348 APPENDIX. [No. XXVIII. 



The ultimate perfection of Earl Russell's Reform will be the com- 

 pletion of his suppression of mind and reason, by the substitution of 

 mechanical puppets for rational thinking beings. 



Each seat in the House of Commons, instead of being occupied 

 by a living soul responsible to God for acts and thoughts, will be filled 

 by a graven wooden idol, fitted with machinery for saying Aye and 

 Nay, and worked by electric wires from the several counties and 

 boroughs having the privilege,, and obligation of returning members to 

 Parliament. 



Of these wooden-headed Puppets the majority will, like speaking 

 dolls, simply say, Aye and Nay; but others will require more elabo- 

 rate cries, which the genius of Wheatstone will doubtless be able to 

 supply. 



The Brightian Puppet will speak when pulled by its constituents : 

 " Down with Down with Down with All f ormalities Court Breeches 

 The Throne The House of Lords The Church The Army The Navy 

 Everybody !" 



By ingenious machinery the ejaculations will be uttered at intervals, 

 by indifferently coupling together the phrases. In this manner everything 

 will be said that brainless demagogues now say, and Dr. Percy can utilize 

 the steam-engine now used to cool the heated heads and calm the excited 

 hearts of the present Members, to make the popular Puppet roar and roar 

 again. 



Other representative images will be made to shout " Sing, sing !" 

 when moved by the Papistical Manning wire, and the condensed steam 

 from the engine will pour forth tears from the eyes of another image 

 when Oratorian priests are reviled for their girl and boy concealing pro- 

 pensities. 



" No State Church, no Church Rates !" the Binney wire will move. 

 " No gallows !" the murderer's puppet will cry. Burglers and garrotters 

 will make their puppet shout, "No flogging!" With these and a few 

 other words, howled by wooden images, the Puppet Parliament would be 

 so complete that no one could fail to recognize it as the present House 

 of Commons one stage further Darwinially developed towards the Rus- 

 sellian perfection. 



The Puppets of Parliament will have no responsibility, as men have, 

 but will be obedient to the persons who set them up. A puppet has no 

 conscience; has no belief in moral law, and dispenses with all religion, 

 or even the notion of a God. Glorious news for those reformers who 

 seek to annihilate the Church, and to destroy an obedience to the One 

 over- governing Power ! 



Over the doorway of the Puppet House of Commons will be written 

 in letters of brass, " The mob is God ;" and in the House itself a suitable 

 cartoon will be painted, depicting the triumph of Russell over Mind and 

 Religion. 



It is strange that Gladstone, in his advocacy of a puppet Parliament, 

 should denounce the votes of dockyard labourers, and declare that dockyard 

 representatives should be protected from the influence of dockyard labourers. 

 Gladstone views with horror the possibility of Phinn, Otway, Martin, or 

 Kinglake standing, cap in hand, at the dockyard gates, to beg and pray 



