The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1881-05-17 00:00:00

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Mr. Councillor Ralston has bail to pay the penalty
which inevitably attache,' to those who have the
eourage of their own opinions.- Ile has been stigmatised
by a wretched little Tory London print " a disgraiv to
Poole and a IWO manufacturer of blue-tlre, not to he
out-done, talks of I la "a political ghoul who fosters
a loathsome notoriety by des...rating the &std." Neither
hard words or vulgar abuse break bones. and probably
Mr. Ralston's equanimity has been no whit disturbed by
Use pellets of either London or local pop-guns. He,
has discharged what undoubtedly he felt to be a duty,
namely, to protr.t against the erection of a ument
in 11,. Walhalla of England's greatest men, to thv
me ttttt ry of one whisk. sitivesti ah pOlitkal 11,11relit twee'
with Inuglit at the expense of everything noble,
Christian-like, or manly. Sum. • ago it was pris
polled to plit up a similar remembrawc to 4 young man
who, in an antallid to become the eiurilen.r of innocent
people,.perisheil by the hands 'f his destined vietims. A
national proteo4 was raised, mid in spite of courtly
induences. the voice of the people wits si unniiatake-
able that the idea was *km141.111,1. The result ought
to be the Mole in the preNeat inptanee, ualeaa we are
X olio: to ...overt ti, halloweil cloisters 4.1. Westminster
alley into a Were rival of Madame Tussauit

It is all very well for a sheeckeer young couneillor
to quote 2 Latin nlittitt every sehoollmy him lin the
tip of his tongue, that one should say nothing but what
is good of the dead, but then. are occasions when it
remotes to tic smokeable. lii the great • nmjority it
probably holds good ; but certainly not in all. It is
meant Ali a rebuke 1.. the seandal-heving back-biter, who
delights in retailing any little peccadillo a deemisesi
neighbour may have been guilty of. It murely does lied
pnelsibit the rritideou of the public works and public
.I.ssla of a man whom A great nation is called upon
pobliely I. Issemir. Mr. Mandon's quotation was about
3`l ni.pr.t.ri,t, s tie concluding line" 0( tlio epitaph on
Lady s otle Somebody's—l forget the naine—toneb-
stone. She worked beautiful samplers, and of such is
the Kingdom of Heaven."

II a statesman's alast career is not to Is, eritkised. of
what earthly use is hiatory? It would seem almost,
looking at a pneierution still pending, that we hare
gone in for a 11,W "rdl,r of things. Not a word must
is• said against the departed of the " upper crust."
Ereet !somnolent. to their memory, pointing out how
they were too good for this world, in every tillage in
the kingdom, if you like; but don't attempt to question
thel immoeulate gOOdnOS. Allit flail posterity with
tearful wistfulness will sigh " Oh that we lived in those
days, when there were no hishops to hold up their
hap& for the slaughter of their follow-anon, when there
were no kissing an:lade:trona isr ilivoreeasiurt prineee,
whets ktoeiety—frinn th.• Mgt.* to the ontennost ripple—
was pure. and everything, front what the historians of
the day tell us, tieenut to have heen. nee a phrabe at
that than in rogue, • utterly utter.'"

Englishmen, however, thank goodness, will not stand
such milk-and-water, sickening sentiments as these,
and it is refreshing to know that in our Council we
have one Councillor who does not hesitate to dare the
world in the expression of °Onions he believe* to be
true and honest.

Ily-thc-way. who is responsible for the publications
which lini their way on to tho tables of tho Liberal
Club? It SPOlnfi to M.' very 1.4 taste to olhiw the
little rag that I luive previously alluded to with its fa.,
(if a Cuckoo is a ford) insults to one of the limit and
t consistent of our Liberals to staro numbera in ibe
face as it has ilone for the past week, especially when
the gentleman attacke.l in the President of the Club.

The two young gentlemen, the Parkstone church-
warden and the Poole Dolphin, may perliaps feel
interested in learning how the late amiable earl. whome
nputation they deaire may be treated with the mo,t
superflne-kid-gloved tenderness was in the habit of
talking of his contemporaries:—

To Lord Paolo rrton he refs :—" You owe Vie Whig.,
great gratrtud.z, ooy lord, and t r :tura, I thii.k, d,.0 will
0.-tray them.- ' • Our language commands noes ressim •f
acorn wirch Mut not Mon txtiaos rut in the celeinist on of
y or character ; there is no cur ceorsibm hires°, degradati.n
which hat ut, ot ..,toe tmri el or other, here associate 4
..h your csrerr." " Your It Ishii. ia like • fasourita
footman on risav terms with hi, ml eras." &winsSr John
olotihrevie, tha R,diciertaks • rest on the ado beach as
Lord Palroar.d.o.. Mr. Doritall remake, Yo haro mat
i druai —the Pu, itau an' the Prostitute." Addl., wing L rd
J o.n It 4.4,11, h. se., "Its tr..Vollr were ml. r Lust
such a nom we., laa ler o, the HAI, 0: C auntie., ha may
t • rou.yreheud how ilpt Rityptisus worship an
insect" " V..LI are nue/ xhallot Up.pn the tronatitittron o,
you coon ry ell th it lon,hoird•el venom anti all those
dot. =erre t htimAre that have fur per. .outiriacit.d in
your wily heart sod tainted the current of your uscrtilleu
life." ZolO•ef is dr wrila as a "worn-, ii. Maeltiavel,
wriogin, his h •Ipl-aa ba2llo or rhos het,. r 1 In reolsoreeful
d-apiiir, awl 100.kint up with a sigh at his scowling
ancestv.rs." L ,rd M,Abourne is "the •Isekts. swine la the
Epicurean sty,"
Another i•orrsairon,leut

If L ti Re • u net let.• hay.. a matue it Weotminee-
Abbey at the wink cloar,e, I hink th.t diflic oltiet ato
to the w rdin o' te intertpti .0 would he ourni .ont
adopting the Linguae atldre.oe,l te. the degcsa..l Doh mcm,
by hos ori-n.i L atottou. y :--" YO.l hive beau st. ilty of
a Doliiical here, al twhi,h h•se to parallel in ma'
Paoli ow.ctary annals. Y•mr policy 1, • policy cot
wort I,rumu. y ;lir pt.f.ij 'no if . pinion •re DO tomoy
politic ol mace arca for thy purpose 01 obtaining office."