The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1880-03-30 00:00:00

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nowA.D ILAL RUMINATIONS
wfind thatytzii,h-i.:toit,
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far • &LOMA!. airtscroimizaj
originally my intention to endeavour to .4
It was
brief history of Toryism, and a clear account or i...'• A
Scotia policy.
whole of your columns for the next six nonths weel?,tas
insufficient for my porpoise, I sehmostility.betotrehafltoirerk,lirayivoc.l":
much of what I inteuded to ray, an ornimiee, he, Net
ewwffsnhicthueal.atnimlisntirswilltoconbicirevtirenrecenno.dule.rocedf
towhheor inresimowmidukila:ti:cinrci:lt.eshinWtogeafihbon‘d:t.matalythbei,jwieveuriarirdu.....4l,
credulity we shall find is not confined exchisivai"
' The men lam afraid of " says Blab %--4 ts
rtiticg• ' who ball thi •°P ' lagvy ' are the men w eve every _
_ng, ',been."
, to eft,.
thing, and vote for every " liat I want ton. '
;CP:y nsadcws is the n ..serty of personal inv
Mimi po
on', and it is incumbent uponwer we poem" to-day we hold iZtnm—'''t,
future generati -- 'a
us to regard it as • serioue possession, and tee, every QM,/
with honesty and intelligence, and this nee. ii."'l4 it
any difficulty in doing. lam aware that tee -"jelL.,_llail
occupewese of many may be nryied in excusing
the uncongenial labour of entering upon the many ga".
questions appertaining to politics. Others
week of mglity, and many worm than both ti.....'eye_swil
indifference. There are also the obstinate ones, tiee""'"'"
one of them told me a short time ago, who" don't en,..,te
be convinced,' and who, I am afraid, are more De "'"l'r
In Dorchester than many of no imagine, aeri wh, lire,
majority of cases, attempt to represent the Tory la lae,elht,
life. Speaking of this character the celebrated autita,7,
" The Automy of Drunkenness " said that " A ea,. r
humble life must be • person of sterling integral' a
Independence. I say nothing of his wisdom the. !sd
matter of opinion." Now this political roe. " I
I have never yet been able to find, a10e...4.1'4
I have not been idle la trying to do so. I have atteag;
an called Conservative Working Men'e institutions, ha,
only to find them sures and delusions, the working e.„--
ehe e.eil ertigle, mind, not the miserable counterfeit art..
made to do duty as one, so fee. es any active and stereo -
connection with them out, being always a eutie. It
however agoe any occasion it became necessary ..af,
illustrate the Progressive social advantage,
coims".., ism." I wee you the expression ma I heard at.
gathering at one re theme places, whatever it may ace&
t y trotting out the political hermaphrodite. Me sc.:l.lW
Conservative working man, the exhibition the
best but a sorry one. The radicalism of the creative.
nature cannot be cast off with his working jacket He
may call himself what he likes, but he
conceal what boreal y is than succeed in proving *Mir
really ie not. Even with • master's approsiag iy. :
kindm his patriotic ardour, and the sorely promegt 0
succeeding the foreman, to any nothing of the pro". Wigs
emoluments of old clothes and broken victuals,
performance is not a success. Amongst his fesig.
delineations that of the churchmen is never omitted. iee •
his knowledge of ecclesiastical is shout on a pee with
of his political bigot'''. With • few claptrap exprenico .liiiim4 BB
about our glorious constitution, the
evils of •0444,. _ e
c'et. the horrors of revolution. and the rano *.,....
hinu of • State Church (even if hours go as for LI oh_ .....-...
ganutiftlcaduonons't
)wanhe
ptratoencutortailmeanp jrintoof
fhavisoniTup.pr
oteadt I . ...-,.....iv- hay,
hard work, and like the lie that by repetition Wel
succeeds in passing for truth he may eventually imaies
to humbug himself with his OWo hypocrisy. "A Csa - • .
servative working man" says a London nempaor, .- iro.
, "Should be an impossibility, or at best a freak of uteri
I existent for no other purpose than that of ehowim • utter inoomprehensibihty. A Conservative work:meal
should be be as rare as • tortoiseshell tom-eat or • imete. V)r- TB
lady, and quite as valuable for purposes of exhibitioa. Is
• healthier or better balanced condition of affairs ,
Conservative working man would be well worth a peas,
• peep as • first-class represenlat.ive of political fib d. ,
He &weld be cotialeeraoiy rarer and far more interest*
than any other idiot in or out of an asylum. But thsitha
is monstrous; and for the same reason that laws are semi Ilk
protecting individuals from harming themselves, for
' sante reason that dipsomaniacs, opium-smokers, &rarer.
eaters, and other self-injurens are now persistently plow
under control, it is likely, in • more advanced cond,tiaa 0
' being, that any emaciation of aelestultifyine mies
troWng themselves out as Conservative working sam
will be voted such an outrage on public decency so 4
necawitite their being put ' where they can be femi.
If ever wanteri"
My ruminations upon this subject have been longer thm
it is worth, but the sham wants completely exposing Wr a
That I have succeeded is not for ins to say. 11l hue tat
manapd to get anyone to think seriously uton th,
ridicuis assumption who never thought of it before, gpi
labour will not have been in vain. I will now dismiss tie
Conservative working man with the remark I once heart
applied to him by one of the greatest of living orstoretist
"-should be exist he ie a blasphemer of his na ure andl A
traitor to his kind." I have already referred to a State
Church. This no true Liberal can consistently
support. Religious equality becomes an absuniity is
the face of it W. J. Fox, a prominent name a
the long list of Radical Reformers, in one of his serums
on "The Mission, Character, and Doctrine of Chriic sin
that" where one particular priesthood has rank in ta
state others are not free. So far as the ceremonies of roe
particular faith are connected with filling any partiedso
occupation, entering inte the relation., or enjoying eel
of the advantages of civil life there is not relixion
liberty." "The purposes of the State" says . LOH
Macaulay, "are temporal, those of the Church ipintual'
Can any one show me a good cause why the Ai...Writhe
of Canterbury should sit in the House of lonts to ta
exclusion of Mn, Spurgeon or Cardinal Manning; vas
anyone tell me why the Disaentng minister is okapi
under restrictions to which the clergyman is not subject!
Some may say the law of the land. Very well, thin, d
the law is based upon principles opposed to eluity sad
common sense the sooner we repeal it the hetter Don't TO I'III
imagine that because church rates are not now eon. . WEI
puleory, the Established Church has ceased to be a
pecuniary incubus upon the nation. If you want to nod GE'
of the millions it still costs us, refer to Mr. Frederk q
Martin's "Stateman's Year-book." The disesteblishmest and c .nt
of the Irish Church, an act of simple justice to helm& in me in
was not the scheme of spoliation which it is oftes to Pulls
ignorantly and falsely represented. Protestantism in Dein i,
Ireland was a religion Instituted and maintained hy foes. -with yo
and repugnant to the great majority of the Irish people.
mars d,
The clerical dimdtsries were not sent eropty.hended away
as many supposed. These oortsorants according to the *acing
published accounts managed to carry off £7.51eal I feel
Ha Stl. What was really the sum cannot easily re Jog my.
ascertained_ but that it wan much more than Ibis Name ' anwe, 1.
la doubted. There were about sixty of them, Arai
„. - „fa' my IC
bishops, Bishops, and Incumbent., who an compeneatim - i .rn I
for the loss of office received upwards of £lO,OOO each
The Bishop o(Derry got the nioe tittle sum of •111.311 f 19s. Id, his u.otvunip of Deblin L 93,04.5 lo Fil his
brother of Armagh . 04.442 Its, fel, and the lordly
Shepherd of Twins, glfitslll2 9s. This is how John Bull s:1 .
for encledastical soothing syrup. The day for ta - heali
dieestablishmeut of the Church of England must come, upoyiiiii it
and it may come sooner than many of us expect Its owe
Internal corruption is vigorously usisting in is
destruction, and at the present moment it presents II
picture of wretchedness more 'abject than any mealier
institution in Christendom. The evidence of 5
shinerse has just been petblialsed in • bluesbook of mom than a hundred pages, The Bishop of Pete; borough tso TO TN
valuable Information upon the inability of prelate Ss
refuse institution to incapable or unfit persons His
Lordship specified four cases-one of • paralytic, another
of • notorious drunkard, the third of a etertYnAst GE!' li
physically incapable, the fourth of a man morally unfit. your It
The first three were instituted, but the Bishop told tbs aamit I
fourth that he would endure anything rather thee
dersestl,
Meditate hint and the man being respectably married I kusi feared inquiry, and did not Insist Bishop Utterten RTs
an instance of • living which wae bought as • speculatios .do.V. I ,
for between £B,OOO and £9,000 and sold for MAO, Be ass
through the clergyman dying suddenly and unexpectedly. IIaPPY. I
As no vacant living ean be add, it is the practice for every po
patrons to put into them old men, whose infirmities and
ass are hawked about by the vendors as induceineens for
Purchase with prospects of early possession. It a not at
all difilcult to get such old clergymen to act an warming-
pans; they are only too glad to pay the agent who puts •
them in, while the purchaser of the living also pays the
agent • fee. So much for the portly of a State Church.
In the face of these facts further condemnation is
unnecessary.
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