The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1886-10-23 00:00:00

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he will know how to act, The fact is that
the Social Democrats have betrayed their
position and their plans by ill-advised pre-
liminary bravado, and in consequence they
will be blocked at all points, and rendered
powerless for evil. The "Social Democrats"
are simply dished, and made to appear—
what they really are— ridiculous. Let!those
who are anxious for real reform in our social
state, who would fain see improvements on
genuine and good principled line in the
condition of the working-classes, cast oat of
their midst such men as the notorious agi-
tators we have here referred to, and purge
themselves of all connection with the pro-
paganda of plunder and class fends. Let
them aim at bringing about a purer and less
selfish socialism, based upon the broad lines
of justice to all ; a socialism which, while
demanding that property should not neglect
its duties, will recognise its rights. The
appeals to passion and brutality and all the
worst impulses of humanity which are made
day by day in the name of Social Democracy
cannot be too sternly reprobated, and it be-
hoves our sincere public teachers and leaders
to step aside at times from -
and set forth to the masses f t philo-
sophical princifAes whicl 'ie the
foundation of all good' .enment,
which go to build up ad truly
noble nation. Polif ais the

only antidote.to th ,ftnees of
notoriety-hunting an igitators
—the propagation o method

of putt-Mg-a
Perm am miciorts
sponting,B of the mo- tsquer-
ade under the ai Social
Democratic Feder:-

COMMENTS 0'

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which we hope

THAT was a at Fulham a few
days back, hot light may here-
after illuminate eartrending tale
of the little lad aped, the inquest on
the three dro-, arid the open ver-
dict, are but af a story of woe of
which the wor. ,ty yet be to come, and
which may have been disclosed by new dis-
coveries by the time that these lines are in
print. The husband's evidence was moving
and touching in the extreme, and the whore
awful occurrence, as it stands, is not at all
alleviated by the reflection that there seems
to have been no adequate cause for such a
Feu sa tionally horrible occurrence, unless,
indeed, we accept the theory that the mother
was mentally deranged. It may safely be
said, in any case, that such a story has not
shocked London and the country at large
for many a low,. day; and we trust the time
is far distant when we shall see its counter-
part.

THE late gales seem to have wrought a
great deal of havoc up and down the country,
but no place appears to have suffered more
than Brighton. "London-by-the-Sea," as
the Queen of South coast watering places
has often been called, as wont to pride her-
self upon her pleasant, and, as she thought
impregnable seafront, reaching for fall three
miles in almost a straight line. But the
brunt of the gales broke on the beach, and
all the shoreings and staithes, and bleak-
wuters and groins were as naught against
the resistles ocean. A storm of any mag-
nitude at Brighton is really a novelty, and
some of the visitors quite enjoyed the strange
siglrof the waves rolling along the Grand
Parade, and threatening the West Pier with
momentary destruction. Now the Sussex
resort must apply itself without loss of time
to repair, for the sea has left a lot to Le
done.

NEWS from Barmal is again disquieting
to those who would fain see all square and
above loard in our newest Eastern province.
Nothing, we hear, is known in that country
of the Government inquiry promised into
the causes of the Mandalay inundations. If
any inquiry has been held, says a well-in-
formed correspondent, it has been held in
private, and none but official evidence taken.
-This is not as it should be. We should not
be afraid of independent testimony, The
Under-Secretary fQr India, Sir John Gorst,
made a statement in the House of Commcns
to the effect that only- a dozen lives have
been sacrificed. Unofficial witnesses swear
that they themselves have seen forty-nine
and two hundred and seventy dead bodies
respecti;'ely. These conflicting statements
should be sifted to the bottom without fear
or favour, and if the native.police has been
in complicity with the insurgents, as is openly
alleged, then the swift sword of Justice
should descend and strike retribution.

WE tiight produce at home the great
bulk, if not the entire aggregate, of the four-
teen million pounds sterliug worth of dairy
produce which- we are annually importing
from abroad, if we would only turn our at-
tention to practical working; but we seem
to ignore the necessity of learning any but
the most primitive methods of both field and
dairy farming, altogether scoffing sometimes
at the idea of mingling science with every-
day work. There was a butter-making com-
petition at Tring the other day—by the way
is this one:of the places celebrated in the
old-folk rhyme ?
'Tring, Wing, and Invinghoe,
'Rau dilty villages all in a row."
If it is Mc Tring here referred to it is situ-
ated in one of the best butter districts in
England. Good prizes were offered, but few
dairymaids entered for them, and those who
did were lamentably lacking in a knowledge
of their work. The churning was imperfect,
and none of the girls seemed to know when
exactly to leave off. This is the very fault
London factors have to find with Irish
butter-makers. So long as the Normandy
dairy folk make up much better butter than
we do, and can sell it at less price, we shall
continue to buy it; but all the same we
would rat her give a little more for the good
English article, if we could only obtain it.

LORD HARRIS seems to have experienced
no insuperable difficulty in producing a good
tobacco crop on a corner of his place at Bel-
mont, acco: ding to the account of operations
which he has communicated to the Press.
What a boon it would be to consumers of

the "divine weed" if we could only harvest
enough here for home use, and have it man-
factured in good condition ! But we sus-
pect that the Customs people would step in
and make the way hard.