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During the last two years we have been pass- 

 ing into a new state of things, and it is to 

 this new state of things that our attention has 

 most seriously to be turned. I have inquired 

 anxiously, and I have certainly arrived at the 

 conviction that our Gloucestershire employers 

 are meeting fairly the altered state of things. 

 The general design of my speech was to 

 encourage them to go onward, and to follow 

 the many good examples which are being set 

 them throughout the country. It is wiser, as 

 well as more charitable, thus to seek to lead 



others rather than to attempt to urge on by 

 harsh charges or exaggerated expressions 

 men who are prepared to do their duty. 

 Englishmen may be led, but will not be 

 driven. The truest friends of the labourer 

 are not those who make the greatest pro- 

 fessions, but who humbly endeavour to do 

 justice to both sides." Mr Yeats had a 

 long conference with the Bishop on Satur- 

 day evening, but it was private. It was then 

 settled that his lordship should meet the 

 labourers about the latter end of September. 



