The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1883-11-06 00:00:00

THE LIBERAL ABBOOI4TION.

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"PAW LIGIRLarION •Nri TEI WORKING (Mathis."
The first of • eeriee of evening lectures for the seaman
which has j let dawned o not:minced on Monday, at the
Temnlar Hall. which was crierled with an intelligent
and appreciative audience. Toe chair was t Igen by
the worthy President .1 the Association (J. P. F.
dun+ y. Von.) It bed been announced by circular
U, 4 John Noble, Req.' the etni,ont Secretary of the
Ignirion and Counties Literal Union, and author of
'• National Finance," " L icel Taxation," " Parlia-
mentary Reformer's ltianth"l&:., kn., would give a
le-ture on " Libeled Pews errsu Conservative
Fallacies ;" but the association wee disappointed b
reason of the'vine ln.liepoeition of Mr. Noble. It or.
ever, that u- n' lem .n bait I,r icur..l an able thiatitute
In the pew.. id Mr. Leedom, • led t inn of great
power and le•int, sod wbo promir e to la one of the
many el (pent •Istakers fir which the "halos" I.
acknowledged, even by It. p .1 tio.l anemia., to be
famous. The Itt, if the I,ctiie, as described above,
one of paramount Imp stance to the wnrking-clesme
of this country. and the manner in whiab Mr. Leadem
dealt with his happily-chosen sobject elicited continued
and earnest *polemist.
The President was supported by the Mayor (Mr. A.
Reynolds), Deputy-Mayor (Mr. 0. Z Iround.), Ken.
W. J. Bain and J. Davies, Aldermen Beach Cox, and
&PUB, Messrs. J. T. Stephen., W. Colfax. 8.A., C.
G. Nantes, FL Howell, Captain Martin, W. Knight,
A. E. Banister, H. B.enoall, A. Griffin, and other..
The Piminess, who rose atoll cheers, remarked
they that evening opened the campaign of evening
lectures for the season, and truate I they wool Iprove
as interesting ae they had in the pest. Mr. Noble,
he was sure, had tbe deep sympathy -I this meeting
for his severe indisposition, oolitirct on hie exertions
at the Liberal Cooference at and be had to give
up all hie lectures for the present. Mr. Noble had
then the first to markt in the formation of this smooth-
tion. (Applause.) Timm was • slight change in the
subject for the evening, but it would be an interesting
one fir the working asses, sad it was ti them that
he (the epeakw) owed the proud position which he
wee in to-al:ht.
Tee Let-mien first showed that the object of meetings
such w -es was eaucatioo. Liberal@ were blear.
forward in the march or eclumni ;it was ens at at to
educate that. who had vote.. Ho suet •d in tire, we
should Oesee to have to do tettt then," n,,utral•• sources
which eery often demded an election, mid what they
hope I to do by tour se of leturee es to introduce iota
" neutral " f no-e some central facts. He cunewed %be
amtral element to the "shilling ballast" of • eh., , .nd
Pointed out mod conclusively its thither. Th yelse
trusmd bring home, in the face of laxity in Liberal
ortnciol.s, 5..04 mum of the greet re•ponsibility of
electors when their Told wore wanted. Tsai candidate.
would ptheent tbeenthlyth to the elector@ of Bidpor at
the nexta ed.., and earn wend .1.1. that t el i Idtha
awl the ideas of their paty, were tbi beet for the work
leg olassee. Bit be felt dire that at.,, worittns men wo
Ithow that the Conservative can lid tle would not h • the
hest friend to them. (Loud &nohow.) Toe ert reins
sees should remseaher that the Shorty of meetings such
se them was denied them by the old Coimervetiver,
segithielly is the Oro 90 years of this canary. when I.
Tech. were presminent. Poldie debste we, sappresed
and that wee not the only whoa of the Tory party. He
111•11 proceeded to Ito. most noaclusively the disgraceful
and unfair state of repreeentarion in thew dam when
small and unimportant paces sent two, three, and eves
fair representetives to Parlismicat. whilst some of the
lamest and most important towns were unrthreeeeted.
AS that thee " the people" hut no practical share
whatever In the Government of their (swishy. In order
Os *beck public discumion the Tories breath% in measures
Is prevent the holding of" seditious" me tinge-Md. meet-
nit would have been a" seditious " oes-(lth ih ter and cries
ef shante)-end if they did not disperse, death would have
hese the penalty. It wa. maid by thr Turic, teat working
Mee C mid not erica tli discuss the eusetion of %raze.
Lint referring to the one. unfair condition of the
winking Messes °oat &Wed with the I.thrty njoyed by
Illespiovers of labour, the lett trer referred I. what the
o neervatire candidate bad an d of ate meaner • •• they
• had pureed "-but those tneesur e hal been to cii upon
the C rowervarlves hy the Lilo ale (new. he.r ant
applause,) Kmay yews ego six D vi' tab re L oesurers
formed t eruseives-to slant or fell-upon the q lesion
•it their wage. Th •y w -re a Pithead to seen years'
teanaportstion, which In the.. day' in an pe el
srvitads bat they were elly pipit:med. n• Tory
leaders were eager not ..ele for the meth years, trot Or
the absolute empire-setae by law of alt aeon*
abatever. But User must rein 'DS, that if tie w•trittug
cisme, be destitut-, theta tie country is in armor (la tor,
hear), sod if they ere now well 41, it .5, in great dela
in, to lade, unions. Twelve yil.re ago a Liberal
G vermilion. p ,he act wahrsine to, sphere of Limit
°our-Y.l um Edueliti'De was as old Remises In this
cmutr . • id early in the teacart, the state of the working
alas-es Wo• luau, and one Out 01 every eleven well •
pauper. ffelosehen was indeed very bee*, and sweaty or
hi, t e year. after isnuiry was made Into the math", and
inspecti m of the factories, ao.. Proved that • deal of
limonites prevailed. &hods were tat up : the " church "
set up opposition school.. so that b t aom them the
eblldren l the p Or got ems bee. lit. app ause.) Mr.
Foreter-(•oplainsi -teemed a itre-t syi t in of irduca•
ties, and the Tories, not long ago were averse to the
education of the people-free averse to the ruliss.nti of
remain,, writing, end srithineic. Mr. L edaata next
allowed that *donation would not do-astir!), the swims
classes as bad ben st-taL lr you tare on, ploughman' a
gol slaced wei•tcost, he ermld esrtiinl, be above ow
. toer pioagnua .n, hut if you gee a I pl manatee gold.
i.e d •sistn etc surely tatty wood he all on an
equality (Laughter and /moans .) Referring side tes
toe Sapp ilonun of riahr• end privileges which otd
Torte w-re watt t upho d, the kat .rev palsied oat teill
larger proportion of tais daWle of Ranged este not
members of the Zetabliabed Cuurch. N them bad been
excite rid from the eateries iati end privileges of the
ealversitiee, but at led they were ter rwn open to the
nation. (Rear, hear.) Mr. Lead do said that be should
like to me • "rising mile" at the maisonette., ea that
every workmen's eon should have • chance. (Antietam)
The abolition of tart. gra, peed by • Liberal °overawes&
(Rew, boar.) Speaking of the edocatrin the working.
claire derived from new.paperahe remarked upon some el
the astounding stetemants contained in the Tory 'MUSSY
of to-day, The Tones once carried on a pereseniint
against the pews, there was • S.: on the paper, and a tax
on the 'aver Usementh to that newspapers were ...strongly
dear, but Liberal Gov reroutes had reduced them from 41.
to Id. (Applause.) The Tares opposed and decided that
the soap duly should raised instead. (Leu(hter.) Mr.
Othdthone-(abeerel-remitt id the newspaper d sty le VW
He then showed th. dm.dvautege of the working-Glasses
who were then kept in ignorance, and the general Peat-
agent of the poor at those times was to us most incredible. ,
Then then were the awful regulations med. for the
path., p or. and the lecturer quoted from Crabby, the
post of the poor," on the condition and dwellings of the
poor in hie days. Perish apprentices were most brutally
treated, but the term had become • bye-word of the peat'
giving a graphic dethelption of the shocking treatment of
these 'noshes asthmatics, he disignated it as "slavery,
MY readers have hoinw • O°Pl of • iliMarton the and 1011.114 y worse then the condition of the old neero
queen nof • loan of 43.000 secured on the borough slaves. Sir &most Rustily exerted himself to do away
rata, which Mr. J. Hawkins Simpson has addressed with the system, but In Conservative newspapirti
to the Local Government Board. He wished it to be olbytenthelmoosservw thestti.iththe; bet itAiectzs, weir
nacierstood that lb." Protest" which is at Mr. Wood-
el
.. Rectally who took • Initialise; an c was
passed
fera's- Pools for general ailfnatuer M taahided, reducing hours of labour, that was the work orithe
the "Protest" to which allusion he made in his ititccr. HOthouse. and Aldus", who prohibited night work for
The vote for purchase of the lands wee sustained Dams children. who was the Whig Ghthoellor the
by Conservative members of the Council as 'Arose/Yr lohequer. It was • Liberal Garernmect which pawed
by Liberal. When will injured ratepayers Wei the shortehour system After noting that the Con-erea-
tires beinnl their claim for this work on the first Sir
Politica out of the Council Chamber? ihert Peel, be noticed that Lord Bttaftesbul7. then
•.•
Poole. Damn, 30th October,
Lord Ashley, wa. an ornament to both political parties,
" 143.
fled It was to him that the Victories Acts were doe If
"S r -lam given to understand. as • ratepayar In the t bad had their way, tile " slavery" would
borough id Poole, that the Pods Town C mud. in Ptlieet, Institution (agar, hear.) The
Sept*mber hat (without previous appeal to the ratepayers bill:. • tb.
iv. large) resolved, by vote of nine oat of • total of 114 I oz.- better A a criminal than am a
OC wee years ago most
e was
members, to parchese certain lands within the borough A....1e&
nom L ird Whither's*, for the pergola of making therm- labouring
the
eet .watketot
TelievenTodwallowzdstwato
tomellmakkeis
non grounds, etc.. in the stied of this Mee* meriery f In , eve. Ewe tbei. besot.. hot the
And that, In order to met the ex of purchase, sir., the mewled law
they had applied to the Lthal est Board for Whigs fought an uphill battle stelixt It; eventually Sir
Robert Peel edothrd what was forced upon Mrs the
"erenn*lnois.w oMpprsiso• 1•••••.r4 of
the
••touir• MA". which
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action of the Littered Part?. Referring to the Coen we,
the lecturer held that the whole effect of them was to
"I am entrust -4 with ' retests ' agidnet such outlay, the country generally-they were the
each influentially supported. sue I lb. """ raise the
of tie id ad by them.
tea Tory Pert? and In A a
sad (semen of the spieneltulrierirth saulC4ihVa iy a system by which the upper
which le entirely monad by water (to wowed melt la" wner (tt.: the poorer. Speaking or the
P"sat of toll)
frog'
the
aGgieet•d recreation
1•••• " • ctesene C
:tree w eking oth. the lecturer confessed that be
coaelderable diatribes.
Two at least out of thrill Councillors who Toted for tea did not
.eader. stead.. title !Rue% die ballot.
_atich p_leue.9
as
Purettam sad lose (Seem streeffilates for reithetien es
auelf;:o.thotothaehe tworrzfi.ii:Lan.: we °Z.071.d
eons n.e
Newels? let) now express othniome against It, and it will,
I Islas.. be on bmiethion, that not lb ear greater polltkal h=sce. (Hear, bear-) This
t-bad poised what should be
cent. th number, near that perthenta re le vase. cr the Movenuala_ -• P
Of later.. Is use wareute map's
ratepayers are he fewest of such as outlay-ma egeffa7, _
gaereovee. whisk would be totas insentient to mese raseore Ae‘wiraeisoienZarme uoyeirer -sser;see, .rtsire
oxisoodaits anima be Ms .she.

✓ight direction, ann a happy anairomiss between two
olnioned trincioles (Appienen) " K"rdiugagt.:l"
Poor " In lar te ge tom, is. according to Lord N.
to be the prism asom la the future. The Liberals hams
alesys been eernset about Ma (Hear. hear.) R would
armor the attention of the Liberal party, a. Lb., were
eminently more bound to the worktaVolsons than wit.
flee Coassm•trven If a fight comes about over the
Housing of thl, to. question will be whethr r
Propriat in are to have a premium. Hundreds of
thousand. °laminas wars squandered by fivery cnnlrtulars
through their rxpeaelee dinners, ie. After detailing
scone of ths Mose. of the Cerporstion of London, the
kohlror earnestly remained then that C .nvaratmes e mid
no looser It hold of theta—they can no looser reenlist
our ,neeiinge—our speech. They aim MI you that ths
"old Conservative days" wen over, but that wail not IS,
We have al lumen in oor national agleam', although
the lons, my we depreciate A.m. Hawing to the
'Yawn of logging In the service, which the Tories cad
most be maint•atd, be remarkeid that whim the bill for
ribolloilol flogging we. brought op it ma aelestsd with a
Clonserestive mai vity. Hs kinked that at the matelot,.
tics they would Imo+ who their tru• friends wan, and
emtious their exertioas for the cause which we. th.tr
own. The l• Mum Soot his seat amid om.tinusd applause.
TM Plasm= said he Nit sm. that the lecture had
b•en much seioYed. sod, as chairman that evening, he
hop,d the Silanotary would convey, in the num of the
siemastioe. their thanks to Kr. le Ask. (or antiellitti $o
fsilleisot a autetitut• that evening,__ (Applause,
Kr. 0. £0501.5.wooded. Rs regr uteid that klr.
Noble wss not pres nt, but they had had a
imam nob:s in its sentiment, and n ibis In its object.
Hs Mt that Goo of the gnatest obJe•ts of this associetion
was is proas.te education in octane' utattarn (Roan,
bear) ii titers was only a fair Raki, and a toluene,. at
work at tr.* next chem., th• waking man would see
who yr. re their t u• (Applause.)
Oarri-d unanimously.
Kr. J. T. Prerrans moved a vot• of thanks to the Chair-
tom, end mad. reference so what we. said by ths chair-
man of .h, Ileplesh Agricultaial Notting Um other da
(which w.. then reported In tai• pew) as to his idea of
potting a duty of 3s. on cont—laughtsm—md also to the
laughable •talenmett mats the other day at Bynsondsbut7
Club Dimpori visa rialuting "adoration to be dna to the
0.).• or wives." (Roomed laughter.)
Kr. Hewitt, seconded, sod led on three amen for the
Proud nt sad Mn. laundry and limn,.
Tn. woe- rr were moot heartily gi•en.
To.. Lgerusza, is supporting.
Now
that every clue
rhould enjoy equal pr.elb
gen. that the working
(dada. hax, a pr poun• am. in the bideletion„ he telt that
th y *mud show • stream semen .tion o he p Is
to. r hand. in Us- gomenins of the .t t.. Th. int rest of
their elm was den the intgrent oi every other slam (Mear,
kerma sod minause.)
Tee milk. PLEGIDIXT, in responre, trusted that that
"mains would be us, COWLSVPO,IIIIIIIL Of a long serge of
hectors., and Net they • ould not be • stalk lama In"'
mit oat (fleer. hear.)
The crowded amens( 'het dispersed.

ZAID ILlf IIaWTON.
• coefirmailue sw skis was bald on Twasday after-
s° os by Bisoop dalmatians, actin,' fur cos Illsoop of
tas Diocese. Mere was 112 candidata-1r ,m the
perishes of Maidso Newton (86). Oatt.i.tock (29).
Ureat Taller (34), Little Toiler and Wyulosd (14),
PIM* Vomitus,* (13), bed Obillsoess (4),