The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1873-09-30 00:00:00

THE DORSET COUNTY EXPRESS AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER SO, 1878.

Maks from away of LW WIN by which at present they
ware threseswed. He wield now ask Lord Shaftesbury,
who had 'kindly come down to toy. stone of the church,
to eve Moen ble advice end opinions on the pr.seue
peat Mein to the Proteettal interest of our church and
ol our nation—(applaose),

The Leah or SatretimstraY was greatly applauded,
sad when the clapping of hands subsided, began en
address of jest an hour's dentin, eharaoterned by ill
the warmth and outspokenness which have won for him
the satire one Jean of the working aliases of the
.country. Addressing the &adieu°, as "men and womea
of Weymosith," the noble earl said he was happy to
wee preseet so many women; ho slways rejomed
' span ommations of this kind to see seamen brought
' together to expellee their feelings, and to develop their
seal in a good cease. His friend Mr. Grenes, to the
ancounsement sirlt‘ish he had med. had done him
(Lord Shafteebury) some little dim:rein, in stating
that he would deliver "an addrees." Until he saw the
announeement he merely thought he woo going with
many others to take • part in the proceedings of an
satieniblage such as the present; he had no idea he
should be the one single person to occupy the whole of
the evening. Ile would tell them why the &Queens-
meet of en adieu to be delivered by him had rather
disturbed his mind. He b gas to thick persons would
suppose he canoe there to talk upon • great many
delinte questions of the day—upon capital and labour
and of the various dispute. that hat taken plan
between employee soul employed, mag ter and into.
Now these were Lepton upon which he did not intend
to Wan ; they wen eontroveraial ',Attain, and eon-
siderable different) of opinion might prevail thereon.
The programme before them related to the hu.l ling of
• °horn, and he saw at ones that should be the out
line of the disou,sion, beyond which he did not intend
they should go He did indeed rejoice to see such a
large number of the working people of the town
gathered together to express their sympathy in the
erection of • place of worship, w .oto God would be
duly honoured, the sanaments rightly eilminiattred, and
where the preaching of the truth wool I he heard from
day to day from the pulpit which would be the ornement
of that church. He delighted in this, because in the
first plan he wished them well LI Christian and
responsible beings; and he rejoiced to see them enter
into the fall oonsideration of that great subjest He
rejoiced especially in the present time, bream.° as Mr.
Greece. Ind indleated, they were in very gnat peril.
Old superstitions were reviving, and were stalkitg with
angular audacity through the land. There were men,
who had enjjeti ell the henefits and all the rights of
toleration, now leavipg the level they ought to keep,
and whin to obtain supremacy • and they were aided
in that by Joheme a foul and traitorous party in the
Church of Ragland who presumed to °all themselves
members of the great body to which those now present
belonged, and who were no more members of it than
they were members of the man in the moon 1 They
were only there to propagate their own detestable prin-
ciples, and see if they could ounert the holy founds.
ties on which the church west built. The edvoo itos
of then ptinslples made their attain not openly, but
in an insidious tenni r. He dreastei to speak the
feet, but he must sey they were resolving tie small
shire of support from those who professed to be opposed
to all forms of religion whatever. They might depend
upon it that Ritualism, Popery, and Infidelity went
hand to hand. Of nurse there were large exemption.;
he was speaking of the great mast, and he repeated
that they were =robing head in hand towards the auk,
version of Evangelical tenth ; and none., under God's
blessing, the people of these realm. -the large and
seething masses of the population—would declare their
adhesion to the old principles derived from their f ore-
fetters, and would stead to the last by the great
principles of the Reformation—if they fell into • state
of 'add/enema, if they hesitated to come forward to
assert their privileges. and to maintain the hi/timings
which God had bestowed upon them, not only were the
nye of the Church of Remind numbered, but the days
of the British Empire were drawing to a close—(spa
please). They would thus see how much depended
upon them. Let them rewind the time. of the three
great martyrs, CA*01:1101`, Ridi-y, and Latimer, who died
at the stake. Wing two of these martyrs suffered at
Oxford, jest as the fire was about to be lighted, what
said that great and holy men, old Bishop Lnimer
Turning round to his stake-fellow—for that was the
term in those day.; might they never be revived—
turning rotted to old Ridley, he cud" Be of good cheer
Meatier Ridley, for we shall this day light such a candle
in England as by God's blessing will never be put out."
God's blessing wee still upon them; and it was for them
to say whether the light thrown out by the floe of the
burning martyrs should be again extinguished, or
whether their nmollection of them days and of the
great efforts made by three who had preceded them
should not buckle there up to exhibit all their energies,
to give themselves altogether in prayer to 0i In order
that they might beat back this foal, this peetilantiai,
this dangerous heresy. He was sure the people of
England, as a mass, were perfectly sound noon this
point. There were many in the higher went, of life
whether of wealth, or station, or literature, who it was
true had fallen into those notion and were mialeadlng
then who in other circumstances would not be thus
inlueeeed, but he believed the great mamas of the
people in all our towns and rural districts were still
true to the faith of our forefathers. But if they were
to be left as sheep without • shepherd to the delusions
of thole who thus Warr tad and misled, why than
it meal not he wondered at if they fell into unbelief or
great error. Bat it was for them to ban I themselves
together to operate upon public opinion, and never to ,
bonnet on the greet question, but to WM every effort
they amid in pabdo and in prints, openly and among
their families; above all they should lain up their
ebildren In the way they should go. It wee for them,
the people of England, to 'hew that they, at leant,
were not faithless to the Gad who had created them,
and to the &view who bad redeemed them, There
were many points moon which be might touch relating.
to the welfare of the working cleans; to them he
nali but pellet out ea the result of his own lung and
very great experience that the position of the working
classes was very different to weal it was •.)aie dO years
ago. It could not be denied that at that time the work-
ing classes were not in the position they ought to have
occupied; it could not be denied that th-y were then
kept down and had not the full development of their
energies ; it could not be denied that there were many
impediments in their way; hat at the present time all
those impedimenta were removed and they were ao longer
depressed and kept down. They had now power; they
asserted their right; and it was for them to consider in
what way they could best turn to account the mighty
privilege* they now enjoyed. Let them just consider
this; let them recollect that at all time'' even in the
wont period of their history, among the working
• hounti and temporaries exereimd • mighty bo-
logna. They °odd not go through the records of
the lives of the many mesa who had risen to eminence
from the lowest ranks of society, without seeing
that even In former thy* it Iroll by these means
alone, under God, they had attained to the power
and position they enjryed. Now, let them consider
what in the prenut day their position was
in these times of rushing prosperity. There was a
greet demand for labour in the wide extension of sum-
mer**. 11l them days of absolute necessity ter co-
operation to the greatest extent of every working man,
they bad open before be, • field and • career nosh as
had b -fore existed in the history of this country
or in that of any other country on the fan of the earth.
Now, he could but call attention to the eircurnstanoes
of the last twelve months or two yeark They knew
perfectly well the mighty openings made for the work-
ing people, the enormous increase of wages. and the
great reduction of labour; on that there was coarsely
anything the working man had asked that bad not been
conceded. Now, he (Lord Shaftesbury) must in all
friendship, plainness, and bononr, ask of the greet
means of the working people, en whom them benellts
had been bestowed, to what purposes of good,' of
immediate and prospective benefit, they had turned
their great advantage* and mighty aoquleitioes Was
it not a feet, a deplorable fact, and one which unless it
be amended must take from oats all hope of the fixture
Improvement—he might also say the very existence of
our country—WU it not a fact that with very few
instanoss indeed of exemption, all these mighty
so tuisitions of wealth, all these redactions of labour,
had been turned to no ancient but that of sensuality,
indulgent's, and enjoyment lit was • startling Pact, that
in the Isat year the inertia/ad duty from spirits alone
Doming into the Exchequer was no lees then two
millions sterling. Now, tf that was the extra duty, what
most be the quantity of Thin actually consumed in
excess over that of the preseding year? He would tell
them what be had heard the other day from one of
the greatest migineersin Ragland, showing to what little
purpose all the benefits and &dents/gee to which he had
referred had beet) turned. The gentlemen told him
only a short time ago he had contended for a railway
between two of our great towns, and the men
upon the line came to bins and said they must
have an loweent of wages. Ile replied he did not
think Its reasonable demand. N belies, it was an
imperative demand, as his contract meet be fulfilled,
and therefore he gave the increase of wager. "Alt,"
said the men afterwards, "we must impose one condi-
tion' and that con atlas is that at the end of every
tin sash man shall be paid 2.. 61., to bee denoted from
his wages." With that amount the men after their
merit went to publichones. The engineer told him
that after several months' experience this we. the re.
suit—that the wretched wives and children of then
men had after the Innen' of wages far lees for their
mantissase than they had before the advance was
made. Now waa that • proper state of thing.? He
noollected perfectly well that when carrying on the
factory mantioa, endeneuring to reduce the daily
hours of lebour from 15 and 16 and even 20 down to
10, he wet always met by this atswer—" If you reduce
the hours of labour the workiog people will taly per-
vert them to prefligacy." Bat be maintained they would
do no such V.lag, and he was now happy to say that
all those he reprerdited—the thousands, the triall of
thousands, the hundreds of thousand' engaged in the
textile fabrics in the ociuntiee of Lancashire and York—
cotton, ebk, woollen, and no on—bed sated up to the
pledge he gave for them, and did not nausie their time.
But passing to other trades, of tate yens he woe sorry
to ear it had been precinly the revere*. One of the
largest coal onion of Ragland end Scotland had told hien
thin net long ago—he said " I increased the wages of my
MOO to a gulags a-day, and keying got that they
declared they would only work three days in the week. I
afterwards walked about to see how they employed
their time and money—(and he had from two to three
thousand noda)—when I found some garoblng, some
dog fighting, some drinking, and the reit fast asleep"—
(laughter.) Not one was turning his vacant hours to
the improvemeet of his mind, not mie was turning his
increased wages to the benefit of Imitate!f and family.
Let II not be supposed that he (the noble earl) was
'peeking against high wages in themselves ; quite the
reverse. H., should be delighted to hear that the wages
of the workiag classes were at least perhaps twice as
high as they were now; the only thing be prayed for
was this—that having got those high wages with •
diminution in the bourse( labmr, they would turn them
to good account, turn th m to their immediate nun.
fort, to their cOeaulinese and dements', that they
would lay by for an evil day, lay up for their ehildren,
do something to rain themselves in the social scale,
occupying their time in reading wholesome books, or in
wholesome and neomeary occupation. He had no
fear whatever of the advance of the working &awes ia
wealth mad sequisitions, provided they tamed their
mosey to an honest and hennaed use, that they gave
their minds to study, to the elevation of their moral
condition. What Light have been done with their
increased adraatairlia 7 Was it an a frightful Wag to
immettlee that the working Mama of the titles kingdoms,
Isom& Bao4lsad, lad bslad sapeadecl sag a Large

mount UM, lower, VOHS and Obtuse, whielt three
things they might take eertnialy in moderation, sod
gamy not at ill—that they expended at this
moment upon those three artistes no less a sum
than 40 millioas sterling every year I Jest let
th•rn take that 40 million sterling and expend
It in mitten of education, for the Improvement of
their dwellings, and their families providing for the evil
day, and battering their condition. Bettering their
wie'llttee I Why be would tell them of a eirournstanoe
which acme within his own knowledge. Whim be was
I in • town In Yorkshire he visited SIMS great ironworks ;
the foreman mane op to him, kuowing that be we.
curious about the condition of working men, and said,
"Just look here my lord, there are 12 men working
teeether hammering—( work requiring • mealier
dellimoy of toroida)—look at these 1T1913 sodas. what they
are earning. They are earning at the rate of ten guineas
a week. To-morrow is their wage day, and I will
undertake to say that there fa not at the present
moment one who is worth 61." (Lau/titer, and •
trl YOe, "What's the causer Hie Lordihio : Drink
and gambling). The foremen farther said "You may
form your own opinion of whet mey be done by the
people in thus works, if they wore only faddy mod
mouornicially to invest their earnings, by the feet that
, two men in service here, for a abort time only, went
away one with 500 guineas and the other with TOO
goitres', to *et up for themselves." Did they think that
any one who hale mmon Sense, or common humanity,
...old begrudge them that money, even though it were
7,000 instead of 700? 44site the reverse. He believed
that England was strengthened in • great measure by
the vast number of people raised every year from the
lowest grades of life, until they came to the highest
po-itlons. bringing with them their energy, high
principles, diligecos and character. He believed snob
men to be the mainstay of England, while men of the
opposite churl:Mr would be her ruin. He wished to
Me amongst the working people a spirit of thrift and
economy. He was sorry to say that of all the nations
with which he was acquainted the people of England
were liess seenetomed to thrift or habits of arrar puma
with regard to their own wages and their own homes
than any others he knew of. He wair sorry to speak
againet English women, for he loved them dearly, and
they loved hino—(laughter)—but he moat tell them the
truth. They did not understand economy. at lust
they eel cm endeavenred to preotiee It. They were
not brought up to love economical halite and notions,
and therefore he did not know how they Gould ever be
expected to prairies them when they were married.
They knew this was • fact, and he was speaking in con-
fidence to them. Hs must tell them a story with
regard to what ones happened to himself. He was in
the etude at a greet meeting at Menoheater, at one of
the sections of tioe.al Samos, when he ad to
express an opinion—that young men in many instates,'
having the means of marrying, pot it off too long. He
thought it would be better for them and the young
women too to be married, and if they formed an attach-
meat it was well that they should cionre together. He attri-
buted this backwardness to the desire of pm*: men to
live in laxury, and Intimated they coati not bear Buren-
der log that to demotic life with all its honoursir mforts,
and digoitim—teey omit not exchange for them their
own personal enjeynteeta. Bet at the close of the
prow-dicier two er three young men came up to
him and oburved—he honed the young lediu would
forgive lolm--(laughter)--" My lord, what you said is
very true: it aeon): be climbed. We do shriek norm-
wh
it from marriage' het it Is not entirely ascribable to
wilt you say. No doubt there is a certain reluctance
on our pert, hut the truth is that the young women of
the present day are brought up to such notions of dress
—(bmer, hear, and laughter; his lordship adding : Tell
It not in Gath)—that we really tremble at the idea of
tying ourselves to them for life, of hopelessly and tries
o iverstry plueging ourselves Into diM guides from which
we should never be able to extricate ourselves" Now
that was true. He had been smasiegly struck when on
• tour in France, slittle time ago to see the economy
exorcism" by both men and women. Why, he was in-
formed by • landed proprietor that their savings were
something incredible. Although the wages of the labour-
erg did not emeed In some instances • frame, or 101,
per day, even out of that small sern the French
labourer would save something, and the 110111,111 saved
• little also. The dress of the latter was the most
attractive most beautiful and most simple he ever maw,
mad suited to the °lnnate. They wore • little white trip
and a little neckerchief fastemd nder the chin —se
attractive, indeed. were they that be fancied if he were
• younger man he should he inclined to go back to
?ranee —(laughter.) His lordship depreciated the plan too
commonly am spied by young English giro, of rendering
themselves, by their gaudy dress. instead of neat and
attractive, positively repulsive. It was a pity, he said,
this was so, for nothing oould be mere charming than a
young woman's face bet out in Its natural beauty with-
out any false decoration, if. had men rummended
some young men to begin early in life to save 61. or
it per week, which would aseumulate and make •
comfortable provision agsinst the evil day ; he offered
to put into the savings bank for each of them a sum of
money, trusting to their honour that they would not
draw It out, and remarked that in a short time they
might have • real neat egg, ',bleb meant that their
future comfort would be second. In some instanoss
he received a general answer of indifferenee ; two or
three, however, said "I dou t see why I should not
spend my money ea I like, for let the worst mem to the
worst there tithe workhouse." Now this was the most
dangerous principle that was ever adopted in England
—it took away every spark of independence and
right feeling, introducing servility of action and a
sentimeot positively ruinous. Until the people of Eng-
le-id were got out of such notions they would never be
made to adopt the reforms which it was desired to
introdue and develop &omelet them. People mud
I begin esrly in life habits of thrift and saving, and then
these would go on developing. He hose is was said
that the Irish were, ma • rule, the most thoughtless and
indifferent amongst mankind; but he knew that to be
quite the reveres He did not believe them was such
• saving race of people to be met with anywhere as the
Irish, and the someqeence was that they always hod
money in hand; alteough it was quite true that they
were frequently bagging whilst their pockets were full
—(aughter, and hoar, bear). They knew how to
moomulete as well as how to spend, for think how
mush they had bad out in transporting themselves
screw the Adlantis and what • large amount had they
remitted to carry their friends and relatives to them in
their adopted oonntry. Would it be believed that the
working people had sent to their friends from ASlerlo4
in the course of one year no less a sum thao two
millions? lie wanted to show his bearers the import-
aerie of eultivatieg amongst their children this habit of
thrift. It was well knows that there were unpaid the
Institutions in London, ragged wheals for the most
forlorn and destitute, for ignorant little urchins, where
there were buedreds who had neither fathers net
mothers, and some who had parents that would have
been hotter off without these. Would it be believed
that them little things had been persuaded to lay up
their money, to save even their odd hairpins*, so that
in 66 Reboots the savings had amounted to no lass than
£2,01.101 The little children were very proud of this,
and when the gnat distress broke out in the east of
London they seat to draw oat their mom in order to
bey provisions for the use of their mothers and eaters
--(Televise). It would be seen how saving instituted •
spirit of thrift, checked only by misery and sorrow,
but yet evoking • high repeal sentiment amongst them;
little ones, and exhibiting the highest vtrtoes which the
human heart was livable of displaying. They brought
their little saving' ou which they had rested their hopes
to supply the immediate wawa of the Grail,. It all
turned upon this, and they would see that She future
generations might be • source of great strength or weak-
ness to this country. They had been told • great deal
about education. He wee sure it was of immense value,
and more than that, of absolute necessity. But when
talking of eduestioo he we. afraid the term was not
sufficiently cleaned. Eittratioa depended as to its
value upon what it really was There was educatioe
which would do no good at all, while on the other.
hand there was eduoation which would do • vast deal
of good. Education, as their Rector had pointed out,
must rest spun the great principles and prudes@ of
revealed religion. The superstructure might be what-
ever they plumed ; it might consist of secular mom-
pliahments, or whatever the naiad of man was capable
of ra quiring. He did not say they would be wise in
adding this superetruotero, butts did not wish to put
any impediment in the way. Nevertheless, the Gospel,
sod the Gospel alone, must be the bads of all edam-
Hon ; without that there was no safety for any mac—
aw safety for any kingdom where there was a free people.
Became, unless they gave to the heart of every °Hien
that pewit of ictornal self-reetralnt, which arose alone
from the knowledge sod pentode il love of Christianity,
they were giving him in his freedom • power dangerous
to himself and all around him. Coming to the mitt's
of edumtion, it was all very well to give elementary
teaching; but after all what to every man sad every
woman woe the most valuable education, was that
which every man and every women gave to himself or
herself. At the school certain things were acquired,
but it was by intense application of the rated to
some particular subject that real program was made.
It was the desire to maintain a position, or te rise
beyond it, that prompted all the energies of the human
intellect, and that wep the education by which • man
, wise, that which he gave to himself. By it persons had
risen from the poorer ranks of life to the positions of
engineers, medical men, artists, and literary meo of
eminence, and while they trued the suds of education
to the early insunotion they had remind, the super-
struature and everything that made them great was the
' remit of God's blueing upon their own great and un-
I ...jug exertions. Let timm look at the advantages
they enjoyed in then days, which they did not puede
years ago. Let them Consider the diffusion of eduestiou,
the multiplication of aerosols the Increased places of
worship, the number of agensies of miens kind ha
operetron--such as Bible women, district visitors, and
missionaries in the large towns. All these various
agencies were new at work, and no man should tell
him, if he had • mind to be taught himself or to have
his children taught, that there was any reel dialoulty In
the way—if he fame forward to seek what he wanted
he was aura to obtain it to the fullest extect—(hear,
hear.) This nation was now at the great turning point
either of future ruin or of future grutneas He him-
self, as chairman of a meeting, bad heard one
of the greatest Radicals amongst the working
climes, and who was one A their great leaders,
ley to • number of his fellows "Now, my men take
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toll you England la • breve Gauntry to live in; it only
depends upon your own exertions to make yourselves
almost anything you please"—(applauss). They knew
a great many speeches were made, • great many essays
were written, as to the (Mum et England. Now he
war initialled that the future of England was the future
er
of
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would depend the future of the British empire. Many
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er supssresainac7
simple reply—it demaded upon the character, the
; morals, mil the relig of her pimple. England' had
yet a ntrievillosiot tutors before her if she followed in
the steps of her forefathers. He was not saying the,,
should not he great reforms in her Inmitutions ; there
might be these, but then most be • perseverance in
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