Texntet's cartoon in Punch this weel flagrant reproduction of one of the political sketches that appeared in the Pall Mall Budget of the 10th of March. In the Pall Mall Lord Salisbury and Mr. Balfour were standing on the trapeze hesitating to jump dort into the net marked "Tory Majority stretched below them, and were debating the question, **Is the net strong enough to bear us The cartoon in Punch is called Spring Time in Leap Year the same two figures are standing shivering on the brink of a pool marked ' General Election," while Lord Salisbury says, 'Don't yea' think, nephew Arthur, we'd better plunge—before ~e're pushed?" Will Bur-nand—for it is understood that the editor not the artist is responsible for the subject of the cartoon—declare that neither he nor anybody on Punch ever sees the Pall Moll, or will he plead that a. political picture is forgotten in a fortnight, and that two weeks' interval excuses imitation? Linley Sambourne's cartoon represents the German Emperor tearing up his Punch, with fairly good parody, fromfwhich we take the following concluding lines Now, Winusxat, do not be absurd, But listen to a friendly word You are a clever boy, no doubt, And very smart, and very stout, Like young Avcustws, dainty eater, Vhose story is in Struwwelpeter, Did'st ever read those truthful stories, Good Dr. Hersnicu Horraasn's glories, Which round the world have travelled gaily, By Nursery pets consulted daily If not, just get © Shock-headed Perer Read of Avavstus, the soup-eater, And stuck-up " Joussy Head-in-Air," Who came down ' bump" all unaware, And " Fidgety Puaztr." You'll confess them Pointed,—and don't try to suppress them, Like Princes, party-men and papers Which can't admire ald your mad capers My Wilful Wruustas, you li not win By dint of mere despotic din By kicking everybody over In whom critic you discover, Or shouting in your furious way, "Oh, take the nasty Punch away 1 Iwon't have any Punch to-day Punch would no doubt have had a more original cartoon if there had been more prominent topics to chuose from, but the third week in March was a dull one at home, as far as English matters are concerned, though the Anarchist movement in Paris, of which we have since heard good deal by telegraph, was attracting Foch attention, The Pies eaya.on this subject The serious dynamite outrages which hi occurred recently in Paris to have thoroughly aroused the authorities to the necessity "of vigorous and decisive action against the authors of such crimes, Public opinion has been deeply moved, and the new Government has realised that the general uneasiness and indignation ave not sentiments to be trifled with. The explosions which have caused such perturbation in France are not to be compared, it is trae, either in frequency or in the gravity of their consequences, to those which took place in London and in other cities of the United Kingdom a few years Those cruel and cowardly crimes, it will be remembered, were made very light of by our Parisian'critics. The dangers to which our vast population was exposed were denied or minimised, the fear inspired Ly the evildoers was sialiciously enlarged upon and grotesquely exaggerated, and the conduct of the reprobates themselves was palliated, if not excused, on the ground That it was inspired by "political" motives, But, while none of the explosions which have been successfully carried out in Paris, and which have 80 speedily woaned average Frenchmen from the slightest disposition to regard dynamiting with ioni san be com: pared in violence to those which shattered the House of Commons, wrought havoc in the arraoiry of the Tower, and wrecked a portion of Victoria Station, it must be acknowledged that the fears of the Parisians are by no means unreasonable. The poorer quarters of the great city and of its suburbs are notoriously the turking-places of a society of dexperadocs, which ramifications all over the civi: ised world. These men make little conceal ment of their doctrines, or of the means by which they hope to realise them. They the declared enemies of human society, ts organised forms. They desire to anuihi and to render its resuscitation impossible, in order, as they profess, to re the way. for some fantastic utopia of their own, Their end, they announce, is to purify and to regenerate mankind, and, as this end is undoubtedly excellent, and they are staunch adherents of the creed that the end justifies the means, they propose, whenever they find themselves in sufficient funds, to blow bably it is not thought requisite to extirpate the present social fabric to pieces. the whole body of believers in the existing state of things. The immediate efforts of the Anarchists do not, at any rate, seem to be directed to such & considerable feat." Their free ther action of the vocal machine, by resent purpose appears rather to be to para-intimidating the classes which central its operations. When they have been effectually guard and superintend will quickly cease Serroried, the delicate mechanism which they
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