Punch (92.1887)

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PUNCH, OE THE LONDON CHARIVARI.

[April 9, 1887.

THE WAY TO STOP IT- OR, 'AS IT IS" AND ''AS IT OUGHT TO BE."

" No individuals are to blame, we suppose; it is only the system that is in fault.....Matters will never be mended as long as this theory is tolerated.

If the system is bad, and produces bad results, some person or other is responsible for the system, and that person ought to be punished, —l imes.

British Tar [indignantly). " Avast there, Guv'nor ! Ain't Nobody to be whopped for this here }"

As n is.

Two Kesponsible Persons discovered discussing the Report of a recent
Parliamentary Committee, in fits of laughter.
First Responsible Person. Oh ! it quite kills me. "What a joke!
Here they've got it all out, chapter and verse. Thirty-six thousand
of 'em no use whatever. And they want to know who's to blame.

Ha! ha! " Who's to blame" ! Come, I like that! [Goes into
uncontrollable fits of laughter.

Second Responsible Person. Yes, that certainly is a good 'un!
Why, they '11 be wanting to be prying behind the scenes next, and
knowing the ins and outs of it. Ha! ha ! Don't I wish I may see
'em at it! That'sail!

[Js convulsed, as is also First It. P., as Act-drop descends.