PUNCH,
OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
VOLUME 93.
AUGUST 27, 1887.
THE PRICE OF SUPPORT.
A Fragment of a coming Contemporary Romance.
"Is it possible that Mr. Gladstone, not content with having allied himself with the Parnellites, or with having endeavoured to sow jealousies between the component parts of the United Kingdom, is at last endeavouring to purchase the parliamentary support of the South-Eastern Railway? The idea seems almost too humiliating to be entertained; but it is not easy to place any other interpretation upon this new and startling announcement. Can it be conceived that the safety of England ranks as nothing in his estimation when it is brought into competition with the possibility of winning a few votes from the interested supporters of a commercial enterprise?"—Times.
VOL. I.—The Compact.