Punch (58.1870)

PUNCH, OB, THE LONDON CHARIVARI. 93

SUNDAY BILL.

ho can see any
reason why Lobd
Chelmsford
should have been
so superfluous as
to trouble the
House of Lords
to discuss a Sun-
day Trading Bill?
A gentleman
named Ayres,
on his legs the
other day, at a

ON THE WRONG GROUND.

a number of
shopkeepers,
hawkers, and

other dealers, whose interests are threatened by that project of Sabba-
tarian legislation, very justly remarked, touching the promoters of

Ie the hand-working men who aspire to Parliamentary representation
of their class wish to retain the sympathy and support of the head-
working men in their struggle, they should be very careful in their
choice of fighting-ground. Eight where tliey will, they will have a
hard tussle; but they may double or halve their strength as they
choose their ground well or ill. At Maidstone they chose it as badly
as possible. What room was there for a working man's candidate in a
contest where the Liberal champion was Sib. John Lubbock, whose
claims to Liberal support are not a whit over-stated in the Spectator's
description of him, as, at once, "an able banker, an accomplished
economist and financier, a man of the widest and deepest scientific
culture, a thorough physiologist, a good geologist, an original writer
on pre-historic times—one who combines practical and intellectual
meetin0, held in I P°wer rarely united in one man ? " Surely members of this calibre are
Whitechapel, by a^ ^eas^ as rare 1U ^ne House of Commons, and should be as precious
-1 there, as the most horny-handed and hard-headed of working men. It
is true that Mb. Applegabth, the working man's candidate, retired
before the final struggle, finding—according to his own statement—
" that he was too late in the field to make headway against the popular
feeling in Sir John Lubbock's favour ! " He had better have said,

interference with the liberty and enjoyments of the working classes on "A^JJg ,J)at *}e had no business ever to have come forward." What

Sunday, that:_ I ri?nt, Jtrunch asks him, had he, or any man who wishes to see the best

, , wisdom of England in the House of Commons, in the field which

" They did not dare to attack the railway interest, because the railway i SlR j0HN Lubbock had occupied in advance of him ? All working
mmterto reresent them dirlctlv'' tradesmen had not a single | meDj who are WQrth ^ ^ ^ ^ nQ claims thftt couM

mem er o represen e y. gej. u^ Qn ^ejjaj£ 0f their order could stand a moment's comparison

It would be worse than quoting an old Joe Miller to remind Lobd 1 with those of Sir John Lubbock on the support of the best and
Chelmseord that people cannot be made religious by Act of Parlia-: broadest Liberalism. Let them choose constituencies where they will
ment. Of course he knows that; and has no idea of making them, have to fight pseudo-Liberalism and genuine Toryism, and welcome.
He simply wants to prevent the poorer inhabitants of Whitechapel! But in the name of their cause and ours, don't let them put stumbling
from hurting his own and other gentlefolk's feelings of decorum touch- j blocks in the Parliamentary path of such men as Sib John Lubbock,
ing Sunday observance. But, without perpetrating a platitude, it or they will only do what they have more than once done already—
may be suggested to the noble and learned lord, that it is very possible make way for the fox, while the lion and the bear are worrying each
to make people irreligious by Act of Parliament; and that an Act j other,
which imposes restrictions on their liberty in respect of Sunday, whilst
it allows the richer classes to drive about in carriages, luxuriate in
clubs, and practically do just whatever they please, is about the best
statute that could be devised for that purpose.

A HINT FOR THE ACADEMY.

To Mister Punch—Honjjerd Sir,

I see it hev been stated in the noosepapers which we reeds
em reglar in the Suvnts All that the recent Xhibition of Old Masters

A CAPITAL INVESTMENT. ! ^ev Proved: a .?rea* su*es* & iu ^e interests of Hart we ought to cry

Mangcore to it. With all my art say 1, out I shood like ways like to

" What shall I do with my money ? " is a question which may | see a Xhibition of Old & Young Missuses as well as them Old Masters
puzzle those who have more wealth than wit. Such people should be of whom we ears so much. Speaking as a phootman I can say as our
thankful for being shown the way of spending money usefully,—as, for Young Missuses deserve to be exibited, for they continally are making
instance, by subscribing to such charities as this :— exibitions of theirselves. I'm shaw if the Akedeiny was to show em

„r™ t. ttt , . ■ +■ -u e . i up in their true colours, which I don't mean there dyed air, the Exibi-

"The Parochial Mission Women's Association has, for a charitable under- f Wrpemlv nnnlir with thp nnhlip avink the sun

taking, this most unusual merit-that it gives nothing away in charity. Its ^ ^ ? be t0Un? igstreemiy poplar wit i the public, &. avmk the sup-
avowed object is to help the poor onlv by teaching them to help themselves. P°.rt of a11 w.<! suvnts, who in course would phiock to see it, you may
The duty of the mission woman is to"go about among the poor ... for the take your Alfred Davy it would be a great pecoonary suxess. Apollo
purpose of persuading them to exercise a little forethought, and save a por- Gyesmg for the libaty of begging you to publish my Hidea, i remane
tion, no matter how slight, of their daily or weekly earnings, until they have j yours most obedient to command John thomas,

got enough together to purchase some useful article." .

, , , P.o. I ear that some oi our old Masters is now pretty nearly beauties

People with more money than they know Iw to spend may here , without Paint. Well you can't say that exackly of some of our Old &
find for their spare capital a capital investment, huch missionaries as Young Missuses,
these, who help the poor by teaching them how they may help them-
selves, assuredly well merit to be helped in their good work.

"It is in fact a sort of savings'-bank, co-operative store, conversation
class, school and church, all rolled into one, with the additional advantage
that these institutions are brought, as it were, to the doors of the poor, since
the poor will not go to them."

Restless Robert.

No keeping that boy Bob quiet!

Eirst, he made us pay all our assessed taxes in January, and so did
the tax-payer out of five quarters' tax in a year, pocketing by the
, I dodge three millions in advance. Now, he insists on the Bank's
Ihese mission-women, mind you, are poor persons themselves, and, payi divideuds quarterly, and so makes the fundholder a present of
are thoroughly acquainted with the ways and means of those among. a quarter's interest, or something very like two millions in all.
whom they are sent. I he advice which they can oiler, and the helping i Does he mean us to set the douceur against the do ?
hand which backs it, are given m a kindly way, and never interfering, j Unluckily, we all pay taxes, but we don't all draw dividends,
and have the weight which years, experience, and sympathy, can add.
Selfthelp is the chief lesson that needs teaching to our poor; and the

teachers here employed are the best that can be chosen, and the A Professional View of Things,

likeliest to be listened to by those who need to be taught. When Qur Schoolmaater; who 1S fond of pedestrian exercise, sets

out for a walk of several miles, he always says that he is going for a
good long Spell in the Country.

The Heat of Debate.

The House of Commons should be careful of entering into discussions
about foot-warmers in railway carriages, lest, after going on so far in
the Session pretty comfortably, they get into hot water

FROM colwell hatchney.

During the coldest weather this winter, the Collegians of Colwell
Hatchney ran races. The united Heats amounted to 227° above the
level of the thermometer.

going ahead !

Bulls are not generally considered intelligent creatures, but in
America they are trained to such perfection that they can Toss a Pan-
cake on Shrove Tuesday.

In the Ladies' Gallery.—Mrs. Malaprop is unable to under-
stand why in the House of Commons they talk of their Eyes and their
Nose. She says she was brought up to say Noses.