The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1873-12-30 00:00:00

Tin ATTACK on TILI-LiATI-LIIII-TSNANT AT

TII USETINU OF THE LABOUKILES'
LIMON IN DOEOHUTER.

To Me Zdator.

I am one of those who think the agricultural
labourer. hey. • perfect right to combine in Unions
tee the beuering of their contlithc ; and so lone an
tithiy obey the law, and do not act in a mural eelfish
egint towarda their employers, I wish well to the ljukoll.
But if the agricultural labourers heel wished to prodnos
on the public mod an impremion that would be us-
Immo:able to tho Union as teeth ea to the exteneion of
the political frarehiee to their class, they could Lot
have taken a *tyree more likely to proonee that un-
i•t our•ble lap,es.lon, than by eat wing unanitumply
the resolntiou pr0p0...4 hy Mr. Meyer. in Viet reso:a-
Idoo they condeurinel Lord Sueftesbary DS • Oshilinal•tof
thdir brethren, the eollists of Sootleted. Ti,. roaf.u-
key was cootrery to truth end was ridiculous and
eouteuiptible. The ridicule and contempt will de-
servedly fail os the speaker who lnduoed the meeting
by his one-aided etateureut to adopt it
'foe whole country knows that If there be one in-
dividual whose Isle hut been devoted more than ethers
to the elevation of the working claw., that individual
I. Lord ahaf Leathery.
The preeeut tit pined condition of the great Lives of
industry in the limits, I. mainly owing to his energe'is
and indefatigable exertions tat and out of Perliaiosot
Lord Shafteeloury bag evicted maoh and done much to
effeet ha benevolent purpose, and in the gratitude of
the great mass of the Operatives, Le be. hied a rich
reward. It pleased Mr. Cox to constitute his hearers
into a Judicial Court ; he med. them both judges and
jory, and the individual whom he ilaraiig Doi befor•
them, was Lord tilisitesbuty. Ia his self-inipmed
duties as prooreutor, be was pleased to say that the
scouted bad" digrekel Ile prevailed on hie
Interco to pay a resolution in which they declared
their belief, that the statements of lb., Lord Lieutenant
in Iris speeoh at Weymouth had been highly celumulour
They had heir. these DO accurate account of what
Lord Shaftesbury had sold, no proof whatever that
there wad any exaggeration in Lis atitherneete ; they
had Daly the fact %Let he had derived Lis Information
from a colliery °timer is chum he had eonfilmiee, there
was absolutely no evidenos whatever to toe contrary,
and yet they condemned htm absent end uplifted, as a
propagator uf DahluiaiAls sh4gee, am if he hal mele
00 exoeptionv, bat had socueed the Beulah oolltere
Remotely of dtunkenue se and other ditgreeeful hectic.
Nothing meld be more oontrary to toe plainest ono-
(pipit's of justice. Would any of those who the. acted
the part of j age. and jurors In eondenx.ing Lord
lihafteebury, take to have their own character., Wax-
ties, or property at the disposal of a jury or of j Agee
what:mild.° ea I bit, I ask, why Is Lord Soefteabury
not to be believed! is there • siegle Court in &grope
properly oaustitutei that would hesit.te to receive
his testimony ? When did he ever falsify his word.
or give the slightest reason for doubting his venial; I
Built wee said by Mr. Ong, Lord Shefteabury reamed
re give the come yf Jul informant. I ask what ri•ht
bad Mr. Cox to demaad It? Who constituted him SO
Itquialtor with au absolute patter of pronouncing 05
the Oath or fal•ehood of hia fellow citizens? If Lord
Shaftesbury Lad said anything which could be hurtlel
to the eiterecter of itedurideols, then doubtless it trial/
have been right for him, and he would have beau
ready to subetantiaie the secoaation. Hut why eta rid
It. bold up his informant to the irony-aim of %h.'s*
wheys extravingatee and druaken halms he bad vety
properly mate tie sat jut of • moral OaDlion to his
audience at We; month.
Let mu give • parallel seas. Last autumn I met •
gsetlemen In very extensive baloney at Nottinktalne
he assured we that he was personally acquainttd oath
several fernlike at Nottingham, whose nutted sernlio
amounted to 1:10 par week—yet, anal were their waste.
ful sad intr....vim:at haLita that they had positively
IsoiLlog to show for it, and tf only out of work tire
or three weeks, would be inlet:steal want. Suppose that
Mr. Cox were to losing on my delivering up to bin the
nano of the penal who gave me this infeesastioa, IS
P•is 44 my 1r...0g pubbely dominated am • ealwenstaitorr,
should I be jausded in exposing that parson us llkor
pereemith hostility of Lis seighbouta mid lima gamily
to k jar* ham to his bushier ? I should eertainty do
ononly so Lind Wideman:7 Lao ClOOO, sod notuog IS
*id le tie diotakoo i
el is rrorpoulpie tiusie4lll