'PUNCH' ON THE HOME RULE CRISIS.
TO 'IUK ICDITOK. Sir, —In the issue of ' Punch ' lor -May 13, now lying; on tlio table at tho Public Library, there is a onrtoo?i by Raven Hill worth directing; attention tn. Its title is ' The Swashbucklers.' On ono sido of tho picture, stands a Radical extremist with a blunderbuss and a big drum which he boats with one hand, while he shakes his other fist in the face of his opponent, the Tory Ilie-Hard, who is also armed with a. similar musical instrument, a revolver, and a megaphone. At the back of them stands John Bull. " Down with Home Rule!" cries the Tory Diehard. "Down with Ulster!" responds tho Radical extremist, while John Bull soys: "This sort of thing; may amuse you, gentlemen, but I've no use for it. I'm not to have civil war to please either of you." ' Punch ' has, not for the first 'time, expressed the commonsense view of the Empire, and if a cable Mere despatched tii England to that effect it would be, in my opinion, more to the point than the' messages backing up the Nationalists or the Ulster party, which have so far been the onlv cables transmitted from the Dominion!—l am, etc. W. F. Kennedy. Julv G.
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Evening Star, Issue 15537, 6 July 1914, Page 8
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