DOI issue:
November 15, 1873
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.16937#0203
November 15, 1873.]
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
191
PARLIAMENTARY IMPROVEMENT.
Y the Scotch Striking Classes a
large demonstration was made
the other day at Glasgow against
the Criminal Law Amendment
Act, the criminal clauses of the
Masters and Servants Act, and
the application of the laws of
conspiracy to questions of la-
bour. For, although the laws
of conspiracy leave the Striking
Classes at liberty to conspire in
strikes, that liberty is not so
perfect as they wish. It does
not enable them to carry con-
| spiracy to the extent of ratten-
ing, still less of maltreating
non-Unionists, and independent workmen who choose to accept employment
on other than Unionists’ terms. The Striking Classes are so far from being
free to punish such offenders, that, if the Council of a Trade Union ordered
that the house of one of them should be blown up, or himself should be shot,
and their sentence were carried out, they and their agents in its execution
would he liable to be tried for murder, and might even, perhaps, he executed
themselves.
The demonstration hy which the justice of the demands above indicated
was made clear was quite as logical as could be expected even at Glasgow, in
Scotland. “ The people were marshalled on the Green, and marched through
the principal streets with banners flying and bands playing.” The reasoning
of the drums and trumpets, no doubt, was irresistible, and even the most
prejudiced ears must have succumbed to the syllogisms of the. bagpipes.
Numbers, or the arithmetic of multitudes, rendered the demonstration mathe-
matical. “ The processionists numbered about 23,000, and the line of route
was crowded.” If further proof were needed, it was amply supplied by super-
abundance of stump-oratory. “ On the return to the Green, speeches were
delivered from four platforms.” The rationality of all this eloquence is patent
from its results. “ Resolutions were adopted demanding the total repeal of the
first of the Acts of Parliament above-named, protesting against the obnoxious
clauses of the other, “ and pledging the meeting to support only those candi-
dates for Parliament who will give effect to their wishes.”
This pledge, if generally adopted and acted upon by Trades’ Unionists,
may tend considerably to improve the representation of Great Britain.
Suppose free and independent voters, generally, resolve to vote for those
candidates only whom they sincerely believe to be the best and ablest men.
If, then, the Trades’ Unions, the Teetotal Societies, and.
the confederacies of all the other platforms, will seve-
rally vote, each band. of them, only for “ those who will
give effect to their wishes,” the votes of the main body
of the constituencies will probably return a sensible
majority, unfettered by class interests, and exempt from
crotchets, to Parliament. As the Brethren say, “ So
mote it be.”
A GENTLE LECTURE.
To be learned by every Visitor to the Brighton Aquarium,.
“ Octopus ” you know how to say,
Whether you ’re fou or sober,
The to accented in the way
You sound it in “ October.”
But when the plural noun you want,
What’s that? “ OctopiD Looby!
You very clownish, ignorant,
Uneducated booby.
“ Octopuses f ” 0, knock him down,
Upbraiding him with cusses,
That wretched cad, we ’ll bet a crown,
Calls Omnibuses “busses.”
“ Octopods.” Thank you, Daily News,
That seems refined and Greeky,
Though unto ultra-classic views
Perhaps a trifle streaky.|
Yet “ tripods ” we perceive in use
By Chapman and by Dryden,
So say “ Octopods,” gabbling goose,
On pain of a good hidin’.
THE ALLIANCE LOYING CUP.
On Monday last week the Lord Mayor elect was,
according to ancient custom, presented and described to
the Lord Chanceblor hy the Recorder. To the descrip-
tion of the Heir Apparent to the Civic Crown, given by
the Hon. and Learned Gentleman, an appropriate and
complimentary reply having been duly returned by the
noble and learned Lord ; according to the newspapers:—
“The Loving Cup was then passed round, and the Civic dig-
nitaries retired.”
The time at which the ceremony thus concluding com-
menced was about half-past eleven a.h. The Loving
Cup, therefore, was passed round a little before noon, in
accordance with the more early than abstemious habits
of our ancestors. Whereas the contents of that goblet
is a sort of negus, that is, an “ intoxicating liquor,”
what will become of the Loving Cup in case the Aider-
men of London should ever grow so unmindful of their
traditions as to elect a consistent Total Abstinence Lord
Mayor? Will the Loving Cup in that case hiss with
sherbet, or foam with ginger-beer; will it be charged
with sparkling or still lemonade: or is it even possible
that the Loving Cup will be reduced to toast-and-
water ? _
Bobby Black-sheep.
Some persons complain that the organisation of the
Police Force has become too military. In one particular
it is not military enough. Of late, unworthy members of
that generally well-conducted body of men have been
disgracing their corps by brutal assaults, by taking
people into custody for speaking to them, by locking
up sufferers in fits of apoplexy for drunkards, and by
false swearing in Courts of Justice. Military discipline
is not, at present, as it ought to be made, applicable to
exceptional Policemen. Be it enacted that all such
offenders shall be liable to be flogged and drummed out of
their division. _
ON DIT.
The notion of Special Services for the Metropolitan
Constabulary in Westminster Abbey has been started.
On the first occasion the entire Police Force will be
required to take up the Nave.
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
191
PARLIAMENTARY IMPROVEMENT.
Y the Scotch Striking Classes a
large demonstration was made
the other day at Glasgow against
the Criminal Law Amendment
Act, the criminal clauses of the
Masters and Servants Act, and
the application of the laws of
conspiracy to questions of la-
bour. For, although the laws
of conspiracy leave the Striking
Classes at liberty to conspire in
strikes, that liberty is not so
perfect as they wish. It does
not enable them to carry con-
| spiracy to the extent of ratten-
ing, still less of maltreating
non-Unionists, and independent workmen who choose to accept employment
on other than Unionists’ terms. The Striking Classes are so far from being
free to punish such offenders, that, if the Council of a Trade Union ordered
that the house of one of them should be blown up, or himself should be shot,
and their sentence were carried out, they and their agents in its execution
would he liable to be tried for murder, and might even, perhaps, he executed
themselves.
The demonstration hy which the justice of the demands above indicated
was made clear was quite as logical as could be expected even at Glasgow, in
Scotland. “ The people were marshalled on the Green, and marched through
the principal streets with banners flying and bands playing.” The reasoning
of the drums and trumpets, no doubt, was irresistible, and even the most
prejudiced ears must have succumbed to the syllogisms of the. bagpipes.
Numbers, or the arithmetic of multitudes, rendered the demonstration mathe-
matical. “ The processionists numbered about 23,000, and the line of route
was crowded.” If further proof were needed, it was amply supplied by super-
abundance of stump-oratory. “ On the return to the Green, speeches were
delivered from four platforms.” The rationality of all this eloquence is patent
from its results. “ Resolutions were adopted demanding the total repeal of the
first of the Acts of Parliament above-named, protesting against the obnoxious
clauses of the other, “ and pledging the meeting to support only those candi-
dates for Parliament who will give effect to their wishes.”
This pledge, if generally adopted and acted upon by Trades’ Unionists,
may tend considerably to improve the representation of Great Britain.
Suppose free and independent voters, generally, resolve to vote for those
candidates only whom they sincerely believe to be the best and ablest men.
If, then, the Trades’ Unions, the Teetotal Societies, and.
the confederacies of all the other platforms, will seve-
rally vote, each band. of them, only for “ those who will
give effect to their wishes,” the votes of the main body
of the constituencies will probably return a sensible
majority, unfettered by class interests, and exempt from
crotchets, to Parliament. As the Brethren say, “ So
mote it be.”
A GENTLE LECTURE.
To be learned by every Visitor to the Brighton Aquarium,.
“ Octopus ” you know how to say,
Whether you ’re fou or sober,
The to accented in the way
You sound it in “ October.”
But when the plural noun you want,
What’s that? “ OctopiD Looby!
You very clownish, ignorant,
Uneducated booby.
“ Octopuses f ” 0, knock him down,
Upbraiding him with cusses,
That wretched cad, we ’ll bet a crown,
Calls Omnibuses “busses.”
“ Octopods.” Thank you, Daily News,
That seems refined and Greeky,
Though unto ultra-classic views
Perhaps a trifle streaky.|
Yet “ tripods ” we perceive in use
By Chapman and by Dryden,
So say “ Octopods,” gabbling goose,
On pain of a good hidin’.
THE ALLIANCE LOYING CUP.
On Monday last week the Lord Mayor elect was,
according to ancient custom, presented and described to
the Lord Chanceblor hy the Recorder. To the descrip-
tion of the Heir Apparent to the Civic Crown, given by
the Hon. and Learned Gentleman, an appropriate and
complimentary reply having been duly returned by the
noble and learned Lord ; according to the newspapers:—
“The Loving Cup was then passed round, and the Civic dig-
nitaries retired.”
The time at which the ceremony thus concluding com-
menced was about half-past eleven a.h. The Loving
Cup, therefore, was passed round a little before noon, in
accordance with the more early than abstemious habits
of our ancestors. Whereas the contents of that goblet
is a sort of negus, that is, an “ intoxicating liquor,”
what will become of the Loving Cup in case the Aider-
men of London should ever grow so unmindful of their
traditions as to elect a consistent Total Abstinence Lord
Mayor? Will the Loving Cup in that case hiss with
sherbet, or foam with ginger-beer; will it be charged
with sparkling or still lemonade: or is it even possible
that the Loving Cup will be reduced to toast-and-
water ? _
Bobby Black-sheep.
Some persons complain that the organisation of the
Police Force has become too military. In one particular
it is not military enough. Of late, unworthy members of
that generally well-conducted body of men have been
disgracing their corps by brutal assaults, by taking
people into custody for speaking to them, by locking
up sufferers in fits of apoplexy for drunkards, and by
false swearing in Courts of Justice. Military discipline
is not, at present, as it ought to be made, applicable to
exceptional Policemen. Be it enacted that all such
offenders shall be liable to be flogged and drummed out of
their division. _
ON DIT.
The notion of Special Services for the Metropolitan
Constabulary in Westminster Abbey has been started.
On the first occasion the entire Police Force will be
required to take up the Nave.