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Title: Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 101, July 11, 1891

Author: Various

Release Date: August 24, 2004 [EBook #13270]

Language: English

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PUNCH,

OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.

VOL. 101.

July 11, 1891.

VOCES POPULI.

MORE _POT-POURRI_ FROM THE PARK.

SCENE--_The Park, near Cumberland Gate, on almost any fine
afternoon. Behind the rails separating the turf from the
paths, Orators, Preachers, and Reciters are holding forth,
for the delectation of small groups, who are mostly engaged in
discussing some totally different subject. A set debate, with
a time-limit, and a purely ornamental Chairman, is in progress
between a Parnellite and an Anti-Parnellite. The reader will
kindly imagine himself to be passing slowly along the line._

_A Youthful Socialist_ (_haranguing the usual crowd of well-to-do
loungers, and working himself up to the requisite white-heat of
factitious fury_). And what are these Capitalists? I'll tell yer. Jest
a lot o' greedy gobblers and profit-mongering sharks, as eat up the
smaller fry. And what are _you_? Why, you're the small fish as
eat mud--and let yourselves _be_ gobbled! (_The crowd accept this
definition of themselves with perfect gaiety and good-humour._) Some
will tell yer that these lazy, idle loafers, work as hard as what we
do ourselves. (_Derisive laughter at this ridiculous idea._) Mind yer,
I'm not saying they don't. _Honly_, the 'arder they work, the worse
it is for us; because the more they work the more they _rob_! That's
what they send their sons to Oxford and to Cambridge--as was built and
endowed for the benefit of us, the labourin' classes--for. They send
'em there to learn _'ow to rob_!

[_Here a discussion breaks out between a Sceptic and a
Spiritualist, who, with half-a-dozen interested auditors,
have been putting their heads together in a corner._

_The Sceptic_. No