_Mr. Anyside Antijack._ By no means: they are only capable of judging when they see with our eyes; then they see straight forward; when they pretend to use their own, they squint.[106] They saw with our eyes in the beginning of the Antijacobin war. They would have determined on that war, if it had been decided by universal suffrage.[107] _Mr. Fax._ Why was not the experiment tried? _Mr. Anyside Antijack._ It was not convenient. But they were in a most amiable ferment of intolerant loyalty.[108] _Mr. Forester._ Of which the proof is to be found in the immortal Gagging Bills, by which that intolerant loyalty was coerced. _Mr. Anyside Antijack._ The Gagging Bills? Hem! ha! What shall we say to that? (_To Mr. Vamp._) _Mr. Vamp._ Say? The church is in danger! _Mr. Feathernest, Mr. Paperstamp, Mr. Killthedead, and Mr. Anyside Antijack._ The church is in danger! the church is in danger! _Mr. Forester._ Why was a war undertaken to prevent revolution, if all the people of this country were so well fortified in loyalty? Did they go to war for the purpose of forcibly preventing themselves from following a bad example against their own will? For this is what your argument seems to imply? _Mr. Fax._ That the people were in a certain degree of ferment is true: but it required a great deal of management and delusion to turn that ferment into the channel of foreign war. _Mr. Anyside Antijack._ Well, sir, and there was no other way to avoid domestic reform, which every man who desires is a ruffian, a scoundrel, and an incendiary,[109] as much so as those two rascals Rousseau and Voltaire, who were the trumpeters of Hebert and Marat.[110] Reform, sir, is not to be thought of; we have been at war twenty-five years to prevent it; and to have it, after all, would be very hard. We have got the national debt instead of it: in my opinion a very pretty substitute. _Mr. Derrydown_ sings— And I’ll hang on thy neck, my love, my love, And I’ll hang on thy neck for aye! And closer and closer I’ll press thee, my love, Until my _dying day_. _Mr. Anyside Antijack._ I am happy to reflect that the silly question of reform will have very few supporters in the Honourable House: but few as they are, the number would be lessened if all who come into Parliament by means which that question attempts to stigmatise would abstain from voting upon it. Undoubtedly such practices are scandalous, as being legally, and therefore morally wrong: but it is false that any evil to the legislature arises from them.[111]