Household Words, No. 13, June 22, 1850 : $b A weekly journal
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Household Words, No. 13, June 22, 1850 : $b A weekly journal
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When the Honorable Member for Whitened Sepulchres moves his resolution
for the stoppage of Mail Trains—in a word, of all Railway travelling—on
Sunday; and when that Honorable Gentleman talks about the Pariah clerks
who take the money and give the tickets, the Pariah engine-drivers, the
Pariah stokers, the Pariah porters, the Pariah police along the line,
and the Pariah flys waiting at the Pariah stations to take the Pariah
passengers, to be attended by Pariah servants at the Pariah Arms and
other Pariah Hotels; what will Lord Ashley do then? Envy insinuated that
Tom Thumb made his giants first, and then killed them, but you cannot do
the like by your Pariahs. You cannot get an exclusive patent for the
manufacture and destruction of Pariah dolls. Other Honorable Gentlemen
are certain to engage in the trade; and when the Honorable Member for
Whitened Sepulchres makes _his_ Pariahs of all these people, you cannot
refuse to recognise them as being of the genuine sort, Lord Ashley.
Railway and all other Sunday Travelling, suppressed, by the Honorable
Member for Whitened Sepulchres, the same honorable gentleman, who will
not have been particularly complimented in the course of that
achievement by the Times Newspaper, will discover that a good deal is
done towards the Times of Monday, on a Sunday night, and will Pariah the
whole of that immense establishment. For, this is the great
inconvenience of Pariah-making, that when you begin, they spring up like
mushrooms: insomuch, that it is very doubtful whether we shall have a
house in all this land, from the Queen’s Palace downward, which will not
be found, on inspection, to be swarming with Pariahs. Not touch the
Mails, and yet abolish the Mail-bags? Stop all those silent messengers
of affection and anxiety, yet let the talking traveller, who is the
cause of infinitely more employment, go? Why, this were to suppose all
men Fools, and the Honorable Member for Whitened Sepulchres even a
greater Noodle than he is!
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