Punch: Punch (100.1891)

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[June 13, 1891.

HONEY-MOONING IN ITALY.

Fair American Bride. '''Oh, John ! To think that perhaps Virginius stabbed his Daughter on this very Spot, and that
jcsr over there Tctllia drove over her poor Father's dead bidy I''

John. "Ah—very sad—very sad, indeed ! But, say, Matilda, I guess we'd better let Bjgonfs be Bygones. And now

let 's go and have a look at the new post-office."

THE ALARMED AUTOCRAT!

" The Czar declared that he was determined to
continue resolutely to the end the policy upon which
he had entered, with a view to the solution of the
Jewish difficul y, adding that it was the Jews
themselves who had forced that policy upon him
by their conduct . . . ' Down to the present time'
(His Majesty remarked), 'there has never been a
single Nihilistic ulot ia which Jews have not been
concerned.'"—The Times' Correspondent at Moscow.

The Great White Czar he has put down his
foot;

On the neck of the Hebrew that foot he will
plant.

Can fear strike a CiESAR— a Russian to boot ?
Can a Romanoff stoop to mere cowardly
cant ?

Forbid it traditions of Muscovite pride !

An Autocrat's place is the Conqueror's car,
But he who that chariot in triumph would
ride,

Must not earn a name as the White-livered
Czar!

No, no, scurril scribe, dip your pen in rose-
pink,

Or theCensor's black blurrshall your islander
efface

A CiE3AR turn sophist, an Autocrat shrink ?
Pusillanimous spite mark the Romanoff
race ?

Too wholly absurd! What it this we have
heard

Whioh on courtier spirits must painfully
jar ?

Who is he, this mal a propos " little bird "
Who twitters such tales of the White-
livered Czar ?

The Wolf and the Lamb ? We all know that
old tale,

But the Wolf, though a tyrant, was scarcely
a cur.

He bullied and lied, but he didn't turn pale,
Or need poltroon terror as cruelty's spur.

But a big, irresponsible, "fatherly" Prince
Afeared— of a Jew ? 'Tis too funny by far !

The coldest of King-scorning cynics might
wince

At that comic conception, a White-livered

Czar!

No; Russia is heavn, the Czar is a saint,
And the poor " Ebrew Jew " is a trouble-
some pest;

But is he the thing to make Cjesar go faint,
Or disturb an Imperial Autocrat's rest ?

The Jew's all to blame—as a matter of course ;
The weak and the weary invariably are ;

But weakness on power harsh tyranny force P
That's an argument worthy a White-
livered Czar.

An Israelite meshed in a'Nihilist plot

Is a pitiful picture. Ungrateful indeed
Is the poor Russian Jew, not content with his
lot—

As a slave to the Slav. But expel the
whole breed ?
Apply that same rule to your subjects all
round,

And one fancies you '11 find it too sweeping
by far.

The vast realm of Muscovy then might be
found

A wilderness—save for the White-livered

CZiR.

The pick of your people, the best of your
blood,

Your purest of women, your bravest of men,
0 Czar, have they not, in despair's dusky
mood,

Turned Nihilist, plotted, been banished ?
What then ? _ [Jew ;

Best banish them all, as you'd banish the
'Twill sweep your dominions more clear than
red war. _ [you,

Picture Russia a waste with one resident—
Perched high—and alone—as the White-
livered Czar 1

Maybe they malign you. It cannot be sooth
That you talk like an angry illogical girl.

Yes, banish the Hebrews, as wholly as ruth,
Be cold in your wrath as the Neva's chill
swirl,

Snub friendly remonstrance, blunt satire's
keen blade.
With a blot of black ink! Will it carry
you far ?

A CiE3AR must not be a fool or afraid ;
There's no place in earth's round for a
White-livered Czar!

Sad Finish.—We see advertised, " George
Meredith. A Study. By Hannah Lynch."
Poor George ! " Taken from life," of course.
There's an end of him! Lynched !