The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1880-08-31 00:00:00

Voroet Cuttutil exiirtso.

DORCHESTER, TrESDAY,_ AUG. 31, 181 W

How teaching it is to hear Conservative landlords
flasonext_upost the value and the happiness of family to '
the working MAD I Anyone would think some of them
Td "The Cotter's Saturday night," and appreciated
the moral virtues lauded therein. But unforttusately
too many working men's homes in boroughs iire, owing
to the scanty allowance of land let with the c.Atage.
Ise aibbed and confined that were It not for such as Dir.
Edwards's club, the working man must choose on a
fletarday night between being steamed by the washing
if the &Mien, and going to spend bin earnings at the
&L....0n other nights ton, the working man is in
of hang Jammed up close to the clothe. horse,
.arM wife hasn't room enough in the yard for a
drying ground. And who gave the working man
his cheap loaf Certainly not Conservative landlords,
whose political anosstors fought desperately against
in ADAI4.CIIO corn. Why! had the Tories who
fongb aphid such men as Sir Fowell Buxton had
their way, there'd never have been freedom for the
Meek, nor food for the white workman, and last
winter with "protected" English corn, the Conserva-
tive working man would have had the blessings of
molosetion in • elb. Iced for Sia., and only half wages to
melte It, while the press gang would have been
seaport towns, and carrying off workmen to
the war-ships and the claws of that friend of the
Tories, the Navy Cat.. With the troth of parts of
their speeches we coincide :—" The rich man can male
existanoe bearable without • home. He has his club,
opportunities of travel,— • hundrd reliefs." Yes, he
has, while workmen are bound to the place where they
labour, unless they, at almost ruinous cost to them'
warm move all that makes happiness to them, while
the landlord can at present seek hi. pleasyre in distant
land, mending for the sinews of war and the price of
hie "hundred reliefs" from family and home, to the
=whence he draws his supplies. But when
Mire landlords talk about capital fleeing the
eountry, unless they have it their own way, and the
Irish man saving enough to exist in other countries,
any esesible working man can see through the
hollowness of their sophistry. The advance of
Liberalism, gradually correcting the tearful burdens
press upon the nnendowed classes, is the very
thing to conserve the institutions of this country, for
Weis the disadvantages of what Conservatives are
to cal/ the lower dames were continually
Crsold. the destitute must fearfully Mamee the
numbers of the "dangerous classes," while workmen
who ham the mew of moving must emigrate to freer
bogs, where
"A man isa man if his willing to toil"

Ent bow —would the Conservative I;ndlords
Mier snail a " general wreck ? " The bulk olithr
property Iles immoveable ; their lands and houses could
so more be taken to the Continent than they can go
the " needle's eye," while the workman whose
In his strength and skill can transfer that
wberever he finds free institutions. We should be the
bet to counsel removal from
—" Our native land,
The lend we love the mast."
Ent free Institutions are to be found in lands within
may Agana, among people whom Tory ancestors sought
to aliment* from the mother country—men who an
too," and who prove their free English
trigloloornfully rejecting the land and property
lawswhich bind England in so close a bondage to
hereditary wealth, that, after • supreme effort of the
waking and middle close's, the will of the House of
Oaramons can yet be nullified by Tory landlords and
tlnir eympsthleers in the House of Lords.

isarybody has heard of the PD.'. oddities. At
ems lines he is charged with totally perverting the
neesnlng of • writer, anon he sends cattle-droven to
hike the young Wiles from a boarding school, he offers
;We widows" to let, whoa the advertisers
to make money from their windows; he puts
births anon the marriages, and generally is wit.
asertheih obstructive, and irrepressible. But the P. D.
Ile else a person of much mother-wit, and well knows
kW to hake oare of himself. Il there is anything to
be seen, the P.D. is there fill freitt the best place,
sies =nessimPess thethtntr. wait for him,most
when everyonevoprovoking
dos Is • hurry to be off. He knows, if he has
rim to the dignity of a "sass," the value of "fat"
LUand unlucky the writer who wishes to finish his
It suits the P.D. to knock at his door in the
of • sentence and demand copy. At last the
P.D. hes actually received the thanks of the leading
amber of the Government, in the House of Lords.
We have always had the impression that the P.D.
WY • hit if • Radical, and his latest feat confirms
ozotLeression, for it was in baifling the tinsei-loviag
of I.pselsll.ni Earl Beaconsfield bimetal,
that the P.D. achieved •'honourable mention." Thus
happmed
Lord Besomadeld stated that he proposed to move an
amendment limiting the operation of the Employers'
liability Bill to • period of two years, and apololasd for
that notice not appearing on the paper. Whereupon Lord
Redeedale explained that the noble earl had handed him
the notice, and be had given it to the Quoin'. Printer's
boy, who bad put it in his pocket and forgotten all about
It Earl Granville observed that this must be • very
intelligent boy. for be bad done the beet possible thing
with the amendment"

Earl Beaconsfield has not favoured us with any
anecdetes of his encounters with the P.l). in those
good old times when Benjamin Disraeli was • Radical,
wad bad not yet fallen • victim to the force of gravitation
exercised on weak minds by show, the chance of power,
and gold ; but doubtless, when he discovered that Eyre
sad Bpottiewoode's boy had pocketed the amendment,
he most have felt • return of that savageness that
exalted him in year. gone by, when beaked in the
exuberance of lirsaponaible frivolity, by the cry of
" Copy I"

AMERICAN PRODUCE.
The condition of agriculture in America is bewail's(
more and more interesting to Englishmen, and it is not
improbable that some day or other every phase of
growth and production in that country will be watched
with the same eagerness se it is in this. One of the
111104 useful results of the royal commission is the
informatioo afforded with regard to the foodstuffs of
the United States. Mews. Pell and Read went over
last to see with their own eyes the operations of
the system, and to enlighten their fellow-
countrymen on pointa which have always been vague
and uncertain. Their mission was efficiently performed,
though we can hardly understood why the delay was
so mat in making known their opinion.. One of the
ob facts to be gleaned from their labours is, that
in addition to corn and fat meat America will be able
In future to supply us with breeding stock. We have
In times past sent her over some of our choicest sped-
of bulls and cows, and she is now able to return
the compliment. The report says that when live
imports are again introduced • considerable trade in
Mere stook will be developed. At present the cost of
basil is an impediment. Furthermore, there has
been • prejudice against the blood of American cattle,
abbot as great as that which separates the British
arbeocrat from the Yankee. But both obstacles are
destined to disappear. Conveniences of transit are
we to improve, while aa to the prejudice spinet
Amerioan stock there are few English farmers who
sow fell to acknowledge equality, if not superiority,
In the splendid fat oxen which are almost daily brought
lain our ports. Messrs. Pell and Read unhesitatingly
aim that the breeds at home would be improved
by mixture with the unpampered beeves of
America, NOW' English farmers will derive
▪ doubtful consolation from this prospect of increased
cable Importations. It seems to be a tendency
satercedetio to their interests. Hitherto the produc-
tion of meat has been • province which the foreigners
could 00t effectosily invade ; it formed the last strong.
bold of British breeders and graziers, and oonspensated
somewhat for the cheapening of other articles of food.
Possibly there is even now not much ground for alarm.
bliconsumption of meat has increased • great
otlate year., and there is every reason for belie..
leg it will centime to do so. As long es bread is
ramp, even the lower dames will find money for beef
end mutton. For years to come supply will fail to
overbite amend, notwithstanding the facilities which
Asessican prodossen will be able to call to their aid.
The former, therefore, need not altogether despair •
neither seed the dairyman. The information in the
report regarding the production of butter and cheese is
sot only inintersiemtinAcabuits Thrndilirtnandsecdlty i
▪ Is. frequently fetches two °riling. l pound.
American farmers can make cheese, but they cannot
=good butter. From this it would be inferred
peat deal of °ham iss eaten. It is not so, Isow.
'var. 0 per oast. of the prosinos being exported. It
b way certain the Milted States will never send us
asa, and be cannot help wondering whether cit.
ettmetances will ever allow us to send it to them. The
dairyman has no reason to look for other
GA present. because butter always commands
g good price in this country. Sot undoubtedly
*Barka may be regarded as a possible opening at
some future time, when Protection shall have run its
sod a freer relationship between the two
shall have become established.