“BULLS” IN POLITICS.

Shannon News, 5 July 1927, Page 2

“BULLS” IN POLITICS.

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Examples of * ‘bulls" by famous politicans were given by Sir James Percy in a speech at the Optimist •; Club weekly luncheon at the Criterion restaurant recently, states the Morning Post. Among them,were: Mr.. Gladstone (in the House): It is " no use for the lion. Member to shake bis head in the teeth of his own words. ' ' Mt. Joseph Chamberlain: The hon. member (Dr. Clark) did not want the ' truth. He asked for facts. i\ Mr. Parnell. Gentlemen, it seems J-i unanimous that we cannot agree. •iV; JJr. ' .Ramsay McDonald. _. • .the V.. -empty -graves where our ruined industries lie. . ..... Lord Carson: Mr. Asquith is like a drunken, man walking along a straight line—the further he goes the sooner he ■■ “ The term “bull” Sir James stated, >. vr &s B& id to have originated in the year ' ' 1740, when Obadiah - Bull, an Irish > lawyer"in London, made his name'fa- /. mous by his blunderings. In Ireland V however, they always claimed the il- •' lustrious Sir Boyle Roache as the “father of bulls. ” It was said that Sir Boyle himself once described a bull m r the following words ‘ * Supposing you ' o ee three cows standing up in a held '- 1 ;* and one of them lying down, that one i- the bull. ” His most celebrated bull was “ Why should we beggar ourselves to benefit posterity? What has r posterity done for us adding, . i posterity I mean those who come altei *, ns “ Sir James considered the following to be one of the choicest bulls x-; ever made by Sir Boyle Roache: All V along the untfodden paths of the tutire; he could see the footprints of an 1 “Sg 1 a a mistake, ’ ’ eontinuea Sir i\ James; “to suppose that all the bulls are born and bred in Ireland, as I my* I-self have heard some delightful specspoken by those who pride themselves on belonging to the Anglo-Saxon I:'race.' One of the best double-barrelled hulls was that of an agitator, w o !? complaining of the over-taxation of his feioSftry, said, “If you put the hon. Pmembere on an uninhabited island they Rwottl’d not be there twenty-four hours they had their hands m the a

pockets of the naked savages. ” (Laughter.) The perfect bull, Sir James thought, was that about two Englishmen who were sleping together.- In lite middle of the night one of them fell out of bed on to the floor and when the other asked why he was lying there he replied: “I got out of bed to tuck myself in.’ *

“The bull penetrates into our most sacred, things,” concluded Sir James. “Even the Good Book contains a glaring example, which is to be found in Isaiah, chapter 37, verse 36: ‘TJie angel of the Lord went forth and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and four score and five thousand, and when they arose early in the morning behold they were all dead corpses.”