The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1880-04-06 00:00:00

spent 18a., and abed fineader was • leen who earned Nu
• week and speat 21.. (He tr. bear, sad laughter.) That
was the whole storr. Tbe Government whose flame was
good was the() iverninerit ebb* paid the esteems of the
year with the income of the year, and the Government
W:0110 fissure was bid was the Goverment which outran
lan oundable manually. (Hear. hear.) A. to the number
of ..garegate penes raised by the looms Tex, by ernes-
iox tigers.a in certain ways, the advents:is was made to
appuir in favour of the present Government. The
exploitation ICU 1101,11 Ude When the Liberal Govern-
upuit mine into p 'e'er in 1869 their predeoresors tee two
pure before had been a Conservative Government Tlio
Conservative Government waged a war in A hymnal.%
When the Liberal Gore Foment mine into power they had
to wy all that extra am mot, something like six Mil 1)04
which the Conservative G marmoset bad left Munn •
itgacy. Os the other band when the Conservative
()overt= ml case into power instead of finding • deficit
they toned • very lAMB surplue--about six million., an I
.0i of L,5 ui millions they took otf the sugar duties. He
knew it had boen end that thee surplueei were obt deed
by starving the arms and navy. (No, no, and Interruption.)
The other day Mr. Goer:ben, who was this first Lied of the
Admiralty in the late Government, made • speech, sad
told them that during the time the Liblirsi Govgrumsot
Were in office they built 26.000 tons of shipping for the
navy, and th it the Conservatives had built Kele. The:
whom of the fleet sent to Constantinople, which we.
sent teeth to show the power co: E i.Laud, list been built
by the Liberal Government, and had been headed over by
them to their successor& (dear, hear.) As for the arm/.
at 'hi time of the EuseeTuril.h war, when the Russian
army was approaching Constantinople the liniserves were
. called out; but if it had not beau for L ird Cardwelrs
me +sum in 1871 there would bays been no Marvell to call
out at all. (Hear, bear.) When the army wei required
sod the navy was required thine two instruments which
were brought forward to show the might and power of
England, it svm wee that both had been carefully mu-
pared for by • Liberal Government ( ileer.hear.) The first
person ells suggested that smell iIICAII64 shml.l he
exempt from lemma Tax WM Mr. Gladstoae, and he did
It when there was • knee surplus to give away. When
the Cooeirvative Government propound it there was not a
surplus but • deficit. About the Eule war. lie really
could not understand at all, whether the Government
approved of that war or whether they disapproved of it.
They certainly WrOie • very stiff despatch to Sir Bartle
Fran, but they still kept hies in his place. Tuve) was no
doubt that Russia had certain designs against Tu key.
He thought a diderent polmy would Probel'ilr have Pre-
vented war between Ramie and Turkey. II he believed
fore single moment that the return of the Liberal party
to offioe invent a diminution of the power and of the
prestige of England abroad—if be 'settees 1 for a single
moment that such an event meat th .1 the army and
aavy were to be starved, or if he belo.ved any of the pre-
posterous stories that had been till of what would
happen if the Liberal party came back top wer, he certainly
should not try to be • inember of the next Parliament.
(Rear, bear.) When he reed the history of this country,
he saw that the gemill glory which she had attained, arid
which he hoped weeldbe maintained for over, het been
dim to Liberal pad Liberal gammen. (Cheers.)
The meetingwse closed with votes of thanks.