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for dockyard votes, when the men are skilled enough to know that the term 

 Liberal Reformer is that which is used for an illiberal paymaster. When 

 the candidates earnestly implore, the men are wont to sneer; and if 

 rumours are well founded, it is a costly proceeding for the country when- 

 ever the so-called Liberal Government causes the men to vote against any 

 candidate opposed to Reform Club tyranny. Why this inconsistency? 

 Tell us, we pray thee. For why shall you give all other classes their 

 puppets, and refuse them to dockyard labourers ? 



Gladstone, you are now upon your trial! It is for you to decide 

 whether you will attain to one of the highest pinnacles in the temple of 

 Fame by joining the great party of Lawmakers, or sink into insignificance 

 by becoming a Ministerial Puppet to the people's Parliamentary Puppets. 

 Gladstone ! you are qualified by nature to be a great Lawgiver and teacher 

 of the people, and you are not adapted to be a mere tool and Puppet. 

 Use, then, your high mental power to govern your words, and let not 

 mere words, resounding from the ignorant and designing, govern your 

 mind. Vox populi, vox Dei may be your damnation : vox Dei the One 

 over-governing Principle of Truth, your salvation ! 



There is a great issue to be tried. Are Members of Parliament to be 

 Puppets or lawgivers ? Are they to be passive instruments, to act and vote 

 according to the requests of the noisy section of their constituencies ; or 

 are they to be the initiative, thoughtful leaders of the people ? It is ten 

 thousand times easier to be a Puppet than a Lawgiver. Every fool glories 

 in being a Puppet of the people, and will rejoice to support Earl Russell's 

 Puppet Reform ; but every wise man seeks rather to reform Earl Russell, 

 and be a Lawgiver and teacher to the multitude. 



The Derby Lawgiver solicits votes on a pledge to do his duty to his 

 constituents, his country, and to his God. The Russellian Reform-Club- 

 Puppet solicits votes on a pledge to follow blindly the wishes of his 

 constituents, not caring for his country, nor fearing his God. 



A Derby Lawgiver is an adviser to the people, and brings the know- 

 ledge of the whole to bear upon the study of the part. The Russellian 

 Puppet deals with fragmentary notions, and does not understand that a 

 one-idead man, not one whit less dangerous in action, is next akin in 

 mental intellect to a monomaniac, who is impelled by one single ever- 

 recurring thought. 



The Reform Bill of Earl Russell is the intermediate link between the 

 present state of things and his final Puppet development, For the moment, 

 he desires to sweep away legislators and substitute one-idead members to 

 be elected from one-idead voters. Every conceivable speciality of occupa- 

 tion is to be represented, from the maker of Bright's odious Court breeches 

 to the parliamentary place-selling agents of the Reform Club, to the total 

 exclusion of any consideration of the general welfare of the country. 



A preponderance of Puppet power is to be given to the smaller 

 class of shopkeepers, who work not, but rob the poor and cheat each other. 

 It is imperatively necessary for them to have Puppets for under-skilled 

 legislators ; how long would they sell adulterated beer and bad bread, 

 to impair the muscle and sinews of our skilled mechanics ? Little shop- 

 keepers have ever feared legislative interference, and so Earl Russell 

 panders to their iniquity, to keep his feeble Government in power. A 

 legislator would control their doings; they now control the Legislature. 



