The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-02-07 00:00:00

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ferred te Leek he seiluil dreed the tumult ..f Leeds elec•
tfoes, and thick It pee...eery to rem.n his b,nk. wlth its
ii and idleeh to it en rotas t .we Isi P titan., '
laugh.) Bet thin the melt of that dhtur, ance Of the
hoi etiehly we, ra wayios,k,...l,#‘e soon tap. as idiom i i om •
smocey unin civil war, and that ton pandtg .1
measwe Mae° the growth of thef tree or ..feedore In Mb
c ute ry Ce.,,,,k, an, peroeiial. (ct.eers ) And not leer
eateritter o unf wtehle set of people—el
mot h empw • rA thag die reer (Leafed the old:te wools-
tors, i e rien vibe- ,reittee. e . et, he ehrtut, ..1 ‘,E,
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saga t kreoghli , e cortez on. Ilftirt that*. ene,tvern
not far from here the cerporatien regalaelr sold the sada
in P wirement, Stud emitted the money to tee nee leg on,
of cone m n ic .1 and to. some way jetilcious VIM I' r ,In
(moving the town. (A .leuele) Why, what would. you
thing II your c Tporation put up the time seats for Mr-
min lir am ho the political market, anti Herat them td butt
0! our greet contractor., or Australian memeants, or great
lauded proprietors, If they would glee £lO,OOO or a2d,004
eel( ce, to be applied for the purpraea of imorovements I.
the Sown? Yet lam told that Is what was &nein • borough
not far from Bineh wan. But after test Reform Bill toes
it easel it new conditten of thlng. arose , and aloe theni—o.
I think everybody must admit, taking
Into nor sideration the
't.le of thn ihtelligence and the virtue of our population—
have had loot! our great n rough. a nay admirable
CI stern of lent and mu,icipal oven neut. But the reformed
Parliement wait on with Clete elaturnauces. . The people of
Erieland heard the wan of aneui h from the West luele
t(•orrii•esg••rderythohtrueens.e.fraom tne West brought rellti It the
and the Liberal traty—'or ir e'alaYtTyli'vriTt:fehid4miteturebabd'ivsea%
to abate the evil, cluing It ill a manner ehiett offered whet I
cell laeleh I istice and considers.' ion Loth@ planters, and at the
tame time extended perfect and odupl te mercy to thesis,.
'Chew a ) By and bo V ere came up another great question.
'Veiling harvests, failing trade, and a distressed people
breuent about the coreb:natton to abolish the hated system
of proroctlon. Trade wee strangled, the poor were str:cken
nib Ihthims, etre teen we had ctstarbed lords, and due.,
stud squires, and farmers, and, taut corny to say. not situ
o'er., men, harmed to an alarmirg &lava O. duke, If
I recellect Meet y, wild the country would not oe w, re I.
hiving In, and that they weuld go abreal. (Laughter.) But
the Outset peasant, not a distant us ighbour, I suspect. of
that dote asked, "Thep beau% a-gout' to take the land
sa"enr, be they ?" (Laught, ) Ana the duke, at you
giro., did not go abr.. ; re remained to the end of hi. Ile
as 0 not &Meow,' a. ever te Ms ancestral acres; and now,
doubtless, he ale pa traierul ly In toot Imall p rtion of hts
vast estates whim, is enough. finally, ler the great duke as
for the humbled. present. (Ceeer. ) Well, but the culla,
were not ell the faro4us too thimeht they were nju ed ;
and Ile Cr oviler—jou reenllect Mr. Chown's.? (• laugh)—
tad they had nee e h. rses than any bee y enm, awl knew now
to doe them, aid they world rat( or Ode drove on Man-
chester than out Purl.. But, fortunately for that indus•
I treat, nu...tidied, and )tniefeeded, town, Me Chowler re.
!tilted and Manchester was spared Lamitner.) Well, 25
year. have pane d since that dtatue,ance and thee haraiodus
of t•dpe great Intereste, and whine are we fidw ? Wby,
every duke and lord, and stole end parson, ad farmer
sod mar ueteturer, aid therenaut and atm., arid labourer
arid miber --evert man and worn., every irlas stud section
of the country, is hapel r end no-re coeteut Moonier tha-
cll./turban.. (Clews.) 0.4 of the 25 year. which have
elm. pawed, I sitop WI the whuule fool of the people Of :Ms
e mutt) torah no ten yearn has been imported Irons abroad
Trade hex hicreased to feur-fold Ito then amcnust : work is
far core plenthul eird more ateady, es 30u all know ; wages
sire frou 20 to 60 per c ut higeer throughout .he e u •r (y.
rite farm labourer—of whom • writer In the Saturday
Review mit long ego card " If he is a sum of agrieuttere
lea olainherlted child"—ths farm laoourer, at.). or., e 00r.
mg, and malected, is sow Meting that the heretic-u-
-gh er, la Oven neacelluilng Updi him. (Cheers.) Wiry, 1
nave leard Mr. Dl•reett in the House of Commons (gro nee,
when eating ITOIII Perilament tompensati ei for lute la el
for the aboltdoe of the corn Imo, outer° that he woulii
seat hie whole cue on the conditiori—that Is, the flit Ire
condition--of Me &Wen)tmid labourer Well, I mot a cum
shout a year ago WLO ma. doing some work for my firm
under A contractor. Ile ma. to kine rather weak sod ill
I entered Into Cr nverution wit, him, and asked him where
rm came from. He salt he was jest receverneg hem au
Moen of many week', daration, and had only just returned
to his woik; that he we. a iaative 01 Bucknighem•hire, We
Ditraeli's own County, and that when he was sled, about Si
years ago, his (steer went to work regularly for the wages if
Ts. • week. He said, further, . Whet( Ih(fs Bucklmhansselle
wages had got tip to its., arid I have heard lately that they
are lee' Therefore, I ray that the dlsterbauce welch ha,
set tree the Industry of the country, which has *limbed the
wage' i f the huntole locaulirera among whom Mr. Disraeli
nr,vell wt.na he Is at Its enutry home, is n•(t to be con-
demeed, but Is one of the reat things fire which we, the
It eel Party, may take credit, and in Which we may glory.
(Chem)
e Nom, If there was nobody to speck hut myself, and I wa
able to do it, I eaglet he the (ugh I know hos bow many I i
sta.el of the seem kind ; but one or two me•e i
fumy mehtton Tate, lee example, the case of the
sh pping interese T, great a hrow(ers were reve-
lled became the N (elution Lame were to be repealed,
aid it teas eald that our mercantile 11TV, weuid rot
In our haven., aid orir Imperial navy w old have no
alienate That was net all. lam not sure that I hove nut
O Id you bet de If the oeservetern that a sailor once merle
te me ou this subject. Fie hit come do entotle Haus- of
COUTnnulla with 200 or 300 ethers to pre ent a petition to the
House p 001.% thee pot to a evish the Naege(lon Lees. 1
walked imp Perlententetreet with that preuesslon, and got
Into conversation with one of those ample minded sailors
I asked him ends. he hel he-n .1( I. v. He-sard they hat
taken a Mg petition down to the House a , &Met the repeal
(.0 the Navigation lees I asked, • What baron do te u
the& It will do to you?' Ho PAH, ' Well. Sir, I don't
know much ah ,nt lt, hut if the Navi.(ation Lows are retwalet
they (ay we shall never get n dineg to eat asain but black
nread, like them Norwegians.' (Laughter.) Well, that mu
the kind of aboirdity which the shipowners of t`lat time
taught these poor nailer.. who knew uothing about it. But
the result of the repeal of the Nevigation Liles and of the
estahlhhamet of free tulle has been to gives prosperity
hat was absolutely ( ream:sired of to the ehlppiug In i ores,
I,th at tbe Vs then of your MerCalitlla martial. Why,
there Is not a sea, a nay, • harbour, or a pert of the trifmr
surface 4 f the el be In *Wee your numn.ficent mercesert
shits are u. t salting; and the shlpplug Interest would be
sorry torn Ilea to the einem whicu we atiaeked and they
upheld. ( hear.)
"But there is one other point to which 1 mutt ask the work-
leg men to ply 'Articular atteilion, and that Is eith regard
Ii the Nr wspeper P.... T- e New, nem, Peas 30 year. ago
was strangled hy tee/Of On. Tney durat not eerie Min Esau,
tole up The ale., and teepeess the newspepees I r .ru clay 19
.4,,y as they p'eased. But thee put On tares SITIO atrangle I
the riew.pepers and ono dear newrpapers mild exist, the
',pa Itself woe aubj ct to au excise deo nearly
equal to the value of the article. A newspaper had
a stamp at one corner absolutely exceeding tit •
value of the paper, and then every ail, rtisement,
If ID was ouly a tine sayibg 'Wanted, a gerdenor,
apply to so and so,' bad to bear • tax of Is. ed., or II ree
stoma th( SUM you pvy now lOr the adveres meat Breit.
thus the newapaper. were to • large exwent crushed, end
preventee, to lace from commie WO existen.. We 1,
m dry o' you will recede ct weat hap weed Flue nut tax
toot came ell the tress was toe advertisement duty, the
text was the stamp, and, rattly, the excise duty no pap,.
Many of the prospercets newspapers of this volute, were much
.1:Oohed aid harassed. They were ' • haras.ed Interest.'
The Times grieved creadfal y abut It who • Mural.
inisthess It was that Me lA° Lord Darey—the most
1 wino, a.e, I think, • f political load re (naugeter)—brought
them jertty of Shell •roe of Lords te reject. ore bid err see
I repeal of the pacer duty aftar Mr. Gleesr, as had i awed It In
the 11- nee of Ger m ma! Wny, If there was a clams of persons
lithe kingdom to whole more, than airy other 11 mm IleCualiary
40 give a true knowledge of faces end I'm, kind of deeebt
pulitienl telmattem it was the Fury Party. (Leeghter .nd
cheer.) Apperently—lf llnome a M Monte phrsee—they,
-uneontetom irf Mile oleo diefigererneut' STitl their own
Ignorance. acturdly ( ejaeted the means e• ( ftred them oi
obteining tints great ell/0440W machinery.* (Cheer.)
After alluding to the tutu) eel of Church Rates, the
Irish Church and the Irish Land Act, the bon, gentle-
man continued s—
r. There is, however, another Interest which wear, said to
have haressed ; and it!. eviden ly thi• one which has been
chi. fly referred to in such oympathetle terms (e lough)-1
mean the publicen Interest (Beer hear.) New, let it be
bur. Iti mind that the Li *wring Act was not the Act Of
'key particular party. It we Ineemantly urged upon the
Gee...emelt by gentermen nit the other fide of the Meuse,
Nnd it was supp Ited by gentlemen on the other aide
ot the Hume. It was a general act of Parliament
ee which etc one poly triumphed over the other. tint
we must nut forget that among the class of pub-
Icon', I am sorry to toy, there is, In &Most even
• ther class, that which I have termed • "residuum
(Lsughb r and cheer. 1 he:e are ameng the great bdy of
the publicms tome men aho are low In etre mstances acid
low it clierectrr, and to whern any legisletion however
regulate, which tends to entirety rind geed order must
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Collar ly be Inan robot hateful (Hear, hoar) There le
a I trger-e-I believe a much larger—nun to whom reuom
ab:e legislation In this directioebiktiat ol)tyipt he:tio., t.4t
to nose at there, I 'huh it ender even he **teem°. (dear
hear) I donor belhve that all the vu,peetable pet:oh:am In
I is country, with snaic wives and f nettle., wth that tledr
tenses Mould be kept r(p. MI numight. (Cheers.) I
beileve that any me.nre—aey rea.anle nieruure, as
reasonable men would jade( —et regard to elAs Owl°, If it
were adrantageoUll to the r üb•ic at large, would be 10111 more
fall of releasing to the famines of Me publicans therneely.
Bat Parliament is not desirous is not likely, nor Is toe
Weald Fatly or the present (I wernment Hedy, to deal mu.
justly or harshly with wry boey of site. Aid I beg to
express my °pluton—the pubitems mop not take It to b.
north much, but still I (roe lt—that thty are not wise
4 Ven for th if OWII Mower, if they any to tee great Veer ,I
Bony, triumpher, in h past, euestined to tdotoph in the
imam, 'We (ieem yeti our natural enemies, and lit el; e,ue
mon corterta yhu shall feel the strum th of our teernu merit."
(Comae) Well, I have th wit yen I Orli k that if we have
ma-re Ms- urnance, If we have moul a mein /melons, It we brave
burseeed chaos or wad., trade has net • uttered, and the
good of all i he people has in redly tram consulted."
Af'er Borne alinsion to the repeal of the Coast Laws
by Sir Robert Peel, Mr. Bright said :
" with freedom of d(scossioli and IreednM of she Pro,,, pro.
erase In tins con, try Is ineettebire atee progress In helittur•
ben.: Butt the question 1., If you go hank to the your
le3e arid revere the period down to 1874, what do you fie,,
and what couchednn do you come so? It Is • era, Wafer-
tnee that with the history of itir couritry witielt'le ilkarett
our owe 'lmes young men are least ecquainted. It to not
wilt en in the historic, whlce they have r ad in the school,
and they We not old enotieh, as lam to remember almost
every political fact since tee great Reform Bill of 1822. I
elm they would rend some blarney of that peeled. A eeigh-
hour aid a friend of mine, a most Intelligent and scone
pliehod clergyman, Mr. Slolesworth, haa p 5 elishei a polltlcal
Motor) of England teem the date et tee Bret lieferm itie
until wither, the hat two or th ee years—a book homely
written, in ehlch f •cto are palely und, I belh-ve, truly
eteted, and whumt T. mild glee vatitahle Informs, w In une
yOuing men of this couet ylt they would only read it. They
Wood then leant soil knot( what each I,lcriy haa do. In
connellori with the cheers. which have beer made. For
three changes the L'beral parry Is reepinahle. Aed If we
bar th; rem meetly, 11th, cheugeti are 0.1 we will have
the Cretin and true glory. ((heers.) I th reed to any man
who is let lecnrebly pr. Felice' or 1101.-leisly Ignorant ars
In this fect alp-thin at Bala moment B'-gland Is not • eine-
t y Immeaeara .I) ratter to Ile, In than In Iras teeny or Frey
year. ago. to. kath -r CLl.nmeeee amid her Bdustry, look a(
her wealth, luok at tee wakes of beFplipple, look at the pro
eras of remelt-too, look et the treater actuary In th•a
enrollee, look et the comfort which is teemed amOluZ thr
nave, of the contumely, wtth greatly dime khed crime
greatly iiinetesntd pmperism ; and then we most &melee
this, In True measure, to the c.tirre lit policy watch ban been
pliralled In the Phribunehte and which has been !Defeated
and coutrellerernA:nly by Mit Liberal P-ety. (Cheers )
" Anether cprettrun 13, what to to be .11 S pulley now
,H. Sr, h; ar.) You have ,le•erisice.l what lain to he, Iota:
es yen ere c moaned, Sur )nut h ,ve set toe seal of your
aeprevel in the opinler 5 and the c 'name 'I tee r reprereu ta-
tty.. le ey heve c IMO fIOWII tO yeti. •.geie, hli•I ).,11,,,ve
Again 4111presied r•or sportiest of arel given your emotion to
:heir °Deduct. We midi VIT tent to—we must ...al to,
and we most endeevenr to make—arch thanes s as the public
merest and the puerto judgment remerh—not cheepes
from the mere fatless love of chap., het chame.
which are *egged° I be rethcticn and experience Our
progress, so fer, I bell re, has been. In the hlghest
...nee of the word, strictly RIM team, coneervative.
Ileneeforth lit tle prOCCed Up `LI the E4llle natt. Wall the
cacti whiten., to the same beneficent er ds (Cm ere) I
hue to thank you for this ex preetion te me of tom...award
confide... For frur mos I have cone mace y anything
het lock on. There teem hen errors whieli I have cleap.
pr 1,0-1 and bees condemned But If the GoVerllnwnt have
luilueli Buto ertind —ILL d no Gl,Vtflime.t ever later I, ye peals
rt at cud not—r so, 1,1.41. "II it with the eye of Impale
tedi,y, that l(h. •.rt11•1 amount to fax greater m. mire than
St. more, (Cheer( ) It wee toy cow C at'', Within the
hat tear that wimp teem same . dieso.wien—aud P. Woe
LOt expected so weti—that I should have hail at this tene
Re we to to you. not an IMAMS, offering myself an a eandl.
,'lte be, 111.1' 0 f 4,6+01 and final thanks (No, a (e) 1
dirt ot Meek it was 1 kelt that I should ever aAlli be able
to take my place on thla platform to address you or to.
lathe Rouse of Commons. (A Volce.—' And for magi Mae

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