Punch (69.1875)

December 11, 1875.] PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. 239

"'TIS AN ILL WIND BLOWS NOBODY GOOD."

First Svxeper. "I say, Bill, I calls this somethink like Weather?" Second Sweeper. "Beautiful!"

SEASONABLE APPEALS.

Me. Punch, Sie,

A Letee wun Day larst Weak apear'd in the times, hunder
'eadin' of "South London Poor." Close beneath it stood amither
edded "Pauperism in Southampton." This here waluable Contri-
bution was sined by " An Inhabitant" of that Town; the t'uther, a
ignorant efusion, by 3 Members of the " South London Visiting and
Relief Committee," includin' the Rewral Dene of Southerk. Leter 1
contaned a abserd " appeal to the benevolent for assistance,"
meanin harms for the Pore. Leter 2 was a Statement and Com-
playnt that over Releeaf of the Pore 'ad encuridged Porperism. The
former inwited Hasses to open their Passes, the latter warned 'em
for to buton upp their Pockitts.

Acordin' to "An Inhabitant" of Southampton the Number of
Porpers in that unfortnit Town " annually increases, and now
amounts to over one-fifth of the population." He hadds :—

"Indeed there is but one Union under 60,000 inhabitants that spends bo
much money as Southampton on the relief of the poor."

The emount thus annivally and orfully wasted at Southampton is
no Less, Sir, than £23,000 ! The " Inhabitant" of Southampton is
werry natterally Asham'd of 'is Naybors for so Crossly Misapplyin
all that Munny. But that ain't all their Rewinus Extravigance wot
increases the Growth of Porperism :—

" This growth is assisted by the unorganised and indiscriminate charity
which is lavishly squandered in the town. For example, last year 14,435 of
its 50.000 inhabitants received gratuitous medical relief, or one to 3| of its
inhabitants."

So, you see, Sir, it's not honly Porochial proddigallaty but like-
wise Privat at Southampton wot Encuridges the Brede of them
wishus Porpers. Wot sez Porochial Heconomy—witch I'm told a
irreverend Riter, as ort to No Beter, calls the ;" Dismal Science " ?
Leave the Pore aloan, let 'em die orf, and their Sufferins be an ex-
ampel to all others, to larn and labor and Wurk as hard as hever
they possibel can to kep Sole and Body together 'and put by enuff
Munny to save theirselves in Old Age from dyin of starvation. On

the contrairy, at Southampton there's Private "charity" besides
the Workus, and the Workus heven made Comfortable, witch ortent
to be the case for Nobody but the Master and Matron, includin',
in corse, the Beedle.

'Tis like Clergymen and Rewral Denes to make Benevolent Apeals.
They don't Kno no Better. Feed the ungry and Cloath the_ Nakid,
and wisit the Sick, hzzically—that's their Noshon of Charity, and
So, in Wether like the Late their Cry is still Coles and Blankits
and Soop Kitchins for the Pore. Ar! They takes words in the
Litteral Sense witch Porochial Heconomy teeches is True in jest the
Rewerse. Talk of " Dives and Lazaeus"! Where the Former
was Rong was in alowin the Latter any Crums at All. He ortn't to
ave let 'im 'ave none. Then he'd have made 'im move on and Not
lay and die at 'is Dore. That's my Moral of it, Mr. Punch ■ insted
of witch not honly in Southampton, but also the Metropolis where
Porochial Principles ort abuv all Places to prewale, no dout but
wot this Winter besides the Reglar Pore Rates, there '11 be all sorts
of Subscriptions, specially in sewere cold, to porwide Close, Beddin,
Food, and Fewel for the Pore, and Likewise praps, heven Gratew-
itchus Meddical Atendance abuv all things, to keep 'em from
perishin, and in that way adishonally elp increase the Growth of
Porperism by 'inderin' of it from dimiDshin' thru the beneficient
hoperation of the Nateral Lors. Despiseable wekeness ! Far differ-
ent is the Enlarg'd Ideers of Inlighten'd Charrity as hunderstood
by hall sound and True Porochial Heconomists, and witch is clearly
the Vues of an " Inhabitant" of Southampton. I'm proud to say
also them is the Sentiments of

Your Dewoted Beadel,

Bumble.

To whom it may Concern. .

A Plaintiff, in a case in the Loed Matoe's Court the other day,
described himself as "the Inventor of White Hair." Mr. Punch
having always entertained the idea that an old gentleman named
Time had something to do with the invention, begs to draw atten-
tion to what looks very like an infringement of patent.

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