Yours energetically,
“A Roused Alarmist.”
Sir,—When the Police have fairly and effectually cleared off the loafers, not-do-a-stroke-of-work gentry, and the sedition-mongers, then we can turn our attention to the wants of the genuine Unemployed. Their case is by no means beyond us. It only needs the active and intelligent co-operation among the administrators of charitable funds and agencies, the Poor-Law Authorities, employers of labour, and others, to give immediate and practical effect to the wide-spread sympathy felt for them by all classes of their more fortunate fellow-countrymen, including your quite sober-minded and charitably-disposed Correspondent,
“Common Sense.”
DERBY AND GLADSTONE.
(A Speech summarised in a Stanza.)
Air—“Darby and Joan.”
Derby, dear, I am old and grey,
Fifty-five years since my opening day,