The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1874-01-20 00:00:00

A PUDDLETOWN MAN'S EXPERIENCE OF
CANADA.

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We have been requested to insert the following sop,
of • letter sent to Mr. Henry Mayor, of Blandfora, by
Mr. George Taylor, late of Paddletown, now in Pule,
Ontsrlo, Canada West, America.
Dear Sir,•-I 1101 V take in) pan with great pleasure of writing
those few lines to you, In.pier this will find you in good health,
and the Union in good working order-hotter than when I left
England. I am happy to tell you that I and my wife are
getting on first-rate ; I only wish I had enne to America 10
years ago, I should now have been worth a thousand dollars:
by what I MO .4,1, .4 the country, and what 1 on save, 1 .1110U111
have all that, if not hero; but I don't want to back the thing
any more than whit is true. I should hate wrote before, but I
thought 1 v, oulii wait till I had tom in the country three
months, and then 1 could tell you mere about it, sou I think it
I. Just three months ago I wrote to you, and duce that time I
have been looking round pretty shin, to see what. itt. like, and
what a man an do in this country. The first thing he has to
do Is to make up his mind to put up with difficulties at first, ss
he will find them plenty for a while; and another thing, he
must make up his mind not to have any beer, for it's not like
the beer at borne, and • good job too, for I can tell you why -
we can have plenty of beef and mutton for Yid. and 3d. per lb.
and we can do very well without the bear, and it dotsa greet
deal more good. lon assure you that 1 sin better in myself
now than ever I was in all my Wein England ; but why Is that?
1 on live well, with the beat of food, and have more than as
much again for my labour, and buy meat at from 2.1. to 3d. per
lb., and good fat meat too, equally as good as what the farmers
eat in England; and thews, the very best for Gd. per lb. The
people here don't know the way to make skim dick; but if
they did they would have to cat it themselves, for they would
not be able to sell it but I bell them the chcoe that is node in
the old try is skimmed twice and Wowed with the bellows,
and they don't know what that oteana. Dear tilr, 1 love had •
letter from • man in Ilampahlre, which 1 have put in for you
to see, au now I will jot tell ,you what I have done duce I have
been here. 1 have bought a house and the ground it is on, but
1 don't mon to tell you it's as grad a house as the farmer's got
to live In at home; but I must say it's • great deal better than
what woe of the tale urers got to live in at home, and not only
that It Is well Most with moat. Mr. Arch was at Paris, and he
mine and took to with me in my house, and supper at Charles
Davis's, and 1 think he worked very hard for the working men
of England to see how he went shout to examine the places
for their srood. and I hope they will take his advice.
He worked hard while he was in Almelo, -much harder
than at borne, Slid I MI sure he worked hard at home for us
labouring loon; hot 1 d.m't know but I think the Viol of
Cllll.l* is bast. I myself would prefer that from the East froin
what I hme seen and read, but Mr Arch knows bust about
that. I will leave that to him. I have end him • letter by this
same mail I have bought &mod fat Cow to day for 22 dollars,
and that is £4 Ils bd. hagttnl nimey, what you wouki have to
give 1,20 for in England. Hesse to tell an toy brother Union
men to make up their minds and come to America, but out
Rock too many to OTIC place There is plenty of mom for
thousands In the leo,inor, and they will tm Cr regret the day
they left England. I have it gnat Many farmers route to Inc
to know ill on Oct than out some men, and 1 told them "Yes,"
and If they would ad, thee the money for to bring them out
they winikl willingly lay It hack, but they say they should like
me to fetch them. I WU than I will if they will lay my
expenses across the water, so they are Dying around to ow
how many they will take, but I have wrote to Mr. Arch to hear
his advice on the matter, and I hAVO beCil talking with Mr.
Whitlaw, the )loyirol the town, tuld he toll me iii lime an)
frhnds eel, to come out he wouW let them have t't shillings
tech to help titian tr,er, and they tray him at three months end
when thy) get the looms money -they will hairy that given to
them at the of three month,. I expect mine every day.
Tell the 11 bite-list/lord men to pull out that one, and put in a
blue one. The fanners said when I tame away it roe a at
job I was going, and I think so ton,, but not for them, bui for
myself and others. Tell the men they will have extra work to
do °Toy day, and that is to got the heel uut their teeth, and
they won't work so hard here. The tartars won't tarry but
~.j, .4 ci in. at a time ; but when I ten them what they
have to do in Donut, they may "More fools they to do it," and
they won't get tom than Is. 3d. per day. If any wish to know
how to manage about their I tell then, to wend to me,
and I will send and tell them, ley must put • threepamy
stamp on , as I have had some with only a penny one on, and
tibuo• to pay fimpenee for them, but I won't take any
hal at um I must la nelude, with the beet
mom MK .
wish°. to the Union, and I remain yours, In Union,
GRUIWZ TATUM

The loyal Lorinberg Booloty to to to listed to visit
Solivbvy to 145.

THE L&BOURERS. UNION IN DORSET.
(By Mr. .1. C. Cos, In The Examiner).
In no oounty has the tuevement among the agticul.
total labourers been of greater signifitance than in
Doreetehire, Though its wages have never been lower
than those prevailing In certain parts of Somerset,
Devon, or Wilts, there has been no county in which
the almost hopeless; poverty of its peasants has ban so
wide-spread and universal. Hence it is valuable to
Dote tbe operations of the Union ha that district, and
to see how far It has at present suceeeded in alloviatleg
misery, In raising the wage-rate, or in otherwise im-
proving the moral and social condition of the people.
The Union was not firmly establiahed hi Doreetshire
until the autumn of 1872, end has not even now ex-
headed into mazy of the outlying districts, though it
seem that Its infinitive has been indirectly felt in
every pariah. In the autumn of 1872. from
laborious and partial itiquiries, I oame to the conclusion
that the average wage of the eounty, inoluding all
legitimate purquisitee at a fair valuation, did not quite
zenith 0101011 shillings per week. At the present time
the general estimate may be placed from two to three
shillings higher. Ido not suppose there is any one
living in the county, or in any way accurately acquainted
with it, who conid deny in sober earnest that the Union
is In the main responsible fur this rise. The best
poseible proof of this is to be found in the hot that
thaw parts of the county whore tho Union has as yet
little or no bold, such as Bp, distriet of Bridpoet and
certein parishes in the north of Dorset, are the very
pleaa where the wages are the loweet. I have just
returned from spending a week in Dotsotabite, end the
inquiries that I e yorywhere made clearly elicited that
where the moo had the courage to c-enbleo and remain
united, they obtained with comparative °est on advance
of a shilling or two. The cases that were told clic, in
which the men had been reduced in the autumn, seemed
Invariably to oocur whoro the Uelon WAS unknown or
weakest. Whilst driving from Blandiurd to Dorches-
ter, I was asking the differout waster that were being
paid upon the various farms we were paesiee, which I '
had visited some ten mouths previously. The ouly oae
that I heard of ea being at the same price as in
February het was a farm near Stickler:Li, on which the
moo are ii c tying ten shillings per %Lek. On the two
adjacent farms they are reoeiviug thirteen and fourteen
'lnnings respeotivety. Tee men oo the low-paid farm ,
have been too timorous to j du the Union, mei are thus
left la the lurch. The dry political econetaist, reflecting
on the reason of this rise, will p-uhrlYy put it down to
the migration and emigration thet the Union hes set on
footer inelrectly fostered; and doubtless the eeonumiat
Is in • measure right. It is, I believe, quite chills
the mark to say that from /Oven to eight hundred
leboureen have permanently left the county in
the peat fifteen months. A Imitate per-oeutege
have returned, but certainly not more than ten ,
or fifteen per oeut., and it is asserted that they ,
are mostly young fellows who had left their
sweetheart* behind them. It is a very :ere thing
or a labourer who hoe once got clear of the
miseries of Dorset patient life to base any longing fur
the place of his birth. The icdefatigs eta thattiot secre-
tary, Mr. Mayor, has piles of letters from mierators to
the north and midlands, that would convii.oo the moot
sceptical of the delight and gratitude diaplayed by the
labourers for the greater comforts that are 'BLit, their
reach whim once they have left the west. Laneashire ,
and Yorkshire are, as might naturally be supposei, the
<months chkey favoured by the migra..ors Nor is
there any reasonable expectation of the eventual return
of any considerable number of them, however tmepting
are the offers thet the farmer In the tattoo may be
inclined to hold out; for the majority of them have
settled down with thole families in permenent employ-
ment, and are not merely engaged on temporary
"navvy" work. As to foreign emigration New Zealaud
and Qieenaland base received their fair quota from
Dersembire, whilst many of the victims of Brszilien
knavery wire unfortunately drawn from the a me
county. It is satisfactory to know that the Presiden
scheme was not only unease toned by the National
Unto°, but that it was actively opposed by the principal
elleleis connected with the Union in this district.
Many of the Brazilian emigrants have now returned,
but their retura does not appear to have in the least
disheartened intending emigrants for other localities, so
great is the oeufidenoe that the labourers have in Mr.
Arch and his eoadjutors. Now that Mr. Arab has
returned from Canada and reported on the whole so
favourably concerning its resourees, the men are almost
Over anxious to lOSIO) at 00•0 for Its shortie. Our
°ppm:mots sneer at the idea of 10,000 more of our agri-
cultural labourers leaving their country ; but I have no
doubt that, after a month's organisation, 500 of these
10.000 would be ready to come out of Dorsetshire alone,
and follow Joseph Arch wherever be led them. During
my resent visit, the questions that were on all sides
asked oonoerning the United States, Canada. and our
other selectee, were overwhelming, and I should be
there now if I had consented to listen to all the details,
or read all the happy letters that were pressed neon me
by the relatives of those who had already bravemi the
ocean. Lot me toll you of a olugle inie /net. At the
conclusion of the tneetiog at Wimbonata an oil man
premed up to shake me by the hand, end thank ISO for
basing, when last let the county, urged his three sons to
emigrate to Q teensland. He had letters from oecit of
them, and, though in dlff,rect situatiens, and only just
landed, they Lad sill tecured planes at £5O a year, suid
their board In addltim. Tee younetet of these you hs,
nineteen years of age, was literally only in receipt of
eight shillings sod sixpence a week %hen he loft Dorset.
shire. The gretitude ot the little r for my few words of
advice was overwhelming. Rewards of this happy
description are the eommou lolieritenec of "agitators,
And whet has beeu the ff at of the remoral of this
large amount of !shear, so far as the oultivatten of the
soils smiler eV Why the effect of It has gone to
prove what every soup l:aerionituriat woll knowa, from
Lord Leice ter de .n to the hitublart Inteltlhmnt
peasant, that there is no surplus labour in this opentry
If thorough jaltioo WWI done to the lend that leaven
now in ouitivetlon, ard that Dorschhirc In prettied...lx
had not & single hand too many. In s•:.veral vette of
the county that I might mentioe you can see, web hal
au me, how Lid after ire bee:: .-..irgritoefele-
larded, sod lan mach cuis,akon lit',! mym arhr ewe creel
In Dereetshire are not much bolo", il. eeerve nte y
'patellas calm to ray kuowledee ef tho w.y I . yrhi
farms wore nedcrruatined. I will Live you en on. Is
by way of proof. Mr, D—, of Teireent •efor',
isms 930 seers, and he hee in hie emplov, I' I ei
to a groom who looks niter the hantme, the c end
four bey,. All this emigration arid migratlee (reera our
earn-producing diatricte is inelanch. ,ml teeny EA its
would not hare heart to mantel... ie if it cal not
for the convlotioe that it le only too tei la. teet v 4,1
can bing our sineeith etat..emor, face to Aor en.lt les
, realities of our Emilie% !and quo itior.. I). e .nd p
' it they will leek te; It eith differeet eyeas.!..u- th oe-
piratien of another twelve month or tn.).
The Union he, nor-sr had seah a arm Iy.l Gn the
Dersistahlre lebolrors all it ban at the lecireet einieent.
- Their enthugiasur for it ie sleuest u. anted. I at-
tended six meeting, on six InCO 13,14:4 I.
ford, Dorchester, Weymouth, Wimborne, Poole, and
Werebetn, end at allot them, with nue exceptioc, there
wise crowd. el audiences, and this notwill,tendleg •
charge for adult shin of Lwow:lee tour toad, %enter, was
made to defray the expenses. At Bleedford, Dorches-
ter, and Walther..., wheno the audiences Cr, almost
purely agricultural labourers, liege miceLers were
turned away at the doors, • second meting In the
ma:kat-place basing to be Mutiny organised at Winn.
horse. Dorset-shire was the first oeunty from whioh
lebourcrs' petitions were seat up in i-uoport of Mr.
Treeelyan's motion of last session on the franchise ; and
their politio&I aspirations are growing, for they now
appear never to let a meeting pass by without • distinot
declaration in favour of the principle of manho'd stiff-
teem Irrespective of the effect. that this may have on
the present or any future naiotetry, the introdaation of
direct politics into their meetings has a most salutary
eff,ct, 11111 • distinct educational process, not only on the
WOO themselves, but on other Inhabitant., of the reouuty
through the reports that appear in the local papers. I
hsve not spec to allude to many of the indirect results
that are so happily following time introe notion of the
Union into that Seep; county, • very hotbed of selfish
eested-ieterests ; but I must jilt allude to two mat-
ters of spectra importamoe. One is the mal-admieistra-
don of charity funds in out-of-the-say parishes, and
the other is the letiosure of commons and strips of
waste land. Both these evils are now reeeteieg • dis-
tinct cheek.
The generous feelings that have so often been noted
as one of the results of Unionism are not musing in
leorsetshire ; and whilst the Uoilen is reepousible for
the originating of a heelthy spirit of ir.dependenee in
regard to "euperiors," it has also eogendored cearitable
inetinots that have hitherto boon dormant, and
labourers in ttouble now receive much more of aympathy
end reel support from their fellows than was formerly
the ease. Nor has the higher rote of wages led to any
corresponding Merinos of drunkenness; on the con.
'rub the ranks of the Temperance party have bees
muoh augmented since the adroit of the Union. Its
principal advocates are stautiob Teetotallers; and Dor.
„,eeeetre has set • most admirable example to other
mantles, where the Union is not nearly so dimly esta-
blished, by having never held a single district or braeoli
meeting at • public-house.

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