The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1884-03-11 00:00:00

MR. JOHN PLO YER, M.P., ON THE
HOUSING OF THE POUR.

Mr. John Floyer, LP., prailed at the annual
meeting of the Church Pastoral Aid Society this
(Monde') afternoon, and In speaking on the report,
which Is very satisfactory, referred at some length to
the homing of the po.s in large towns. It was •
sul ject. he said, which was at the present time coon.
pying a large Mare of publio attention, and had done
so for a long time, but, from some moss or another,
It now particularly premed, and was now demanding,
not only public attention, but public exertion and
action should be ad.hseeed to it. It was • guitstioa
earronaded by many diffloaltien but it wee an
exoellent object. He would not say it was the highest
object they could have, but it was 111 high as any.
Tame were great Will:nines attaching to it, and Inc
special way in suoh greet eggregationt of humanity as
existed in London and the great manufacturing
towns. The difficulties in these large centres almoet
exclusively roe. on the questiou " Who are rowan-
&ibis r fhey could not ettab responsibility
without the possession of the property being
plsãnly shown. It was so difficult In the
large cities owing to the peculiar manner
Is which house property was held, and the vary-
ing in xle of holding property in different parte
of the some city. There wee the landlord, or the
Imes holder, or the lulu, bate receiver of the rent
from the occupiers of them houses, aril between them
it was so difficult to briug the responaibility home to
the right iihoulders But this might be overcome, and
It was mourned it would be. Referring to the difficulty
that the "cutout poor" did cot like good dwrilinge,
the hon. gentleman continued there was no doubt the
mire wretched and miserable inhabiter'ts were
accustomed to the filth and dirt and living in wretched
places, and they were told on the beet authority they
would not, if they could possibly avoid it, exchange
their old, miserable dwellings for those more comfort.
able more healthy, and in every way preferable
dwellings that now, by societies and In many other
ways, were erected for them. He did not mean to say
they would not he filled ; he did not mean to say for
a moment that them new, good, model lodging.houses
would not find occupants, but they <IA not get the
people in that they specially wanted to get. They
got them who were goo I working men who
already lye been housed well, or compare-
Seely well ; for these would cm, In because
they knew end appreciated the advantages of comfor-
tells dwellings. Still without any wish to cheek this
tendency to • higher stratum of poor society, there
was no doubt that the lowest of the people, those
whom they wanted especially to Wee, and those who
were Is the most miserable plight, they were the last
people who were ready to come and take
advantage of them new d wellies" provided for them.
What, then, was to be done? The remedy, and the
only remedy be knew of. was in the work of the
Church Paseo,. Al I S wkly. (Applause.) The
only hope and the only remedy was to raise these
p or people, and the way to raise them we. to bring
home to them io all it, (aloee, the bless I gospel of
our Lira and Saviour. (Auplaues) That was the
only remedy. He did not mem t say there were no
subsidiary ways of work, but that was the leading one,
and if they wanted to do it thorooghly and efficiently
they must bring them t rec mai. those duties that
▪ sted.must rest, and could only reel upon Christianity.
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