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But, so the article concluded, if they did not obey the law the resources of civilization were by no means exhausted. As no law had, up to that time, been made forbidding the holding of the Belfast demonstration, this article was perhaps premature in its attempt to impale Babberly and his friends on the horns of a dilemma. The Conservative papers assumed an air of calm confidence.
They want me and Babberly to come out and denounce this kind of thing, to discountenance definitely " "That's all well enough," I said, "but I don't see why you and Babberly should be expected to get the Government out of a hole. In fact it's your business to keep them in any holes they fall into." "Under ordinary circumstances," said Moyne, "we shouldn't, of course, stir hand or foot.
He blinked a good deal, and when he got his eyes open seemed to hold them in that state with considerable effort. I did not feel sleepy, and became more and more interested as the conversation round me grew more violent. Babberly talked about a campaign among the English constituencies. He had a curious and quite pathetic faith in the gullibility of the British working-man.
"What on earth am I to do?" said Moyne. "You can write to the papers, to-morrow," I said. "But now?" said Moyne, "now." "The only thing I can think of," I said, "is to start them singing 'God Save the King. That will commit them more or less at least it may." Moyne rose to his feet and asked all the bands present to play "God Save the King." Babberly backed him and the bands struck up.
This was not going much further than Babberly himself had often gone in earlier stages of the controversy. It is true that he had always spoken of "arms" which is a vague word and might mean nothing worse than the familiar paving stones. The Loyalist specified the kind of arms, mentioned rifles, which are very lethal weapons.
The gathering of three hundred men into a church to indulge in a kind of grace before meat as preparation for a speech from Babberly is rather absurd. To set a peal of bells playing but I am not quite sure about the hymn tune. It did not sound to me absurd as it came across the bay.
Its offer of a compromise shows that it is beginning at last to feel the full force of the Ulster objection to Home Rule." Here McNeice interrupted him. "If that's so," he said, "we must make our objection more unmistakably obvious than before." "Quite so," said Babberly; "but how? Is it " "By fighting them," said McNeice.
At all events Babberly replied to the Government's pronouncement with a defiance of the boldest possible kind. The Loyalist, in a special number, published in the middle of the week, patted Babberly on the back, and said that the men of Ulster would, if necessary, assert their right of public meeting with rifles in their hands.
McNeice tilted his chair back and began to hum the tune. Malcolmson beat time to the singing with his forefingers. Their action seemed to me to be intentionally insulting to Babberly. The crowd outside reached the end of a verse and there was a pause. "Damn that hymn!" said Babberly. This roused the Dean. It would have roused any dean with a particle of spirit in him.
Last time I dined there she explained to me a scheme for developing the Boy Scout movement, which would, she thought, distract the attention of the public and push social questions into the background. Babberly escaped having to address a labour meeting in Newcastle-on-Tyne.
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