The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1880-03-23 00:00:00

Zoropt enatittl &lON.

TUESDAY, MARCH 23, 1880.

TO THE ELECTORS OF THE BOROUGH OF
DORCHESTER.
Gentlemen, Earl Beaconsfield having been forood
by
_the difikultias of the London Water Bill to
delve the present Parliament, I am obliged to ask
Us. Conservatives to renew the trust which they have
phmed in ma.
I have been • finn supporter of the Divine right of
Emperors and Prime Mlnist.si. Our pert)? have
Irritated the Russians on one hand, while deluding and
tine the Turks on the other, so that, having
=l)°irtioda with neither, England Le now aced In
her proper rank and influence a/ • nation I. whose
Main- her pimple presume to interfere. She is hired
by Russia, seamed by the free peoples whose ancestors
situelChristendom from the Tarim, and insulted by the
Sublime Porte. Ws hays not made allies that would
enable as to undertake a jest contest, but have ul
to obtain cionaniand of large sums of money by el's!
In little wars. However. I regret that garland did not
Meech G•friaaar in Schieswig-Holatain,as that Might have
ambled the rulers of both countries ta stamp out eon-
ealtalissal liberty, by slaughtering up the armies of each.
TheoligemMaf fighting our own flesh and blood in the United
States should not have been shrunk from, is thereby
troublesome freedom would have been greatly weaksoad,
add Esapsrors and Imperial:lde have enjoyed the sight of
two free /000/0 firing at each others throats.
Outpliosikies In Asia have been &inlet settled by the
basgmim, and in Reath Africa by hired savages and
dysemite, end in these enterprises • goodly number of
tha vulgar poor beams food lot powder.% the cues of our
rallTarr.
I dimwit altogether from Home Rule in any form
Zogliab or Irish. The claim of people to govern their
imam their towns, and particularly to have • share in
governing their country, giro us the trouble of pretending
Io ask your votaa It would be far bettor to be governed
by Boards in Landon, who could overrule any opposition
on Local Government or Poor Live questions, while the
affairs of the nation are beet left to an irresponsible
Mourch and Minister, as In Rani* and Turkey. In
Eaglet:id it would be batter to have an Imper:al Ruler and
a Prima Minister to nilo all.
The Eastern Q motion we have al:n*0'01 by making it a
permanent danger ; depression of trade has been increased
perstive Stores, with managers whom we pay from
tradesman's taxes; but the worst harvest of • generation
km not thinned out the psaple as it ought, because of
the large imports from America admitted by the par•
sii6oos policy of Free Trade. while English farmers are
rvosited by obstructive laws from purchasing pert of the
land they farm
A taroks of £1,000,000 has gone to the ditch, and we
are 611000.0% in debt. Still we have shuflead our burdens
upoa tba future, and when the Liberals use inte power,
their asaberramaiont will imam the sting of our &Out
If yen do me the honour to elect ma. be assured that
'Mr waggons shell traverse continually the roads, which
are free of tolls, between the Railway stations and my
braes.
Our 'party will soon be able to got up • war which shall
make it neenseary to draw for the abut the privileged
slams will he allowed to bay SUM sad thaws who
are too poor, sad don't wish to be Wed, shall have
zwsionad talk as their backs. Bad Mficers,se now, will he
to oottf.arison Instead, and when they come out
from being treated first den misdemeanants, may
opals high rank and pay for doing nothing with some of
any allies.
assatimaao. I will sum up by saying—
Butch my back and I will scratch yours.
Tour obliged and faithful servant,
CAT 0' NINE-TAILS.
Tory Rocas, March IS, 11360.
THE CONSERVATIVES AND THE CAT.
Peace, prudence, and progress have ever been the
watchwords of the Liberal- party. The have ever
deprecated the wanton cruelty and the warts of
money inseparable from war. They have always
remembered that, however, gratifying "the pomp and
circumstance" of war may be to the military and
aristocratic classes, it is upon the rsorts at large, that
the burdens and sufferings of each campaign must fall.
The Income Tat is one of the many burdens imposed
en the long-suffering householder by war; that Inoome
Tax which Mr. Gladstone would have abolished,
which now stands at sd. in the pound, and will never
be reduced so long a/ the Tones hold office in the
land. But quitting the burden*, look at the suffering
that is involved In every battle. What have the
Tories done to reduce the miseries of war' What
isolisitsade have they ever displayed for the common
soldier? Are not the Conservatives the champions of the
cat? Do they not uphold to a man that meet
degrading and most irrational system of corporal
punishment' On the 17th July last Lord Hartington,
moved to abolish flogging in the army altogether ;
but the Government whips collected their forces, and
the motion was lost by a majority of 106. Still there
is much for which the private soldier has to thank the
Opposition. It was owing to their untiring and
persistent efforts, that the maximum number of lashes
that can be inflicted for any one offence was reduced
from fifty to twenty-five; it was also their doing that
a schedule was drawn up, and incorporated in the Mutiny
Act, clearly defining the specific offences for which it
ie now possible that a private soldier can be flogged.
Previously the punishment Ma/ often as arbitrarily
Inflicted aceordingly to the whim of • tyrannical
colonel, and yet it was impossible to declare that such
punishment wan illegal, so the law on the subject was
meet indefinite and vague.

MR. BRYNIER'S MEETING, AND THE
DISORDERLY PROCEEDIIIGS.
The sitting member, Mr. W. B. Brrm•r, was
announced to speak at the Corn Exchange on Friday
evening lust, and the result showed that what the
Liberals lack in Dorchester it not strength, but
organisation. Had the leaders of the Liberal party
been aware of the widespread feeling so deeply to be
manifested against Conservatism, it would have been
quite easy os Friday to have negatived the resolutions
at the promoters of the meeting by an immense
majority, and not only so, but, instead of
having an almost continuous series of In-
terruption', the meeting might have passed
counter•resolutions, which would have discouraged
Mr. Brymer's party. As it was, the spontaneous
expression of feeling was not regulated, and could only
be deplored. Liberals should have done better than
=mien the contemptible example set them at
Captain Greville's meeting, when • feeble few of the
Tories, consisting of a young fellow excited with
something not good for him, half-a-dozen who tried to
turn a speaker into ridicule, and • poor old shoe-
maker who had gone far beyond his leek represented
the Tory forlorn hope. But the Conservative Fends-
men should have made themselves acq
_minted with the
fact that Captain Greville and Mr. Nesse had very
real interniption, before talking of the " patient
hearing" given the Liberals, whereas the opposition
on Thursday night was of little consequence,
not because it was mild, but because it was so
wretchedly weak. Perhaps another cause of
dissatisfaction among the people on Friday 1,1111
the ocenpation of the platform by so many of the
leading inhabitants that the people felt themselves
Affronted by the distinction thus made, and chow to
amen their strength. The Liberal leaders have now
the responsibility net upon them to show their grand
army • more excellent way. We may indicate our
In a far more efficient moaner by demanding
fiaefitiniTlV a hearing on the platform, and then testing
comparative strength, net by storming the position
bodily, but by -ailing for shows of hands on resolutions
opposed to those which wen on the Tory programme.

Smashing the windows of the King's Arms was
entirely a lawless act; but if the donservatives will
upset the water-bucket, they are partly to blame for
thus appealing to force. They should have remora-
bersd how dangerous water is to their side. Says en
old Dorchester man, " they used to Sing ha'penos
instead of water out of the King's Arms window. I've
seen many a trying-pan full tossed out of that window,
and hot ones they were." " Yes," says another, "Tory
Wpm* ars mostly hot."