The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1880-01-27 00:00:00

MORE MUD.

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The action of the Tories of Poole at this pre„aa,
moment may be likened to that of Nebuchadioem;
who net up a golden image, and commanded his sui ;pet;
to bow down to it, or be cast into a herniae, -fi
furnace. The Tories have est up their goLL.,,
and those who do not how down to it :eof wor.lo4(ii,
are to he cost into the burning, fiery fur Lace of tb.i:
theplewera. In a few months we hope t
continue the simile, and point out that the sebee,ieeet
degradation of our opponents will be upon a par with
thriataormftyheca,B...bryinoiusinghtkihngim, whitoszlinaniugel,,trii
ment. Happily for some of us we are all, i Jar,. to
pecspe imprisonment, aud come out lion the fernaA
unscathed, for epeaeing our minds when we
the actions of our advergaries, with the aid of the two
important elemental of truth and coi tri n wow.
elements they have been hitherto mingulaely ilefieieet
In ; but although we may escape from the ree,,h, A
the law, we are not permitted to go "eo,t
for the abuse we meet with for our pains would, if 1,4
knew to better, lead us to ask whether or not politico
freedom was tolerated in the country. led us obce
more (for the story will bear repetition) t II ti,, 00l
tale, and then ODUlment upon the m.,ye
criticisms which it has brought forth. The lord if
the Manor's step-f .ther is adopt el as tlie member
-
elect for this borough in the Tory inter,,.'. ei,ll re,
hotter recommends ion than that of the 1,1,60,0/up
b fore &Busied to. Ili, chances are hopeles., ;he fi.4
that the party whose cause he estem-ea a-e, vulgarly
1111,11kif11:, dOWIII in the mouth ; " their goldpu mine
hen been insulted instead of being pl wed mem a
Parliamentary pedestal for all nations to bow down to;
their opinions are in the minority; they find that they
are now here. To tight the battle with such mated death's
was • hopeless task, so something must be done to rain
recruits t, strengthen such a weak army, and at the
hour of battle approaches, eight acres of nvolduel
suddenly rush into the memory of the Tories, and oa
this frail foundation they commence to boil I a caatle
from which they can annihilate everything Laser.' in
Pole. To storm thi cantle while it is yet beine built,
to expose its rotten fonndation, and the rotten material
of which it di composed, is to be guilty of impudemp,
audacity, silliness, and a host of other heinous idt.e.
Still an these sins are but sine against Toryism, •hey
are Liberal virtues, aid as ouch we must ',testi 4ei:ty
to them, and keep on our path rejoicing. It Li now
several years ago since Dr. Phdpots first hew the
Council's attention to the pestilential mud ion.' we
now write about. Ile was not satisfied with Ora
allusion to it, but mate many, time after time, until
a resolution was prop wed to the effect that the Lord
of the Manor should either abate it or be ounainoned.
Time went on, no notice was taken of it by its pre
prietor, and at last a deputation was Pent to him from
the Council proposing t, fill in and utili.e the land for
public benefit, which action would not only incrome
the borough revenue, hut provide bathe and recreation
orounds for the people. The scheme whieh it had
taken nineteen (at the bast) heads to mature was at
fret rejected, but eventually the remunerative,
pert of it was alone selected as worthy of coo
eideration. Public baths and recreation gr,,ne,js
sink into insignificance when the creation of eL:ht
acres of valuable land meets the mud-owner on the
one hand, and the existence of a nuisance which was
calculated, from the disease it produced, to gait;
unpopularity on the other, so just as his step-father it
making his debitt before the public of p,..ie, j.i.t
before the g 1 election comes on ju-t before the
public we getting irritable, ju.t before the Two
Council commence the corupulsory action they hod
determined upro., we read that Sie Ivor Guest makes
• Prompt, generous, and unselfish retrotee, not to
duty'. call, but to the wish of the inhabitants. can
we, in the face of thew fact., abolish tine, two m et
prominent factors from the equation called self and
politics? Let us quote fieuree .0 show what the Lord
.d the Manor i-i ding for himself. ',deb., acres of I opi
are worth £5,920, if land is worth £740 an acre, am it
wa. at Parkstone the other day. suppoee it cods
£1 500 to fill it in (but it will not), an.l we at in,,, ~.
that what was once mud -land, planning the locAty
and produeing sibs 'lute harm and no revenue, i. by
this manatuvre changel into valuable land worth, after
deducting the coat of making it, £4,420. This repre-
sents the gain which accru, s to the Lord ..f the Marie.
and this is the gain the Corp ration of Poole 'robe.'
,to secure to their town. But what have the public
I lenefitted ? They have lost a nuLsat ce. true; hut a
nuisance their Corporation were about to abate fir
them. They are thus far the gainer,,: hut no
' people's park comes to their share, and the peEic
bath. are, for a time at learnt, swept without th• fled
, 4 their vision. And yet the letter which was isent •.,
the Mayor, and simultaneously to the Tory whips mo
ti the Tory new-papers to be psraied, sleet a, el
£1,600. At the meeting of the Council at es
,ich tit's
letter was real, discussion proved that the,
not indebted to Sir Ivor Guest fir £l,ool'
~ and as it
appeared to be a question of dnubt v het h.,r or not
they were indebted in any way, ...hat was mirenatural than for the Councillor whe first brought the
Ladies' %Velking Field nuisance br „re
ei th, "hoc ti
ask "What the town was, or war twn wse
rod, indebted to the
Lord of the Manor for,"
an-I coaelnde by wind!, 'it
that the greatest calner must ',.ethe p oprietor of the
mud himself? Of course roe au,
lacity di.played in
asking such • oluestion ar,d alluding to such • gals
was a cause of offenee to those who "bow down and
worship." awl it made even the weak-kneed Liberals
tremble who adore the gold of which the image is
made ; but was that any reason why 1)r. Philpots
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should not ask for the pnblie to have an opportunity
of hearing what with Tory rule they would have but
e appear
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hut e n!n
fs
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• small sham of—namely, the truth ? Disassociate
fporom iti
Poole, there withpe
itsp t r o
eenerosity pure and pimple, unadulterated with
arbitrary petitions, political sops in the pan, and that
firm of political persuasion which is tantameint to
political force, and no such questions at tho-e which
Dr. Philpot. exercised his right in asking would come
before the public; but if a quid is asked for every fpn
let us place whet we give 'idle by side with what we
take, and value the article to be bought at :Qv- sensee
dictate. In conclusion, let every wnrkieg man eh ,
has been taken on to work in "the field," or wh , has
been refuse-1 work there, ask himself this question—
" If the Creporation were doing what the ford of tit,
Manor is doing, should not I have obtained emplor
tient V' The reasoning is plain ; the work hod to la
done, and that at once, and if the landowner had not
done it the town would have done en, Let working
men find out whom it pays them beat town k for. and
remember that the political opponents of Sir Tver
Guest are the cause of this labour being found for
them at this time of dittreaw—dirtress for which they
have, in a great measure, to thank the Tor) mite.
who have shown their incapacity as rulers by bringiu„;
the country into its present distresse I state by A
blond and thunder policy, which means stagnetion of
trade and ruination to commerce.—Poole re/venni.