The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1872-10-08 00:00:00

LORD DERBY ON AGRLCULTURAL
QUESTION&

Lard Derby presided, on Saturday afternoon, at an
extensive meeting of Lanoashire gentlemen and fume's,
held in 000nectrou with the newly•formed County
Chamber of Commerce, at the Guildhall, Preston. lite
lordship said :—Farming on paper is one thing, farming
in
tphrelatiryoeuti s no
et rn;
aa
bn wt he
the
"all tihteuworjulsdt h.aa
wgeolti
that some of the talking at least should be done by
parties woo have not merely got up their knowledge
for the occasion as • lawyer gets up oases from a brief.
A great deal has been spoken and written lately about
the scarcity of labour and the ooneequent raising of
wages. Every country kilo its woodier customs and
circumstances; and, as has been said of • battle, no one
can diswiribe more thin that part of the field in winch
be himself happens to be engaged. One questiou I
would eel—are we not • little hasty in speeding as if
banderteLtenpeortur
was taking
Mina:
pin.t.ho?orttmoaf, tig.lis;l2 la
bet bour
know this—that an exceptional development of
trade and manufactures has created an exceptional
demand for hands. That such periods of suddenly.
enhanced prosperity seldom go on long without a
check, and that it is by no means proved that when
that cheek occurs—and some people thine it is
no: tar off even now—the demand. for labour may not
subside to very nearly It. former level. We cannot
generalise safely iron the expenatoe of • year or two.
It is not four years since many poople—unsible people,
ss well as kindhearted pis .ple—were crying out for
State help to sendient of tho country the surplus labour,
for which we Gond hod no use at home. When I notice
the thaws since 1868 I am compelled to ask what there
is to prevent the cub from theimeding the flow—whet
should binder the pendulum from swinging bock &gas
to its old position? Of course I may be wrote. lam
suggesting doubts ratan than sainting propositions of
which I feel certda. • But I shall not wally believe I.
that maid and economical revelation which the Prue Is
so busy with until I see one ort.wo things—either that
the number of yearly emigrants from these islands
equals or approaches the natural yearly inareau of
polialation, or that the working CiAll sir, use the same
means is the French postwar, habitually do to avoid
being burdened with more mouths ttio., they can find
food for. Nobody can feel unkindly to those poor
bedews who are only doing the best they know to
bettor themselves. But I suspect that to the
ur.jority of OW. they have uaiscasumted their
strength and will do themselves no good. In these
parts our troubles of that kind are fewer, though we
may have had our abate. For amity years pest the
competition of the towns has raised wages het* to •
higher level than in the south. The condition of the
labourer is better to begin with. Though there may be
some temporary difficulty to oonteou with, I do net
think the farmers In Laumehire need feu any perman-
ent scarcity of Londe, but even if that scarcity were to
continue and to incises*, that would be no reason for
giving in. It has been painted out by a very eompitsnt
authority upon sush subjects that of all countries the-
laud supplies to the world the cheeped mandfaotured
goods, and of ail cedintries Carload pays the highest
for the labour that supplies them. It ia • question to
• great extent of ming mothaaical means. We are
only beginning, comparatively speaking, to do that in
farming, and It Is Imposidble to tall what esonomies and
what improvements may be powdblei in that direction.
allethwhile, it ia undoubted y desirable to do what we
reasonably can to keep our ,abonters with us. UuTse
Eoghah labourers are • good deal mare stupid thee I
take them to be, they will dad out that emigration is
• loiter) —that the marginate mostly have • rough time
to go through; and perhaps it may strike them that
the people who are crying most loudly to them to take
themselves out of the twittery are not working for their
intere.t, and are very little outherned, indeed, whether
they live or 'torte when once urea the sea, but are
simply trying to get tluin out of the way, that there
may be higher worms for these who stop behind. As to
migration from one coney to another, specially from
the south of England to the north, that is • proems
which will go on of itself, and doe, not require to be
artificially stimulated. Toe tendency of "raga is neoes•
wanly towards equality within a Waded area; but it I.
obvious that a movement of thst kind outs two ways.
It toads to raise wages in one district, it tends to lower
them, or to prevail them rising, in another. Well,
what are we to do for them at home? One of the
favourite skeane of the day Is to turn them into ru-
men, or rather into fratioos of • firmer, by adopting
' what is calico the plan of co-operative aell)leeti011, and
• giving the soil to be cultivated by the actual workers
upon it. Now, lam not at all • disbeliever in the cue
. operative prinesplo within certain limits. Where shop-
keeping is co:warned it has suooseded admirably
ersit. In ruaithfuturing businesem the suouss
tat been lees 44441; and to put the muter
' quite fairly, lao not tuba we are all yet in • position
. to pronounee what nothing except actual experience
t.:7hiruszlial:Tdpeberaile, :nob '::ltc:ke:tellfdyegleenhatOtreji
7:Sti"}guoeilsee7::llodh,uk:onveleldrytioileatif
vtiowunuehdroiwicrtehy-
iflaiemi. MUG,:
0p.en171.4.7
isuposhnethuisuivberatiriachmoefclitchine
labourer
subjecte
of
at it
ch
wn
gfantohr:e air
e salel
allotment
rpea reasonutroitaorhhedi ehaiodiho least:ju
men t
os
hyu oue• ti • hdu
grow
rov duwiPi t,
r 7ht°t
that
dutmhtt:ei think
" ria, nt" ono dt
thatu u to" hitaaaitbiwtootiateaittlii!
that
way
to speak, • savings bank fur his labour. thi the other
hand, it is argued with form that ii the allotment is far
rod from the 'louse, and if it stored • very moderate
the laaourer is drawn otif from his regular work to
attend to it, and, being dirtied between two stunk"-
mews, neither does a, well for himself nor for Ids
employer as he otherwise would. It is a Mir matter
ior discussion —end I hope we may have semi del;
thrown upon it—that every cottage shoull be in good
repair, and hare • garden attached to it, rule. which I
need not stop to entree upon you. Another subject
moth talked of in the south la whether labourers'
cottages should be held direct from the landlord or
leased by him to the farmer who holds the adjoining
Land. I hold, for my own parr, gist as • general rule,
subject to ego:option in the ries, of large distant farms,
thu .andow at re had bitter not silo, the control over them
to pave out of his own hands. On the other hand be may
reasonably make it a condition that thou whom he
nom", at • yen unreinunerative rent, shouid be
actually and habitually worker, on his estate ; he. la
hot bound to provide cheap cottages for the C 13004.214.1
of the neiehbourisig districts unites he profits by their
labour. It is enough it he provides thin, or thee. s-
triations whieh and for them, with faeilause for building
on their own amount. The,* whom, 'wording to our
customs he is bound to house, must be those who work
for him or his tenantry, and if they cease to fulfil that
"sot
weLink.plainor
payment
.b.e;gbrey prlessoedult.,bisy
ditownte.ll:iud:wbulehltotsuutweimoril;el:usPit:toonsexertfobi.ontawenh:retuitt
aweanqbouaultu,tro
sufferot-
iowour:kdo,tdob:....nedisowatedaptistogbiy. i:tpi:i
oesliami.ris eth
an :lfriteatti:ty.ii
npwl
.oh
his
tratuptstion and created rivalry. Where men are yakd
by tome only, it is an unpopular thing among mune for
am to do mere tria% the rest. Exoeptional energy is
diatourored. and mon reasonably mk, "Why should I
gowatinktofilliii:lyeer
esrusy
puzkgettilsti.
sail,
not
intetarapirnuesiP, will
?::
In
togitril to the gams question, his lordship depreoatal
the interference of k'ultaineet, although he said in
imengperharemia most parts of the etinutry pate pre.
has stilted • groat deal too far. Bat it
the Game Laws were rogniod Um would be • rovoLao.
lien of mod nob would be nine, bodies whisb.

um. will Dever be pemod • stringent htw of trerrorme.
rninneyo would have their /Wipe broken and flehle
en,mplod without aLy praelietl remedy. He thnuoht
moderation on both tides would be better than *girls-
ti.o : mid he eaid the wime es to unexhmeted improve-
Inept&

tuwral
New. says—lard DorbY Blinks that
ill
dol'tabirati.sliresotnmoLgrdirstrienli'trambisormi.""t:ii strideeit6:4"
G. 16
moue of Itself. But It doee sot corm. mki
themselves. 1,47 mush he roused out of
their stmAusut &patty. Tory team he male to want
isomet'dnir better, im.d.t!itr. they will beget to mom
Ties is whet I. haprontii4 ell over ti, saeintry It is
nut the nAireai & rni mend for leboUr which has.rouvel
tho agricit torsi poor, it ts tho spread of tioligeteseient.
The movement hu not come from without, it aprue
u. apout•neonily within. It I. the pep.t kmmremitz:
end eoinetitnee miadirected effort of • vast
fr thetnaelvm a little share of that waded
and prosperity which they have hitherto ouly
hoard of, but hays never MOM We mew
hays wished dist a stat•aman of Lord Darky.
position ai.ri influence had given thhi greet
movement a singto word of sympathy. The Hied-
lords cannot stead aside and ass the labourers sad the
I amer. fight out the battle. There ought to be no
battle; hitt there will be something worse if landlords
it. to look on and merely enticiao. That its labourers
are badly housed and poorly clothed, that they are
underpaid atid underfed, Is admitted on all bands. Lord
Derby say, °Dobai, can feel unkindly to these poor
follows, who are only doing Dia hest they know to
bettor theseaelvee" But if the beet they know is not
really the best, it is at an) rate sating unkindly not to
tell them what can be done. Perhaps Lord Derby is
not sanguine on their behalf. Perhaps he bold* that
their depressed coniiiiou is se in, virable nemmeity of
our social organisation. At any rare, all that he ma
say le that he tempests thee In the maturity of oases they
have miaosleulated their strength.

NOTICE !
B. A. HOGG,
(For many yewni with Mr. JNO. YITCH,)
Ravi SUCCIEDRI) to the BusiNNOi lately etiudnoted
by Merry. CLARK and CO., DRAPERsI, ef No. 2,
0011211111.4 begs to aeronaut to animas and the pulille
generally that be is still offering the
REMAINING PORTION
Or 'MIKIS
T 0 0
---11 gamic

STOOK

GREATLY REDUCED PRICER
As during tgi• regent NUL

Boon Groat Bargains FRENCH AND GERMAN
NICNDLEWOIGE
2, CORNHILL, DOIIOII.I3TZR.

J. GUY AND SON,
BUILDERS AND UNDERTAKERS.

IMAM JOINERY WORKS,
DORC H EST Eft:

J. GUY and 802.1-a-ri-i-prepar. eci to eremite every
deseription of Wood Joinery and other Works of tba
best Mots rial and Workmanship at eery missed uteri
u compared with hand working alone.

Estimates given sod Contracts taken for every to
of Butldiom Dwelling Houses, Onions, liortteultaral
and Farm Buildings, krt., Ito.

Every deeorlption of replan thoroughly sod exposit.
dotal, carried out in *my Branch of the Trade.

Furniture removed in Spring Van, with ISM, by
experienced workmen.

All Muds of Building Statutela always In Stook
Tlusbisr Dealers, &a

Fanoritla Fortin'hod end carried oat In town snot
ooustry at very moderato .barges.

SALE OF SE(X/ND HAND PIANOFORTES,
HARMONIUMS, AND MUSIC.

MR. J. ROBINSON

Harlon purehaaed part of the STOCK of a Muhl
Seller deeliolag busloads, offers about
1,000 PISCES OF NEW MUSIO
At a Quarter the marked Prtoe, and
LARGE NUMBER OF PIECES.
A °anus WORTH son 2a. 61.
About TWENTY PIANOFORTES and HAR-
MONIUMS at very reduced prime.
PIANOFORTES from £6.
A MA HOGAN Y COT r‘to E PIANOFORTE. LE
HARMONIUMS, from £4 4a.

A Variety of FANCY GOOD, ALBUMS, SCRAPS
Ac., also at vary reatootcl prima.

PIANOFORTE, HARMONIUM, awl ELMO
SALOON.
DORCHESTER.

CORNHE

W. L'HOMME IC,
COAL MSBCFUNT,
0111oes au' Stern st the Great Weston AsUway

WiTIIOOTN, DOSOHINITS...k MAIDEN NEWTON,

-swam • rzi•x. or an
RIJABON
AND '
FOREST OF DEAN COALS,
Which are highly reatourionded sad considered
superior to Ail other dessriptiocut tor household

puposes being
LARGER AND CHEAPER,
ALIO
VIIRT DUISABLI,
CLEAN BURNING,
FREE FROM SMALL,
. . . .