Lord Roberts's warning speech at the London Chamber of Commerce in the late summer of 1902 had prompted the cartoon "The Call to Arms." John Bull, aroused from slumber and only half-awake, asks "What's wrong?" Lord Roberts, the warning warder, replies: "You are absolutely unfitted and unprepared for war!" whereon John Bull rejoins drowsily: "Am I? You _do_ surprise me," and goes to bed again. Growing distrust of the Kaiser is shown in the cartoon in which he figures as "The Sower of Tares" after Millais's picture, while _Punch_ simultaneously manifests his satisfaction at the strengthening of the Anglo-French _Entente_. The British working man, if _Punch_ is to be believed, disliked all foreigners, but his pet aversion was "them blooming Germans." There was, at any rate, a legitimate grievance in the fact that fifty-nine foreign pilots were employed on our coasts, whereas abroad our ships were compelled to take native pilots; and the Nelson Centenary on October 21, 1905, impelled _Punch_, in an address to the hero of Trafalgar, to deplore the decay of national patriotism in a vein of pessimism happily falsified ten years later:-- Much you would have to marvel at Could you return this autumn-tide; You'd find the Fleet--thank God for that-- Staunch and alert as when you died; But, elsewhere, few to play your part, Ready at need and ripe for action; The rest--in idle ease of heart Smiling an unctuous satisfaction. I doubt if you could well endure These new ideals (so changed we are), Undreamed, Horatio, in your Philosophy of Trafalgar; And, should you still "expect" to see The standard reached which you erected, Nothing just now would seem to be So certain as the unexpected. [Illustration: THE CALL TO ARMS! JOHN BULL (aroused from slumber and only half awake): "What's wrong?" LORD ROBERTS (the warning Warder): "You are absolutely unfitted and unprepared for war!" JOHN BULL (drowsily): "Am I? You _do_ surprise me!" (_Goes to bed again._) (Vide speech by Lord Roberts at meeting of London Chamber of Commerce, Mansion House.)] The "decline and fall" of the Unionist administration are symbolized and explained in two cartoons in the late summer of 1905. In one Mr. Balfour is seen, a lonely swimmer, wallowing in the sea of Public Opinion. A voice from the Tug (Tory Organization) hails him, urging him to keep afloat and he'll "drift in to the shore" (Session 1906). He replies that he "can't do much against a tide like this." The sources of weakness are even better diagnosed in the cartoon of August 30, "Shelved," showing the group of statesmen who had resigned--the Duke of Devonshire, Mr. Ritchie, Lord Balfour of Burleigh, Lord George Hamilton and Mr. George Wyndham.