to wait for the r
changes which experience will then juitify am, That somsthing, and much, must be doat
our country is to thrive, all sensible pe
The agricultural agricultural digress which prevails
e„,T part if England and Scotland needs to hi
lid of quite as much as the similar einstiss ~,,
behig more noisily complained of by the rest .71
in Ireland, an.l if it behoves our legislators to-b;114,
ful that they are Rot Wintered by unreasonable
indica against Sir. Parnell and hie friend+ irons es
in ressonsble concessions to the Irish tenaate itrsi
lean incumbait on English farmere and lab
take care diet they are Oct decayed by 'Ai '4^"... t
talk of the Gore nment's minor members eatirc
about prot ction, recipr...city and the bite. m 'alias are too serious, 111 Mr. Glailetone forcibly ehowerita'
any "quack remedies" to be tried, or even
len; ''
thought of, and all energies must be directed . applying Use only true remedy, which .• to give al' possible freedom to the cultivetha
soil, in order that the aericultneists of &taw.' `"• have full and fair play in competitioo ir11111:67
agriculture of the world."
But how is that to be dime ? Mr. Hiadmose
well in reminding both farmers sod labsher," '''''s
their prime duty is to help themselves by esaunit
an iudependent spirit, an, making such use ,if th.f
~.n capacities of thought and acUon am will pi.c. .
their being either deluded by (else
photo, MI
phe, or injured by the lawless greed,,,,,icil and enneje!""L
their landlords and employer.. however, and apart also frow any r olica4 clisee,s7,7',
may be deoirable in our avisteui id l oi I maw.; -,:_l•`
are various reforms which cannot he pr
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soon. "You want to be relieved front every
unnecessary legislative restraist," seya Me
and his lint of the restraints he is prepared to
reinovirir LS a loog one. More
ated importeet to
general than itiou of the law of hypsbecliel:
eating as that is to ficokhinsh, is the eitircement 4
proper arr..nrements for security of tenure, for reino.
able treats., nt of tenants' impr.retne its, awl tot
allowing them sufficient freedom in puttin • theft j Li. any uses they find must beneficial. y's, m0n,r.... portent, as affecting not only fanners sad their r,,,l,f__
diate surrouadiugs only, but the whole pubhe iTh",
abolition of the game laws and of the laws a eaten
and settlement, Net till all these reforms have bean
cerrie I through can it be said that the occupier. .4 cultivators of the land are free from " unjust aag
unnecessary re strainte."
Much more is needed, however, and, said, it is satisfactory to find that Mr. Glacleto.:
, declare, himself ready to go • long way towards site.
, Mg not only the peroicious incoleum of mu lied
, system, but even the land system iteelf. His word. ,12
t6i. point are worth quoting and rememb- '
There are those who think that if you coi cat en
, the land of the country into a multitude of small pri;.
rties, that of itself willsolve the difficulty and every-
, bady will be started on a career of property. To a
' proposal of that kind lam not going to object ~s
' ground that it would he inconsistent with the prii deo,
, of lan led proprietor& In my opinion, if iii, known to
' be for the welfare of the c immunity at large, ths
Legislature is perfectly entitled ti boy out the lolled
proprietor. It is not morally entitled to confiscate the
property of the landed proprietor any more than ths
, property of any other man; but it is perfectly entitlel
; to buy out the lauded proprietor, if it pleales, for the
' purpose of dividing property into small lots. Tvw
panics who possess large 'minions of the space of the
, earth are nit altogether in the same peition M
is of more personalty, for personalty does oot
ti Irtslell°the &MO limitations on the action sal illiketry
I and wellebeing of the community in the same ratio se
• does the Possession of lilt I, ami therefore I kohl that
. compulsory appropriation, if for an adequate public
' object, is a thing in itself admirable and even ...main
, principle." There is nothing extreme in thatstmee
went. Indeed, the somewhat disparaging remade with
' which it opens shows that Mr. Gladstone is still au
, Conservative as he cao be in the matter. He admits
that "no objection can be taken to the Principle" of
' small holdings, even when compulsorily prom-del by
. the State • but, as he declareo in his speech on the
subject, he is lees certain shout its efficiency the.
, about its legality. Mr. Gladstone appears t. concede
this much at any rate, however, and hi. expoeitioe if
1 the beneficial working of peaaant proprietorehim is
France gives more 'aloe to the concession than he
' himself seems to see in it—that it is permissible and
expedient that fair trial should be given to !tuna
, proprietorships in the United Kingdom.
, We c unwind this to the land law reformers as as
opportunity for giving practical expression to their
theories. Faulty and extravagant as Mr. Parnell'.
I rent agitation may be, there Is BALI Rrtelltileark for
it in the fact that out of the five millioa liohabitaits ' of Ireland, more than half a milli .n, or needy half .4
the total number of householders, ors tenant-farmers,
, practically at the mercy 41 the landlord,. and fierily
, s
el
bythethl.iles". ilnans:lll.l.ll"..i;te.l there t theeraifewret 'is
tatesmanship in his sug.eestion that the aeeitent
if
'teclLi"teua' withiw
• slut numr_ of eneumh.red
estate, under the direct coon
, large balance of the Irish Chu b Fund mill unappro-
priated, affords adulirable facili Webs maim:: a va.1.1
' there
eallk lPr
being n.
of the Crown, anti a
experiment in the way of Statesi.led pea ant prometot.
ehips. In Scotia/like/id even in Engl mil, there is les
preesure of actual ruin to emphasise he &nun I fo
similar experiment ; but there is ample ground for its
being made. Let the rtforniere us elis their ee.
te •
When Mr. Chaplin's Agricultural Deptesaion In.riiry
has proved itself to be worthies., and when Lord
Beaconsfield's retrogressive Government ban been cot
rid of, the tirue will he ripe for the adoption of inch
lit
weuur,o. as may serve to show whether or nit English
soils and the temperament of the English people Sr.
adapted to some to.slificstion of the peasant proprietary
arrangemento which work so well wherever they have
been in force on the Continent. —Pooh Teeirass.

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