So you suggest that they our coals who quarry Should shorten shifts to raise black diamonds' price? But, if so, why should other workers tarry, Each in his craft, to follow your advice? Till soon, hauled o'er the coals, like spark in stubble, Over-production's doctrine goes ahead, And all trades work half time, and come down double For beef and beer, for house, and clothes, and bread! Towards the close of the 'seventies industrial distress was so general that in January, 1879, _Punch_ abandoned his critical attitude and appealed for united effort and a cessation of party strife to drive the wolf from the door. The "New Charity" that he recommended was a voluntary curtailment of the luxuries of the rich--balls, entertainments, dinners, and theatre parties, the purchase of jewels, wines, etc.--in order to help in relieving distress. This involved a surrender of his old argument in favour of the production of luxuries on the ground that they provided lucrative employment. At the same time, the terrorism applied to non-Unionists by the "Rebecca" gangs in Durham moved him to vigorous protest, and in the verses on "blacklegs" in April he writes:-- Blackleg _versus_ Blackguard be it! Let's see which shall have their way! [Illustration: THE TEMPTER SPIRIT OF ANARCHY: "What! No work! Come and enlist with me--I'll find work for you!!"] [Sidenote: _Henry George and Socialism_] Henry George's _Progress and Poverty_, which attained a wide circulation in 1883, comes in for a good deal of hostile criticism. It was an epoch-making book; and though, as water to wine when compared to the strong drink of modern anti-capitalistic literature, it was thought worthy of serious attention by _Punch_. In his cartoon in January, 1884, Red Riding Hood is confronted by the Wolf of Socialism, with Henry George's book peeping out of his pocket. _Punch_, who reminds us that Mr. Labouchere called the author "George the Fifth," admits that gross inequalities existed, but saw no remedy in Henry George's policy, which he regarded as wholesale robbery, and in "St. George and the Dragon" ranked the American author along with Proudhon, the author of the saying "Property is Theft." Yet a few weeks later he rebukes the Duke of Albany, who, in a speech at Liverpool, had recommended that the poor should be taught cookery. _Punch_ was a great believer in cookery, but held that your hare must be caught first:-- Prince, you spoke a word in season 'Gainst uncleanly plates and slops, But the workman cries with reason "Teach me first to catch my chops."