The Potteries Examiner : — 1877-06-16 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

ALP., and Mr. George Pickard, along with the agents, will be present, iind deliver addresses to the minera of North Stafford on the present. commercial crisis. The iirportant occusion—the lofty abilities—and the commanding eloquence of the speakers who will address the meeting—demand that thousands be present, so that they may have an • • .anding of the times, what. miners ought Fl:orlds and miners all, don't neglect the e. _  We arc reliably informed that, on behalf of the . 3,500 miners locked out in Fileshire, the Central Board bate sent depilation after deputation to the ouployers there ; but every effort at coneiliation and compromise, has turned out a failure. oe that nothing now remains but to fight the battle sot as wisely and as successfully as possible. 'the strike in Ladamshire is now entered ttpoth and in all probability is likely to prove a eretraeted one. Some thousands out in Lancashire are good union men, and will have to be supported, promptly and honourably. Every diso trut will be called upon to afford them all the aid and support in their power. The , National Association will, we believe, not be wanting. to in the past, even no in the present. and for the future, they will render every necessary oil to thou,' who will be fighting the common cause evory miner and collier iu the kingdom. The !North Stafford District has ever been the fcreenost ash the readiest in aiding in many a gallant fight, sad in many a sturdy encounter bet ween aapital and labour, when the former has sought to orals the latter, and we feel certain it will not he found wanting in this hauled ate and momentous crisis. Who helped to win Ale victories for South Wales, South Staffordshire, and other places? Wave not the noble and generous ushers of this district ever planted themselves in breach again and :again, and helped the union • o beat bark aggression, and proteet the rights of their oppressed 'brother Miners ass many a neighbourhood and coralty, fel many a time? They have ! Aral we are confident they will do so, this time again. Better be working and helping others t fight, than be beneath the storm shower ourIf we help to win a victory for those who rapeUed to stand out, we shall benefit ourand help to bring back the price of our up to where it stood a few years ago.  _ keep IN ot.t of war. Then I would Lave a lot of warlike newspaper editors. Mr. übould be a pa,venger, and I world have a sprinkling of lire.. eating bishops. Well, my ship might go into battle. I ihould be very sorry indeed if any of them came to grief, but I should not be sorry if they were all captured and detained in some foreign land. They might solace their captivity by singing that old chorus— -  " True patriots we, for be it understood, We left our country for our country's good."  A writer in one of the reviews had described the advocateo of non-intervention as "the tail of a party, only now supported by a few psalm-singing fanatics." " I would rather," said Sir Wilfrid, 1" be the lowest and humblest joint in the tail of such a party as that. -a party favonred by Cobden and led by John Bright—a party whose policy has ' conferred unnumbered blessings on toy fellowcountrymen—than the proudest and most admired leader of a party bringing on my fellow-countrymen indescribable villainies and miseries." "We have orators and writers who say," continued Sir Wilfrid, "'if you wish for pence prepare for war.' What nonsense that is Look at these nations of the Continent they have spent their whole time in preparing for wai, and the natural consequence is they carry on war." These remarks are very timely now, also, when certain Turcophile journals are endeavouring to hound Ragland into the most foolish and wicked of all wars, a war to back up Turkey, after her horrible wholesale murders and rapes of iv, men and children by the Sultan's honoured and unpunished ministers. Let Mr. Valentine Baker help the Turks, by all means, but the grest English people, never. There is no danger to England, or to India, by any Russian dispossession of Turkish barbarians.